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Let’s be clear: this Conservative party is dead. Those who killed it should own up so we can move on (www.theguardian.com)

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Justine Greening, the former Tory MP, argues that the current Tory strategy of going after Reform voters isn't working. She seems to think the Tories should try to capture centrists instead (which is what David Cameron did, I would argue).

The party has attempted to be a “mini-me” version of Reform UK, and unsurprisingly Reform voters prefer the real thing. And this strategy’s consequential alienation of Conservative-leaning centre-ground voters has seen them head off to either the Lib Dems or Labour, or to the Green party. The party has no winning majority in any age group of voters other than those over 70. This is no basis for a successful electoral strategy for the longer term.

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[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Centrists? You mean Starmer's 'far-right'?

Politics is generally dead like it was in the late seventies. Anarchy was the rising trend as was rubbish in the streets.

Every leader, and I use that word very loosely, of the Tories since 1990 has tried to be the next Mrs Thatcher. There is no next Mrs Thatcher. That time has passed.

That normal people can be labelled by two-tier as far right shows how weak the centre of politics has become.

We have another Blair, an old fashioned Tory leading the Labour party who doesn't believe in anything but a version of 'Tax and Spend' that doesn't involve spending on anything useful. This time he doesn't have a wife who needs a career in human rights law. Let's just hope Trump or his successor doesn't start a war to boost public opinion.

We have a service industry country when services are going AI. Welcome back to real jobs that people do: the trades, manufacturing, making things you can see. It's going to take a couple of decades and a lot of teeth gnashing.