‘Reform voters could leave us on just 57 seats’, says new Tory election ad

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1. I can’t remember Tory campaign ads threatening me with this much of a good time before

2. What a weird approach.

   Nobody cares about the company nservative party as much as themselves. Just because they care they will be left with few seats doesn’t mean the person reading the ad cares.

   It’s a symptom of people’s dislike, it’s not a selling point.

3. I wouldn’t be so sure, with this election who knows which party is going to say/do something utterly stupid next.

   Reform haven’t done well with their charming candidate & Farage’s Sunak comment.

4. This must be the weirdest, saddest (happiest) ad in the history of conservatives .

5. ‘We’re such useless pricks that no one wants to vote for us. Please vote for us.’

6. So the Tories are saying ‘vote Reform if you want to see the Tories decimated to the point of extinction’..

   Has someone thought this through at CCHQ?

7. “you should vote tory because labour will win too much”

   Is the best they have. They have absolutely no faith in Sunak or the tory party it seems.

8. How is it even remotely possible they can win 57 seats? How is it not 0?

9. Almost 60 too many!!!

   Choosing between these two is like choosing which STD you would prefer 🙂

   I feel like regardless of who wins (3-4 main parties), we all lose anyway but what do I know…

10. This has to be the stupidest campaign advert ever. It’s purely begging. It’s not a good look

11. And hopefully, once the “grandees” and chaff have been got rid of, the party can reconstitute itself into a proper Conservative party again, with goals, principles and willing to take action.

    Instead of the current edition which is trying to be everything from centre left to right in what it says to try and please everyone, while taking virtually no action at all.

12. The top comment on the Telegraph article says

    *Nothing to do with reform, you morons have had a clear run of things for 14 years & laterly an 80 seat majority .You have completely failed this country in every respect & treated your core voters with utter contempt. I was one of those core tory voters.*

    *You are finished.*

    *Vote reform.*

    For which there are 273 upvotes from Telegraph readers – and zero downvotes (they show the numbers separate).

    That sums up how much the Tory Party have lost their core base of voters. I suspect many who say in polls they would still vote Tory, just won’t bother to go and vote on the day – whereas the Reform (and other party supporters of course) are motivated to go and vote. Why would the Tory party think that having outcomes (record high immigration and taxes) that are directly against what their voters want would keep their voters loyal to them?

    This is going to be part General Election and part punishment beating of the Tory Party, with traditional Tory voters getting some of the hardest kicks in.

13. The only constituency where ppl should be voting Tory is Clacton.

14. What’s that phrase people keep using, “Don’t threaten me with a good time”? 

15. Remember when it was predicted that the Tories would have as little as 5 left?
    Oh how we can dream.

16. I’m getting really tired of people assuming it’s only lapsed Tories that are going to Reform.

    So many true red Labour supporters are too.

17. I hate the Tories and want to see them decimated as a political force forever.

    But this result would reflect upon how poor FPTP is as a system. It wouldn’t reflect their overall vote share.

18. I never thought I’d be cheering on Reform so much. Turns out, they finally found their true purpose- getting rid of the Tories!

19. Everyone right leaning should vote Reform & Everyone left leaning the workers party.
    Leaving zero for Labour or Conservatives,that’s the way to send a sign enough is enough

20. The Tories always had a Labour / Lib Dem split, so I am not sure what is the issue with a Tory / Reform split. Enjoy what you sow.

21. Well, also labour and the libs Dems too. As someone who has voted Tory before, voted Lib Dem at the last election, and probably will vote Labour this time, I’m definitely a potential voter lost by their realignment to the right.

    If they had someone like Philip Hammond, Dominic Grieve or Rory Stewart leading the party they’d definitely be way more attractive to centrist voters. Seems voters like me are getting ever further from a viable alternative.

22. Seems unlikely now, given the Reform candidate going on about appeasing Hitler and Farage running away from Nick Robinson.

23. Imagine being a tory voter, who is genuinely died in the wool, and the party message to you is “don’t betray us or the evil Labour get in”. Like… This will be YOUR fault, not ours.

24. Sounds like a good reason to vote Reform.

    Wait, you say it’s a *Tory* ad?

25. It’s signalling to people on the fence about reform “your vote won’t be wasted”?

    Yet another campaign blunder, it’s almost impressive at this point

26. I used to campaign for the tories and even ran a few times – reform has my vote through & through no going back