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[News] MPs defecting to The Independent Group in parliament
- Thread starter Leekbrookgull
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Eric Potts
Well-known member
Of course . Memo to self : ‘ pay more attention’
Amused rather than excited. It is a non-event.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
who will get decimated if they stand at the next election. Just glad to see Peter Kyle is staying loyal
Moshe Gariani
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,192
Stupid woman (Angela?) on at the moment...
No great loss.
No great loss.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
True, and that takes some doing.
Nice LD tie from Gavin Shuker (who?)
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Apart from the usual Westminster bubble I doubt anyone knows who any of these 7 are and I doubt many care what they do as they will be easily replaced as Labour MP's
For now.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
But it's showing as the main story on both The Daily Telegraph website and the Guido Fawkes right-wing, oddballs blog site though - it appears to be a huge event.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
But Atilla and his like will be on soon to tell us that there is noting wrong with the Labour Party, Momentum, Corbyn, McDonnell etc.
"Labour is institutionally racist"
Not sure how anyone can defend that.
"Labour is institutionally racist"
Not sure how anyone can defend that.
Catchy name they have come up with... "The Independent Group" 
The Seven Dwarfs. 
Moshe Gariani
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,192
Really? Sounds like a chain of two or three corner shops.Catchy name they have come up with... "The Independent Group"
With the 5 other non-aligned independents, that makes 12 former-Labour MPs.
Frank Field, Jared O'Mara, Kelvin Hopkins, Ivan Lewis, John Woodcock
Frank Field, Jared O'Mara, Kelvin Hopkins, Ivan Lewis, John Woodcock
It’s a tiny poll (waaaay) but Chris Leslie’s twitter feed is more supportive than negative.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Moshe Gariani
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,192
About as politically important as Enid Blyton's "Secret Seven"...
Latest dullard from Ilford South saying nothing.
Here comes Chukka
Latest dullard from Ilford South saying nothing.
Here comes Chukka
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Brexit is undoubtedly a political force that neither main party could have a leader who could meld the factions within their party. Labour has more MPs committed to fulfilling the will of the referendum as it does those prepared to split because they are not getting their 2nd referendum. He took the parliamentary party into the 2017 general election full of doubt, and delivered a bloody nose to the government, and a share of the vote not seen since 1997.
Did the leaderships of William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard pass you by? William Hague managed to deliver the biggest majority to a sitting government in history outside the war years.
4 MPs threatening to leave is the same if not less than the same amount threatening to quit the Tory party. I'm not actually a Corbyn fan believe it or not, but he is hardly destroying a party with whom he has grown membership to record levels. To have won 2017 would have been an unprecedented turn around in a short space of time for the previous election. They didn't win, but the result was a surprise, especially to the government.