It’s perfect for Labour. They get to shower Rishi in shit until the general election and then quietly deselect her or move her aside for an actual candidate. Why wouldn’t you?
but the party of the workers should not welcome hardcore right wingers no matter what the circumstances are
I think you’ve got principles and policies mixed up. What you’ve described is a policy.
A principle for a party of workers might be: To champion workers rights for the betterment of society.
A policy for that principle could be: to not accept right wing nutters into your party because they are inherently anti worker.
But equally another policy could be: publicly humilate incumbent anti worker government in an election cycle by accepting a defector from their party knowing full well it will be temporary because they’re standing down in the next election.
In a crucial election year one policy is infinitely better than the other.
That’s not how the news cycle sees it. If we are to believe the left wing rhetoric that the entire media is against Labour always and forever then the media proclaiming a win for Starmer and a humiliation for Sunak speaks volumes. And that’s what most of the electorate will see as well.
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Natalie Elphicke: Former Tory MP defects to Labour (www.bbc.co.uk)