Kemi if it continues at this rate S Club 7 will have more members than you next year.
JoeyJoJoeJr_Shabadoo on
So the rightoids are jumping to Reform and the centrists aren’t wanted. Guess you’ll have to become a left wing party.
Gold_Motor_6985 on
Can lead a horse to a pond by a mighty stroke of luck, but can’t force the horse to drop dumb extreme right ideas and adopt the policies that would get them elected.
Francis-c92 on
Feel like we need centrists more than ever right now.
Too much of politics now is either extreme and divisive.
Fraggle_ninja on
Ooooh does this mean she intends to be more far right than reform? I foresee no issues with this considering the tories were the ones who started selling Britain to foreign companies and investors and that she’s the daughter of immigrants. 🍿
ChaiTeaAndBoundaries on
Ok Kemi, your party remains a recruitment ground for the Reform party.
Before you know it you could be leading a part of 1 that includes only you Kemi😢
_L_R_S_ on
The political views of society generally follow a statistical bell curve.
Which means most people trend towards the centre.
Which means some politicians are inevitably at the bell end.
healeyd on
Christ I can’t wait for the needle to swing back to boring old Social Democracy. Sadly we’ll probably need some form of global diasaster like we did the last time.
Furey24 on
When immigration is essentially the loudest point being made in the room it’s safe to say nobody is going to vote for a party headed by an immigrant.
She could genuinely be the best person for the job but she won’t ever get a chance due to immutable characteristics.
Although I personally don’t think she is all that good tbh.
SignalButterscotch73 on
That’s the death blow to the tories right there. I fully expect the party to dissolve after the next general election or 2.
They don’t have a left wing, the right are defecting to reformuk and now the centre is not wanted.
axe1970 on
and yet none of the former members who have gone to the reform are centralists
Less-Guest6036 on
So we have reform being Tories 2.0, and the tories wanting to move futher right wing…
They really need to ditch her and move back to more centrist position.
Carl-Newchat25 on
I doubt this is what Conservatives promoting Prosper UK have in mind.
culture_vulture_1961 on
This will warm the hearts of the Lib Dems. There are a swathe of constituencies in the South and South West of England that will never vote for Reform or a far right Tory Party. The Lib Dems already have 72 seats and could pick up a dozen more, especially if the Tories and Reform are getting in each others way.
RaymondBumcheese on
They have literally learned nothing from the election and completely deserve oblivion.
No_Aesthetic on
In a surprise move, Kemi Badenoch has also announced the party will henceforth be known as “Reform UK”
SkiHiKi on
I honestly forgot, and then I was genuinely stunned, that Kemi Badenoch is still Conservative leader.
I suppose amidst the mass defection to Reform there’s no one left in the Tory party ar$ed enough, or with enough standing, to oust her.
minaminotenmangu on
What is so sad about Badenoch is that if she wasn’t leader she would also have jumped on this bandwagon. She was in this camp in the past.
EnderMB on
The only thing keeping Kemi from joining Reform is the fact that she inexplicably became its leader.
I just don’t see how this works out for either side. Reform is now 70% the Tory government from 2019 onwards, and the Tories are Legacy Reform. It’s a long time from now until the GE, and that’s a lot of time where both parties are going to absolutely fuck themselves.
evolveandprosper on
I think the word “Centrist” is superfluous in that sentence. “Ideas” are no longer wanted. They only want slogans, bullshit and knee-jerk reactions.
Striking_Smile6594 on
Most of the Conservative cabinet from the 90s would be considered too ‘left wing’ to be in the current conservative party.
Ok-Chest-7932 on
She’s going to have to explain what she means by centrist, I’ve never heard anyone actually define that. Usually the attempt is “likes a bit of the left party’s policies and a bit of the right party’s policies”, but at this point the conservatives should be trying to position themselves as the mid point between reform and labour, so by that definition, their optimal strategy is definitionally centrist.
Toneballs52 on
The Tories and Reform are now locked in a death spiral as to who can be the batshit craziest. Surely the leader of whatever party that admits Brexit was a disaster and blames it all on Farage will clean up.
Azakaa on
So the Conservative Party is finally getting rid of the far right crowd and her idea is to push the Conservative party further to the right? So what sets Reform and the conservatives apart?
The fringes are the most noisy yes but most people belong center left or center right – hence the swing votes. Trying to chase Farage is not the answer.
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Kemi if it continues at this rate S Club 7 will have more members than you next year.
So the rightoids are jumping to Reform and the centrists aren’t wanted. Guess you’ll have to become a left wing party.
Can lead a horse to a pond by a mighty stroke of luck, but can’t force the horse to drop dumb extreme right ideas and adopt the policies that would get them elected.
Feel like we need centrists more than ever right now.
Too much of politics now is either extreme and divisive.
Ooooh does this mean she intends to be more far right than reform? I foresee no issues with this considering the tories were the ones who started selling Britain to foreign companies and investors and that she’s the daughter of immigrants. 🍿
Ok Kemi, your party remains a recruitment ground for the Reform party.
Before you know it you could be leading a part of 1 that includes only you Kemi😢
The political views of society generally follow a statistical bell curve.
Which means most people trend towards the centre.
Which means some politicians are inevitably at the bell end.
Christ I can’t wait for the needle to swing back to boring old Social Democracy. Sadly we’ll probably need some form of global diasaster like we did the last time.
When immigration is essentially the loudest point being made in the room it’s safe to say nobody is going to vote for a party headed by an immigrant.
She could genuinely be the best person for the job but she won’t ever get a chance due to immutable characteristics.
Although I personally don’t think she is all that good tbh.
That’s the death blow to the tories right there. I fully expect the party to dissolve after the next general election or 2.
They don’t have a left wing, the right are defecting to reformuk and now the centre is not wanted.
and yet none of the former members who have gone to the reform are centralists
So we have reform being Tories 2.0, and the tories wanting to move futher right wing…
They really need to ditch her and move back to more centrist position.
I doubt this is what Conservatives promoting Prosper UK have in mind.
This will warm the hearts of the Lib Dems. There are a swathe of constituencies in the South and South West of England that will never vote for Reform or a far right Tory Party. The Lib Dems already have 72 seats and could pick up a dozen more, especially if the Tories and Reform are getting in each others way.
They have literally learned nothing from the election and completely deserve oblivion.
In a surprise move, Kemi Badenoch has also announced the party will henceforth be known as “Reform UK”
I honestly forgot, and then I was genuinely stunned, that Kemi Badenoch is still Conservative leader.
I suppose amidst the mass defection to Reform there’s no one left in the Tory party ar$ed enough, or with enough standing, to oust her.
What is so sad about Badenoch is that if she wasn’t leader she would also have jumped on this bandwagon. She was in this camp in the past.
The only thing keeping Kemi from joining Reform is the fact that she inexplicably became its leader.
I just don’t see how this works out for either side. Reform is now 70% the Tory government from 2019 onwards, and the Tories are Legacy Reform. It’s a long time from now until the GE, and that’s a lot of time where both parties are going to absolutely fuck themselves.
I think the word “Centrist” is superfluous in that sentence. “Ideas” are no longer wanted. They only want slogans, bullshit and knee-jerk reactions.
Most of the Conservative cabinet from the 90s would be considered too ‘left wing’ to be in the current conservative party.
She’s going to have to explain what she means by centrist, I’ve never heard anyone actually define that. Usually the attempt is “likes a bit of the left party’s policies and a bit of the right party’s policies”, but at this point the conservatives should be trying to position themselves as the mid point between reform and labour, so by that definition, their optimal strategy is definitionally centrist.
The Tories and Reform are now locked in a death spiral as to who can be the batshit craziest. Surely the leader of whatever party that admits Brexit was a disaster and blames it all on Farage will clean up.
So the Conservative Party is finally getting rid of the far right crowd and her idea is to push the Conservative party further to the right? So what sets Reform and the conservatives apart?
The fringes are the most noisy yes but most people belong center left or center right – hence the swing votes. Trying to chase Farage is not the answer.