Posted on 04/27/2024 9:15:18 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Five years ago, Britain’s Conservative Party scored a landslide victory in a general election that contained outlines of a realignment in that nation’s politics. Today, those same Conservatives appear headed for one of their worst defeats in a generation, an unraveling of a once-proud party that has come with astonishing swiftness.
Based on current polls, the general election that will be held in the coming months — the date has not yet been set — looks likely to restore a reinvigorated Labour Party to power after 14 years in the minority. Those same polls suggest that Labour could emerge with a majority in the House of Commons that rivals or eclipses its strength after the 1997 election that brought former prime minister Tony Blair to power. The decline and fall of the Conservatives is the story of a political party that has become exhausted and inward-looking after more than a decade in power. Not unlike the Republican Party in the United States, it is riven by factionalism, stained by scandal and judged by many voters as incapable of dealing with the country’s problems — all amplified by a whipsawing series of leadership changes.
Since 2010, Britain has had five Conservative prime ministers, including three in 2022 alone. One of them, Liz Truss, lasted just seven weeks. That record tops by one the number of U.S. House speakers Republicans have run through in the same period.
The British Conservative Party and the U.S. Republican Party are experiencing division and infighting suggests some parallelism between the two parties. What they share is that both are engaged in debates about the future of conservatism. But there are limits to the similarities. Though both are in turmoil, the two parties are not exactly alike.
The Republican Party has congealed around former president Donald Trump.
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The most typical, traditional, conservative Englishman is a homosexual man who is a Tory party member.
End of story and end of similarities.
They should be in a position to do better now that they're out of the EU, so they should be more like Singapore. But they will continue to be more like Canada because of the socialist policies that they will peruse.
Lets hope they are trying to flush out the RINO’s as well
One thing is for sure. Today’s UK Labour Party is filled with radicals. Not too many centrists remain. So I’m guessing Labour will try to take power permanently once they sweep the next general election.
The easiest way to do that is to step up illegal immigration. Just as the Democrats are doing here in the United States.
No. The Republican Party is in a state of civil war....one the RINOs are losing. There is no MAGA faction within the Tory party and they are just done. No voters on the Right in Britain trust them anymore.
The Conservatives are lukewarm. They're idiots. But they're not radicals or trying to institute a totalitarian state.
It'll be interesting to see if the UK turns into an Orwellian state. It's not going to take much like you said.
Britain helped Obama spy on Trump. Screw em.
They are all globalist embedded spies. You know what you get with a Democrat and can even respect the way they fight for what their loony base wants. RINOs are a special kind of grub who continually lie to their base and stab them in the back once they are safely elected.
When you offer your party someone like John McCain or Rishni Sunak, why would you expect to win?
I wish I shared your optimism. MAGA keeps losing elections because RINOs are fine with commies winning if it means MAGA loses. Look what happened in AZ in 2022. Governor, Senator, SoS, and AG all stolen from republicans, and Ronna McRomRom's RNC got out of town the next day and did not issue a single challenge. Kari Lake and Abe Hamade have had to fight their election suits on their own, and the McStain RINOs on the supreme court won't lift a finger to ensure election integrity but will foist an archaic abortion law on the people that will only help the commies in November. And with the Democrats in charge of the state, they are now waging lawfare against 18 republicans who questioned the 2020 outcome.
MAGA is in the fight of its life and it is losing because elections are being stolen by the Uniparty and the commie 'winners' are trying to throw them all in jail like the J6 prisoners.
The brazen theft of AZ in 22 shows how little they fear any resistance. The know it is almost impossible to get a court to delay an election “result” let alone reverse one.
“The decline and fall of the Conservatives is the story of a political party that has become exhausted and inward-looking after more than a decade in power. Not unlike the Republican Party in the United States, “
This is like saying WAPO is not unlike an actual news organization.
The similarities are that close.
The exhausted, inward looking party has managed to kick the can with Lerner, Russia, Ukraine, Covid and have yet to pay the piper for Obama-the guy lost net 1050 elected Dem offices, a record by 500 to which the Democrats may never recover nor actually reconcile to Obama. Absent the collusion/shenanigans, they would be headed to being a boutique party of the coastaL elites and little else.
“The brazen theft of AZ in 22 shows how little they fear any resistance. The know it is almost impossible to get a court to delay an election “result” let alone reverse one.”
The Republican Party apparatus should have been laser focused on this for the last four years, particularly as how to overcome the “standing” issue to challenge corrupt election counts. But did they? Not that I have seen.
North America’s DemonRAT Party is in chaos much like the Third Reich and the Global Communists Party were.
On the contrary, the centrists have been in control since the ousting of Corbyn. This is unlikely to change once in power - Labour in power has usually tended to drift to the centre, and leftwards when out of power.
The only truly Socialist government in British history, in the sense of both espousing the ideology and delivering the programme, was that of the postwar Atlee years, 1944-52. The early Labour governments in the 1920s-30s were too weak and short-lived to change anything much. The Wilson/Callaghan years in the 1960s/70s still paid lip service to the ideology: but the party was led by pragmatists who, once confronted by the realities of power, did little to expand the powers of the state. Blair came to power by explicitly rejecting socialism. Under Brown there were signs of the beginning of a leftward turn, but it hadn't got far before his defeat in 2010.
The next government in the UK by the Labour will lean to the far left. That will follow the trend in the West.
Obama/Biden in the U.S., Trudeau in Canada, both Australia and New Zealand.
There's precious little evidence to substantiate that prediction.
Oh, we also had Reagan/Thatcher in the '80s.
They blew it when they ditched Enoch Powell.
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