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After the Tory party failed to make huge strides in the recent by-elections there are mutterings of a recall and replacement of David Cameron as leader.
Which seems overly harsh to me, as expecting Conservative victories in the Labour heartlands seems unlikely to say the least. Voters who were protesting against Labour were much more likely to go Lib Dem, and indeed that's what happened.
But with any luck this will lead to the return of the massive infighting that destroyed the Tory election chances for the last 10 years, drag the party back rightwards (where their base seems to be steadily aging/shrinking) and produce a sea-change in the make-up of UK politics.
Ok, make that "with a _lot_ of luck".
Which seems overly harsh to me, as expecting Conservative victories in the Labour heartlands seems unlikely to say the least. Voters who were protesting against Labour were much more likely to go Lib Dem, and indeed that's what happened.
But with any luck this will lead to the return of the massive infighting that destroyed the Tory election chances for the last 10 years, drag the party back rightwards (where their base seems to be steadily aging/shrinking) and produce a sea-change in the make-up of UK politics.
Ok, make that "with a _lot_ of luck".
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Date: 2007-07-22 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-22 08:50 am (UTC)Hence my wishes...
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Date: 2007-07-22 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-22 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-22 10:25 am (UTC)Perhaps a USB powered cofee thing would be a step in the right direction?
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Date: 2007-07-22 09:19 am (UTC)Thing is that the Tory base/heartlands are too stupid to realise that most of us hated Thatcher and everything she came to stand for, and dream of some "clear blue water" policy that will let them win.
Tory party can rip itself to shreds; the sane minority can then leave and we might have an opposition to NuLab that isn't evil. That'd be nice.
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Date: 2007-07-22 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-22 09:17 am (UTC)Riding the bucking bronco of a party with ideological fractures is part of the game - Tony managed it for over ten years.
Also, unless the electoral system is reformed, the Lib Dems will never be able to step up. They don't have safe seats in large numbers, and safe seats maketh the party under FPP. So if the tories imploded again, we might get another stretch of untempered Labour.
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Date: 2007-07-22 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-22 10:19 am (UTC)Would Labour compromise their electoral future for the sake of one administration?
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Date: 2007-07-22 07:06 pm (UTC)Machiavelli - seemed somehow relevant to PR and Labour and Conservative positions on its introduction
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Date: 2007-07-22 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-22 10:08 am (UTC)I don't think we'll get massive infighting. Long periods in the wilderness promote sullen acquiescence in the membership - just look at Labour ...
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Date: 2007-07-23 09:45 pm (UTC)