It’s the Kemi delusion: the more the Tories run towards Reform, the more their voters will run to the Lib Dems | John Harris
WHat these times. With the costs of selling Donald Trump to Ukraine, there are reports that Care Starmer The president will be flattened By calling for parliament. Meanwhile, British fans in Trump continue to make flimsy excuses and unprotected admiration. Before Trump praised Niegel Faraj – “a great man” – in his speech to the Conservative Political Labor Conference (CPAC) in Washington, the representative of Clackton He used his time on the same event for Trump’s “progress” with Vladimir Putin, and he revives him in the name of “”Simply, I encourage the man I knowBy Bathos, the ridiculous Liz trus At that time, tell A much smaller crowd that the country that ran for a month and a half is “failure”, and needs Trump’s rebellion.
At the top of the partisan camel that led him for a short period, Kimi Badnouch cannot solve a familiar contradiction – between the impressive admiration of Trump’s ideology and the political inconvenience of what it means in practice. Late last week, it is Complex parrot is half the marina From Trump’s attack on the Ukrainian president. She said, “President Zelinski is not a dictator,” as if it was a revelation. But any observer of her recent posts will really know where her heart lies.
Badnush embodies the absurdity that sweeps a large part of the British right, as it issues warnings about the collapse of Western civilization while escalating to people to withdraw the roof in every basic doctrine of liberal democracy, along with the remainder of the Atlantic International Security. Her understanding and allies of such basic contradictions are comprehensive Its weekly preparation for the Prime Minister’s questionsBut this barely reduces her belief in a set of great beliefs. So everything comes, on a weekly basis.
Last week, she found time in her memoirs for his role in the annual conference for the responsible citizenship (ARC), an international initiative that this great great Jordan participated in. “Take a look at President Trump,” she She told her fans. “It has shown that you sometimes need this first period in the government to discover problems. But it is the second time when you really know how to fix it. It begins to say the truth.”
Its chosen facts were the same as it was always: insisting that the “intellectual elite” control everything, as well as warnings about “the poisoning of minds that occur in higher education” and “leftist progressive, whether it is a conscience, Dei or climate activity.” In the same event, I was asked about Elon Musk And the so -called Ministry of Governmental efficiency. She said, “I don’t even think that Dog is rooted enough.”
Who are these things? If its goal is to stop UK reform Rebellion, speaking in the vocabulary very abstract and pointed, is a problem that is badly annoyed due to the lack of conservative party politicians in the front lines who can compete with the influences of the regular Farage. But there is another missing as much: the simple truth of being a joyful resonance in a right -echo room that guarantees the increase in millions of voters lost by the conservatives.
When I read reports about the Padenoch speech, I found myself thinking about Wukeing, the quiet angle of the Sari Sari belt, which is an example of the change of the sea that Padenuch chose – alongside most of her party – ignored it. Last summer, Liberal Democrats Take off From conservatives a 19 % swinging. Some of this shift was amazing Bank’s bankruptcy Thanks to the reckless decisions made by the Conservative Administration. But the result was in keeping up with a huge pile of LIB Dem’s gains that extend through home provinces and beyond, but it got much less attention than the five seats that the reform won.
They still read Like a series of Whale Conservative Party: Guildford, Surrey Heath, Bicester and Woodstock, Horsham, Cotswolds South, Carshalton, Wallington and Tunbridge Wells – dozens of Lib Dem’s gains, which came after the collapse of the Conservative Party in the local government.
It was not difficult to know the reason. In many of them, the majority of the voters had supported in the 2016 referendum. The embrace of the subsequent conservatives of the strong Parks left them to reeling, and the Boris Johnson style in unethical leadership enhances their calm despair. But something is much deeper in these places.
These parts of England are definitely modern, often More ethnic than before. They are often not rich just as their reputation suggests, but they are still full of people who realize the health of the economy. These voters in the market for the right -right party will emphasize the wonders of property ownership and low taxes, and pledged to support the interests of work. What they find is repellent, In my country expertiseDoes the Conservative Party turn into fanaticism, and the feeling that Farraj – and now Trump – is withdrawing the strings. It goes without saying that they do not receive trains of their passengers every morning and speak moving about the difficult right -wing points of conversation such as “cultural Marxism”, where they are trapped 15 minutes citiesAnd the need to obtain more children to preserve the Christian Jewish culture. In my experience, almost no one in Britain.
While Badnush follows the bright light of the solid right -wing policy, what is its exposure to these voters? I know this a lot with certainty: they do not look at the chaos and turmoil that controls the United States and East Trump for international norms as something to simulate Anxiety escalate. In the past, part of the British province’s genius lies in the way it responded to the times of this disorder by providing traditions, and the idea that old institutions and agreements will continue. Now, it seems that Badnouch and her ilk want to throw us with joy in the fire.
Choosing it from the connections is a small part of the same miserable image. Last week, I did Interview with Peterson She talked about the party that devoured many Hartz the old Conservative Party, and is now indicating a point in Trump’s constant attack. She said that the Libyan Democrats have “silly and foolish” ideas. But the other things that I am amazed were more disclosed. “They do not have a lot of ideology unlike being nice,” I continued, as if our kindness is always. “The typical liberal democracy will be a good person in reforming the ceiling of their church. As you know, people in society like them. They are like,” reforming the church ceiling, you should be a member of Parliament. “
These people were not to be Conservatives? If they have moved away, the accelerated Badenoch turning into negative Trumpism will not pull them. Large parts of what was called the Middle England, in fact, are definitely looking at the party that spoke confidently about them and the apostasy: this is the crisis of the Conservative Party in which another leader does not show any signs of understanding.
