This is a project of “the right”; its commissioners include Rupert Lowe, Great Yarmouth’s new Reform MP, sitting alongside new Tory MP Katie Lam, a former Goldman Sachs vice president and special adviser to Suella Braverman. Charles Moore is their august keeper of the Thatcherite flame. They are led by Paul Goodman, a Tory grandee, who writes a column that warns: “Unless the right changes course, Britain is dooming itself to perpetual Labour rule”. Their Tory-leaning pollsters include Rachel Wolf – founder of Public First, No 10 adviser and author of Boris Johnson’s 2019 manifesto – and James Kanagasooriam of FocalData, coiner of the phrase and idea of the “red wall”.
Polly thinks this is the right of the Tory Party. Even, the right of the country. It’s hardly the right of the Labour Party these days….
Polly doesn’t think anything of the sort.
Polly knows exactly who these people are.
But if she can make Charles Fucking Moore out to be a bogeyman she kills multiple birds with that single stone.
Firstly, Moore.
Then anyone to the right of Moore, which is, as you point out, a lot of people.
No, she knows exactly what she’s doing: it’s the Guardian readers and BBC wankers who read her shit that believe it (some of them).
Problem is, it probably is the right of the Conservative Party. But, as you say, hardly the right of the country.
“Are the Conservatives capable of grasping how profoundly they have lost any sense of the country they used to govern or why their eviction was the single, clear-as-a-bell voters’ imperative?”
Polly is right. It has, apparently, taken them 50 years to run out of steam. How long do we think it’s going to take Labour?
Basically, we have to re-run the 1970s while carrying a large chunk of the Third World and denying ourselves affordable energy.
Are the Conservatives capable of grasping how profoundly they have lost any sense of the country they used to govern or why their eviction was the single, clear-as-a-bell voters’ imperative? Are they willing or able to do so? Not from what I heard
They probably aren’t as they are a party of the Hard Left. However, are the Labour party aware that they are headed for an all time polling low within about 3 months?
The following policies
– Pay per mile tax and associated bans on ICE cars for Net Zero
– Minimum Unit pricing for alcohol countrywide
– VAT on Private school fees
– Tax on pensions
– Increased inheritance tax
– Ban on smoking
Are hardly likely to inspire enthusiasm. This on top of them basically saying white people are automatically criminal while anti-semites go free. I think her honeymoon will be shorter than a drunk couple in Las Vegas.
Way things are going, UK side, Polly might soon get to meet the right Possibly on one of the first one-way helicopter rides.
We’ve already got pay-per-mile tax. It’s called fuel duty. The more miles you drive, the more fuel you use, the more tax you pay.
Politics used to be about policies and parties, but in future they will be about fire.
@jgh
Yes, but the milk floats they’re trying to force us to buy don’t pay fuel duty and they need to fill the tax hole somehow.
Jgh
This will be in addition to that – the goal is basically that only ‘essential travel’ is permitted by car. And you aren’t essential!! (at least according to the powers that be)
are the Labour party aware that they are headed for an all time polling low within about 3 months?
Is that important though? I can’t see the Labour party permitting another fair election. (One that would any government other than Labour) And the right-wing coup that replaces them will probably put democracy on the shelf for a while, until the British people can be trusted again.
I’m not interested in the tribalist Tory vs Labour nonsense that obsesses politicians What worries me are the things they all agree on which are detrimental to my well-being and the interests of the nation.
Tory MP Katie Lam, a former Goldman Sachs vice president
Pfft. Over 25% of Goldman employees were VP’s (also known as ED’s in the UK). About 2,000 new ones are made up each year. Above them are a couple of thousand MD’s with about 400 promotions each year. Then come the 400-450 partners with 80 joining their ranks each year. There is a further deep hierarchy in the partners. VP there is a nothing. The only possible reason I can think of for mentioning it is that I suspect Rishi didn’t ever get that far. From his length of service I would suspect he never got above Analyst.
Why is a Reform MP associating with these drips? Give me my vote back!
Interested +1
Rhoda Klapp: What worries me are the things they all agree on which are detrimental to my well-being and the interests of the nation. Agreed! So vote tactically to maximise the right-of-centre vote…
Philip: Why is a Reform MP associating with these drips? Because Reform is a vehicle for Farage’s ambition, and his party will have to move leftwards – at least economically – for Farage to stand a chance of becoming PM. Any right-of-centre party capable of defeating Labour in 2029 will need to be hard right on immigration, firm on DEI, rather soft left on the economy, slightly wet on climate change, and not explicitly confrontational…
Theo. Wouldn’t it have been quicker to just say “Same sort of cvnts as the Tory Party”?
BiS – maybe the public will be excited about Robert Jenrick, or that Nigerian grifter, or one of the other losers and freaks.
Lol.
If Reform do not agree with the blob on immigration legal or not, and net zero, and globalsim then they deserve my vote. There is no tactical voting scheme which will contradict that. And note that NONE of those issues are about left and right in any true ideological sense. The blob believes all that shit because in general they don’t have to deal with reality, only Westminster rivalries of no interest to real people. Just as ‘right-wing’ beliefs such as freedom or individual responsibility mean nothing to the blob. None of the blob parties are worthy of my vote, I’ll be lending it to Reform not because they are wondeful but because they aren’t trying to destroy my country and kill me. (Yet?)
Theo, honestly….
We’ve recently seen the results of “Tactical Voting” in France….
The United Left pulled a fast one there that’s borderline election manipulation that gave them a “victory”.
*That’s* what “Tactical Voting” looks like, and the UK system of FPTP is even more suited for shenanigans like that..
And you can be damned sure Labour, along with the Greens and LibDems will pull that one next election for…. certain concessions .. now that they’ve been given…. Ideas…
If they haven’t already, to ensure absolute minimal seats for Reform. Haven’t followed the UK elections that closely, maybe someone else can figure that out.
But all your “tactical voting” does is keep Labour in longer than absolutely necessary.
Sticking more into Theo:
and not explicitly confrontational…
He doesn’t seem to have noticed the right wing parties that have been succeeding recently have done so by being enthusiastically confrontational. The AfD isn’t gaining votes by being nice.
Any right-of-centre party
If only Reform were a right of centre party…
Grikath: «We’ve recently seen the results of “Tactical Voting” in France….
The United Left pulled a fast one there that’s borderline election manipulation that gave them a “victory”.»
That’s not an accurate analysis. As in Thuringia and Saxony the “far-right” RN in France like the AfD are deemed by the elites to be beyond the pale so the signal from Macron was that the RN majority in the first round would be excluded from government. Consequently deals were done prior to the second round of voting so that the second round would not be a face-off between the three eligible contenders from the first round but the RN candidate would face only the most likely successful first round candidate who attracted all the non-RN supporters. Yes, a stitch up certainly, but within the rules.
The fix left France with a caretaker government for two months until the unlikely nomination of Michel Barnier by Macron. We’ll see how that goes but meanwhile the left has coalesced around the corbynite J-L Melenchon which presages a bumpy ride.
All of these sorts of manoeuverings will only strengthen the RN (the AfD and similar parties elsewhere) and render the traditional parties more obsolete. Let’s see where the German Social Democrats stand in Brandenburg after the 22nd September. Brandenburg has been an SPD fiefdom since reunification and they may find themselves out on their ears. It’s all very well for traditional parties to encourage boycotts of pariah parties but this has the effect of forcing the traditional parties to cooperate or enter coalitions with their political opponents which leads to political statis in government and a leaching of voter approval.
We’ve recently seen the results of “Tactical Voting” in France….
The United Left pulled a fast one there that’s borderline election manipulation that gave them a “victory”.
*That’s* what “Tactical Voting” looks like, and the UK system of FPTP is even more suited for shenanigans like that..
France has FPTP, with a run-off if no candidate gains a plurality in the first round.