Nice to see that the government, rather than trying to win a broad spectrum of support needed to win power, is concerned about a party currently polling in single digits.
That’s good news, finally the right is splitting too.
Fantastic, I guarantee the Tories are gonna lose ~10 seats at absolute least just due to votes lost to reform splitting the racist vote
>The leader of Reform UK has given “cast-iron guarantees” to senior members of his rightwing populist party that it will not step aside for the Conservatives
As cast iron rusts, by the time the election rolls round this guarantee will be full of holes.
Ah the full circle of British politics.
Right Wing press frantically boost UKIP/Brexit/Reform party to scare Tory MPs into adopting a right wing platform. Then pretend they don’t exist during the election to maximise Tory vote. Rince and repeat.
Makes sense. In 2019, the Brexit Party running against the Tories could have cost the Tories the election – and therefore given power to an anti-brexit party.
But now, there’s very little chance of the Tories winning either way, so Reform may as well get as many votes as they can.
I’ve convinced my parents to Vote reform instead of the Tories, it’s 2 fewer votes Labour now need to win the swing seat.
Parties like these are going to pull politics even further to the right as labour and tories fight to absorb their platform and their voters.
Bit bemusing to see folks here celebrating the damage they’ll do to the tories, an incredibly short term view, longer term they’ll make england a fundamentally worse place and by extension the whole UK even if they never win.
Nobody wants to be in power for the shit show that is now unfolding. Coalitions are the way forward so they can just argue till the next election and do fuck all to solve any of the problems.
When homelessness increase and people can’t afford to heat their homes or eat that’s when the tipping point will appear. When that happens expect a war to get us out of it rather than to change the system so it’s good for everyone.
UKIP with a different colour tie. Shocking that people will vote for these idiots. At least it splits the other blue idiots’ party in half.
AHH reform, hates immigration but has a deputy who immigrated here when he was 8 from Pakistan
For a fact Soon To Go Sunak will be sent packing and hopefully investigated for his part in Govt culture of waste during COVID lock down, his wife’s and father in laws business dealings, the Rwanda shenanigans funding etc, and all the Tory broken pledges.
Let’s hope the other parties can a Coalition govt form and forge ahead.
The whole reason that Cameron called his wretched referendum was his belief that doing so would neuter UKIP and the eurosceptic wing of his own party.
It never seemed to quite dawn on him that, in addition to their loopy views on Europe, that these people had a bunch of equally loopy views on a whole host of other matters. Giving them the referendum and brexit has only made them more hungry.
Aren’t all parties like Reform, Lib-Dems, Greens, SNP, etc., all simply Tories by another name. The only true alternative is Labour but not under a leader like Starmer. We need a true socialist like Jezza Corbyn to save Britain.
Seriously, why the fuck are these getting air time?
No doubt there are enough caveats and loopholes for them to do cartwheels through come election time.
I can see a desperate Sunak recruiting Farage to the Tories, parachuting him into a safe seat to ensure Farage finally wins election to Parliament, thus giving him the ego wank he’s craved for years by being “accepted by the establishment” and simultaneously defusing the Reform threat as the wonks will decamp to the Tories once their toad faced wanker idol has been installed.
Sunak has nothing to lose as he’s staring down the barrel of a huge defeat. Farage won’t resist the opportunity to take over the Tories *from the inside*.
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Nice to see that the government, rather than trying to win a broad spectrum of support needed to win power, is concerned about a party currently polling in single digits.
That’s good news, finally the right is splitting too.
Fantastic, I guarantee the Tories are gonna lose ~10 seats at absolute least just due to votes lost to reform splitting the racist vote
>The leader of Reform UK has given “cast-iron guarantees” to senior members of his rightwing populist party that it will not step aside for the Conservatives
As cast iron rusts, by the time the election rolls round this guarantee will be full of holes.
Ah the full circle of British politics.
Right Wing press frantically boost UKIP/Brexit/Reform party to scare Tory MPs into adopting a right wing platform. Then pretend they don’t exist during the election to maximise Tory vote. Rince and repeat.
Makes sense. In 2019, the Brexit Party running against the Tories could have cost the Tories the election – and therefore given power to an anti-brexit party.
But now, there’s very little chance of the Tories winning either way, so Reform may as well get as many votes as they can.
I’ve convinced my parents to Vote reform instead of the Tories, it’s 2 fewer votes Labour now need to win the swing seat.
Parties like these are going to pull politics even further to the right as labour and tories fight to absorb their platform and their voters.
Bit bemusing to see folks here celebrating the damage they’ll do to the tories, an incredibly short term view, longer term they’ll make england a fundamentally worse place and by extension the whole UK even if they never win.
Nobody wants to be in power for the shit show that is now unfolding. Coalitions are the way forward so they can just argue till the next election and do fuck all to solve any of the problems.
When homelessness increase and people can’t afford to heat their homes or eat that’s when the tipping point will appear. When that happens expect a war to get us out of it rather than to change the system so it’s good for everyone.
UKIP with a different colour tie. Shocking that people will vote for these idiots. At least it splits the other blue idiots’ party in half.
AHH reform, hates immigration but has a deputy who immigrated here when he was 8 from Pakistan
For a fact Soon To Go Sunak will be sent packing and hopefully investigated for his part in Govt culture of waste during COVID lock down, his wife’s and father in laws business dealings, the Rwanda shenanigans funding etc, and all the Tory broken pledges.
Let’s hope the other parties can a Coalition govt form and forge ahead.
The whole reason that Cameron called his wretched referendum was his belief that doing so would neuter UKIP and the eurosceptic wing of his own party.
It never seemed to quite dawn on him that, in addition to their loopy views on Europe, that these people had a bunch of equally loopy views on a whole host of other matters. Giving them the referendum and brexit has only made them more hungry.
Aren’t all parties like Reform, Lib-Dems, Greens, SNP, etc., all simply Tories by another name. The only true alternative is Labour but not under a leader like Starmer. We need a true socialist like Jezza Corbyn to save Britain.
Seriously, why the fuck are these getting air time?
No doubt there are enough caveats and loopholes for them to do cartwheels through come election time.
I can see a desperate Sunak recruiting Farage to the Tories, parachuting him into a safe seat to ensure Farage finally wins election to Parliament, thus giving him the ego wank he’s craved for years by being “accepted by the establishment” and simultaneously defusing the Reform threat as the wonks will decamp to the Tories once their toad faced wanker idol has been installed.
Sunak has nothing to lose as he’s staring down the barrel of a huge defeat. Farage won’t resist the opportunity to take over the Tories *from the inside*.
Possible? Yes. Likely? Doubt it.