Nope. You’re getting as many mayor’s as possible and Proportional Representation
I mean, who has the gumption for a rational, progressive tax policy?
Even Blair couldn’t win rural Britain.
To win, they need to be a party that few are scared of being in power.
High inflation and rising cost of living will do most of the work of getting the Tories out for them. They just need to avoid appearing like they’re declaring war on anyone with any money and they’ll do all right.
They would also need to alter the parties general attitude towards field sports which is an important part of rural life in much of the countryside, be it through social or economic benefits.
In the last 2019 election (and I appreciate this is not Kier Stamer’s manifesto, rather Jeremy Corbyn’s) Labour reiterated its general crackdown on Country Sports, brought in as a policy document by then shadow DEFRA secretary Sue Hayman, one of the MPs to lose their seats.
However once again the Conservatives seem to be doing a lot of Labour’s work for them, and many felt the Conservatives abandoned the countryside in its 2019 manifesto. They dropped their usual manifesto to pledge to repeal Tony Blair’s Hunting ban saying: “We will make no changes to the Hunting Act”. The manifesto also promised to bring in a blanket ivory ban plus a ban on imports from ‘trophy hunting of endangered animals’. This pledge is now a subject of a current government consultation, which has been extended to include the import and export of all trophies to and from the UK from a list of 7000 animals, including buttons and sticks, though has not yet passed as law. The Conservatives have also all but ignored the growing problem of dog theft.
Isn’t [politicshome.com](https://politicshome.com) owned by the Tory Lord Ashcroft? Why on Earth would they take their advice?
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Nope. You’re getting as many mayor’s as possible and Proportional Representation
I mean, who has the gumption for a rational, progressive tax policy?
Even Blair couldn’t win rural Britain.
To win, they need to be a party that few are scared of being in power.
High inflation and rising cost of living will do most of the work of getting the Tories out for them. They just need to avoid appearing like they’re declaring war on anyone with any money and they’ll do all right.
They would also need to alter the parties general attitude towards field sports which is an important part of rural life in much of the countryside, be it through social or economic benefits.
In the last 2019 election (and I appreciate this is not Kier Stamer’s manifesto, rather Jeremy Corbyn’s) Labour reiterated its general crackdown on Country Sports, brought in as a policy document by then shadow DEFRA secretary Sue Hayman, one of the MPs to lose their seats.
However once again the Conservatives seem to be doing a lot of Labour’s work for them, and many felt the Conservatives abandoned the countryside in its 2019 manifesto. They dropped their usual manifesto to pledge to repeal Tony Blair’s Hunting ban saying: “We will make no changes to the Hunting Act”. The manifesto also promised to bring in a blanket ivory ban plus a ban on imports from ‘trophy hunting of endangered animals’. This pledge is now a subject of a current government consultation, which has been extended to include the import and export of all trophies to and from the UK from a list of 7000 animals, including buttons and sticks, though has not yet passed as law. The Conservatives have also all but ignored the growing problem of dog theft.
Isn’t [politicshome.com](https://politicshome.com) owned by the Tory Lord Ashcroft? Why on Earth would they take their advice?