A lot of deep and thoughtful insight there into the new right wing party and their strategy.
Another of the most dreadful ex Tory MPs outages to the populist menace the parasites on the right wing body politic.
Two heavily flawed hard right parties are attenuating each other, but I strongly suspect that neither will be able to replace the other for a long time. It's all good for the remaining sensible parties.
Two hard right parties able to win seats and scrapping with each other is good for Labour retaining power into a 2nd or maybe 3rd term and it's especially good for the LibDems, who could come through the middle on another 25 swing seats from the Tories ( half of the gains in July), to become leaders of the opposition and contribute thoughtful scrutiny instead of mindless points scoring.
I see the LibDem's opinion poll rating mid term is 50% up on what it was before the previous General Election.
I may be overly optimistic, but I see two right-wing parties contending for the same voter segments, but with the added twist that a proportion of Tiry voters simply will not vote reform. Is this an excessively optimistic reading of the situation?
Farage may get the big issues wrong ( supporting Truss premiership & budget, or opposing migration, while supporting Putin or Trump, plus an organisation that gets wealthy people migrated into the UK, for money - see Led by Donkeys latest ), but nonetheless he's a degree of cunning. He has identified the best way at progressing support in the UK, which used to be called Pavement Politics, by the Liberals, SDP and LibDems.
Of course Farage has also had the good fortune to be funded by Russia, plus right wing Tory old money, starting with UKIP, then the Brexits, now ReformUK. Also, to have been given vast amounts of largely unwarranted free publicity in national media, not only the Tory client press, but the BBC, where he has put in a record number of appearances on their top political programme, Question Time.
Like Sunak, Johnson & Truss, Farage would only want the PM job to add weight to his CV and brass to his Coutts account. If he ever made it he would be like the dog chasing the car, unable to know what to do with it. ReformUk's manifesto offered over £50bn in unfunded spending commitments. When you are not serious about power and policy and are there for aggrandisement and ego, then you would never have to try to carry out a programme, so you might as well splash out on promises. Anyway the longer the death spiral alongside the Tories continues the better.
A lot of deep and thoughtful insight there into the new right wing party and their strategy.
Another of the most dreadful ex Tory MPs outages to the populist menace the parasites on the right wing body politic.
Two heavily flawed hard right parties are attenuating each other, but I strongly suspect that neither will be able to replace the other for a long time. It's all good for the remaining sensible parties.
Two hard right parties able to win seats and scrapping with each other is good for Labour retaining power into a 2nd or maybe 3rd term and it's especially good for the LibDems, who could come through the middle on another 25 swing seats from the Tories ( half of the gains in July), to become leaders of the opposition and contribute thoughtful scrutiny instead of mindless points scoring.
I see the LibDem's opinion poll rating mid term is 50% up on what it was before the previous General Election.
What evidence is there that Reform's membership is really 100,000?
I may be overly optimistic, but I see two right-wing parties contending for the same voter segments, but with the added twist that a proportion of Tiry voters simply will not vote reform. Is this an excessively optimistic reading of the situation?
Farage may get the big issues wrong ( supporting Truss premiership & budget, or opposing migration, while supporting Putin or Trump, plus an organisation that gets wealthy people migrated into the UK, for money - see Led by Donkeys latest ), but nonetheless he's a degree of cunning. He has identified the best way at progressing support in the UK, which used to be called Pavement Politics, by the Liberals, SDP and LibDems.
Of course Farage has also had the good fortune to be funded by Russia, plus right wing Tory old money, starting with UKIP, then the Brexits, now ReformUK. Also, to have been given vast amounts of largely unwarranted free publicity in national media, not only the Tory client press, but the BBC, where he has put in a record number of appearances on their top political programme, Question Time.
Like Sunak, Johnson & Truss, Farage would only want the PM job to add weight to his CV and brass to his Coutts account. If he ever made it he would be like the dog chasing the car, unable to know what to do with it. ReformUk's manifesto offered over £50bn in unfunded spending commitments. When you are not serious about power and policy and are there for aggrandisement and ego, then you would never have to try to carry out a programme, so you might as well splash out on promises. Anyway the longer the death spiral alongside the Tories continues the better.