Again, outsider here, but it feels to me like you’re looking for an excuse to vote Conservative. “I don’t think the party that’s been out of power for most of a decade would have done this one thing” seems to be the thinnest of reasons. Weren’t Labour against the biggest boondoogle the UK has seen in the last however-many years (Brexit)? In my book, that alone would be enough to vote the Conservatives out.
Please, don’t take this as an attack, I appreciate the perspective and reasoning. All I know about the UK is what I read in the papers.
Boris Johnson wanted in but led the campaign for out, hoping it would lose and he would be able to capitalise on the loss and present himself as a marytr.
I think only Farage was a true believer, and he promptly got German citizenship for his kids apparently.
Also it took the Brits a whole decade to unfuck their rifle vs the 4 years of the M-16, though they weren’t in a war, so there was probably less pressure to do so.
Oddly enough, creating really reliable and effective military tools is often a difficult, time-consuming, and expensive process that doesn’t always get it right out of the gate. Who knew?
In theory that should result in the Overton window swinging back left, the Tories losing their right wing to Reform and becoming a more sane centre-right party.
Given how things have been going since 2016, I’m not sure they won’t double down on the populism and hand the entire centre to Labour, if they’re willing to take it.
I think there will be the same sort of fight for the soul of the party that Blair had to go through with Labour. Truss clearly trying to position herself as the leader of the right wing element which will severely hamper their efforts I suspect…
