Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems poetic that after becoming prime minister without a general election, that he’s on course to lose his majority without a general election.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They live in a little bubble of their own without much reference to the real world.

    He was chosen by the party in part because he had relatively high approval ratings, higher than the parties actually. Problem was they never wondered why, they never wondered if it might be because he was chancellor during the pandemic and was the face of the furlough scheme.

    Perhaps people liked him because he’d never done anything really offensive, as far as they were aware, and had given them some money a while back. But none of that was because of any talent on his part. So inevitably when the public had to judge him on his own merits, and found out that he doesn’t have any, his popularity rating dropped.

    This was an inevitable chain of events that a concussed hamster would not have had trouble predicting.

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    • essell@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trouble is the concussed hamster didn’t say anything, too upset after she got booted for her mini budget.

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ve got another Tory leading the Labour party advised by Tony Blair (himself a Thatcherite).

  Guido where are you now?!

  In reality, he’s probably trying to save himself from the dole queue.

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  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blair is not a Thatcherite

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  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s standing down at the next general election anyway, so this isn’t about saving his seat.

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    • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My bad!

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  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Upvoted because I agree that Labour have taken the centre-right place vacated by the Tories shift towards the far right.

    The last hope I have in the current Labout leadership is that they are even worse liars than we thought and will turn around and implement loads progressive policies once they have been allowed into office by the right wing press. The fact that they’ve been have loads of meeting with the finance ghouls isn’t a good sign but perhaps they’re stringing them along too. I’m probably just indulging my fantasies though.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What does this say about the current state of Labour though?

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re red Tories

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tale as old as time political utd/city fans

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