• One Tory MP defects to UKIP and triggers by-election; rumour has it eight more are in talks
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28967904[/url] [quote]Tory Douglas Carswell has defected to UKIP and quit as MP for Clacton, saying he will contest the subsequent by-election for Nigel Farage's party. If he wins the support of voters he will be the first elected UK Independence Party MP in the Commons. The maverick Eurosceptic backbencher said he did not believe Prime Minister David Cameron was "serious about the change we need" in Europe. The PM described his defection as "regrettable" and "counterproductive". Mr Carswell said the decision to jump ship from the Conservatives had given him "sleepless nights" but he wanted to see "fundamental change in British politics" and UKIP - a party he believed belonged to its members rather than a "little clique" of political insiders - could deliver it.[/quote] [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737206/A-rebel-MP-stuns-Cameron-defecting-Farage-eight-Tories-Ukip-talks-After.html[/url] [quote]Eight more Conservative MPs have held intensive talks with Ukip about defecting, it emerged last night. After the shock defection of Douglas Carswell yesterday in protest at David Cameron’s stance on immigration and Europe, a source told the Daily Mail that the threat of a mutiny went far beyond just one MP. It is understood that Mr Carswell was among nine Tories wined and dined by millionaire Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler at a series of discreet lunches in Mayfair.[/quote] Peter Hitchens was right - the Tories are collapsing. [img]http://i.imgur.com/ien0SKN.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/3KnkOGu.jpg[/img]
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