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Thursday, August 28, 2014

UKIP to have its first MP? - Douglas Carswell defects.

BREAKING: Tory MP Douglas Carswell defects to Ukip

BREAKING: Tory MP Douglas Carswell defects to Ukip
LEADING backbencher Douglas Carswell has defected from the Conservative Party to Ukip, it has just been announced.
EXPRESS.CO.UK|BY OWEN BENNETT - POLITICAL REPORTER
THE OLD PARTIES RESPOND - Carswell: The Old Parties Respond Tories: “This is a regrettable and frankly counterproductive decision. As Douglas Carswell said, the only way to get a referendum on the EU is to return a majority Conservative government. The Conservative party will contest the forthcoming by-election vigorously to make sure the people in Clacton have a strong conservative voice in this parliament and the next.” ‘The Conservative Party will contest the by-election vigorously, to ensure that the people of Clacton have a strong Conservative voice in this Parliament and the next.’ Labour: “Douglas Carswell’s defection is a hammer blow to David Cameron. Confidence in David Cameron is collapsing inside a Conservative party which is divided and running scared of UKIP. David Cameron’s weak leadership has seen him abandon the centre ground, repeatedly trying to pander to his own right-wing backbenchers rather than concentrate on the needs of the country. Now even his own side are abandoning him.” Panic stations.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:34 pm

    From one set of controlled crooks to one less obvious but still ...
    Peace.

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  2. Tapestry12:45 pm

    Move from 100% certainty of sell-out to 80%. The confusion should throw up some play in the system somewhere. Play it for all it's worth. It's the only angle we've got.

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  3. Anonymous4:23 pm

    there is hypocrisy here, if an MP is caught with some delicious woman living in a flat as his mistress nothing is said except ho-ho jolly good chap, but if that MP has a teenage bumboy shacked up in a flat like david laws MP then everyone is against him

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  4. Anonymous6:18 pm

    Re post at 1:40 pm

    Apologies to Tap and All :-( I never read the headline properly or the article/links at all until just now, as I was on my way out and should have gone to Specsavers while in town. It is interesting though how one can misread such a headline when in a hurry.

    I've posted either here on Tap or possibly elsewhere how the malevolent Zio press often publishes a very misleading attention grabbing headline (not on here in this case obviously or ever for that matter) only for the actual truth of the piece to be buried amongst the story (fable) near the end which most readers won't often get to.

    Just a thought.

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