[Boiler]

It's a cob.

It's a bap.

Now, to me a cob is crusty whilst a bap is slightly larger and soft. Unfortunately, I associate 'cob' with 30p Lee these days.

[Abernathy]

Nigel Farage is 5ft 8in.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Danny Kruger has defected to Reform. Is he going to risk a by-election? The Lib Dems might fancy it.

[Boiler]

Kruger the Kunt defects. There's a surprise.

This is something I've never understood - why a sitting MP's defection to another party doesn't automatically trigger a by-election. After all, the electorate elected someone on the basis of the party they stood for.

Why doesn't it? And should it?

[davidjay]

Kruger the Kunt defects. There's a surprise.

This is something I've never understood - why a sitting MP's defection to another party doesn't automatically trigger a by-election?

Why doesn't it?

Because you vote for the individual rather than the party.

[Boiler]

Kruger the Kunt defects. There's a surprise.

This is something I've never understood - why a sitting MP's defection to another party doesn't automatically trigger a by-election?

Why doesn't it?

Because you vote for the individual rather than the party.

But that individual represents a party.

[Youngian]

As there's no law against changing parties without triggering a by-election, why would any party want to introduce one?
East Wiltshire sounds like the sort of Tory middle England the LDs could take. The electoral arithmetic is much more tricky.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wi ... stituency)

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Danny Kruger has defected to Reform. Is he going to risk a by-election? The Lib Dems might fancy it.

Fash of a feather flock together...

[kreuzberger]

Anyone who voted for that crackpot must have known what they were getting.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Lots of people don’t know their local MP. They might get to know him better in a by-election campaign. So that’s why I don’t think there’ll be one. Easier to get MPs to switch if they don’t risk losing their seats.

[Bones McCoy]

Danny Kruger has defected to Reform. Is he going to risk a by-election? The Lib Dems might fancy it.

Rich kid playing Risk "Empire edition".

Unreformed Breoderbund Voortrekker surprises nobody.

[Bones McCoy]

Kruger the Kunt defects. There's a surprise.

This is something I've never understood - why a sitting MP's defection to another party doesn't automatically trigger a by-election?

Why doesn't it?

Because you vote for the individual rather than the party.

It all worked so well in Oliver Cromwell's day - why change things now?

[Bones McCoy]

[Youngian]

[Bones McCoy]

Spectator finger on the pulse.

[Bones McCoy]

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha ha. Paul "Real World" Embery there hyping up somebody who nobody takes seriously outside of "the media bubble".

Good thread on the sort of pseudo-intellectual tripe that Kruger and co push. Kruger may think Conservatism is more than free markets. I'd rather the free marketeers than this rubbish.