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Originally Posted by Chris
You’re technically correct, however the letter and the spirit of the rules are not always quite the same thing. It has become commonplace in recent years for an MP to trigger a by election in the event they cross the floor or do anything else that calls their mandate into question.
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And again the crux of the issue, that Angua seems to be conveniently missing is that each of the current 11 defectors have expressed a view that there should be a peoples vote, a 2nd EU Referendum, because there is now apparently new information, well defecting to a new political party, because you no longer support it's manifesto commitments that they were elected on, is a significant change and piece of new information, there should be a peoples vote, in the form of by-elections.
We now have 11 MPs currently not representing their constituencies, that they got elected on.
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Originally Posted by Angua
Of late only Zac Goldsmith and Mark Reckless resigned and stood on alternative platforms.
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Um, which is exactly what the current 11 are doing.