The danger for Reform is obvious. The more it fills up with yesterday’s Conservatives, the more it inherits the habits that made 2019 to 2024 Toryism so useless.
Depressingly it seems the situation in Britain has come to mirror the one over here in the US with Trump and the conservative movement. Trump was able to highjack both it and the Republican Party and now both are basically synonymous with him. Farage is no Trump for good and ill and fortunately the UK has a viable alternative on the Right for now with the Conservative Party. That alone serves to protect the “brand” as it were. The vote splitting is a concern however.
Depressingly it seems the situation in Britain has come to mirror the one over here in the US with Trump and the conservative movement. Trump was able to highjack both it and the Republican Party and now both are basically synonymous with him. Farage is no Trump for good and ill and fortunately the UK has a viable alternative on the Right for now with the Conservative Party. That alone serves to protect the “brand” as it were. The vote splitting is a concern however.
Alas!
Thanks Albie. But don't the Tory-to-Reform defections mean the wets become the dominant Conservative ideology? It's these whose policies got us here?