Sir Beer, You Are Welcome To Her....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68976500

What kind of turncoat does this? Would anyone ever have any faith in someone who is without honour?

All yours Sir Beer.

[Spungle]

Precisely- and she's standing down at the next election.  Good riddance.

[tomus42]

//Precisely- and she's standing down at the next election. //

She's a person of honour then. Giving up a safe seat on a matter of principle - ie Sunak's failure to stop the boats as he said he would.

[Mozz71]

"What type of turncoat does this?"

 

One who's seen the incompetence of the government up close and personal and has thought, "Bullocks to this."

[jno]

Would anyone ever have any faith in someone who is without honour?

only if their middle names were de Pfeffel, I expect

[douglas9401]

In May 1904, Churchill opposed the government's proposed Aliens Bill, designed to curb Jewish migration into Britain.[81] He stated that the bill would "appeal to insular prejudice against foreigners, to racial prejudice against Jews, and to labour prejudice against competition" and expressed himself in favour of "the old tolerant and generous practice of free entry and asylum to which this country has so long adhered and from which it has so greatly gained".[81] On 31 May 1904, he crossed the floor, defecting from the Conservatives to sit as a member of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons.

That kind, you're welcome.

[douglas9401]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

[10ClarionSt]

I suspect she's wanted to do this for some time but didn't want to do it too far away from the election. Now, with the election only a few months away, she's chosen this moment to have an impact that won't affect her in the slightest as an MP.

[Mozz71]

It certainly won't impact her career as an MP 10cs, she's not standing at the election. It's purely a protest against the government, rather than a proper politics defection.

[bhg481]

Nigel Farage has pointed out that MPs who crossed from Tory to Labour towards the end of the Major Parliament all ended up being given peerages by Labour. Just saying.

[davebro3]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68980700

Unsurprisingly many in Labour are unhappy about accepting this traitor into the fold. May not be such a boon for SKS with voters either.

[drmorgans]

 

Maybe Nat's realised that Sunak's government is TINO and incompetent and the only chance of getting anything done is to get rid of this shambles of a Tory "government".

 

[Ken4155]

02;43, BA right there, TTT. What say you in response?

[ToraToraTora]

02:43 well thats a proper reason, he explained it. This is a hissy fit. I see no comparison.

[Ken4155]

^

Of course it was.

Of course he did.

Of course it is.

Of course you don't.

🙄

[gulliver1]

This MP is only preparing for her future and wants to stay in politics  serving with the Future Govt .You can't blame her She knows if she stays with the Cons her future is bleak very very bleak.🤣

[ladybirder]

I've never seen anyone blink as much whilst talking.  Stressed or what?

[Old_Geezer]

I'm no historian but the post seems to suggest that Churchill had a legitimate reason to cross the floor. Whereas leaving a party because they aren't making progress on certain goals to join a party that seems to either have no plan to tackle those same goals, or even welcomes the situation and maybe would even prefer it to increase, is no justification at all.

 

If you are going to move it should be for an honourable reason, not shrouded in mystery causing folk to believe the worst, i.e. personal gain.

[Khandro]

Nigel Farage (whom God preserve ) opines that she has her eye on retiring & then being pushed up to the House of Lords.

[naomi24]

I can well understand anyone being peeved with the Conservatives but defecting to Labour indicates a distinct lack of judgement.  They are welcome to her.  She'll be in good company.

[Untitled]

i do not understand why this person has been welcomed into labour by starmer and many people in the party seem displeased with it... not least the local labour party in her constituency. she attempted to interfere with her disgusting husband's conviction for sexual assault and claimed later that he was being persecuted for being "attractive and attracted to women". she is an extremely nasty piece of work and has long been on the right of the tory party. there should not be a place for a person like that in labour. she should simply have resigned the whip and become an independent.