>> That is not unprecedented. In 1975 Enoch Powell urged people to vote Labour because the
>> party were then dead against Common Market (Now EU) membership as was he.
Powell appealed to a particular constituency in the population (i mean a segment of the electorate rather than an electoral division). I too remember TV accounts of demos with 'Enoch was Right' type banners about immigration. A lot of them though would be blue collar workers who's instincts were Labour c.f London Dockers. They's also be susceptible to his views on EU so quite likely the followed him.
He turned very shortly before the first 74 election and went off like a firework. By the second election that year he was elected as a Unionist in Ulster.
He's not the first Labour member who has drifted right and fallen out. I suspect his resignation of the whip was triggered by realisation that he'd not a snowball's chance of being re-selected.
He does though seem to have caught the wind on BBC coverage. There are several Tories who hold similar views on Boris along lines of his being unfit to lead party or country. They seem a bit more measured but Ken Clarke and Justine Greening have both been muttering about voting for the Liberals.
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