The fall of the Tory party

https://mobile.twitter.com/PeoplePolling/status/1598630143932895232

Wahey

My takeaway from that is that 1 in 5 would still, after everything, vote Tory - add in Reform and that’s getting scarily close to 30%.

And that’s not even taking into account the “shy”

No she thinks of herself and how other people don't think of her.

getting scarily close to 30%.

Why scary? Dream vote splitting right there

Doesn’t take much for Reform to ‘step aside’ like the Brexit Party did in 2019 and the Tories are knocking on 30% again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63834307

That's a bizarre article - it almiat reads like Truss was vindicated and triumphant against critics who thought all along that she was completely misguided.

What's happened to the libdems in all if this. Have they been completely exposed for centrist nothings?

That bloke couldn't look more like a Tory MP if he tried.

Don't underestimate the addition of a monocle

Shallow gene pool

The reform vote won’t automatically go to Tory’s if they drop out like the brexit party did in 2019.

Not automatically but certainly within the bounds of possibility that a deal could be done , especially with the Tories approaching last roll of the dice territory (if they aren’t already there).

Add in all the inevitable attacks on Starmer - Saville, woke, Corbyn, doesn’t know what a women is etc - and suddenly you’ve got shy voters back in the game and 35% is within
reach

(I concede that I’m being pessimistic but don’t think it’s over until it actually is)

I'm kind of appreciating your reality check tbh

Even if a deal was done I imagine a lot of the reform voters who would have voted for Boris won’t be excited by Rishi, there isn’t a wedge issue like brexit this time around propelling people towards the voting booth.

there isn’t a wedge issue like brexit this time around propelling people towards the voting booth.

I think cost of living and collapsing public services will be a wedge issue by the time a GE comes around. Or even Brexit again, seeing as there is so much voter regret over the fact it's basically made life worse for the people who were told it'd make life better.

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^ His 2019 manifesto included some very constituency-based policies;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

Yeah imagine having a mandate to finally sort out that hand-dryer

Another "actual wtf" to be archived in this thread:

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Don't underestimate the addition of a monocle

Would rep etc

Fun. Is that:

1. Charity that helps people who can’t pay their rent refusing to help staff who can’t pay their rent.
   
   

Or

1. Relatively well-off staff of housing charity demanding money that would otherwise go to help homeless people.
   
   

It’s both isn’t it? I’m glad I don’t have to decide.

Hancock says he's not going to run in the next election to try to avoid his local tory association publishing letter saying he's not fit to be their MP and they want him kicked out.

https://twitter.com/KateMaltby/status/1600504107558703105

Sounds like we just need a bad flu season to win more people over from the tories
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1600837122381996032

Good article from the FT on the 'inside story' of Truss' fall from power:

https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1601201743857356805?s=20&t=YBXZZJjqHKAPJV4wA7CX6w