How can I save my sorry arse?

[klondike]

Anti-Brexit Tory MP Dan Poulter Defects to Left-Wing Labour Party

An anti-Brexit Tory MP and former health minister in the globalist David Cameron government has announced he will be defecting to the left-wing Labour Party, accusing the neo-liberal Conservatives of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of becoming a "nationalist party of the right" and of abandoning the socialised healthcare system as a top priority.

Dr Dan Poulter, who has represented Central Suffolk and North Ipswich in the House of Commons since 2010 while still serving as a part-time mental health doctor for the National Health Service (NHS), said that the Conservative Party no longer aligned with his values.

"It feels to me that the Tory party has gone from being a pragmatic, centrist, centre-right party which focused on and understood the importance of public service and the state to deliver certain things... and had a compassionate outlook on key issues. It has gone from that and feels like it has become a nationalist party of the right, much more of what we see in Europe," Poulter told the left-wing Observer.

The anti-Brexit former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health under ex-PM David Cameron said that the party has moved away from the direction of Cameron, despite the former PM now serving as Sunak's foreign secretary.

"The Conservative party's values have changed over the past eight years," he said. "The values of the Conservative party under David Cameron were different values and the priorities were very different. David Cameron undoubtedly had a very strong commitment to the NHS.

"Since he ceased to be prime minister eight years ago, the health service has ceased to be an area of priority for the Conservative party, and that is now showing in the strain on the frontline and the deterioration of care for patients."

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/27/anti-brexit-tory-mp-dan-poulter-defects-to-left-wing-labour-party/

It has started. Will there be more? These people were never true Conservatives from the outset.

[JBR]

I agree.

I'm sure we all know that probably half of the Conservative government is actually occupied by undercover Liberals.  That would also explain why they have been so completely inept in running the country.

They will all probably do the same as the forthcoming Labour government approaches.

[Vlad]

He knows he will lose his seat and therefore his job come the election, so he is jumping ship in order to continue living the life style of a highly paid MP. Once you have your snout in the taxpayer funded trough and you don't have to work anymore you will join any party I suppose to maintain that life style.

[dextrous63]

He knows he will lose his seat and therefore his job come the election, so he is jumping ship in order to continue living the life style of a highly paid MP. Once you have your snout in the taxpayer funded trough and you don't have to work anymore you will join any party I suppose to maintain that life style.

He's not standing for the next election anyway, so he wouldn't have needed to jump ship to maintain his lifestyle.

[JBR]

He's not standing for the next election anyway, so he wouldn't have needed to jump ship to maintain his lifestyle.

Perhaps he has made the necessary connections elsewhere as an MP so that he doesn't need to be an MP now.  He's probably looking forward to becoming some sort of 'political advisor' somewhere.

[dextrous63]

Perhaps he has made the necessary connections elsewhere as an MP so that he doesn't need to be an MP now.  He's probably looking forward to becoming some sort of 'political advisor' somewhere.

He's a practising doctor who said that he was finding it hard to look his medical colleagues in the eye as a Tory.  My guess is that he's just ingratiating himself with them.

[muddy]

He will earn more as a GP than and MP barring all the perks 

[Vlad]

He's not standing for the next election anyway, so he wouldn't have needed to jump ship to maintain his lifestyle.

Thanks Dex, I wasn't aware of that..bad research on my part, naughty boy Vlad go sit on the naughty step.

[klondike]

He's not standing for the next election anyway,

I didn't know that either. Mostlt because I didn't check. My bet is that most without a huge majority will avoid an inevitable humiliation by passing the baton.

[GrannyMac]

He will earn more as a GP than and MP barring all the perks

He's a mental health doctor.  I believe they're in short supply, he'll earn plenty.  I'm not surprised that any NHS employee doesn't support the current mob. 

I've voted Tory in almost every GE, but I'm barely right of centre, and I don't wish to see the collapse of the NHS, which is at the heart of our social structure.

[Ashy]

I gather he is a psychiatrist. Keep away from them.

[klondike]

I don't wish to see the collapse of the NHS

IMO in these parts it has already pretty much collapsed.

[Alex]

What was the UK population in 1947 when NHS was born, 40 million  ?   Now we don't exactly know how many people the NHS is trying to cope with. 

[dextrous63]

Quite.  Plus, of course, life expectancy has risen which has created its own problems.

[JBR]

What was the UK population in 1947 when NHS was born, 40 million  ?  Now we don't exactly know how many people the NHS is trying to cope with. 

I'd guess at at least 60 million, but with all the ones we don't know about, probably 70 million or more.

Of course, this also explains why it is so difficult to see a doctor these days.