Low-key disappointed that Grant Shapps lost his seat because while he’s still a Tory I feel like he would have avoided the “culture war” bs it he’d managed to become leader. Now we’ll almost certainly be stuck with a sociopath like Braverman or Badenoch or Jendrick.
Although the Tories are so fucking batshit rn that it’s hard to see how anyone to the left of Mussolini could become leader. So, high probability that a sociopath would win regardless of any relatively moderate candidates. Reform’s success also pretty much ensures a fascistic sociopath leader.
Thank fuck Cates lost her seat though. She’d be sticking crosses in people’s faces and chanting “the power of Christ compels you”, trying to exorcise any last remnants of “moderate” Cameronism.
but yeah i agree. i think fundamentally labour's extremely narrow failure to unseat badenoch is going to go down in history as the flick of the butterfly's wing that ends with a tory-reform merger
It's honestly testament to both the moral and the political failure of the Tory establishment that this rando fascist who was transparently going to lose in this GE still was granted massive political power because... she had an internal faction that provably couldn't beat the govt?
