But do we want her? Hmmmmm.....
[Politics] Natalie Elphic defects to labour
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Soton Seagull
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Dodgy sex case husband Dover MP?
Loves a bit of pointing at boats angrily from memory. Not sure it is the optics Labour want or need at this stage.
Loves a bit of pointing at boats angrily from memory. Not sure it is the optics Labour want or need at this stage.
Hmm, she’s got some pretty loathsome opinions as I recall, but it’s pretty humiliating for Rishi
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
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Sauce?
Starmer’s just announced it at PMQs
Pevenseagull
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Don't know why she kept her married name after the divorce.
But when the MP for Dover defects to the opposition that's a pretty strong message.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Can she play left back?
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She is the former wife of the former Dover Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke, convicted sex offenderI'm struggling to recall who she is.
Charlie Elphicke - Wikipedia
As far as herself is concerned (from Wikipedia), in July 2021, she was one of five MPs found to have breached their code of conduct by the Commons Select Committee on Standards for attempting to influence senior judges in November 2020 in her husband's sentencing appeal after his conviction for sexual assault. The committee recommended that Elphicke and two other MPs receive a one-day suspension from parliament. She apologised for her actions.
On 17 March 2022, Elphicke attended a protest against the mass sacking of 800 staff members by P&O ferries in Dover. She was heckled by some protestors who blamed her party for laws that allowed the sackings to take place which she called "nonsense".
I look forward to a full and frank explanation for NE's defection, and the reasons why labour felt inclined to accept this Pauline conversion.
Eurgh... Author of the Express articles:
She'll fit right in, I'm sure
"Lefties aren't defending migrants they're defending a multi billion pound criminal empire" and
"600 feared dead - how many bodies does Left need to finally help stop people trafficking?"
She'll fit right in, I'm sure
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HP. Now.
Austrian Gull
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Blimey, Labour should avoid her like the plague. Dreadful woman.
Hotchilidog
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I can see why Natalie would feel at home in the Labour Party.
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I would have thought that Reform would be more her style of swivel-eyed bigotry
Greg Bobkin
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Being pretty politically unaware, how do these things work? Once she announces she's leaving, does the other party have to accept her? Or does she issue a 'come and get me plea' to all interested parties?
It strikes me that she's not doing it for the good of her own constituents, more to save her own skin when the Conservatives get a pasting at the next GE. Surely Labour would have one of their own in place, not a Tory reject?
It strikes me that she's not doing it for the good of her own constituents, more to save her own skin when the Conservatives get a pasting at the next GE. Surely Labour would have one of their own in place, not a Tory reject?
pigmanovich
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Immediately thought of this saga, horrified to see she's been welcomed to the party.She is the former wife of the former Dover Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke, convicted sex offender
Charlie Elphicke - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
As far as herself is concerned (from Wikipedia), in July 2021, she was one of five MPs found to have breached their code of conduct by the Commons Select Committee on Standards for attempting to influence senior judges in November 2020 in her husband's sentencing appeal after his conviction for sexual assault. The committee recommended that Elphicke and two other MPs receive a one-day suspension from parliament. She apologised for her actions.
On 17 March 2022, Elphicke attended a protest against the mass sacking of 800 staff members by P&O ferries in Dover. She was heckled by some protestors who blamed her party for laws that allowed the sackings to take place which she called "nonsense".
I look forward to a full and frank explanation for NE's defection, and the reasons why labour felt inclined to accept this Pauline conversion.
pocketseagull
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- Dec 29, 2014
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Would be nice if the Labour party would be principled enough to say her views aren't welcome. This at the same time they're weakening the plans for Workers Rights even before elected, another disappointment,
Done purely to keep her seat, status, salary and future pension.
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Sunk is deflecting in PMQT by asking Starmer questions. For example, does he defend a comment made by a Labour person about the 'equivalence' between Bibi and Hamas. A comment made prior to the current outbreak of smiting. Unbelievable old bollocks. He'll be on about Jeremy Corbyn in a minute.
As it happens, in terms of equivalence, while accepting that Hamas 'started it' (the current smiting) Bibi has killed far more Palestinians than Hamas has killed Jews, so the estimation of equivalence depends on the parameter chosen as the index.
Just for the record, Labour have shifted so far away from Corbyn that a tory MP, not noted for her affinity with socialist causes, has just defected to Labour. We await her statement of contrition, of course, which could be whopping, if not whoppas, but even so..