I was asked in my interview with ITV news whether I would have started the petition if my MP had defected to the Lib Dems to which I answered, "I'd like to think so". Just to show this isn't just a Tory issue, here's a story about two Labour councillors defecting to the Green Party.

Defections will seemingly soon be epidemic; at what point does it become undemocratic? The need for a by-election when someone defects grows....