Natalie Elphicke is the latest Tory to defect to Labour but look at her record – Keir Starmer may say he’s proud of her but nobody else should be.

Announcing her move, the MP for Dover attacked Rishi Sunak and the Conservative government he leads. She said: “The elected Prime Minister was ousted in a coup led by the unelected Rishi Sunak. Under Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives have become a byword for incompetence and division.”

She went on to attack the “broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government”.

And she said: “I have carefully considered this decision. The change has been dramatic and cannot be ignored.

“For me key deciding factors have been housing and the safety and security of our borders.”

This Writer called it. I said Dan Poulter was just the first, and other Tories would follow him to Labour in the hope of securing their future. Like him, she’s also standing down at the general election, but it’s believed he’s after an advisory role on the NHS (to ensure it continues to be privatised?) and you can bet she’ll be after something too. Elphicke crossed the floor of the House of Commons moments before Prime Minister’s Questions was due to start.

So this is not a great coup for Labour leader Keir Starmer. It simply adds to the concern raised when Poulter crossed the floor – that he is attracting politically ‘wrong’ people into his bastardised Plastic Tory Party.

Here’s some evidence, gathered by our friends on the social media:

Even those usually staunch Starmer supporters, Carol Vorderman and Supertanskii have baulked at this addition to his party’s ranks:

It already has been disastrous. Look at last week’s (May 2, 2024) local elections – for every right-wing vote Labour gained, it lost a left-wing or Muslim (due to Starmer’s stance on Gaza) vote.

As a result, while the Tories lost nearly 500 seats (down 48 per cent), Labour picked up fewer than 200 (up 19 per cent). The rest went to the Green Party and Independent councillors (they were the biggest winners – proportionately – in that election, up 69 per cent each).

But to hear Keir Starmer, you’d think it was a wonderful victory to have a person as horrible as Elphicke undoubtedly is, crossing over to infest the Labour benches:

And it confirms what some of us have been saying about Starmer’s party for years:

Whether Elphicke stands or not, her decision to join Labour confirms that it is now nothing but the Continuity Conservative Party, offering no help to struggling citizens or families. If you want that, you need to look elsewhere – and should probably start with those Independents and Greens.

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