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More Tory defections to Reform won't harm Labour and the Tories doubling down chasing Farage will help the LD middle England fortunes. Unless the Tories did the sane thing by electing a moderate leader to recapture the centre ground. They're not, are they?

satnav wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 5:45 pm
BBC news claimed that he was the first sitting Tory MP to defect to Reform but I thought that honour went to party hopping f**k wit Lee Anderson.

Anderson jumped ship in the last parliament. I think Auntie means that Kruger is the first Tory weirdo to do so in this parliament.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:34 pm

satnav wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 5:45 pm
BBC news claimed that he was the first sitting Tory MP to defect to Reform but I thought that honour went to party hopping f**k wit Lee Anderson.

Anderson jumped ship in the last parliament. I think Auntie means that Kruger is the first Tory weirdo to do so in this parliament.

The BBC are correct, Anderson was suspended at the time so sitting as an independent.

At this rate, the entire Reform UK “Party” will soon be populated entirely by has-been nutjob former Tories (including, of course, Farage himself).

That a sufficient proportion of the electorate can be assessed as being willing to buy into this fucking hateful wank, and that UK news media can be talking in all apparent seriousness about that cunt Farage being the next Prime Minister simply beggars belief.

Polly Toynbee must surely be right, I think, to assert that Labour’s primary mission henceforward is to save the country from Farage, both directly and indirectly.

Eventually, if it keeps on at this rate, there is going to be a massive clash of ego, or a beer-hall Putsch that gets rid of Farage

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Abernathy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:59 pm That a sufficient proportion of the electorate can be assessed as being willing to buy into this fucking hateful wank, and that UK news media can be talking in all apparent seriousness about that cunt Farage being the next Prime Minister simply beggars belief.

The whole of the media is positively creaming itself over the prospect of a Reform Government. It's a bit like cheering on the Bullingdon set smashing up a restaurant, only this time it's a whole country. They actively want this to happen to justify their existence.

Oh, for the days when TV news was just read by a newsreader and there was no tedious analysis of the headline by wankers...

It won't harm Labour provided the media (and lots of people in Labour) stop doing their "Farage is inevitable" thing.

If Labour scrape back in and Reform have a good showing, invite Farage into government to walk the walk. Low immigration presents formidable economic problems to overcome. Let him devise a radical economic strategy and report to the PM. He'll be out of the door in no time if he even accepts the offer.

No by-election because Kruger would have voted the same way he's going to vote for Reform, or something.

Farage will still be on "one in, one out" at the next election. Or perhaps adopting Cameron's "plan" (soundbite) of "tens of thousands".

Conflating Reform with Tommeh's thugs, good move. Farage will be livid but their relationship is symbiotic.