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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorld's Most Successful Political Party Facing Total Extinction
A crucial difference between the dinosaurs and Britains ruling Conservative Party is that the dinosaurs had no way of knowing the asteroid was coming. For the Tories, portents of doom abound, with some polling suggesting that an extinction-level event of catastrophic political losses could be on the way in the next general election. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has signaled that hell call the election in the second half of the year, and it can legally come no later than January 2025.
With his party trailing the opposition Labour Party by over 20 points, most pundits expect the election will be the end of Tory rule. But will it be the end of the Conservative Party altogether?
Lawmakers will get an early, if imperfect, indication of whether or not a Tory Götterdämmerung is in the making on Thursday, when local elections are held across England and Wales. The complex and varied ballotswhich include elections for thousands of local council seats, several regional mayors, and law enforcement officialswill not affect the makeup of the British Parliament and therefore pose a direct threat to Sunaks grip on power. But some Tories fear this could be where the unraveling of the worlds oldest operatingand electorally most successfulpolitical party begins.
This is the first of two stages of Conservative annihilation, one former Conservative minister tells The Daily Beast, the second being the general election when it arrives. People have completely switched off and have become unpersuadable. Theyve made up their mind and they just want the nightmare to be over.
https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/27/worlds-most-successful-political-party-facing-total-extinction/
canetoad
(17,214 posts)Will never go extinct. They may be facing a large election loss but that's happened before. Pure rhetoric.
Silent3
(15,427 posts)...while inventing a new banner under which they can re-emerge.
moondust
(20,023 posts)in fury at NHS crisis
Dr Dan Poulter, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, who works part-time as a mental health doctor in an NHS hospital, announced he was resigning as a Tory MP and would be taking the Labour whip until the next election in an exclusive interview with the Observer.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/top-tory-mp-defects-to-labour-in-fury-at-nhs-crisis
Full list of Tory MPs stepping down as party fears election wipeout under Rishi Sunak
Bloody hell, he thinks this is what they've become, rather than what they've always been? Colour me gob-smacked that anyone could be this much of a gormless git.
Oh. Wait. Tory. That explains it all.
PCIntern
(25,631 posts)After Goldwater lost. Rethugs would never recover
localroger
(3,634 posts)PCIntern
(25,631 posts)malaise
(269,265 posts)Rec
Lonestarblue
(10,148 posts)Liz Truss, the seven-week wonder of a Tory leader, recently spoke here for the Heritage Foundation. Both parties want to destroy democracy, encourage predatory capitalism to reward very rich people, deny immigration of black and brown people, and create top-down governments ruled by very wealthy white people.
moondust
(20,023 posts)do seem to have a lot in common after 40 years of self-serving neoliberalism.
mopinko
(70,318 posts)sein fein just had their best election ever, i think. (dont know my recent political history there.)
it looks increasingly like there will b a unity referendum in the near future.
there has been a wave of fascists coming to power all over the world. now there is a rising tide of revulsion.
come nov, imho, there will b a bloodbath here. i hope we inspire the rest of the world.