Defecting MP 'punched' 
 
                             BY PETER RIDDELL 
       EMMA NICHOLSON, the former Tory MP who has defected to the
       Liberal Democrats, claims she was hit in the stomach by a Conservative
       MP in the Commons after she voted for disclosure of members' outside
       earnings from parliamentary activities. 

       In an interview with The Times, she says the personal hostility of Tory
       MPs and party whips to her views on Nolan was one reason why she
       decided to cross the floor. 

       Miss Nicholson says she faced "intolerable" abuse for her belief in
       greater transparency. When she gave evidence to the Nolan inquiry, a
       Tory whip told her she had "betrayed" her colleagues. 

       On November 6 she was one of two dozen Tory MPs to vote for
       disclosure, and immediately after leaving the division lobby another
       member gave her "a sharp blow in the stomach". She refuses to say
       who hit her and whether it was a man or a woman. 

       Miss Nicholson says she faced an "onslaught" by colleagues
       complaining that she would cause them "substantial loss of income".
       What the whips said afterwards was "unprintable". She also objected to
       John Major and the Tory whips "bearing down on those of us who
       wanted to support, on a free vote, transparency on additional earnings
       from in-house income". The pressures were "almost unendurable". 

       She also complains about "disgusting locker-room insults" by male Tory
       MPs about Labour women members, including frontbenchers. 

       Her objections to government pressure over Nolan coincided with
       other worries. She cites government policy on Europe, single mothers,
       the handcuffing of women prisoners, cuts in overseas aid and the new
       asylum Bill. 

       She discloses that, after the rightwing speeches at earlier Tory party
       conferences, she "actively didn't want to go" to the Blackpool
       conference three months ago. 

       She compares the anti-Brussels speech made then by Michael Portillo,
       the Defence Secretary, with what was being said in Nazi Germany in
       1937.

       Extract from report in "The Times" - January 1 1996

       [note; 'MP' = congressman]

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       "Perceptions" note:

       A small example of pervert* behaviour
 
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/subindex.html#pervert

       in a group which has been permitted privilege by corruption,
       and become isolated from the altruism of the general population.   
       
       More examples of perverts in elites:-
 
       a) in aristocracy 
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/promise.html

       b) in legal profession, elite 'security' & judiciary
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html#only
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/authority8.txt

       c) in senior police
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/Seema1.html
       [ ongoing complications involving both corruption and perverts
         are seeable if you go "View" - "Source" / HTML source / Page Source
         ie. speculation too dangerous to "publish". ]

       d) in elite education
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html#pedophiles
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/devices
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/ed1.html

       e) in media
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/review.html
       http://www.perceptions.couk.com/mediauk.html#Our            


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       [Part of

        http://www.perceptions.couk.com/genes1.html
        and
        http://www.perceptions.couk.com/genes5.html    

        of the "Altruist Survivor" series.]

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