Tory (Conservative) MP defects to Ukip )UK's tea party)

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A hand grenade has been thrown into David Cameron's general election campaign after the Eurosceptic Tory MP Douglas Carswell defected to Ukip, triggering an early byelection.

A leading member of the new generation of Tory Eurosceptics who has campaigned openly for a British exit from the EU, Carswell said he had endured sleepless nights in the runup to his decision, which was prompted by the prime minister's failure to deliver change in the EU.

Criticising the Tories for failing to deliver change, Carswell said: "They are not serious about real change. It's above all the failure to deliver on the promise of political reform that has driven me to be here today.

"Europe's the one continent on the globe that is not growing … yet who in Westminster, who among our so-called leaders, is prepared to envisage real change?"

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/28/douglas-carswell-ukip-defects-tory-mp-byelection

We all know what kind of 'real change' tea party-style politicians are pushing for.

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1. No surprised really

Carswell is obsessively anti-EU. That has never been a secret. As such I always wondered why he stood for the Tories in the first place.

There will now be a by election in Carswell's Clacton constituency. To be honest though, it's the sort of place where UKIP's brand of right wingery tends to be well received and I would expect them to do well in that contest.