Fan of Doctor Who and generally nerdy stuff. Left the bird after some unpleasantness. Materialised here. Currently trying to skeet my way through the JNT era. All views my own and don't reflect my employer or anyone else.
Not least because there must be five current Tory MPs who would take the Chilterns or defect to the LibDems if Farage were to be admitted. Better to let Reform self-immolate, which it's likely to do now it's subject to the scrutiny of the commons and e.g. members' register of interests.
Sunak won't admit Farage to the party, even if he wants in. So it will be up to the next leader to decide whether or not to admit him. Why would they admit him when they know he wants their job? It might be different if he had 100 MPs but adding 5 to their desultory total scarcely seems worth it.
The solo output from the former frontman of a really successful band only serves as a comfort blanket to those people who can't quite accept that the band is no longer producing music. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Britain rejecting AV was a ridiculous decision. Run off is the the ideal voting system, making outcomes more pluralistic and giving MPs a broader popular base without abandoning the constituency link for MPs or opening the door to crazy fringe parties and endless coalitions.
Many Reform voters don't have the least interest in how good or bad their candidates are, nor any interest in guardrails round political debate.
Any discussion of how to deal with Reform needs to understand that.
Tories should obviously appoint as leader the man who had done more than any other to ensure Tory successes and Labour defeats in the last decade: Jeremy Corbyn.
"Labour winning one of the largest victories in UK political history is an indictment of Keir Starmer and the mainstream of the party"
Or something.
Take a fucking day off Owen.
"If the election wasn't FPTP the result would have been different"
"But the election was FPTP, so that's how we ran our strategy"
"But if it wasn't..."
"It was"
"But..."
"Please stop"
"We need to reflect on the fact that we have wrecked education and policing and healthcare, filled women's prisons with rapists, covered up a Covid outbreak, nicked six hundred grand from our own supporters, and torched half of Glasgow."
I don't want to see former Tory MPs on Strictly, in the Jungle, playing Traitors, hosting panel shows, or making travelogues or documentaries. I never want to see their smug, shiny faces again. I want them all to fuck permanently off.
