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"We weren't sufficiently fascist"
And the more fascist they become, the more unelectable. I think they kind of have to finish being consumed by Farage and lose a few times to learn it.
Is this comment not somewhat of an oxymoron? People moved to reform because they're more right wing than the Tories.
Moving further to the right will enable them to mop up the reform vote and this election show that the Tories still have a HUGE core vote.
Their core are dying off and not being replaced. Also they are losing centre right voters who either vote Lab or Lib, or not at all. Further right they go, the worse that gets.
I understand your point but seeing that labours vote share only increased by 1.7% shows that very few Tories are moving left or centre. Most Tories either protest voted by moving to reform or they simply endorse policies further to the right.
Pretty sure Reform has plenty of x-labour racists too.
Centre Tories seam to have gone LibDems. Or not voted all.
Tory 2019 : 13,966,454 votes
Tory 2024 : 6,827,311 , Reform : 4,117,221
It will be interesting to see how many voters stick with the Lib Dems in the next election.
If the Tories do what we think they are about to do, I think the last of the right-centre voters clinging on will give up on them, and further swell the LibDems.