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Tory MP defects to Labour – politicalbetting.com
Tory MP defects to Labour – politicalbetting.com
A very warm welcome to Christian Wakeford MP!The new Labour MP for Bury South. ? pic.twitter.com/kfpbob6VC9
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Any more to follow, I wonder?
His letter presumably won’t count now.
I wonder if Starmer is trying to keep Boris in place?
What was happening in September to prompt that?
Boris fan please explain
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Mike's busy and I'm with the other half.
Christian Wakeford and Boris Johnson might end my relationship.
Fingers crossed
Nothing more
He defected about five minutes after Everton scored an injury time equaliser in the Merseyside derby.
If they believe that the other party is better for the country then they should have the courage of their convictions that their constituents would agree and vote for them in their new party.
Would be more honest or fair to resign the whip and act as an Independent IMHO.
Still, it is an embarrassing disaster for the government and a hammer blow for the red wall caucus.
Is he therefore hoping for another ten or twenty defections ?
I think that @bigjohnowls is referring to the habit of certain ultra-ultra-left types of referring to everyone in the Labour party who isn't an ultra-ultra leftist as a Tory...
Starmer will not want to keep Boris in place IMO as only Boris can keep former Labour voters in place
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'You realise right, that centrist Labour sabotaged two general elections? This just shows Labour are actually Tory 2, the backup team. Pointless.'
https://twitter.com/raystonian/status/1483769632431480832?s=20
'You see the problem with Labour taking tories into its ranks though?'
https://twitter.com/FALLLFAN/status/1483770154513272837?s=20
'I can't believe I have to explain this, but winning an election is meaningless if the only material change is the colour and name of the governing party'
https://twitter.com/thetertus/status/1483769753638424579?s=20
'More Tories in the Parliamentary Labour Party. That’s *exactly* what we need.'
https://twitter.com/MrGeorgePRS/status/1483769897612161026?s=20
If you send a letter to Brady (not old lady...), can you recall it if you want? I.e. send in a letter contradicting it.
If not, do letters have a lifetime? If I was an MP and sent it in two years ago, does it still count?
The questions from Lab might be just single-toned and if he has prepped he will be able to bat them away.
But it might dicourage les autres
Starmer has his mojo back at PMQs
Absolutely great line: "Given the noise from the Tory backbench, I guess the chief whip has told them to bring their own booze."
In pure parliamentary terms there is not much meaningful difference between being a rebel MP who routinely votes against their party whip (e.g. Corbyn, Skinner, or the Maastricht rebels) and taking a different party whip. Only when it comes to a vote of confidence, but with a majority as big as Boris has that's a moot point anyway.
https://i.imgur.com/X7kKDcX.jpeg
If I was better technically I'd embed it as an image!
One for the Sherlocks among us.
This is agony for Johnson.
Other than it having a blue theme I could not see one mention of him being a Conservative. I'm guessing he was fairly soft to begin with.
Changing his website to Labour will only need a quick update to his CSS to switch from blue to red.
...One cabinet minister blamed Covid for the behaviour of the new intake. This minister said that Covid restrictions, which have kept many MPs away from Westminster for large chunks of the last two years, meant they had not been properly “socialised”....