The fall of the Tory party

2025 prediction: Farage tries to take control of the ashes of the Tory Party with a plan to turn it into Trump style cult.

Why would he get involved four years before an election? He's not interested in hard work.

Excellent point! ..and one that's blown a massive hole straight through my theory. On the plus side, I'll sleep better tonight now you've sunk that idea.

He's hinted a rejoining a few times recently and his partying with Patel made me wonder what he's up to.

Isn't Reform actually a limited company that may or not be wholly owned by Farage?

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11694875/officers

Didn't prospective Reform parliamentary candidates for the 2019 GE have to pay £300 to be 'vetted'?

I wouldn't worry so much about the names on the books so much as the anonymous money behind the throne.

Maybe they should ask for their money back if they weren’t told they were racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic arseholes…

Is the c word necessary here?

Sorry, are you lost? This is the Tories thread

2 more letters of no confidence are needed to trigger a leadership challenge in the Conservative Party.

https://twitter.com/BladeoftheS/status/1771605158226505939

The problem with this is that it was supposed to be Simon Clarke that said it, so it's clearly bollocks. But he's also denied saying it so it must also be true

Are letters to the committee declared by the sender, i.e. do they need to say publicly ‘yep, dibs, pm’d’ or can said members just stealth it out, so as not to appear to constituents to have wielded the knife?

At their discretion. And Brady never tells (though apparently he calls all letter sender's when the threshold is reached to see if they want to leave it in).

Polls reckon if they shitcan Sunak they'll be even less popular. Insert that meme of the Bristol woman "Another one?!"

Thing is, none of the above want to be leader at the moment. They all want to rule over the ashes, and for Sunak to own the election defeat.

Sunak would win the vote of confidence, and the government would stagger on in an even weaker state.

Fuck me, that is a bleak set of options, even for the nasty party.
There's literally nothing good about any of the viable leaders of this country, Tory scum or otherwise.

Penny Mordaunt carried the sword or whatever it was. And looked a bit like Britannia while doing it. That's all the people need to know.

She looked more like Poundland

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Britannia wields a trident.

And rules the waves. Allegedly.

Amazing.

Thing is they are assuming that they get to be the shadow government- that’s very likely but not certain. I wonder if they would be chancing their arm a bit more if they believed that the Lib Dem’s would form the shadow cabinet.

Lib Dems are polling terribly. I think most people have forgotten they exist (although they are still forecast to get something like 40 seats whereas Refrom are predicted to get more votes than them and zero seats).

Yeah, it would take some tactical voting for them to form the opposition for sure- but it’s not impossible

I think the lib dem vote will surge on election day. A frightening number of people make up their minds in the queue to vote.

They will be stood, pen in hand thinking 'not the conservatives', 'not that labour lot, 'aren't reform the racist ones'..... 'ooh, the lib dems, they are always nice, and they fought to have that housing development stopped down the road'...