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[Varche]

Self interest?  It is just more of what uk politicians havebeen doing for years. Ignore thevoters.

[Rods2]

When Douglas Carswell & Mark Reckless crossed the floor to UKIP they both did the honourable thing and called by elections. The TIG members want a second referendum called the LosersVote PeoplesVote where you can't have too much democracy when an EU vote is lost, just no further votes required when they win. When it was suggested their need for more democracy means they will be calling by elections then, right? Apparently this is too much democracy for the plebs electorate.

Just signed the Change.org petition, along with almost 60,000 other people to stop the theft of the votes from the electorate in their constituencies by calling on them to call by elections. IMO any pressure that we can apply, the better, where they don't like it up them, except at least one of them has an alleged reputation of enjoying a bit of rough.

https://www.change.org/p/votetheft
 

[BazaJT]

There should be by-elections as the constituents are not now represented by the party they voted for,but I doubt any of them will do such an honourable thing and stand for re-election as members of their new "party".There is of course precedent for MPs "crossing the floor" without a by-election being called.

[STEMO]

When Douglas Carswell & Mark Reckless crossed the floor to UKIP they both did the honourable thing and called by elections. The TIG members want a second referendum called the LosersVote PeoplesVote where you can't have too much democracy when an EU vote is lost, just no further votes required when they win. When it was suggested their need for more democracy means they will be calling by elections then, right? Apparently this is too much democracy for the plebs electorate.

Just signed the Change.org petition, along with almost 60,000 other people to stop the theft of the votes from the electorate in their constituencies by calling on them to call by elections. IMO any pressure that we can apply, the better, where they don't like it up them, except at least one of them has an alleged reputation of enjoying a bit of rough.

https://www.change.org/p/votetheft

You can sign as many petitions as you like. They are fully aware that they would lose any by-election and, as such, their political careers would be over. The law says that they do not have to, so they won't. As you've said in many previous posts, there's no honour amongst politicians, so why should this lot be any different?

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

No reason really, apart from the fact that they say they have done what they did as a matter of honour and principle - which I suppose makes them even worse than your average waste of skin found on the green benches. 

[ronnyd]

The reality of our elections is that you vote for a name on the ballot paper and not for a party. It wasn,t that long ago that the candidates party was actually added to the ballot paper. That said, i would imagine that most people vote on party preferences these days though i may be wrong on that assumption.

[Sir Tigger KC]

There have been reports that Tony Blair is to publicly support the independent group of MP's or even become their leader. 

That's the kiss of death for them then! 

[Kevin Wood]

There have been reports that Tony Blair is to publicly support the independent group of MP's or even become their leader. 

That's the kiss of death for them then! 

Ahh, yes. I think it was Jonathan Pie who coined the perfect phrase to describe B.Liar. "The turd that won't flush". So true.

[STEMO]

Another Labour MP has moved over. Must confess, he's not one I've heard of.

EDIT: Not moved over, just quit.