Because of the fiction that we elect individual MPs, rather than members of a party.
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Was that ever a consideration? I have had direct interaction with my last 3 MPs and found myself in general agreement with them, but I do not believe I would have voted for them had they not also been representatives of the Labour party.
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It is in some cases. At the next election, Iām not going to be voting for my chosen party, because their local candidate is utterly toxic. I donāt want to be too specific, but Iām sure theyāre regret not deselecting them.
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Once I voted for person over party.
The idea really belongs to a time when the parties were weaker. Churchill crossed the aisle before becoming PM, which is practically unthinkable now - it almost sunk Truss that she was a Lib Dem at uni!
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Liberals = Tories
Gladstone did it the other way. Itās traditional with them. Liberal party, when it has been in power or even close to it, has been characterised by a quite extraordinary quantity and quality of talking through both sides of their mouths. David Lloyd George made a career of it. Liberals are Tories who want to be seen as nice. In other words missing the entire point of a party named after thieves who steal from the poor and give to the rich (themselves).
And now letās talk about Austerity Cleggā¦ You think itās somehow out of character with the LibDems that he went from a Tory government to Arsebookās Global Liar in Chief?
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Asshole defends indefensible asshole, or as itās known, another day in the Tory party.
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(I think thatās a satire site. 
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Itās only satire if youāre not entirely sure.
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And of course the money is still good:
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You canāt blame the money! Itās not itās fault, it didnāt know!!!
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And to cap it all off, the Speaker didnāt let the victim respond.
Hoyle has to go after the election. Heās losing all credibility.
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Isnāt he there because the last one insisted on following parliamentary rules rather than let the Conservatives do stuff without parliamentary votes (as distinct from cabinet ones)?
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NSFW in places, and hysterical, as usual:
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crossposted from the transphobia threadā¦
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The Brexit saga rumbles on and on.
Stormont deadlocks the first time it has to approve regulatory alignment with the EU, because of course the DUP are blocking it.
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