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Post by andrewbrown on May 8, 2024 15:35:42 GMT
The smart thing to do if you’re a Tory MP who believes their constituency will flip Labour is to defect. This ensures that you’ll win your seat back at the next general election and retain your government salary. Otherwise you go back to being unemployed. Providing they are reselected to stand in a GE And she's stepping down anyway (like the defector last week too). I agree though in principle there should be a by-election for defectors. The public should have their say. |
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Post by om15 on May 8, 2024 17:07:27 GMT
This is rather strange, this women has been slagging off Starmer for the past year or so, then defects over to Labour and announces that she is standing down at the next election. Even by female logic that is pretty odd, it has embarrassed both Labour and Conservatives.
I suppose that she wanted her five minutes fame, or else she was pissed when she did it and will wonder what's going on when she sobers up.
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Post by ProVeritas on May 8, 2024 17:16:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2024 18:28:52 GMT
The smart thing to do if you’re a Tory MP who believes their constituency will flip Labour is to defect. This ensures that you’ll win your seat back at the next general election and retain your government salary. Otherwise you go back to being unemployed. And what a farce that makes of the system. The "Westminster" party Sheepy speaks of is alive and well. |
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Post by Dogburger on May 8, 2024 18:41:59 GMT
Does anyone really care ? They are all cut from the same cloth ,conservatives , Labour , liberals even greens , same policies just different ways of going about it . The results the same
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Post by vlk on May 8, 2024 19:05:15 GMT
If you betray somebody you can just as well betray someone else too. Labour would be foolish to trust this defectors.
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Post by andrewbrown on May 8, 2024 19:12:16 GMT
If you betray somebody you can just as well betray someone else too. Labour would be foolish to trust this defectors. Must admit I'm a bit gobsmacked with today's defection. Even though we knew some where coming, I'd put her down as more of a Reform Party type. Doesn't really sit well with me. But as both these deflectors are standing down at the next election, I'm not sure we need to trust them much anyway. It reduces the government's majority by 4. I'm happy with that. |
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Post by sheepy on May 8, 2024 19:41:21 GMT
Does anyone really care ? They are all cut from the same cloth ,conservatives , Labour , liberals even greens , same policies just different ways of going about it . The results the same LOL I feel another awakening coming on, just because they all say the same things just in a different way, doesn't mean they all have same outcome as a plan, does it? |
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Post by johnofgwent on May 8, 2024 19:53:27 GMT
To those that whine the member has crossed the floor, I point out the vote is for the member not the party, and the unwritten constitution declares it is the duty of the elected member to represent the people to the best of their ability in the best interests of the electorate
If the member feels it is in their constituents best interests to cause the greasy git in number ten a load of shit, then they are entitled to do so.
Whether the constituents agree or not is a matter for them at the next election.
I say conduct of this kind is reason to hold a recall petition, but my inside info from long term Tory voters running Bristol does indicate quite a few of THEM would NOT vote for a by election, such is their hatred of Sunak
My question on this issue is as follows :
This MP accuses Sunak of incompetence in organising protection from invasion yet throws in their lot with a party dedicated to making it worse
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on May 8, 2024 20:20:20 GMT
Another hypocritical opportunist.
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Post by Pacifico on May 8, 2024 21:20:35 GMT
If you betray somebody you can just as well betray someone else too. Labour would be foolish to trust this defectors. Must admit I'm a bit gobsmacked with today's defection. Even though we knew some where coming, I'd put her down as more of a Reform Party type. Doesn't really sit well with me. But as both these deflectors are standing down at the next election, I'm not sure we need to trust them much anyway. It reduces the government's majority by 4. I'm happy with that. Well it shows that, contrary to some claims, the current crop of Tory MP's are far more comfortable in the Labour Party than in a right-wing party.. ..as some of us have been saying for a while now.  |
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Post by ProVeritas on May 8, 2024 21:44:29 GMT
Must admit I'm a bit gobsmacked with today's defection. Even though we knew some where coming, I'd put her down as more of a Reform Party type. Doesn't really sit well with me. But as both these deflectors are standing down at the next election, I'm not sure we need to trust them much anyway. It reduces the government's majority by 4. I'm happy with that. Well it shows that, contrary to some claims, the current crop of Tory MP's are far more comfortable in the Labour Party than in a right-wing party....as some of us have been saying for a while now. That is because Labour IS a right-wing party. They have been, almost exclusively, since Tony BLiar first took office. All The Best |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on May 8, 2024 23:23:58 GMT
LOL! How deranged can you get. 🤣
The Tories haven't been right wing since 2010.
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Post by sheepy on May 9, 2024 6:38:07 GMT
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Post by sheepy on May 9, 2024 6:47:24 GMT
The indigenous Britons aren't going anywhere, you are!
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