So you can take what you want from the Exit Poll and certainly celebrate Labour’s success. But now it seems the UK has its own Trump and Freedom Caucus that will dominate debate because they shout louder than everyone else. Bad things start small. Let’s hope those figures change. #UKGE2024
worries me a bit they eventually re-merge with conservatives, and what that power dynamic eventually looks like. But for today, at least, that is a problem for the future
I'm not sure that's going to be the case.
The radicalisation of the GOP in America is at last in part down to the gerrymandering of election boundaries. Politicians pick their voters in the USA and it pushes them to the extremes.
How much of the Tory party do you think will splinter off to libdems? Where else can they realistically go? They can’t stay in a Queen Braverman Faragiste party, right?
The number of liberal conservatives is quite small. Many might think they’re better staying and fighting to moderate the worst instincts, like the centrists did in Corbyn Labour.
They won’t merge with the conservatives, but only because the conservatives will move to the far right to merge with them first.
All the Tory talking points are basically ‘we weren’t fascist enough’.
I think we have to learn to live with Reform being in Parliament but we have had UKIP in Europe and the BNP in the GLA and they were surprisingly quiet and inactive. It's horrible but not catastrophic, surely?
I saw this Dr David Bull interviewed. He made a dig at Farage. Perhaps, he and Farage will be at each other’s throats vying for leadership. Infighting would lessen Reform’s impact.
Yes, Reform aren’t really a party (they’re actually a limited company!), no unifying vision. They’re a collection of disparate individuals with their own grudges so I would imagine they’ll be at each other’s throats sooner or later.
Is it an age thing to have a list of public figures in your head that you're guesstimating the life expectancy of, so that you can come to terms with how long you're going to endure their bullshit for?
Is there any way we can just kind of ignore them like a drunk yelling in the night? I mean in real terms they are still kind of irrelevant and the more you make them yell the stupider they’ll sound…
I think you should allow yourself a few minutes, a few hours, maybe a few days of being happy...
(I also predict we won't see those numbers of Reform MPs tomorrow.)
I can entertain multiple emotions at the same time! I’ve already factored in the Labour win. Now I’m focused on what’s to come and I see currents there that I thought wouldn’t surface on this side of the channel.
