IRVINE Welsh has called for a total restructure of the British political system after branding politicians as playing “musical chairs” following the defection of Natalie Elphicke.
Former Conservative MP Elphicke received major backlash yesterday when she crossed the Commons floor to join the Labour party, calling out Rishi Sunak’s “incompetence.”
The 53-year-old MP for Dover was previously suspended for a day from the Commons after trying to sway a judge in a case involving her former partner who was found guilty of sexual assault.
Now author Welsh, has swiped out with his own scathing take on the matters, dubbing the defector as “musical chairs politicians”.
The 65-year-old, who has never shied away from sharing his opinions online, subsequently called it time to “ditch” the party system to avoid catering for “spiv developers or racist flag shaggers.”
The Scots author wrote in a post yesterday: “It’s surely way past time to ditch a party system and it’s musical chairs careerist politicians for local, independent, civic-minded candidates who aren’t hard for either spiv developers or racist flag shaggers.”
The post received over 570 likes and dozens of comments from many who were quick to agree with Welsh.
One person wrote: “You’d like to think but these b******s won’t want to give up the grift. It’s working for them.”
Another said: “Labour are so like the dirty Tory b******s now that it’s a home from home. Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII – ‘You have to vote for one of us it’s a two party system.’”
A third commented: “Society was f****d the moment politics became a career option, rather than a calling.”
A fourth added: “The career politic. Woke numb nuts and well-funded open society lunatics. Every politician needs sacked and anarchy to prevail in their place.”
A fifth wrote: “You do know these people will find common ground, create groups, and then give names to these groups don’t you?
“What else: ditch the current system and replace it with a system where we cut the country up into small sections and each one elects a representative as well?”
Natalie Elphicke was first elected for the Conservative Party in 2019 after her husband Charlie Elphicke was charged with sexually assaulting two women.
Elphicke, who advocated for Brexit in 2019, described the change in the Conservative Party as “dramatic and cannot be ignored”.
She added in a statement that her reason for defecting was due to “housing and the safety and security of our borders”.
