I just saw on the lunchtime news that Lee Anderson has defected from the Tory party to Reform, giving them their first MP. I know that MPs don’t legally have to resign when they switch parties of course, but this nonetheless makes me very uncomfortable. Reform is nothing but a bunch of knuckle-dragging xenophobes, on a par with the MAGA fuckwits in America; it shouldn’t be anywhere near the UK parliament. After all, Anderson was elected as a Tory, and the people who voted for him did so to elect the Tory party. They did not vote for Reform, and I sincerely hope wouldn’t be foolish enough to ever do so. Thus I think we need to see an urgent bi-election in the constituency of Ashfield, as well as Anderson’s immediate resignation.