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Dragon Interview: Cllr Gordon Jackson – Why I Quit the Conservative Party
Published on: 3 Oct, 2019
Updated on: 7 Oct, 2019
Cllr Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson has resigned from the Conservative Party having served as a Tory borough councillor since winning a by-election in Pirbright, where he lives, in 2010.
His issue is nothing to do with the Local Plan, which he supported, or any other local matter but the Conservative Party policy on Brexit. A keen Remainer he joined others, at the Guildhall in August, to protest about the prorogation of Parliament and it seems this, for him, was the final straw.
Hear him explain to Martin Giles his decision, his views on climate change and whether he agrees with the Conservative Group’s policy of cold-shouldering The Guildford Dragon…
The video was recorded and edited by Mark Insoll.
See also:
Gordon Jackson, Deputy Leader Of GBC Tories, Quits Party Over No-Deal Brexit Stance
Guildford Lib Dem Candidate In Prorogue Protest at Guildhall
And The New Mayor of Guildford is… Gordon Jackson
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Stuart Barnes
October 3, 2019 at 9:00 am
Is there going to be a by-election so that a real Conservative (or perhaps a Brexit party candidate) can win the seat?
David Roberts
October 3, 2019 at 3:45 pm
What is a “real Conservative”?
John Armstrong
October 3, 2019 at 5:40 pm
Having listened to this interview, Gordon Jackson’s reasoning on the EU puzzles me given that the same information is available to us all.
He says, unless I misheard him incorrectly, I am willing to be corrected, that 55% of our trade is with the EU. What he meant, I think, is that 55% of our import-export trade is with the EU.
Of our total economy, 85% is internally generated (ballpark figure) and has nothing to do with the EU (except that they make us do it in centimetres). Of the remaining 15%, less than half is with the EU.
On EU trade. Their population is over seven times the size of the UK yet they buy a fraction of what we buy from them. They appear to like to buy their own produce. We, on the other hand, seem to like spreading the love. Maybe we feel guilty for thwarting invasion attempts over the past thousand years.
In any case, it has not yet come to no-deal. It looks increasingly as if the Prime Minister will have the numbers. So Cllr Jackson, I suspect, is not so much concerned with deal or no-deal as he is with Brexit itself.
A desire to Remain, though legitimate, has nothing to do with trade but with conscience.
Adam Aaronson
October 3, 2019 at 6:50 pm
Perhaps Mr Barnes could define what he means by a “real Conservative”. It sounds like the complete opposite of one-nation Conservatism. Is there a “Real Conservative” party? Sounds a bit like a dissident, splinter group.
John Perkins
October 4, 2019 at 9:55 am
It seems to me that a “real Conservative” might be one who doesn’t oppose the party.
David Roberts
October 5, 2019 at 4:47 pm
“Real Conservative” is a slippery term increasingly used, like “real man” and “Real IRA”.
Brexit is about identity, not trade. Over 80% of UK trade is in services, so arguments about visible imports and exports are largely irrelevant.