Canada's Tories didn't up their leadership game at their recent convention.

Now they pay the price:

Poilievre left ineffectually whining to an even smaller constituency of hardliners versus a growing plurality of pragmatists.

#cdnpoli #defection #poilievre

Robert Jenrick has been sacked as shadow minister on account of the shadow leader thinking he's thinking of defecting.

Presumably this encourages him to defect really? Even if he wasn't planning to leave, why stay around in a party that can't win and is sacking people on paranoid presumptions that they will leave?

Seems like all the rats at the Conservative party are jumping ship to Reform. People will be voting Reform at the next election and literally getting the exact same ministers as when they voted Conservative at the last one.

This isn't like the usual "Vote X, get Y", where the broken electoral system lets the least popular party in because the popular political wing is divided. This is literally "Vote reform, Reform win, but you get the exact people who were standing as Conservative last time"

Is this really good for Reform? It's voters are trying to avoid voting Tory, surely? Adding all the old tory ministers to their ranks has to hurt rather than help?

#ukpol #defection #reform #conservatives

“Reform UK does like one kind of immigrant”

by Another Angry Voice on Substack

@uk_politics

“#ReformUK [Ltd] welcome Nadim #Zahawi with open arms. [..] The #UK #establishment order is obviously more than willing to allow people of immigrant backgrounds to rise to the top, as long as they play along with all the #greed, #corruption, #dishonesty, #classwarfare against ordinary Brits, and anti-immigrant rabble rousing”

https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/reform-uk-does-like-one-kind-of-immigrant

#Press #UK #Farage #FarRight #Racism #Defection

“London Labour councillors defect en masse to Green Party”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@UKLabour
@uk_politics

“Five sitting councillors in the North London borough of Brent have defected en masse from Labour to the Greens with a blast at Starmer’s party that it is ‘no longer serving the principles it once championed’”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/16/green-party-surge/

#Press #UK #London #Labour #Councillors #Defection #Greens #Starmer