Also, what the hell has having a genuine belief that leaving is the correct course of action got to do with inflexibility?

It is of course because Wisbech cannot accept that he might just be wrong and therefore anyone who doesn’t agree with him is inflexible.

I respect his views but he should in turn respect others.

As this thread has developed a little since I wrote that maybe you ought to read it all.

Essentially why they vote as they do is their choice but the result is always an individual MP as their, and everyone else in the constituency's, representative. Not a party.

Back to defecting MP’s.

Whilst they probably should resign and stand for a bi election I’m not convinced this is something the party they defected from would generally want.

Bi elections are expensive and high profile compared to a campaign to win a single constituency in a general election.

Defecting MPs are embarrassing for the party the leave and probably highlight major flaws in policy. The party they are defecting from is likely to want the event to have as lower profile as possible. They’ll play lip service to saying the MP should resign, but in reality, they’ll just want to move on from a bad news day with as little fuss as possible.

If the MP then doesn’t right, they can use it to take the high ground in the next GE. Play the long game.

I watched Soubry being interviewed on ITV this evening and she made the same point I did a few posts back. She said that the Tories had left her and not the other way around. She said it was no longer the Conservative and Unionist Party but is now the Conservative and Brexit Party, having swung hard to the right.

She is the MP that her electorate voted for. Did the Tories ask them if they wanted the swing to the right?

It seems you are once again confusing observations with insults. You are, of course, free to disagree with those observations but if you really want to see some insults try reading some of the things directed at me.