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Originally Posted by Dingbat

Most of those Tory “losers” left the Tories and joined Reform.

That’s easy to say. Rolls off the tongue and it’s tempting.

But the three I listed are self-serving and were more incompetent that Jenrick &, dare I say, Braverman. Zahawi - yes, loser imo.


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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

The trouble is Reform UK is stuffed full of Tory rejects who are unlikely to get on well with the current Conservative Party. And Reform UK's USP of not being Labour or Conservative falls apart if they do work tactically together. I don't think the Labour Party has a similar issue with current and former MPs joining the Green Party, but I could be wrong.

It's looking like an interesting five-horse race in the next General Election so a coalition government could well be a possibility. Certainbly Reform UK or any other party governing on its own with just 25% of the vote would not go down well. But a coalition of Reform with another political party would undermine its USP. I'm not sure how you square the circle on these two points as Reform UK's share of the vote is unlikely to grow much given it's competing with four other parties, particularly as Badnoch is taking advantage of Starmer's political ineptitude.

You are absolutely right. More’s the pity for the least worse solution in getting Labour out and avoiding a hung Parliament.