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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 8:11 pm

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 7:53 pm
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.

Nigel Farage is 5ft 8in.

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

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?

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:34 am 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.

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:38 am

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:34 am 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.

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)

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:28 am 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...

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

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.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:28 am 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.

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:38 am

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:34 am 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?

Spectator finger on the pulse.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 3:55 pm

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 much rather the free marketeers than this rubbish, where the state does much more but somehow gets smaller.

Nepo baby talks shit - amazing...

I can't believe that Kruger is only 50. Being a right wing f**k wit really seems to age people. I can remember watching him on the Daily Politics earlier this year when he claimed that 'trans gender children just needed a good talking to.' I would love to see him in a comprehensive school trying to give a pupil a good talking. I don't think it would go well.

BBC news claimed that he was the first sitting Tory MP to defect to Reform but I thought that honour went to party hopping f**k wit Lee Anderson.

Every Tory who joins Reform just adds to the narrative that Reform are just Tory 2.0 but without any of almost human Tories.

Before Labour’s latest silliness they seemed to drop a couple of points amongst the reliable posts during their conference. I wonder if this was related to Dorries, anyhow I don’t think this harms Labour.