Conservative MP Bury South Christian Wakeford Joins Labour Party

[arista]

Breaking


BBC and SkyNewsHD

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Official_portrait_of_Christian_Wakeford_MP_crop_2. jpg/440px-Official_portrait_of_Christian_Wakeford_MP_crop_2. jpg


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wakeford


[Bury South MP Christian Wakeford has this morning defected
from the Conservatives to Labour.
Mr Wakeford told Boris Johnson that "you and the Conservative Party
as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering
the leadership and government this country deserves".]


https://news.sky.com/story/tory-mp-defects-to-labour-telling-boris-johnson-he-is-incapable-of-offering-leadership-12519919

[smudgie]

Would that mean that his letter wouldn’t count now then.
Also, would it be a bi-election in his constituency.

[arista]

Would that mean that his letter wouldn’t count now then.
Also, would it be a bi-election in his constituency.


Yes his letter
should be not counted


He has Jumped Ship


And it should have a Bi Election
to be fair

[Beso]

Mug

[arista]

He will be seated on the Labour Side

[arista]

Mug



Yes a Nasty Move

[arista]

Johnson just stated
he will win Bury South,
Again

[bots]

mp's that jump ship very rarely get re-elected

[arista]

His Facebook page
not yet changed

https://www.facebook.com/Christian4BuryS/

[MTVN]

Blimey I bet that hasn't happened for a long long time

Anyone who can flip party so easily after only two years in Parliament presumably didn't have the strongest conservative principles in the first place

Probably realises this gives him more chance of winning his seat again next election and I suspect its quite a bit easier being an opposition MP

[arista]

He has signed Bill
that says if you defect

You must have a Bi Election

So this "now" Labour MP Christian Wakeford
has no choice.


A Conservative MP
was Live in the Hall
Westminster, SkyNewsHD

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/01/19/12/53113417-10417645-image-a-30_1642594524574.jpg
[Wakeford was on the Labour benches
for PMQS today wearing a union flag face mask]

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D4B0/production/_122884445_mediaitem122884441.jpg

Politics Live BBC2HD
showed a clip of him
attacking the Labour Party
in 2019.

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJeaqoiXIAkmbX4?format=jpg&name=small

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[Crimson Dynamo]

I wonder what party he will be next year?

[UserSince2005]

I’m not going to say what he looks like but he looks like one.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yep

[glib]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMLkeevUwAA6_C5.jpg

[glib]

These two look relaxed
Bottle of something in his left hand he’s trying to conceal
And no tie
Meanwhile Hancock’s tie has been loosened

[arista]

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[arista]

[Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner dismissed
the need for a by-election in Bury South,
after MP Christian Wakeford defected
to the Labour Party.
Rayner proposed a general election instead.]
She said on Peston ITV1HD


No,
a By Election is on the way.

[AnnieK]

This guy is my Dad's MP.

[user104658]

mp's that jump ship very rarely get re-electedIndeed, areas vote on party lines not for an individual candidate. If they're going to vote Tory they'll vote Tory.

However, he may be flipping because he thinks his area is leaning Labour. In which case, they will indeed vote for him. Because again the name and face don't really matter, people are voting for the party being represented.

[AnnieK]

3Indeed, areas vote on party lines not for an individual candidate. If they're going to vote Tory they'll vote Tory.

However, he may be flipping because he thinks his area is leaning Labour. In which case, they will indeed vote for him. Because again the name and face don't really matter, people are voting for the party being represented.

It had been Labour for years before the last election. It was a shock when Tories got in....think because one of areas it covers is predominantly Jewish and the anti semitism allegations didn't go well and a lot if the areas are low earners and wanted Brexit.

[arista]

Wakeford "claims"
a Whip told him if he votes the wrong way
his new High School will not get built.

Conservative Party
say it is not the case?

[MTVN]

Sounds like Wineford on the booze again

[bots]

it's called incentivising not threatening :laugh:

That sort of thing has gone on since the dawn of time. If you don't wash the dishes, no pocket money for you this week etc etc etc