Daniel Hannan MEP: As Bashir signs up to the Conservatives, don't knock defectors – whichever party they join or leave

Daniel Hannan MEP: As Bashir signs up to the Conservatives, don’t knock defectors – whichever party they join or leave

The parties these great men abandoned behaved in the same idiotic way that ours did over Mark Reckless, or that UKIP is now doing over their departed MEP.