Tory defection

[AdamM]

I've just found out my local Tory MP Quentin Davies defected to Labour yesterday
 

at last, I live in a red town. bet the local conservative club are spitting feathers 

[ripple11]

 How these turncoat MPs have the nerve not to stand down and seek re-election is beyond me.

The democratic decision of your constituency was to elect a Conservative MP. (could have been the Monster Raving Loony Party...it doesn't matter)...not a Labour MP.

[AndrewT]

The Chancellor has been losing control… His projections… have been consistently wrong. He has been wrong about both revenues and expenditure… The Chancellor took risks… he is imprudent… a great worry… very worrying… he simply wanted to win the next election—if he can… it does not matter what happens afterwards… the Chancellor went in for an orgy of self-congratulation… deceiving other people… complacency… he is not prudent and responsible, and not a person to be entrusted with the management of anybody’s finances, let alone the country’s finances… unattractive and frankly problematic… an absolutely devastating misjudgement and mistake—the destruction of our pensions system… We have not had a word of apology from the Chancellor… He was just incredibly imprudent… extraordinarily incompetent… extraordinarily naïve… desperately complacent… As a result of that self-congratulation and complacency, the Chancellor is becoming so cut off that he is beginning to underestimate the intelligence of the electorate… I trust and believe that something nasty will happen to the Chancellor in electoral terms before too long. He will have no one but himself to blame.

Strong words against Gordon Brown there - looks like whoever said them back in March 2005 obviously thinks very little of our new PM.

Three guesses who said them...

Aren't politicians great?

[TightEnd]

at last, I live in a red town.

how do you think those who voted for him feel?

It might be a "red" town at the next election, but it isn't at the moment by the votes cast last time anyway. surely an MP doing this of whatever party is just likely to lose his job come general election time when the voters elect a representative of the party he has just left.

No idea if yours if a safe constituency or not, but you get my point.

[AdamM]

absolutely I do.

thing is they voted for him, rather than his party and he is very popular as a personality locally. Grantham, as the birth place of the iron lady is traditionally pretty blue as you can imagine. at best I'd hope it to become a marginal seat next time around.

to an extent, I sympathise with people who voted for him solely because he was a conservative, but at the same time my sympathy is limited due to my deep rooted philosophical disputes with them as a moderate liberal socialist.

[TightEnd]

absolutely I do.

thing is they voted for him, rather than his party

surely not? popular or not if the party he represents is completely unvoteable for (I'm a wordsmith) then they wouldn't vote for him

leaving aside tactical voting in a marginal of course (eg labour voters voting libdem in the south west for example)

[AndrewT]

I wonder what percentage of people could actually tell you the name of their MP.

[kinboshi]

I wonder what percentage of people could actually tell you the name of their MP.

We had three choices at our last election.

Labour, Tory or BNP.

Thankfully, Brian Jenkins was voted in.

[Linux]

You might find this video interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

[AdamM]

sorry, you've lost me

[sledge13]

You've just been RickRolled!!!!

 

[AndrewT]

You might find this video interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

You don't understand the Rickroll - 0/10.

[Linux]

well............. i do

[AndrewT]

well............. i do

The Rickroll is used to lure the foolish to the link by way of a description which the wary would question.

For example:

Phil Ivey just went crazy at the WSOP and punched Doyle Brunson in the face. Someone caught it on their mobile phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

You should think to yourself 'that's rubbish' and not click on the link. Those that do are punished with the Rickroll.

Yours was, well, rubbish.

[AdamM]

how would I know it's content before clicking the link?

crazy kids, tricking old people