You are reading a single comment by @tbc and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@tbc
I don't think MPs should be able to defect without it triggering an automatic byelection (even if it does make things awkward for Boris).
To be fair to UKIP (and this is all I'll say in their credit), when Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless defected from the Tories, they also resigned to force byelections. By winning them both, they made a bigger point than a simple defection would have done, which was probably the point, but they at least realised they should give the voters a choice.