#Tory 2019er Christian Wakeford defects to the Labour Party. What does this say about LABOUR?
Christian Wakeford: he was expected to sit behind Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions after defecting to Labour.
One of the Conservative Party’s 2019 intake to Parliament has defected to the Labour Party in response to Boris Johnson’s “Partygate” shambles:
Bury South MP Christian Wakeford has defected from the Conservatives to Labour, telling Boris Johnson “you and the Conservative Party as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves”
— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) January 19, 2022
And Labour has welcomed him:
A very warm welcome to Christian Wakeford MP!
The new Labour MP for Bury South. 🌹 pic.twitter.com/kfpbob6VC9
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) January 19, 2022
This is a literal example of Boris Johnson’s support walking away from him.
But what does this say about Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, that a “solid Tory” who has supported Johnson’s hard-right, arguably fascist, policies for more than two years can switch sides to it?
To This Writer, it seems clear that my own accusation that Starmer has turned Labour into “Tepid Tories” is accurate.
There’s no real difference between them and Starmer’s determination to turn Labour blue is depriving the UK’s electorate of any choice.
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Where would you like him to defect to ?
If he is fed up of the Tories that must give him reason to go. If he went to the lib Dems you would call them right wing
Why do you think I want him to defect anywhere? He should have stayed in the Tories and handed in his “no confidence” letter.
https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/now-is-the-winter-of-complete-contempt/
Terrific headline on a terrific article!