Posted on 06/19/2024 4:18:33 PM PDT by RandFan
LONDON — The U.K. general election is still weeks away — but the battle for the soul of the Conservative Party has already begun.
Polls are currently forecasting that the party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, which has led Britain the past 14 years, could be reduced to its lowest number of seats in the House of Commons for more than a century.
Such a rout would inevitably lead to the swift departure of the current Tory leader and prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and an immediate struggle over where the party heads next.
Some activists fear the prospect of a Donald Trump-style takeover by radically-minded right-wingers sympathetic to the upstart Nigel Farage, leader of the rival Reform UK party. Others speculate that an electoral collapse on this scale could threaten the very existence of the near-200-year-old Conservative Party.
That means the coming battle to pick Sunak’s successor will be one which defines the Conservatives’ future for years to come.
“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” said Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University London
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Ah yes!
The infinite joys of an islamic nation...
Great Britain, France, Germany, and Sweden are peas in Muhammad’s pod of violence, sodomy, and death...
Yawn.
Whatever happened to British understatement?
Just like our RINOs blame Trump, they can always blame Farage. It feels so much better when you can overlook your own faults.
The Civil War was when they tossed out Enoch Powell.
Reform is likely to come in ahead of them.
If they have governed even marginally more like Reform’s platform (which is the platform that got them elected to their current majority when Boris Johnson was the prime minister), they would be even in the polls with Labor - the combined support of both parties is equal to the standing of Labor.
Instead they pretty much governed like Labour has in the past, and of course those policies failed - and they get to the take the blame for it and be voted out in favor of...Labour. What a mess they created for their country and for themselves.
Still some time for Farage to make the case that if the remaining Conservative supporters would come over to his candidates in voting where he has candidates on the ballot, they could avoid the massive gains Labour is poised to make with less of a split in the vote...and he would actually govern as a conservative.
They can’t even say a “half a loaf is better than no loaf” because there isn’t even a tenth of a loaf...not even a single slice of moldy bread.
European voters have decided to be Europeans, ending the immigration, LGBT, and Ukraine war. The leadership consisting of globalists are deathly afraid they are going to be gone in two more election cycles. Britain, France, Poland & US has got most of the EU wanting to end the war, stay alive, and fix their economies.
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