#defection — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #defection, aggregated by home.social.
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🟡 Defection | 7/10
🇱🇾GNU 6th Brigade defects to LAAF in Libya
Brig. Gen. Ehmaid Al-Atayabi, commander of the GNU's 6th Brigade, has defected to the LAAF alongside the brigade's command structure and personnel. -
🟡 BorderIncident | 8/10
🇰🇷 🇰🇵North Korean soldier crosses border, defects to South Korea
A North Korean soldier crossed the heavily fortified inter-Korean border and was taken into South Korean custody in what is believed to be a defection. The incident occurred in the central front area Tuesday night.#OSINT #NewsGroup #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #BorderIncident #Defection
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South Korea has taken a North Korean soldier into custody after he crossed the heavily fortified border. Authorities are investigating whether the incident was a defection. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/north-korean-soldier-held-in-south-korea-after-suspected-defection-juo4zuto?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #Defection #DMZ #KoreanPeninsula
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Canada's Tories didn't up their leadership game at their recent convention.
Now they pay the price:
Poilievre left ineffectually whining to an even smaller constituency of hardliners versus a growing plurality of pragmatists.
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Canada's Tories didn't up their leadership game at their recent convention.
Now they pay the price:
Poilievre left ineffectually whining to an even smaller constituency of hardliners versus a growing plurality of pragmatists.
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CW: ukpol party defections
Robert Jenrick has been sacked as shadow minister on account of the shadow leader thinking he's thinking of defecting.
Presumably this encourages him to defect really? Even if he wasn't planning to leave, why stay around in a party that can't win and is sacking people on paranoid presumptions that they will leave?
Seems like all the rats at the Conservative party are jumping ship to Reform. People will be voting Reform at the next election and literally getting the exact same ministers as when they voted Conservative at the last one.
This isn't like the usual "Vote X, get Y", where the broken electoral system lets the least popular party in because the popular political wing is divided. This is literally "Vote reform, Reform win, but you get the exact people who were standing as Conservative last time"
Is this really good for Reform? It's voters are trying to avoid voting Tory, surely? Adding all the old tory ministers to their ranks has to hurt rather than help?
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CW: ukpol party defections
Robert Jenrick has been sacked as shadow minister on account of the shadow leader thinking he's thinking of defecting.
Presumably this encourages him to defect really? Even if he wasn't planning to leave, why stay around in a party that can't win and is sacking people on paranoid presumptions that they will leave?
Seems like all the rats at the Conservative party are jumping ship to Reform. People will be voting Reform at the next election and literally getting the exact same ministers as when they voted Conservative at the last one.
This isn't like the usual "Vote X, get Y", where the broken electoral system lets the least popular party in because the popular political wing is divided. This is literally "Vote reform, Reform win, but you get the exact people who were standing as Conservative last time"
Is this really good for Reform? It's voters are trying to avoid voting Tory, surely? Adding all the old tory ministers to their ranks has to hurt rather than help?
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“Reform UK does like one kind of immigrant”
by Another Angry Voice on Substack
“#ReformUK [Ltd] welcome Nadim #Zahawi with open arms. [..] The #UK #establishment order is obviously more than willing to allow people of immigrant backgrounds to rise to the top, as long as they play along with all the #greed, #corruption, #dishonesty, #classwarfare against ordinary Brits, and anti-immigrant rabble rousing”
https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/reform-uk-does-like-one-kind-of-immigrant
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“Reform UK does like one kind of immigrant”
by Another Angry Voice on Substack
“#ReformUK [Ltd] welcome Nadim #Zahawi with open arms. [..] The #UK #establishment order is obviously more than willing to allow people of immigrant backgrounds to rise to the top, as long as they play along with all the #greed, #corruption, #dishonesty, #classwarfare against ordinary Brits, and anti-immigrant rabble rousing”
https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/reform-uk-does-like-one-kind-of-immigrant
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“London Labour councillors defect en masse to Green Party”
by Skwawkbox with The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@UKLabour
@uk_politics“Five sitting councillors in the North London borough of Brent have defected en masse from Labour to the Greens with a blast at Starmer’s party that it is ‘no longer serving the principles it once championed’”
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/16/green-party-surge/
#Press #UK #London #Labour #Councillors #Defection #Greens #Starmer
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“London Labour councillors defect en masse to Green Party”
by Skwawkbox with The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@UKLabour
@uk_politics“Five sitting councillors in the North London borough of Brent have defected en masse from Labour to the Greens with a blast at Starmer’s party that it is ‘no longer serving the principles it once championed’”
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/16/green-party-surge/
#Press #UK #London #Labour #Councillors #Defection #Greens #Starmer
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Former Carmarthenshire Labour leader defects to Green Party
Cllr Robert James, who represents the Lliedi ward in Llanelli, was announced as the party’s newest councillor at the Wales Green Party conference in Cardiff.
Cllr James had led the opposition group at Carmarthenshire Council for nearly six years before being suspended by Labour in 2024. He had been sitting as an independent councillor since then. At the time of his suspension he said he would contest the decision, but Welsh Labour did not comment.
Announcing his move to the Greens, Cllr James said:
“During a time when our communities are the most divided in decades and the struggles our residents face continue to grow, I have joined a party that puts people and this planet first – by tackling crippling inequality, protecting public services and safeguarding the future of our environment.”
He added:
“As a Green councillor I will continue to fight for the interests of those living in Lliedi and Carmarthenshire more widely, to get the changes we desperately need.”
Cllr James has previously led campaigns to divest pension funds from fossil fuels, for a locally owned bus company for school pupils, and against cuts to local public services.
Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski welcomed the defection, saying:
“I know this will be the first of many councillors who we will be welcoming to the Wales Green Party.I’m delighted to be welcoming Robert in person at this historic Wales conference where members are planning how to break through into the Senedd in the elections in 2026.
This defection of a county councillor shows that the momentum is building and more breakthroughs will follow. Rob is a pioneer – he was the youngest Labour group leader in Wales, and now the first councillor in Wales to join the Green Party from Labour. He won’t be the last – I know there are many more weighing up their decision.”
Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter said the move showed “the political tectonic plates are shifting in Wales,” noting that the party’s membership had nearly tripled in two months to close in on 6,000.
The announcement came as the party met in Cardiff to plan its strategy for the 2026 Senedd elections.
The Greens also highlighted that former Caerphilly Council leader Sean Morgan has joined the party, having quit Labour in September after four decades of membership.
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
Swansea councillor named Green Party lead candidate
A Swansea councillor has been selected as the Green Party’s lead candidate for the 2026 Senedd elections.Neath Green Party Senedd candidate joins Plaid Cymru
A former Green Party Senedd candidate in Neath has switched allegiance to Plaid Cymru.Swansea councillor Francesca O’Brien joins Reform UK
Swansea councillor Francesca O’Brien has announced she is joining Reform UK.#CllrRobJames #Defection #GreenParty #GreenPartyConference #Llanelli #Lleidi #politics #WelshLabour
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“Another Reform councillor jumps ship – are the Farage fascists falling apart?”
by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour @uk_politics
“Dartford Borough Reform ‘party‘ councillor James Buchan has defected to the Tories, just three months after winning election in Stone House ward as a Reform candidate”
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/31/reform-councillor-quits-to-join-tories/
#Press #UK #UKPol #Reform #Councillor #Defection #Dartford #Labour #Implosion
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🚨BREAKING | Two Labour Councillors defect to the Greens Tom Butcher and Repi Begum who are Councillors on Swindon Borough Council will sit as Greens until the end of their terms in May 2026. Cllr Ian Edwards made the same move last week. #defection #GreenParty
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🚨BREAKING | Two Labour Councillors defect to the Greens Tom Butcher and Repi Begum who are Councillors on Swindon Borough Council will sit as Greens until the end of their terms in May 2026. Cllr Ian Edwards made the same move last week. #defection #GreenParty
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A North Korean soldier was taken into custody by the South after he voluntarily crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas on Sunday, Seoul's military said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/19/world/north-korean-soldier-crosses-dmz/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #northkorea #southkorea #dmz #defection
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A North Korean soldier was taken into custody by the South after he voluntarily crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas on Sunday, Seoul's military said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/19/world/north-korean-soldier-crosses-dmz/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #northkorea #southkorea #dmz #defection
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I wonder whether the unusually high number of ##casualties in the #NorthKorea contingent on the #Ukraine front is only due to poor training & communication difficulties. Surely #defection must be high on the agenda, a literal #russianroulette for freedom. Having read about the latest 2 prisoners captured, seeing that 1 has expressed the wish to stay in Ukraine would point to a 50% defection rate (note: stay in Ukraine aka Europe, rather than go to #SouthKorea).
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I wonder whether the unusually high number of ##casualties in the #NorthKorea contingent on the #Ukraine front is only due to poor training & communication difficulties. Surely #defection must be high on the agenda, a literal #russianroulette for freedom. Having read about the latest 2 prisoners captured, seeing that 1 has expressed the wish to stay in Ukraine would point to a 50% defection rate (note: stay in Ukraine aka Europe, rather than go to #SouthKorea).
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#Liberal #unions ramp up campaigning for #KamalaHarris after #Teamsters #defection.
Some #Democrats fear #fissures in the #labormovement could #damage the #vicepresident’s #candidacy, but the #progressive #fervor is strong.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/31/kamala-harris-campaign-union-volunteers-00186286
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#Liberal #unions ramp up campaigning for #KamalaHarris after #Teamsters #defection.
Some #Democrats fear #fissures in the #labormovement could #damage the #vicepresident’s #candidacy, but the #progressive #fervor is strong.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/31/kamala-harris-campaign-union-volunteers-00186286
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Defected #Russian soldier reveals he spied for Ukraine, injured his commander
“Silver” then reportedly provided clandestine information to the legion about the location of Russian troops and plans for military operations.
Due to “disagreement with the command and authority” of Russia, “Silver” then said he threw a grenade down a ventilation shaft into where his commander was sleeping
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Defected #Russian soldier reveals he spied for Ukraine, injured his commander
“Silver” then reportedly provided clandestine information to the legion about the location of Russian troops and plans for military operations.
Due to “disagreement with the command and authority” of Russia, “Silver” then said he threw a grenade down a ventilation shaft into where his commander was sleeping
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Natalie Elphicke defection ‘naked opportunism’, Cameron says amid she interfered in husband’s trial | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/natalie-elphicke-david-cameron-defection-tory-labour-b2543642.html#Elphicke
#Defectìon
#Opportunism
#Cameron
#Tories
#Labour
#Starmer
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Natalie Elphicke defection ‘naked opportunism’, Cameron says amid she interfered in husband’s trial | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/natalie-elphicke-david-cameron-defection-tory-labour-b2543642.html#Elphicke
#Defectìon
#Opportunism
#Cameron
#Tories
#Labour
#Starmer
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1 in every 4 BJP Lok Sabha candidates is a defector — how BJP’s politics is changing under Modi-Shah
Such decisions are taken keeping in mind winnability factor of candidates as election, unlike party, is a different game altogether, contends BJP spokesperson.
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1 in every 4 BJP Lok Sabha candidates is a defector — how BJP’s politics is changing under Modi-Shah
Such decisions are taken keeping in mind winnability factor of candidates as election, unlike party, is a different game altogether, contends BJP spokesperson.
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#GeorgeSantos #Republicans #defection
"George Santos Leaving Republican Party"
😳🤭😂🤣😂"Former Rep. George Santos, R.-N.Y., announced Friday he is leaving the Republican Party and will seek reelection as an independent."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/03/22/george-santos-leaving-republican-party-running-for-reelection-as-an-independent/ -
So who had 11th March in the sweep?
#LeeAnderson #Reform #Defection #LeastShockingPoliticalDefectionInHistory! -
So who had 11th March in the sweep?
#LeeAnderson #Reform #Defection #LeastShockingPoliticalDefectionInHistory! -
ICYMI: Controversy surrounds the #SouthKorean military's response to the #defection of four North Koreans earlier last week as reports claim a fisherman made first contact with the #DPRK nationals, leading some to criticize the slow military response.
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ICYMI: Controversy surrounds the #SouthKorean military's response to the #defection of four North Koreans earlier last week as reports claim a fisherman made first contact with the #DPRK nationals, leading some to criticize the slow military response.
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Before they joined Shinde camp, Ajit Pawar, Bhujbal, Patel and Mushrif were under ED scanner
After the party split, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar took a jibe at the PM, thanking him for helping clear the leaders of alleged corruption.
#maharashtra #NCP #ED #AjitPawar #ChhaganBhujbal #PrafulPatel #HasanMushrif #ShivSena #BJP #EknathShinde #defection #india
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Before they joined Shinde camp, Ajit Pawar, Bhujbal, Patel and Mushrif were under ED scanner
After the party split, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar took a jibe at the PM, thanking him for helping clear the leaders of alleged corruption.
#maharashtra #NCP #ED #AjitPawar #ChhaganBhujbal #PrafulPatel #HasanMushrif #ShivSena #BJP #EknathShinde #defection #india
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It's only #defection of you're an enemy of the state. Otherwise it's just sparkling #emigration.
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First of Wagner Group
Defects to the West's side now
Caught in a bar brawl -
CTV News: #Putin security officer Gleb Karakulov defects https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/antiwar-officer-from-putin-s-elite-security-team-defects-1.6341984
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CTV News: #Putin security officer Gleb Karakulov defects https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/antiwar-officer-from-putin-s-elite-security-team-defects-1.6341984
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"You can sense the background research and meticulous trust-building that has gone on behind the scenes" in Madeleine Gavin's Beyond Utopia https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/beyond-utopia-2023-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson #Sundance #film #documentary #Sundance2023 #NorthKorea #defection
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"You can sense the background research and meticulous trust-building that has gone on behind the scenes" in Madeleine Gavin's Beyond Utopia https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/beyond-utopia-2023-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson #Sundance #film #documentary #Sundance2023 #NorthKorea #defection
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«Shots were fired by FSB, Wagner defector escaping to #Norway is willing to testify» (re #RussianWarCrimesInUkraine) | The Independent Barents Observer #GruppaVagner #WagnerGroup #Defection #InternationalLaw
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/01/wagner-defector-escaping-norway-willing-testif
