Retiring M.P (now Ex) defects to the LibDems

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Nice to see he doesn't give a monkey's about his constituents isn't it?

Most cowardly defection for quite a while IMO.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well this isn't technically a defection as Parliament has been dissolved and he's retiring as an M.P (One of the reasons why I'm happy to call him a coward), but defections don't happen all that often; there's usually a few every Parliament but not a massive amount... the whip gets withdrawn from some M.P's more though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, I hate it when defectors don't try to hold their seat.
Especially if they might actually have made some -even if slight- difference to the election result there.

What makes this worse (and the only reason why I'm annoyed about it; Sedgemore is a self described Libertarian nowadays) Is that he didn't even defect when Parliament was still in session (in other words he didn't even have the guts to face his former collegues from the other benches... even Marsden did that...)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Big defections are pretty rare here as well; the last big names to defect were the Gang of Four who left Labour to form the SDP in the early '80's.