>Johnson loyalists complain that the rebels cannot agree on an alternative leader; that none of the potential successors has celebrity heft to rival the incumbent. What they mean is that no one can repeat the trick of winning over traditional Labour supporters in those fabled “red wall” seats in northern England and the Midlands, while also holding the affections of a conventional Conservative base in the south.
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>The flaw in that defence is that Johnson himself shows little prospect of repeating the trick, which was as much a function of Jeremy Corbyn repelling voters as it was proof of a magnetic “Boris effect”.
Keep posting these articles in the hope that at least one section of the reddit community learnt how to sharpen their insults…
…and sadly continue to wait for at least halfway decent results,
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>Johnson loyalists complain that the rebels cannot agree on an alternative leader; that none of the potential successors has celebrity heft to rival the incumbent. What they mean is that no one can repeat the trick of winning over traditional Labour supporters in those fabled “red wall” seats in northern England and the Midlands, while also holding the affections of a conventional Conservative base in the south.
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>The flaw in that defence is that Johnson himself shows little prospect of repeating the trick, which was as much a function of Jeremy Corbyn repelling voters as it was proof of a magnetic “Boris effect”.
Keep posting these articles in the hope that at least one section of the reddit community learnt how to sharpen their insults…
…and sadly continue to wait for at least halfway decent results,
today’s Stephen Collins’ [‘Tory Island’](https://interactive.guim.co.uk/2016/03/comics-master-2016/embed/embed.html?srcs-mobile=https://media.guim.co.uk/08926c26e018eadff8caadc5b991a7abf265f2e6/0_0_800_393/500.jpg+https://media.guim.co.uk/ba0c5423e34c2a2c427ae6e891efd09b64de65cf/0_0_800_393/500.jpg+https://media.guim.co.uk/44149640e84b889cf0260aa8e4e7eee665fe6d32/0_0_800_393/500.jpg+https://media.guim.co.uk/3782a1a7b9ac61a7ebe5060ffc5a5a49b908023e/0_0_800_393/500.jpg+https://media.guim.co.uk/70182b26cacaed2399df265d76963a60bbeddb49/0_0_800_393/500.jpg+https://media.guim.co.uk/193b51c44e7def76d46ea9337ef1ab212f4a3d83/0_0_800_393/500.jpg&ratios-mobile=49.28571428571429+49.28571428571429+49.28571428571429+49.28571428571429+49.28571428571429+49.28571428571429&srcs-desktop=https://media.guim.co.uk/dc11be9866c8c5e20f49c2269adfa72d6c593c3d/0_0_7526_2492/2000.jpg&ratios-desktop=32.857142857142854&credit=Comic%20by%20Stephen%20Collins/The%20Guardian&background=FFFFFF&vpadding=20) strip
The next Tory leader will dump the north, and focus on the Tory bread and butter seats (mostly in the south).
Nobody in the Tories (beyond the Red Wall MPs) care about the north or levelling up. They would rather have tax cuts.
Its the Conservative party after all
Is it?
The whole Brexit disaster is rooted in this rotten party identity crisis – nothing new.