What is interesting about the tories is how undemocratic they are. Basically all the power is with the mps and head office. If they got annihilated the few mps left would have all the power. So what they become post election is all down to the mix of who are left. All the posturing ignores the fact that whoever will follow Rishy has to gain the support of whatever mps are left, they could be quite progressive.Yes in their 1993 election the Progressive Conservative Party went from a ruling party who regularly returned 200 seats to winning just 2.
They never recovered and eventually merged with the Canadian Conservatives.
It happened here too but you have to go back to 1918. The Liberal Party went from governing to losing 236 seats, ending up with just 36.
Again they never recovered, though their spirit lives from the merger of SDP-Liberal which eventually became the LibDems.
If a result like this were to happen the Tories would limp on no doubt but the factionalism would likely lead to them splintering. It’s fair to say that even the possibility of this is something of an existential threat to the whole party.
So expect more dog whistle policy, thing is this in my experience once the public turn on you, they don’t turn back, those Tories are just whistling in the dark, besides the fact the red wall tories will be unemployableYou can always trust the Tories to come to the wrong conclusion...
From the BBC...
More Tory calls for government to 'lean into' Conservative voters' values
John Hayes, who chairs the backbench Common Sense Group of Tory MPs, says while politicians shouldn't dismiss the results of elections, “it would be a huge mistake to extrapolate from these results”.
Hayes says the party should “fight the next election on our territory, not Labour’s” and focus on Conservative priorities - like immigration and public order.
Devizes MP Danny Kruger, who co-chairs the New Conservatives group of mainly "Red Wall" MPs, agrees, telling BBC Radio 4's World at One the Brexit referendum result showed "ordinary people... wanted their country back" - and the government had yet to deliver this.
He describes the results as a "wake-up call", saying the Tories can still win the next election if they get their vote out by standing up for voters' values - on migration, sex education in schools, gender issues and taxation.
Kruger says the PM has the "right instincts" - but needs to lean in, in a more coherent way, as he has already started to do on net zero.
Dog whistle to the racists and those gul!ible enough to believe millions of invaders are ruining the country , sensible people will say, hang on, you have had six or seven yrs to control our borders since brexit and you have failed, people with no empathy will also love that dog whistleYou can always trust the Tories to come to the wrong conclusion...
From the BBC...
More Tory calls for government to 'lean into' Conservative voters' values
John Hayes, who chairs the backbench Common Sense Group of Tory MPs, says while politicians shouldn't dismiss the results of elections, “it would be a huge mistake to extrapolate from these results”.
Hayes says the party should “fight the next election on our territory, not Labour’s” and focus on Conservative priorities - like immigration and public order.
Devizes MP Danny Kruger, who co-chairs the New Conservatives group of mainly "Red Wall" MPs, agrees, telling BBC Radio 4's World at One the Brexit referendum result showed "ordinary people... wanted their country back" - and the government had yet to deliver this.
He describes the results as a "wake-up call", saying the Tories can still win the next election if they get their vote out by standing up for voters' values - on migration, sex education in schools, gender issues and taxation.
Kruger says the PM has the "right instincts" - but needs to lean in, in a more coherent way, as he has already started to do on net zero.
Which is a result as it makes them electable.You already have one....
The Labour party.
Isn’t that what the Tory spokesperson said? I wonder if they’ll bother turning out for the GE?
If he whacked that on his manifesto, he’d be less likely to be PM, so why would he?
If I were him, I’d leave it off and just do it when elected PM with a huge majority.
All he needs to do now is keep quiet and point at the Tories eating themselves.
You can always trust the Tories to come to the wrong conclusion...
From the BBC...
More Tory calls for government to 'lean into' Conservative voters' values
John Hayes, who chairs the backbench Common Sense Group of Tory MPs, says while politicians shouldn't dismiss the results of elections, “it would be a huge mistake to extrapolate from these results”.
Hayes says the party should “fight the next election on our territory, not Labour’s” and focus on Conservative priorities - like immigration and public order.
Devizes MP Danny Kruger, who co-chairs the New Conservatives group of mainly "Red Wall" MPs, agrees, telling BBC Radio 4's World at One the Brexit referendum result showed "ordinary people... wanted their country back" - and the government had yet to deliver this.
He describes the results as a "wake-up call", saying the Tories can still win the next election if they get their vote out by standing up for voters' values - on migration, sex education in schools, gender issues and taxation.
Kruger says the PM has the "right instincts" - but needs to lean in, in a more coherent way, as he has already started to do on net zero.
All the posturing ignores the fact that whoever will follow Rishy has to gain the support of whatever mps are left, they could be quite progressive.
It’d be spun in the press to be socialism, which seems to frighten people for some reason.One maybe but Water? Not a fucking chance that's a vote loser.