Tory MP who said Marcus Rashford should focus on his day job has a second job herself
Marcus Rashford: he has done far more for the United Kingdom than Natalie Elphicke.
Natalie Elphicke should have learned to keep her opinions to herself after she tried to influence senior judges after her husband was convicted of sexual assault. Clearly she didn’t.
That breach of the MPs’ code of conduct resulted in a pathetic punishment – just one day’s suspension from Parliament. Clearly it wasn’t enough to teach her the lesson she needed to learn.
Earlier this year, she criticised Marcus Rashford – the footballer whose campaigning ensured that the poorest schoolchildren could avoid malnutrition by forcing the government to continue providing free school meals to them during school holidays at the height of the Covid-19 crisis.
After he missed a vital penalty in the Euro 2020 final, she said he should have focused on his football rather than “playing politics”.
What a hypocrite! It turns out that she is among the legion of Tory MPs who have a second job.
The Mirror has the story:
Natalie Elphicke earns almost £100 an hour as the chair of the New Homes Quality Board.
She was handed a one-off £12,000 in November 2020, and since January has been paid just under £700 per week for eight hours’ work, on top of her £81k job as an MP pic.twitter.com/FB8LcNuZdS
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) November 12, 2021
England suffered heartbreak in the Euro 2020 final after a 3-2 penalty shootout loss handed victory to Italy.
And Ms Elphicke hit headlines after questioning Rashford's commitment to the game when he missed a penaltyhttps://t.co/sHw93MacyR pic.twitter.com/J39xAGvJck
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) November 12, 2021
Ms Elphicke later apologised, saying: "I regret messaging privately a rash reaction about Marcus Rashford's missed penalty and apologise to him for any suggestion that he is not fully focussed on his football." pic.twitter.com/DtbkU3bBKz
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) November 12, 2021
Perhaps Ms Elphicke was distracted from her responsibilities as an MP by the demands of her own second job?
In any case, since she is clearly averse to the idea of people having occupations that distract them from their main work – and therefore must disagree with the Tory claim that it brings a “richness” to their Parliamentary experience…
Will she be resigning her £100-an-hour second job any time soon?
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Marcus Rashford has to be applauded by everybody. He cares, this why he conducts an important campaign as he does. He has lived through these experiences and can draw upon his own personal experiences. He doesn’t gain any financial reward, unlike many politicians. Perhaps if this lady’s husband is depraved and deprived, maybe she should brush up on her bedroom techniques and keep him out of trouble.
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