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Tories brace for brutal civil war
Politico.EU ^ | June 18 | BY ESTHER WEBBER

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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Bring it on!
1 posted on 06/19/2024 4:18:33 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

No one to blame but yourselves you stupid feckless bastards. They squandered their electoral mandate for years


2 posted on 06/19/2024 4:21:36 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Absolutely

Misrule! For years!


3 posted on 06/19/2024 4:24:24 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Over the years, any party accumulates grifters and opportunists. Occasional purges are needed.


4 posted on 06/19/2024 4:25:01 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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“radically-minded right-wingers sympathetic to the upstart Nigel Farage”

No bias there.


5 posted on 06/19/2024 4:25:23 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: RandFan

“radically-minded right-wingers”
.............
How radical? Do they want men in women’s washrooms?


6 posted on 06/19/2024 4:25:54 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: dljordan

lol....


7 posted on 06/19/2024 4:28:46 PM PDT by RandFan
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the battle for the soul of the Conservative Party has already begun.

One look at this collection of Clowns should explain why they are about to get hit with a well-deserved electoral neutron bomb


8 posted on 06/19/2024 4:29:01 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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The Tories went to hell after they removed Thatcher.


9 posted on 06/19/2024 4:30:03 PM PDT by Publius
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What a bunch of misfits. If that isn’t enough to make one swear off politics, nothing will.


10 posted on 06/19/2024 4:33:58 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: RandFan

Some Tory “wets” aka equivalent to our RINO squishes worry the Tories might adopt positions which reflect the will of the British People rather than of their narrow little elite interests.

If they lose and the Tories make Nigel Farage their leader, they will thrive. If the wets win, the Tories are finished as a political party.


11 posted on 06/19/2024 4:34:30 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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which ones wear panties??


12 posted on 06/19/2024 4:37:09 PM PDT by SteveH
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Agree. It’s time for Farage and yes, a Donald Trump style takeover!!

😂😂😂


13 posted on 06/19/2024 4:48:20 PM PDT by RandFan
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The upstart Nigel Farage
14 posted on 06/19/2024 5:25:48 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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The smart move would be to immediately announce a Tory/Reform unity ticket, with Nigel Farage as the leader. This might stave off a Labour win, a win which would be disastrous for the UK.

Reform would go for that. But the Tories won’t. They are way too egotistical to consider such a thing.


15 posted on 06/19/2024 5:25:56 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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radically-minded right-wingers

No bias there.

16 posted on 06/19/2024 5:27:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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which ones wear panties??

Probably none of them. They left their knickers on Labour's couch.

17 posted on 06/19/2024 5:28:03 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: RandFan

The Tories locked Britain down and didn’t sink the boats. They deserve to be wiped out.


18 posted on 06/19/2024 5:32:01 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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England’s a lost cause anyhow. The US isn’t far behind. At some point one must just focus on personal and family survival.


19 posted on 06/19/2024 5:35:05 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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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.

Why is that?

Because they want to be a Big Tent Party like the Republicans

If they tried to be a Contrast Party they might be more appealing

20 posted on 06/19/2024 5:42:29 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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