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4 million is a lot of voters.
On this occasion proportional representation would have been a bit of a disaster!
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Take into account how many were perhaps protest votes taken from the Tories (yes Labour too but to a lessee extent) and how many secretly wanted Sunak out due to racist tendencies (comment from that campaigner on the C4 undercover doc?) but wouldn’t say in public, I wouldn’t fret too much. That’s not to underestimate them and I’m not tarring then all with the same brush. Immigration and anti-wokism is high on their agenda but personally I think there’s a bigger emphasis on dissatisfaction with the Tories. A lot can happen in a few years. Meanwhile, I’m just happy the old rotters are gone
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Reform vote share is a concern and certainly reflects how far the Tories have fallen from favour, they need to reconstruct their party to provide a decent opposition at the next election to Labour. My late father spent six years of his life fighting fascism, racism and dictatorship in the forms of Hitler and Mussolini and we must never allow even a whiff of those evils to become present in our modern day politics. Congratulations to the Labour party and I wish them well in their attempts to turn this country round and provide a more prosperous fairer society for all and not just a few but the low turnout of 60% at this election reminds us all how important education about politics and government should be become part of our education curriculum in the future. We cannot give up our democratic right to vote that was fought so hard for and at a high cost by many to disappear overtime to apathy, we need to make people aware of their responsibility to vote for whoever but just to get out and vote when election time comes around.
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I feel the Conservatives will learn the wrong lessons from this. They think they will just need to pander to the right and fail to realise that a large reason why Labour won was that they appealed enough to a broad brush of voters across the country (not just stacking votes in metropolitan areas, as it was in 2017 and 2019) who don’t have that same Reform style politics. I feel there is a limit on the right wing vote, as there was a left wing one with Corbyn. It might win certain areas, but it alienates enough across the country to make it less likely to be a winning strategy in my opinion. I suspect it will be a decade rebuild as the Tories go through their own delusions and civil strife like with Labour under Miliband and Corbyn.
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It’s hard to know given they have lost 251 seats, how many of the Tories are in the Braverman “family” or Hunt’s moderates. I don’t see how they will agree on and support a leader from either camp. It is therefore inevitable that a group will join up with Farage’s mob.
It’s up to Labour and Starmer to take this opportunity and then show Farage for what he is. Jonathan Pie does this in less than 5 minutes.
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