In a way it is good

He's already moved the Tories to the right and the better he does the stronger the impulse the Tories will have to go in a Suella DeVille kind of direction after the election is done.

They could even have Farage as their leader with a post-election merger of Reform and the Tories.

At least half the party - the One Nation part (Clarke, Heseltine, Gauke, Hammond, Rory et al, or more accurately their like-minded successors) would probably leave. Maybe they join the lib dems, maybe they start their own new gig, idk.

Any ways up it moves the Tories in the direction of long-term marginalisation. The UK votes from the centre, not the right or the left, though there are plenty with strong views of the right and the left: but many more who don't really care about politics at all. They just want an economy that isn't tanking, fair pay for fair work, a functioning NHS, some chance of seeing a dentist, public utilities that at the very least don't pump millions of gallons of s**t into our rivers - that kind of thing. All very functional, all very small-r-reasonable, very little ideology to be seen.

Neither Labour nor the Tories has done well in elections when they get too ideological. So from my perspective as a bit of a lefty, the more ideological the Tories get - and what Farage is doing will certainly drive them in that direction - the better.

Posted By: Old Man, Jun 4, 10:38:03