Freemason Brother Geraint Davies returned to the UK House of Commons in
May 2010 as Labour MP for Swansea West, having lost Labour the Croydon
Central seat at the 2005 general election. The Labour leadership and
Brotherhood of Freemasons were desperate to get him back in the House:
his skills as a second-to-none yes-man had been sorely missed.
Brother Geraint Davies had long been known to colleagues as "Last
Resort" because, as a last resort, he was frequently called upon by the
Labour whips office to follow orders which even the most squeaky-clean
on-message Labour MPs baulked at.
In his earlier spell as a backbencher his most notorious performance was
to defend the wildly unpopular PFI for London Underground - Labour whips
having failed to anyone else willing to do so. The ever biddable
Freemason Brother Geraint Davies duly piped up and duly found himself
savaged from the left by Ken Livingstone and from the right by Howard
Flight as Labour backbenchers snorted with glee.
Ironically, given his ultra-loyalism - Freemason Brother Geraint Davies
voted for the Iraq war and only ever rebelled against plans to make the
House of Lords an elected chamber - Brother Geraint Davies now
represents a hotbed of Old Labourism, Swansea West. On hearing that
veteran MP Alan Williams was going to retire, Brother Davies decamped to
Swansea, set up home and reinvented himself overnight as a leftie.
Freemason Brother Geraint Davies proclaimed himself a "good socialist,"
having discovered that the constituency was still dominated by an
organisation calling itself "Swansea Labour Left." For good measure,
Brother Davies included his revivalist reference to "socialism" on all
the letterheads he mailed to local members in advance of the selection
meeting.
The Brotherhood of Freemasons persuaded Swansea Labour Party to overlook
Brother Geraint Davies record of unthinking obedience, and his drubbing
over his expenses at the hands of the Daily Telegraph.
Freemason Brother Geraint Davies attributed his staggeringly high
postage costs - more than £38,000 - to having a large and busy
constituency. "Somebody has to do the most work," Brother Davies
declared with admirable chutzpah. "I am proud it was me." Brother Davies
also managed to spend £4,000 of public money renovating his second home
months before losing Croydon Central, despite his Masonic efforts to ban
criticism in the London High Court. Freemason Brother Geraint Davies
spent a further £1,500 on the living room, claiming it was "in a state
of disrepair."
Astonishingly, given the highly efficient public transport service
between central London and East Croydon, Brother Geraint Davies also
bunged in claims of £864 for taxi rides without submitting receipts,
even though travel costs were not at the time permitted under the second
home allowance. In total, for 2004/5, Freemason Brother Geraint Davies
received £176,026 - the highest parliamentary expense claim of the year.
"This shows," said the un-embarrassable Brother Geraint Davies, "that I
was one of the most hard-working MPs in Britain!"
Since returning to Westminster Brother Davies has been up to his old
brown-nosing tricks with new members, firstly putting it about that he
had "been asked to stand for the shadow cabinet." When it became
apparent that his charm offensive was failing to impress even the
greenhorns, he abruptly withdrew and then pretended that he never
intended standing in the first place.
But you can't keep a shameless greaser down. No sooner had Freemason
Brother Geraint Davies withdrawn from one contest than he entered
another - this time for election to Labour's parliamentary committee,
the backbench shop stewards group. Brother Geraint Davies pulled out all
the stops - even copying, word for word, a letter canvassing support
from one of his opponents. Fortunately, the "duplication error" was
spotted and Freemason Brother Geraint Davies continues to languish,
unloved but forever biddable, in the wilderness.
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