Is floor-crossing wrong?

If he was still around – and some of us pray to God, daily, that he was – we could ask Winston Churchill.

Churchill, as you should be aware, is the fellow who saved the world from Naziism and fascism, and was a colossus of democracy. He is, and was, without equal.

In 1904, however, the greatest-ever Parliamentarian defected from the Conservatives to the British Liberal Party. The Conservatives were becoming a tad too protectionist, so Churchill – a passionate believer in free trade – became a Liberal. He literally “crossed the floor” to the Liberals in the British Parliament.

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For this sin, Churchill was called a “traitor to his class” and a “rat.” Resolutions were passed, including by his former Conser

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