Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss

Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss

  • echo64@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    It fractured a decade ago when they couldn’t get a majority and had to get in bed with the popularists by promising a brexit referendum. Something 100% against tory values.

    What you have now is not even a tory party. it’s an unelected popularist assortment of fifth rank backbenchers who would have been insignificant in the grand scheme of the party.

    The real question is what is going to happen to the tory party after they lose. Will they reform as an ultra nationalist fascist party like they have been heading towards? Will they go the gentle opinionless route Labour did and hope that’s enough? Just die?🤞

    • burningmatches@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Even Thatcher’s Tory party was fractured — between so-called wets and dries. It’s inevitable that any broad political party (which you get in a two-party system) will contain extremes.