“You don’t treat me well so I’m going to join the party who I consider my ideological opposite” said no one ever in the history of politics except if they have some kind of agenda.
Yeh this is a really wierd jump. Why not go independent I feel like there’s more here but in all honesty as she’s not my msp I don’t know her at all.
Could be wrong here but if she was to become an independent wouldn’t she basically have to front all of her own costs when it comes to running for re-election and what not?
Personally I find all this stuff really distasteful. I don’t understand how you become an MP of a party and then so quickly dissolve yourself of all the party stands for to then go play for the opposing team. Unless of course, you weren’t all that bothered in the first place and merely used it as a jumping off point to earn £80k a year and have access to everything that comes with being an MP.
You may be right on the costs front.
IMHO there should be rules that force a bielection the second you lose/resign from the whip as you are no longer standing under the promises you were elected to promote
I don’t understand how you become an MP of a party and then so quickly dissolve yourself of all the party stands for to then go play for the opposing team.
I imagine they agreed with some of what their party stood for but not everything. If the SNP treated her like shit she has less incentive to stick around.
But also, I don’t understand why she didn’t go independent or green who are closer ideologically than the Conservatives. 🤷
Jesse J wrote a song about this. It’s all about that sweet moolah; it can’t be easy being an independent MP, especially given there’s an election looming in the next year. That said, I don’t think I can square-away this sort of flip-flopping.
Yup this is such an incredibly dishonest thing for her to have said
From my understanding, the SNP is a broader church than that. It’s my understand that it was going to left that brought them to power. The SNP used to called “Tartan Tories”.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The furious SNP leader Humza Yousaf accused Ms Cameron of “betrayal” for switching to the Tories – demanding that the MP “do the honourable thing” and resign her seat.
Coming just days before the SNP conference, Mr Yousaf said: “To see somebody who claims to have supported Scottish independence cross the floor to the Conservative and Unionist Party betrays the fact that she probably never believed in the cause in the first place.”
Ms Cameron blamed her SNP colleagues in parliament for the “deterioration” of her mental health and being put on antidepressants – revealing that she had received support from Rishi Sunak.
Ms Cameron said she would “never regret my actions in standing up for a victim of abuse at the hands of an SNP MP last year” – but had lost faith in the party’s leadership.
The host of the Holyrood Sources podcast said it meant SNP get to engage their base by complaining about the Tories without the need for the “bruising” by-election Ms Cameron had threatened.
Ms Cameron praised Mr Sunak and said she was “particularly grateful” to him for reaching out to her after receiving “no contact from party leadership in the past weeks” despite her mental health struggles.
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Oh the irony!
In other news, I’m taking a vow of silence and becoming a vegan.
