mattomac wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:31 pm
Ironically probably helps Labour.
They might even be best choosing Braverman and hitting the the lowest of the low.
As I have said on this forum previously political parties never learn from the mistakes of others. The Conservative Party if they did chose Suella Braverman would be doing what Labour did in 1980 and picking Michael Foot but without the intellectual ballast. Then activists in the party thought the reason why Labour lost in 1979 was they were not socialist enough, some Conservatives (Braverman being one) seem to be falling into the trap of the reason for the defeat being they were not Conservative enough. They did lose votes to Reform I will grant you but tacking further right will leave a huge void which the Liberal Democrats will walk into unopposed as they appeal to Conservatives of the ilk of Ken Clarke and Dominic Grieve. In the last parliament the Lib Dems won several seats off the Conservatives in by-elections and held all of them a few weeks ago. In rural areas in particular there are some very angry folk at what Brexit has ended up doing to farming, not forgetting inaction over sewage in rivers and lakes etc.
Were Mrs Braverman to win, PMQs could be a turkey shoot for Kier Starmer week after week. her record in government is not exactly stellar and she is showing all the indications of wanting to fight culture war after culture war., fighting the last election rather than the next one. I am unsure as well whether she has the desire or indeed the heft to do the work to reorientate Conservative policy to make them electable. The last manifesto was a cobbled together mish mash of policies designed to appeal to just a small part of the electorate, I am refering to the Triple Lock Plus and National Service.
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