The Disunited Right and suicidal ambition.
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Only Nigel and Reform can win it and save the day! Nonsense, only Rupert and Restore can deliver what we want! No, Kemi is on the way back and the Conservatives can once again save our fortunes. This is the Greek chorus on the right of British Politics, each convinced that they, and they alone, can save the Nation from the doom spiral that the Left have plunged it into.
Now I can see attractions in all of these parties and what they say and do. The thing is that I am not an absolutist and I just want the thing done, I don’t care who actually does it. I have no particular horse in the race but I can see political reality and separate that from wishful thinking. So here is how I see things post Makerfield.
Labour remain a threat our national well being and under Burham that threat will increase, not retreat. I heard Mark Dolan on Talk asking “Should we give Andy Burnham a chance” to which I respond (Were I allowed on Talk which I am not) NO! Labour is Labour, a Fabian collective which revels in pulling our country apart. All Burnham will do is put a different face on the chaos and destruction.
If we look at the voting demographics of this country, it favours the Left. Our Education system resembles a conveyor belt for producing little marxists who either support the Greens or Labour. Not enough of them support right wing centrism. The Left also understand what when it counts, they will stand aside and vote tactically. This is not always explicit but it is implicit. They grasp that all that matters is victory. A principled loser remains that, out of power and unable to do all the noble things promised.
Meanwhile, the right stays divided. Ahead of an Election you may say that doesn’t particularly matter but when it comes to polling day, it does. Restore aims to replace Reform. Can this be achieved? I don’t know but I am certain that if Restore poll around 7% in the 2029 General Election, that will seriously impact Reform chances and cost many seats. These seats will fall mostly to the Left.
At the top, the egos are extreme. Kemi can’t stand Nigel. Nigel can’t stand Rupert. Rupert likes Kemi but not Nigel. This seems to be very problematical and the Bible tells us that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Consider Makerfield. The Right spend a lot of time attacking Reform. Labour won. Any sense of triumphalism here on the right side of politics is deluded. We are going to learn that unity is strength and division is weakness. The time will come when that lesson is too late and we are lost.
