Natalie Elphicke: Former Tory MP defects to Labour
Natalie Elphicke: Former Tory MP defects to Labour
The MP for Dover says the Tories "have become a byword for incompetence and division".
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The fact that Labour are letting people like this in is hilarious. A vote for Starmer's Labour is a vote for Conservative rule, albeit with a tint of red.
Well, given that she's not running again and there's no Labour approval process for just saying shit, you're just talking to talk. Good job not letting even a bad opportunity to soapbox go to waste!
Sir Keir welcomed her to the party, asking Mr Sunak "what is the point of this failed government staggering on" when "the Tory MP for Dover on the front line of small boats crisis says the prime minister cannot be trusted with our borders and joins Labour".
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So, your position is... what? That the government should stagger on? That they can be trusted to deal with immigration?
You're better than this,
You are hearing dog whistles where there are no dog whistles.
I think the point is that Elphicke's criticisms of Tory immigration policy are very different from what most Labour voters would like to see. I'd like to see a processing centre in Calais to make it easier to seek legal refugee status. She just wants to pull up the drawbridge. By saying this, Keir is condoning her messaging on immigration and I don't like that.
Starmer isn't condoning her message; it's the other way around. She's been a critic of the Conservative immigration policy, and now she's effectively saying 'Labour's immigration policy is better' - which it is. There's not the slightest hint that Labour's policy, which is much like what you've said you'd like to see, has changed.
How is he wrong? She will still be a party member, she will likely still hold the housing advisory position she's been given and be out on the streets as a face of labour campaigning. No right wingers should be welcome in labour, it says 'democratic socialist' on the membership card for a reason