Re: Tories choose far-right woman as leader

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Nomen Nescio wrote:
 

who is conflicted?

 
Hmmm, interesting topic... that probably deserves to be
discussed in a more serious place and explored earnestly... by
adults.

I didn’t see the original post because my NNTP provider knows a racist
troll when it sees one.

People outside the U.K. sometimes don’t seem to realise that most of us see
a person’s colour. And their hairstyle. And their gender. And all of those
things have equal weight - in the context of a politician, or even most
other things, virtually none.

Now, yes, she’s right wing. The Tories were severely damaged in the last
election by the success of the very far right Reform party. So they figure
they need to swing further right to get those votes back.

But that’s just going to lose them the centre, who will move to the Lib
Dems or even (if they can settle in) the current Labour administration
which is barely left of centre.

They’re on a losing path. If they could move to the centre without losing
any more of their right wing, and work to make Reform irrelevant so that
their support drifts back to its natural home of the Tory right wing, they
might recover.

But the path they’ve chosen - will just make them Reform 2.0 … and they’ll
stabilise at a low percentage of votes and have to start seeking electoral
reform to fix our “broken” first past the post electoral system under which
they’ll never have a meaningful voice again.

At least, we can all hope so.

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“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor