Six of Change UK’s 11 MPs, including its spokesman, Chuka Umunna, and interim leader Heidi Allen, have abandoned the fledgling party after its dire performance at the European elections.
Change UK announced that it now had just five MPs, who will be led by the former Conservative business minister and anti-Brexit campaigner Anna Soubry.
The others remaining are the former Labour MPs Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan and Ann Coffey. In their statement, they said they would embark on a “nationwide programme of deliberative democracy”, across the UK.
The lack of self-awareness is staggering.
“Change UK doesn’t just belong to MPs. It belongs to the country and those looking for a sense of hope and leadership to genuinely change our politics,” the five said in a statement.
The lack of self-awareness is staggering.
“We are in it for the long haul,” Leslie said. “It was never going to be easy to challenge the established parties. Of course there’s a whole treacle of cynicism that gets poured on people who try to do something different.”
Did I say that the lack of self-awareness is staggering? I mean, seriously. These people come from established parties and are offering absolutely nothing new – they are not doing something different at all. Just the same old same old. Another variation on a menu full of rotting fish. The level of delusion here is pretty amazing stuff, though.
He said the MPs had agreed that Soubry, who has been a leading figure in the People’s Vote campaign was “absolutely the clearest voice” in the “Brexit maelstrom” – and that they did not want to waste crucial weeks selecting a leader, like the Conservative party.
I think you will find that that was Nigel Farage.
Several of the six MPs who have quit the party are believed to be considering defecting to the resurgent Liberal Democrats, although they issued a statement saying that they would initially sit as a group of independents.
I’m sure they will find that they feel at home in the Illiberal Anti-Democrats. A match made in heaven. Fortunately, the electorate can see though a bunch of frauds pretty quickly and made other choices when it came to voting. I fully suspect that the remaining five MPs will be given their marching orders when the time comes for the electorate to pass judgement on them. And good riddance, frankly.
Mmm. A “nationwide programme of deliberative democracy” by politicians who don’t really believe in the demos unless the peasants are doing what they are jolly well told will have a really short shelf life.
The sneering condescension is palpable isn’t it?
Mmmmm “Deliberate democracy” So, what’s that when it’s at home then? Is it where the people vote and you deliberately ignore their wishes? Yup, that’s the baby.
“It was never going to be easy to challenge the established parties.” No dear it isn’t, but then you couldn’t even beat a party that was formed after you broke away from your parties could you love? Bless!
They will be better to merge with the illiberal anti-democrats. They share the same ideology.
“We are in it for the long haul,” Leslie said. “It was never going to be easy to challenge the established parties.”
Um, another new party seems to have managed it quite well, quite well indeed in fact…
Well, quite.
They are now being referred to as the Official Monster Raving Soubry Party.