You’d be surprised, the latest by election showed UKIP were taking people from each party nearly on an equal basis.
Politics here isn’t so black and white, a lot of people that voted labour in the late 90s and early 20s are actually quite conservative at heart. What happened is exactly what is happening in America now. In the late 80s and early 90s the media did such a successful job of tarnishing the conservative party that it made is impossible to form a majority.
In fact by the time of the next election, it will be nearly 20 years since the last conservative majority. Conventional wisdom suggests even despite UKIP they don’t a have a snowballs chance in hell of winning a majority so that will then be over 20 years with no conservative majority, something unheard of.
Instead of showing some backbone and standing up against the liberal, socialist media and agenda, they elected a leader in Cameron who is a sell out. I’ve said it a million times, if people want to vote for leftists, they’ll vote for the real deal......the labour party.
We need a conservative opposition, in the current Conservative Party we don’t have that and that is why they are in a very bad decline.
They are in a long slow decline, and that is precisely because of the reasons you outline. They go to the pundits and the pollsters and they do their sums and they decide to pander to the socialist agenda rather than stand up to it. They dont realise that the country is nowhere near as leftist as the media fondly believes. The intelligensia and the elitists pontificated and warn of all kinds of dire consequences of conservative policies, but almost all of it is smoke and mirrors. All these pressure groups and think tanks and lobby groups claim to represent people, but they dont really. They represent a radical section of whatever grouping they call themselves.
There is an enormous political prize to be gained by conservatives (or indeed anyone else) who can bypass those who claim to be representing folk, and talk directly to the people themselves.