Rosie Winterton

Rosie Winterton
Name	Rosalie Winterton (born 10 August 1958)
Nicknames	Rosie (everyone)
Politics
Party	Labour
Constituency	Doncaster Central
Positions	• Opposition Chief Whip • Shadow Leader of the House of Commons • Minister of State for Local Government • Minister of State for Work and Pensions • Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber • Minister of State for Transport
Likes	Whips
Dislikes	Rebellious Labour MPs
Friends	John Prescott
Enemies	Rebellious Labour MPs
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I only use it (the whip) on members when they're especially well behaved~ Rose Winterton

Opposition Chief Whip who won our hearts with snark and threats.

Life and Career

Early Life

Rosie was grew up in Doncaster. She was educated at Doncaster Grammar School. She attended the University of Hull where she studied history and graduated with a BA in 1979.

Early Political Career

Rosie first worked as John Prescott's Constituency Personal Assistant from 1980 until 1986 and then as a Parliamentary Officer, first for Southwark Council until 1988 and then for a further two years for the Royal College of Nursing until 1990. Rosie then left politics to pursuer a career in the private sector as a managing director of a public affairs company. When John Prescott became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 1994, Rosie returned to politics as his Head of Office until she won her seat in the 1997 Labour landslide.

Parliamentary Career

Rosie was first elected to parliament in 1997. Her first few years weren't particularly notable, but she worked hard and was promoted in 2001 to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Lord Chancellor's Department, and became a Minister of State at the Department for Health in June 2003; in January 2006 her responsibilities were changed to Health Services, including responsibility for NHS dentistry. She presided over the introduction of the new NHS dental contract of April 2006. She continued to move up the ranks until she was appointed Opposition Chief Whip under Ed Miliband, an appointment continued into the new Jeremy Corbyn leadership.

During the expenses scandal, it was revealed that Rosie tried to claim the cost of soundproofing her bedroom on expenses, however the expenses body would only pay for the redecoration, not the soundproofing.

She appeared on Michael Cockerell's multi-part documentary Inside the Commons in her role as Chief Whip where she revealed that she had an actual bullwhip on the wall of her office. She famously said "I only use it on members when they're especially well behaved" which delighted and worried loliticians everywhere.

From 1997 to 2010 Rosie won more than 50% of the vote in her constituency but this fell to 37% in 2010. In September 2014, one of the villages that Rosie represents passed a vote of no confidence in her since they believed she had failed to tack anti-social behaviour in their area. Despite this massive blow to her credibility, Rosie was returned to parliament in 2015 without much of an issue.

Full List of Appointments
• Minister of State for Transport (28 July 2007 – 3 October 2008)
• Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber (24 January 2008 – 11 May 2010)
• Minister of State for Work and Pensions (24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009)
• Minister of State for Local Government (5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010)
• Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (12 May 2010 – 7 October 2010)
• Opposition Chief Whip of the House of Commons (7 October 2010 - present)

Not everyone has great moments, but if they do, you can link to videos of them in the table below:

Greatest Moments
Date	Summary	Video	Transcript
Date of video	A summary		Where can people find a transcript? If it's short- "He died, Jeremy, he tragically died."- just type it out. Otherwise link to Hansard or an interview transcript.

Personal Life

Apparently, Rosie has one of these but she is very private about it.

Portrayal

In the Media

Being Chief Whip of a party usually means keeping what you're doing to persuade other MPs out of the eye of the media, so not a lot has been written about Rosie. The press weren't very kind to her when the expenses issues came to light but they had much bigger fish to fry during the scandal so again she managed to avoid most of the negative attention.

In Fanon

Rosie is generally liked well enough by those loliticians who know who she is. Despite the whip, bedroom soundproofing and innuendo she does not have a particularly large following.

Meme

Rosie has yet to appear on the meme