Tories ‘on course for 14 seats’ at next election, internal poll suggests. One senior Conservative figure warned the party risked “being consigned to the history books” if the trend continues
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/tories-14-seats-election-kemi-badenoch-5HjdNDZ_2/
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Fuck the Tories.
It happened in Canada! But worse……
“In the 1993 election, support for the Progressive Conservative Party collapsed, and the party’s representation in the House of Commons dropped from an **absolute majority** of seats to **only 2**”
Looks like 14 too many under Kemi’s stewardship.
Good. Let’s hope it’s the start of a political revolution (I won’t hold my breath though)
Drowned by the Boriswave… such a shame
…and nothing of value will have been lost.
They deserve to be gone for good. The “brand” is tarnished.
I really don’t know which of the three right parties I should waste my vote on and vote against my best interests … can’t wait for the election. More excited about than Christmas
Literally doesn’t matter.
Reform are the tory continuity party. Same old blue shite.
Good. And Labours slow death continues too. Both are long over due
What caused this low expectations for them?
It is genuinely unhinged that after their support had collapsed due to mass immigration, the tory party memebers chose a leader who is an immigrant herself. Kemi is the answer to questions being asked 25 years ago – Namely, “How can we make the tory party less of a stuffy faced old boys club?”. Kemi is not an appropriate solution to the questions being asked in 2025.
I suspect a large number of these members thought kemi being black meant she’d be immune to accusations of racism. Again, this might have worked in 2016 but its not sufficient in 2025.
It’s just a re-brand. The damage was done by Cameron and Johnson, one who started Brexit and one who purged the remaining non-loon MPs at the Brexit alter. All the remaining failed Tories have joined, or will join Reform. Just remember, it’s the worst of the bunch from those hopeless 14 years of abject failure that will make up Farage’s party. Not that it matters, given the public vote on vibes nowadays, not competence and reality.
Tories are, and have been since the 1980s, classic short-term thinking merchants. And their lack of long-term planning and strategy is what’s behind this.
It’s not really anything to do with Badenoch. She’s just the rain- and muck-sodden stuffed animal that happens to be strapped to the front of the Tory truck at this moment. Would be absolutely no different were Jenrick or Philp to be at the helm.
Since Thatcher they’ve existed primarily to serve the needs (and prejudices) of aspirational boomers who were making money in the 80s. Their vote share is still those same people. But now this voter base is starting to die off (literally) and because the party has never bothered to invest in the future, either strategically or in terms of genuine new/younger voter outreach, they’re dying on the vine.
Reform also has a better ‘jam today’ narrative at the moment, which helps them. (Even if it is largely fantasy politics.) It also doesn’t hurt that much of the right-wing press, who always used to stump for the Tories, are now solidly behind Reform. The Tories don’t have their traditional media amplifier any more.
The torries should be the middle party that labour are and labour should actually be a party for workers. Instead we have the very far right, the far right and the middle and nothing much on the left.
14 seats for 14 years of ruining this country
Not surprised after 14 years of cuts with no investment into infrastructure the whole country bar a few wealthy tossers are miserable AF, just look at the state we are in, and people expected Labour to fix 14 years of neglect over night. Its going to take years and billions to get us just back to how things where in 2010.
If you dont believe me just go on youtube and search for videos of your home town, village or City from around 2010 and look at the roads, nice painted lines, new surfaces, new layouts and virtually zero pot holes. Also look what changed from around 1997 to 2010 and you’ll see new houses, businesses and public transport hubs etc etc. Theres been virtually zero investment in infrastructure or maintenance since 2010. No wonder they are disappearing but at least they made there wealthy friend’s even more wealthy eh!
This is why Kemi seems so supporting of Labour lately. Conservatives are finished.
On the one hand, the Tories finally being wiped out for good would be great, but not if it’s replaced by actual fascism controlled by the US far right.
We need to be replacing these elitist, corrupt, politics for hire bastards with parties actually *representing* people, rather than telling them what to believe.
Remember when Corbyn won that massive majority in 2019 beating Boris Johnson?
I am a Liberal Democrat but I am quite alarmed about what’s happening with the state of our political landscape. People may well be happy the Labour and Tory Party are dying but think about what will be around to replace it. There’ll be a rise for nationalist parties like the SNP and Plaid, as well as the Green Party who have also sided with independence for Scotland and Wales which fundamentally makes us weaker and poorer. I won’t even get into their ludicrous positions on NATO and defence. But the biggest and most obvious concern is Reform, that has Russian fingerprints all over it. The same people who wanted to lose their rights and freedoms due to Brexit are clamoring for more via the ECHR. It makes me sick to my stomach.
The way the Conservatives could redeem themselves is take the threat to the country of reform seriously and work hand in hand with Labour to undo the damage of Brexit and austerity instead of offering nothing but rage.
GBNews has lurched to facism and needs reigning in.
Good, they had their chance for years and it’s been mismanagement all the way. Their best chance is to go all out attacking reform as that’s where their voters have gone. Years and years of no integrity has caught up on them.
The Tories and Labour have to fail, they need to serve as warnings to future parties, take the piss and you’ll be consigned to the history books.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
It’s a shame we got rid of one Tory party, for it to be replaced by another Tory party under false branding.
I wonder if Farage ever thought he really would be PM and have real responsibility. Or maybe he thought he could be in permanent opposition, so he could just bitch and whine from the sidelines but not have the power to fuck up.
Now he may be like the unqualified guy who sent in his CV just as joke, but then got offered the position of CEO of UK inc.
I mean no offence by this, but the tories last ditch effort to survive by putting a black woman as the leader is so transparent. Reform are the new tories now. They’ll get in power, and after a year we’ll want Labour back again
Still 14 too many.
This is a disaster for British politics in general, the party of so many of this country’s important figures over history being torn up because of some Russian nazi idiot who is more opportunistic than ww2 Italy
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