Quentin Davies has defected to Labour

[EffiePerine]

here

[BoingBoing]

He's an opportunistic arse who doesn't think the Tories will win the next election. And I'd say the same about anyone who changes party under similar circumstances.

[SenoraPostrophe]

but surely if he was just an opportunist he'd have done this years ago?

[BoingBoing]

It depends what he's been offered, and he will have been offered something.

[EffiePerine]

Am betting that he gets a post pretty soon...

which wouldn't be a bad thing as he does seem to know what he is talking about.

[foxinsocks]

nobody likes a turncoat

and an attention seeking, obnoxious one at that

if he had any guts or conviction behind what he believes, he'd resign as an MP and then fight a by-election in his seat as a would-be Labour MP

[EffiePerine]

'no-one likes a turncoat'

Churchill wd prob disagree

[foxinsocks]

I bet he wasn't liked for doing it at the time (and he went back in the end)!

in modern day politics, I cannot think of one defection (yet) where the defector has gone on to have a brilliant political career - I just don't think it happens

[BoingBoing]

Yet the poor saps still do it, in the mistaken belief that they'll gain power, rather than simply being used for short term political advantage. Once he's outlived his usefulness in about 10 minutes, he'll end up as a junior minister in the Dept. of Paperclips, if he's lucky.

The spineless lemming won't even call a by-election, so desperate is he to get and retain 'power'.