The sight of Bob Seely MP, megaphone in hand, shouting out his support last Saturday, joining the hundred or so protesters in Gurnard lobbying government and water companies against the revolting practice of pouring raw sewage into our sea and river water nearly made me spit out my tea. 

But, he voted against the legislation the protestors are lobbying for, didn’t he? 

I checked, he did, it was only a year ago this month that Bob Seely voted against amendments to the Environment Bill that would have protected our waters from raw sewage discharges. 

The mental gymnastics of who and what Bob Seely is and represents is difficult for most people to make any sense of. Because it’s all nonsense. Actually, I don’t think he knows, he clearly doesn’t think for himself. 

There is a term ‘hero syndrome/complex’ whereby someone loves ‘to be seen’ as ‘saving the day’ so creates disaster after which where they are seen leading the cavalry and heroically fighting for those caught in the chaos. 

I wonder, seriously wonder, about what the true job specification to be a Tory MP is.

The unwritten one that clearly most have the requisite skill set. Maybe something like: Bare-faced audacity, a thick skin, blind loyalty to emperor’s new wardrobes, obey orders without hesitation, be able to spin anything bad as good and any good in your little empire as somehow due to you. 

The ability to find any good cause or charitable event to be photographed piggy backing at for positive ‘optics’ for you and the organisation, and give a half decent impression of caring. 

‘Promotion and future career development dependent on the ability including, but not limited to: handing over yourself, especially your brain, to those in charge of the organisation. The Whips will tell you what to say and you will say it.’ 

Example scenario: When you are told to vote against legislation which would force private water companies to stop pouring profits into share-holders pockets (instead of using the money to maintain a safe infrastructure) and raw sewage into rivers and local beach water you vote against it. 

When the water company in your own borough turns out to be one of the worst culprits in the UK you must be prepared to turn up and demonstrate with the locals against this outrageous practise denying any culpability and spinning the situation with some great optics. 

If this one example doesn’t perfectly exemplify the kind of MP we have ‘representing the Island’ I don’t know what does. 

Bob Seely literally standing next to a raw sewage outfall that he voted to allow to continue, with local people who he clearly disagrees with in practice, but pretends to care about if there is a bit of publicity.

Flip-flop, photo-op Bob is at it again. How much more sh*t are we going to take from this shower?