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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 13, 2013 14:49:49 GMT
There's a story in the Sunday Times today saying that the Tories are cosying up to Jeremy Browne to say he should defect to them after he was sacked by Nick Clegg in the recent reshuffle.
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Post by erlend on Oct 13, 2013 14:50:43 GMT
Didn't that start from a tweet by Louise Mensch?
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 13, 2013 15:53:55 GMT
Isn't he a bit right wing for them?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2013 16:53:45 GMT
It would be passingly amusing if he defected and then got a ministerial post off Cameron.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2013 16:53:56 GMT
Just your typical Sunday papers puff piece and as erland says, the source is discredited
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 14, 2013 13:03:26 GMT
Couldn't happen before January 2015 anyway. Poaching an MP from your coalition partner is just too uncollegiate a move to countenance until you're primed for a dissolution. Even then, it'd make a new coalition pact harder to accomplish, because it'd stoke the fears of the left of the Lib Dems about the risks of eventual merger.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2013 13:27:39 GMT
I've never been a member of the BNP... I'm a fee-paying member of the Green Party. Edit: That is to say, you can't defect from Green to Green. Why are you listed as a British Nationalist here. |
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 14, 2013 13:37:28 GMT
"British Nationalist" doesn't just mean BNP in this context - IIRC he has said that is a correct description of his views.
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Oct 14, 2013 14:05:06 GMT
The above is correct. I had assumed that British Nationalist along with Socialist were tendencies because it would be tiresome for the moderator to keep track of the ludicrous number of splitter-groups and micro-parties on the far-right and far-left, respectively...
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Post by erlend on Oct 14, 2013 15:45:55 GMT
I think it is but Green is separately listed.
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Oct 14, 2013 16:31:00 GMT
I think it is but Green is separately listed. If I'm still a member by next February (that is, if I renew my membership), I'll ask for it to be changed. I'm fine with 'British Nationalist' for now, however... |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Oct 14, 2013 16:35:34 GMT
You can hopefully forgive my confusion Cromwell. You could always ask Kristofer to put your true party allegiance on display underneath your username. I have to say that any faint sympathy I might have for the Green Party is undermined by the news that Cromwell is a member! |
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Oct 14, 2013 16:55:36 GMT
You can hopefully forgive my confusion Cromwell. You could always ask Kristofer to put your true party allegiance on display underneath your username. I have to say that any faint sympathy I might have for the Green Party is undermined by the news that Cromwell is a member! I will admit that I'm not at all representative of the average member... |
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Post by Pimpernal on Oct 18, 2013 6:58:45 GMT
A senior Tory backbencher on KCC has learnt the hard way that UKIP is a party of principle... He tried to negotiate his defection promising that if he was made deputy leader of our group he could bring two others over with him... effectively depriving the Tories of overall control.
We told him that if people wanted to defect they are welcome to do so but we only want defectors who genuinely support our party and not who want a nice little package...
Watch this space... there are 5 or 6 now (that I know of) who have approached us, but we're not doing old-party style deals!
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Post by libfozzy on Oct 18, 2013 9:36:35 GMT
A senior Tory backbencher on KCC has learnt the hard way that UKIP is a party of principle... He tried to negotiate his defection promising that if he was made deputy leader of our group he could bring two others over with him... effectively depriving the Tories of overall control. We told him that if people wanted to defect they are welcome to do so but we only want defectors who genuinely support our party and not who want a nice little package... Watch this space... there are 5 or 6 now (that I know of) who have approached us, but we're not doing old-party style deals! Is this something that's common on Kent County Council? Because IMHO people defecting and then being given senior positions in the group they've defected to is pretty rare.... |
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Post by Crimson King on Oct 18, 2013 9:56:06 GMT
So, UKIP have declined to give somebody who has been shown to be disloyal and prepared to suborn others in return for preferment, a senior post in their organisation. I think that shows them to be sensible, rather than principled
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Post by erlend on Oct 21, 2013 17:14:39 GMT
Defections on Kent historically have I think been rare. Actually I don't think they have historically been common at county level.
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Jan 21, 2014 20:17:16 GMT
I think it is but Green is separately listed. If I'm still a member by next February (that is, if I renew my membership), I'll ask for it to be changed. I'm fine with 'British Nationalist' for now, however... I have allowed my membership to expire. Whilst I might have a little bit to do in May, I think I'll postpone any genuine political activity until I've finished my degree (2017). |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 21, 2014 20:27:57 GMT
If I'm still a member by next February (that is, if I renew my membership), I'll ask for it to be changed. I'm fine with 'British Nationalist' for now, however... I have allowed my membership to expire. Whilst I might have a little bit to do in May, I think I'll postpone any genuine political activity until I've finished my degree (2017). When I think how much uni time I spent leafleting etc. for weirdoes and morons, I think you're making the right move. Good luck with your studies. |
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Post by iainbhx on Jan 21, 2014 20:49:51 GMT
I have allowed my membership to expire. Whilst I might have a little bit to do in May, I think I'll postpone any genuine political activity until I've finished my degree (2017). When I think how much uni time I spent leafleting etc. for weirdoes and morons, I think you're making the right move. Good luck with your studies. Brecon and Radnor, just up the road, they said, just come along the once they said. Bastards. Not sure if was politics or the sex-crazed blond that really did for me in my finals. |
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