He voted for a motion to ban strikes in the emergency and transport sectors unless a majority of those eligible to vote cast a ballot in favour (i.e. 50%+1). Now I could go on about the massive weight of biased Tory-inspired laws (retained by Tony Blair because he's a Tory wanker) which work to prevent this happening, but instead I'll remind you of Paul Uppal's electoral record and position on AV, the electoral system which proposed that MPs have to get 50%+1 just of those who bother voting, to be elected.
Did Paul support a system which would have required him to persuade 50% of those voting (not the electorate, unlike the law he tried to apply to strikes)? He did not.
Did he get voted in by 50%+1 of the electorate?
He did not.
| Paul Uppal, Conservative | 16,344 | 40.7% |
| Rob Marris, Labour | 15,653 | 39.0% |
| Robin Lawrence, Liberal Democrat | 6,430 | 16.0% |
| Amanda Mobberley, UK Independence Party | 1,487 | 3.7% |
| Raymond Barry, Equal Parenting Alliance | 246 | 0.6% |
| Candidate | Votes | Share %Conservative majority: |
|---|
Conservative majority: 691.
Turnout: 67.9%.
So Uppal is MP thanks to 40.7% of the 67.9% who bothered voting.
So of the 60,000 or so eligible voters (and don't forget that Uppal counted non-voting trades union members in his spiteful little motion), he was 'elected' by 16,344 of them: that looks like 27% to me.
So by his own logic, he's illegitimate. Time to resign on principle.
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