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This gave me a big belly laugh:

Another Conservative said: “The answer is we need to find a way to appeal to voters we lost to all parties. I don’t know how you do that on policy, but Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious. But I don’t know if any of the candidates we have at the moment can do that.”

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Chasing after Reform is a losing game. You can't win over anti-establishment votes as the establishment. The only way forward for the Tories is to the left.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except their funding source(s) would prefer to set the money on fire, rather than allow the Overton window to slip even slightly left

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The overton window slides this way and that, but eventually it snaps back to more central. We've just observed this here and in France.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I fully agree, but I believe this is the perspective of the billionaire class funding Reform and Tories.

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