Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal.  Neil Record, a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).  […]
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    let her become the tory leader and kill the party once and for all.

    the only problem is that it lets farages new British Union of fascists party take their place.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      2·
      4 months ago

      Fairly sure that’s going to happen regardless. They will either chase the right-wing idiot vote and essentially become the same party. Or reform will eat their votershare.

      It’s a no-win situation for them really. It’s 100% their fault for flirting with the hard right to begin with, if they’d not done that they wouldn’t be losing voters now. The problem is a lot of their voters have always been extremists, and have never had a party outlet for those views until now.