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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Anyone remember what Farage said about Christian Wakeford defecting from the Conservative Party to Labour?
"If he calls a by-election then that's fine. If not, he is the Dishonourable Member for Bury South."
40 seconds in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl5zbMP7gc0
Funny how he's changed his tune now that Conservatives are defecting to Reform! The challenger party is now just looking the same as the incumbent parties. |
This happens every single time that an MP jumps ship and joins another party. Everyone demands that he or she resigns their seat, well everyone except the party that they have joined. Highly hypocritical as they all do it, until it happens to suit them.
And in a way, that’s fine, remember we don’t (technically) vote for a party, we vote for an individual to represent us in Parliament. At most they would have five years to ‘come good’ or be kicked out.
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
It's only a matter of time, remember when angela raynor was hounded out of office, guess who has broken the ministerial code 17 times and failed to declare 380k of outside earnings on time, yeah its the man of the people, good old nige, shame he'll now no doubt be made to resign under the guise of it only being right
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Except ‘Man of the People’, our Nigel,* unlike Angela Reynor who was Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing; isn’t a minister, isn’t subject to the Ministerial Code, holds no office, so there really isn’t anything for him to resign from.
Of course he could resign his seat; but he was elected by the good people of Clacton to represent them. And I think it only fair that they see and hopefully take on board his behaviour, and decide at the next election if the really is the best person to have their interests at heart!
* I am being sarcastic. I do sometimes feel the need to mention this, just in case the nuance gets lost.