Some initial thoughts on the UK elections.
1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour.
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Yes. I'm puzzled that, even after all the experience with the ERG, they have never learned this lesson: you can't outflank the hard right by going further right. If they try it again, I could see Reform campaigning for return of the death penalty.
Oh wow. In the US, our “center right” GOP is practically campaigning to put botched executions on pay per view. Reform seems moderate compared to the Ghastly Orange Party, err, Republicans
