Moment Tory MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour during PMQs

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13 күн бұрын

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has announced her defection to Labour in a statement released moments before Rishi Sunak stood up for Prime Minister’s Questions.
Ms Elphicke said she had left because the country needs to “move on from the broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic Government”.
In a statement, the MP for Dover said she was angry that Boris Johnson had been “ousted” by the party and that under Mr Sunak, the Tories had become a “byword for incompetence and division”.
A spokesman for the Labour Party said Ms Elphicke would be stepping down at the election and that the already-selected candidate in Dover, Mike Tapp, would still stand for the party.
Ms Elphicke sat just behind Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions as the Labour leader came face to face with Mr Sunak.
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@jasonwilson7674 11 күн бұрын

Disgraceful- these MPs are just out for themselves. Wasters

@quwipyui6519 11 күн бұрын

this is how the UK are finished with agony the economy is done society and culture is done the laws on the country is actually slavery prisons laws everything is failed to rebuild we are needs 20 years and this is only dreams

@markmccallum8733 11 күн бұрын

All the rats are jumping ship

@mertonsardeen2242 11 күн бұрын

From one rat infestation to another.

@carlharding5311 11 күн бұрын

Rats are notoriously smart animals

@jmmypaddy 10 күн бұрын

For all those wondering, this MP is not wanting re-election and is unhappy with the Tory government. If Labour want a landslide they need to be a broad church of views. I despise her beliefs, but see the political decision made.

@outsidespac3 8 күн бұрын

Yes they must be a broad church that includes rape-apologists

@bwilliamson3887 11 күн бұрын

She doesn't want to lose her MP seat and her nice 85k salary.

@firnen_ 11 күн бұрын

She's not going to be standing at the next election as far as I've heard.

@ismailahmed4876 11 күн бұрын

😂😂❤️

@fireburn95rs 11 күн бұрын

BBC says she's standing down at next GE so can't really say that

@StinsonSwarley 11 күн бұрын

This feels like an episode of the thick of it, I love it 😂

@airdog1829 7 күн бұрын

Decfecting to Labour? Lol, same party...

@DC-YTC 11 күн бұрын

I hate the Tories but please Dover, vote this opportunist out

@wendycairns4231 11 күн бұрын

She is standing down.

@tatata1543 5 күн бұрын

Yea, she’s a real trooper. An example to us all. 🙄

@michaeld5888 11 күн бұрын

Nothing more ephemeral than a politician's commitment to any policy or belief. If they were all stirred up and and they just ended up sitting where they ended up would we notice any difference.

@Stryder55 11 күн бұрын

Ultimate shame. Disgraceful. No spine, just greed and opportunism. What a joke.

@y0udefeated738 11 күн бұрын

That’s not an MP I’d ever vote for.

@lw1zfog 10 күн бұрын

maybe she can now finally forget her ex

@nickvinehill7491 10 күн бұрын

It’s irrelevent how short a time there is before the next general election. During a parliament isn’t it bad enough yet alone undemocratic for MP’s to defect to another party that’s different from the party they were representing at their election? If Natalie Elphicke was unhappy with the Tory government shouldn’t she have - in proper consultation with her Dover constituency - either resigned her Tory whip, stood as an independent or quit altogether? However it’s not rocket science to understand why another right wing Tory MP defects to Starmer’s Labour ‘just like that’. All it says is many right wing Tory MP’s regard Starmer, who via the NEC removed the whip from elected Labour party MP’s like Corbyn and Abbott and even removed the Labour membership of an actual elected North Eastern Labour Mayor Sean O’Driscoll, as being a more reliable right wing leader than their own! If any MP party defection has to take place at all which would make far more political sense these days it would be Starmer defecting to the Tories via the proper official channels of course. The current twenty five odd point lead Labour has over the Tories is not down to Starmer’s alleged ‘changed’ Labour Party and its useless aspirational reformist policies. Isn’t it down solely to the rotten decayed state of 14 years of failed Tory government?

@RE-ng5uw 19 сағат бұрын

She's only doing it because she wants to be on the winning side not because she agrees with labour values.

@Priceinator11 11 күн бұрын

I love watching Stephen Flynn's reaction!

@Ukipmiddleleft 11 күн бұрын

If this doesn't prove they are all the same with the same aims then I don't know what does. I will vote Reform.

@kresovia 11 күн бұрын

DECALOGUE OF DEMOCRACY 4. In a democratic country, the profession of a lawyer, defender or patron is an open profession subject to only a state examination. Any corporate or systemic restrictions on obtaining a profession or attorney's license are unacceptable.

@quwipyui6519 11 күн бұрын

democracy? no sorry I don't see any democracy here

@m.bowyer5045 10 күн бұрын

diane abbott,john mcdonald,natalie elphicke,thats a very broad labour church!!.....🤣👍

@sandramarshall518 11 күн бұрын

This treacherous lot will get their comeuppance - what goes around comes around.

@michaelpeart7754 11 күн бұрын

Snakes all of them .

@TonyAmore-dp9kx 11 күн бұрын

a bigger moment for Labour than Madonna coming to the u.k however the incompetant staff at the smithfield library stoke on trent is a lesser moment

@songscoops4205 11 күн бұрын

I hope they treat her better than Rosie 😂

@watchiingunow618 10 күн бұрын

Something stinks in the room.

@deeestuary 11 күн бұрын

MPs are elected as members of a particular Party. They should not be allowed to betray the people who voted for them by changing political party.

@sandramarshall518 11 күн бұрын

They are an absolute disgrace - don't those that voted for this treacherous lot have a say- I would be hopping mad if the MP I believed in and voted for because of the party he/she represented, then crossed over to the opposition. They lied to their supporters didn't they?

@mertonsardeen2242 11 күн бұрын

They are a shambles. Utter disgusting gutter sick.

@thughes2644 11 күн бұрын

Yes MPs are elected on a wider party manifesto but the MP is also answerable to the local voters alone. The MP is not answerable to the party leader but the people who put that person in Westminster. If Elphicke listened to the local constituents and felt they had shifted on whole from Tory to Labour AND she had concerns about a frankly corrupt and contemptuous government, then why should she not defect?? Makes no sense at this late stage for defection by-elections, but frankly we need a general election. All MPs who want to leave the sinking ship can do so and we would get a government more in touch with our needs

@slayer0605 11 күн бұрын

Exactly this. Should have stepped down, probably meaning not getting paid, and stood in a by-election in respect for the people that originally voted for her. Wouldn't trust her one bit if she was my elected MP.

@rp1692 11 күн бұрын

@@slayer0605 by the time a by-election could be organised, it'd be almost time for a general election anyway (arguably it is already) so holding one now would barely be worth the cost.

@earnestequivocation6250 10 күн бұрын

What on earth is this hard right Brexitory doing? Don’t get me wrong, the word opportunist is highly appropriate fro many of the 2019 Brexit intake but this is beyond the pale! Why is Labour accepting her? Who’s next Lee Anderson?

@imperatorvespasian3125 11 күн бұрын

i suspect she was never conservative.... or the two parties are the same

@ttoughtask7296 11 күн бұрын

The 2 parties are the same war mongering, neo-liberals. Keith is Tory Lite

@osric1730 11 күн бұрын

Oh she was certainly a Conservative, its just the Conservatives are no longer conservative and are the party of pandering to far right KZfaq kookery.

@AppleAirsoft 11 күн бұрын

Oligarch party 2 welcomes MP from Oligarch party 1 after looting and wrecking the country, same party same values same owners.

@novelist5380 11 күн бұрын

Cringe

@CatherineElizabethCharlesworth 11 күн бұрын

where is sara miller

@CatherineElizabethCharlesworth 11 күн бұрын

David Cameron has had his title stripped. He is a sir no longer.

@dougmccoy100 10 күн бұрын

He’s a 'Lord’ which is arguably more important than a 'Sir'!

@CatherineElizabethCharlesworth 10 күн бұрын

@@dougmccoy100 He performs lobotomies on the British public. The whole place stinks!

@Partyanimal1066 6 күн бұрын

It won’t help him when the ancient house of lords which is full of unelected people who don’t have a clue how to help our country. To give an example,my great grandfather was Lord Serre,a French chemist who invented dry cleaning and lived in the UK until his retirement when he moved back to France for the rest of his life. I gather he wasn’t completely fluent in the English language ,so why give a man,a genius in chemistry no doubt which I’m very proud of,but not in the politics or understanding the British people ,a life peerage ? Like most people in the House of Lords ,I’ve no doubt he meant well but was totally unqualified to play politics. The house of lords gets more and more like a Nursing Home where people are sent to live out their days in politics without having to be voted in so that anything goes. As for Lord Cameron,he resigned when he couldn’t get his own way in Brexit but all of a sudden he has the nerve to accept a job and entry to the House of Lords in order to squirm his way back into politics without being voted for. An absolute disgrace but he won’t be crying all the way to the bank anytime soon.

@billienomates1606 11 күн бұрын

BY ELECTION NOW DOVER.

@gavinsmith9564 11 күн бұрын

She's ERG the lowest of the low of Brexiteers.

@virtualunreality8326 11 күн бұрын

Hmmm I think labour will win the election. Now, what can I do to keep my job. I certainly don't want to go back and work with some oiks. I know!! I'll swop over on to a side which I think will win!!! Brilliant idea.

@firnen_ 11 күн бұрын

She's not standing in the election.

@knurled1 11 күн бұрын

🐀🚢

@CatherineElizabethCharlesworth 11 күн бұрын

Ellie Zolfagharifard is dead.

@ipohtennischannel5482 11 күн бұрын

Elphicke is simply looking after Number One. In a few months time, when most of her Tory colleagues are in the dole queue, Elphicke will still be in the Westminster gravy train.

@andrewpetley4468 11 күн бұрын

She's standing down at the next General Election and the Labour Candidate for Dover has already been selected.

@ipohtennischannel5482 11 күн бұрын

@@andrewpetley4468 We'll see where she pops up in the future - any safe seat for any political party is my guess, or maybe shoehorned by Starmer into the House of Lords?