Just read a Telegraph op-ed claiming the Tories lost because they were too far left, and I have a feeling that is the narrative we will hear more of over the coming years.
Agreed not entirely unelectable but I can’t see them getting anywhere even close to a parliamentary majority with a lurch to the right. Yesterday proved that and even with the Tories in utter disarray, Reform’s “breakthrough” was pitifully small.
I will keep my faith in the self-destructive power of self-aggrandising arseholes who aren’t in it for the ideology but are in it for the grift. Reform will eat itself, rebrand, rinse and repeat.
Fascism had *no* ideology. It was just self-aggrandising arseholes who were in it for the money (and were supported by the king, the police and the capital, both agrarian and industrial, as an anti-communist force)
By the way, what you just said about Reform is, almost verbatim, what much of the Italian left said of the fascist party up and until the moment the black shirt stared tossing them in jail
