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Who wants to replace Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader?
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[@frmcf]

Here's a radical idea: Instead of pandering to who you think are the marginal voters necessary to keep you in power, why not state what you believe in, what you want to achieve, and what policies you think would help to achieve that. Then everyone who agrees with you votes for you, and those who don't agree don't. The UK has been absolutely ruined by this unprincipled professional politicking.

[@Zomo1553]

Received a 2 page letter from Ruth Davison telling me all the reasons not to vote for SNP, but not one reason to vote tory.

[@tonycook7679]

Farage and Johnson forced all the sensibly Tories out so they could have their foolish Brexit. The ones left are inadequate to be able to attract the centre voters.

[@pieterviljoen1620]

Wow, that is so clear and logical! 👊🏻

[@lu881]

Can't. Because the voters will vote strategically still because of FPTP. Stuff like that works best in PR

[@knoll9812]

That is a recipe for being a loser with principles

[@Olyfrun]

Cleverly is not a moderate, he's an incompetent.

[@barbaraarndt5293]

Mr Dimly

[@jeromefitzroy]

Clearly his name is an oxymoron

[@barbaraarndt5293]

@@jeromefitzroy A Joke?

[@barbaraarndt5293]

@@Olyfrun but he loves to fly. First Class. Because I am worth it!!!

[@MackerelCat]

The tories are the walking dead. Centrists can go to the lib dems, those on the right can go to reform. What future is there for the tories? And good riddance.

[@josefschiltz2192]

I would very happily say good riddance to Reform as well.

[@MrWorld-yo2tl]

And left goes to Labour

[@mufasasdaughter4831]

Cameron is a mercenary. Got us into Brexit and now country is fcked up, then he gets a freebie knighthood for nothing. Thats Tories for you.

[@lordhenrywotton95]

All depends who is actually still in their seat when the dust settles.

[@benmayhew2K]

Remember Brexit?48-52 the 52 have shrunk considerably.

[@janicebirch7522]

Killed off by Covid! ? Don't swallow the Remainers narrative.. Their children and grandchildren the very savvy Generation Z are fed up with jumped up millennials who were the world is your oyster so take it as yours.

[@Clive-js8ej]

The only known thing is that the bottom of the barrel will get another scraping.

[@SimonParker-hv6uu]

Lets hope Steve baker gets kicked out

[@DenkyManner]

It's baffling how both sides always go through this time wasiting, idiotic debate. When Tories lose "do we go centre or further right?!" when Labour lose "do we go centre or further left?!" The extremists win the argument, they stay in the unelectable wilderness for ten+ years, go back to the centre and then win. How stupid does someone have to be to lose to the centre and think the reason they lost was they didn't concentrate more on a tiny lunatic fraction of society? There is no debate.

[@theconversationalelitist6423]

It's because the extremist wings of a party are usually mote cultlike and fervently dedicated to heir leader, so when chaos in the party happens they mobilise quicker than the fragmented centrist blocs and quickly win out It's a historical pattern not just in modern politics, but in 1930s germany, the russian revolution, the french revolution, the american revolution, and even ancient rome

[@scallamander4899]

You ever considered that principles matter, that centrism is the middle road fallacy writ large, that the public are for the most part old-school social democrats and that the 'centrist' elites in charge are the real extremists? There's nothing centrist about Blair's war crimes, about Cameron's food banks. It's all stomach-turning.

[@Jd7172g]

I don’t think that’s accurate. Boris won a large majority with a manifesto promising Brexit, lower taxes and lower immigration. Although it wasn’t delivered they are all considered right-wing policies. Same over in the states, Trump won based on lowering immigration and tax and it looks like he’ll win again based on the same policies.

[@duncanbradshaw8993]

The tories are a penniless incompetant plane crash.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Boris didnt win from the centre.

[@PhilipJackson03]

Yeah but he had a very key policy to get through. Get Brexit done and that resonated deeply. Add his charisma and that’s how he won. But Honestly if he was leading right now the Tories would still lose, albeit with a much stronger opposition coming out of the election.

[@joshsmith3066]

Boris didn't actually gain many votes (it was about a 1-2% increase on Theresa May's election), labour lost them because it was Corbyn, who lost from the far left. Bit like how conservatives are haemorrhaging votes to reform now only not quite in the same scale.

[@IAmNeary]

That election felt like a proxy referendum for a lot of people and therefore wasn't really a typical election in the way that people voted...

[@Saqu0007]

Brexit was a cross party issue.

[@user-pp9yk3tu4z]

James cleverly, a moderate!!! Anyone saying we should ignore international law is not a moderate

[@pieterviljoen1620]

Too late, by the time you wake up. The country will be lost! You all should have voted more responsibly.

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

You need a seat in order to stand?

[@kevinlongman007]

Mourdant lost her seat!

[@greencloud2225]

New statesman headline before election- “reform is in free-fall” That didn’t age well!

[@stylingdom7532]

Could you have found a sweatier photo of Farage 🤣

[@12rotter]

Why get kids to discuss Tory leadership campaign?

[@scallamander4899]

Ageism

[@raymondsawyer8626]

Chris Patton got it spot on , he called some of the current crop of senior Torys BILGE

[@smithsmith9926]

Let’s get a British heritage person at least ffs

[@antonralph6947]

Sinn Fein. United Ireland on the way.

[@bassambekdash676]

All not worthy of leadership

[@williamhenry8914]

Of their high profile leaders I'd say Cameron is the least awful.

[@tamaliaalisjahbana6849]

Ugh..

[@devilscritic]

I want a conservative government. While I align myself with Reform, Conservstives need to position themselves to the centre where they are a threat to labour. That's the election winner.

[@duncanbradshaw8993]

Labour and tories have some things in common; when they get sacked by the British people, they always leave Britain both broke and broken. 🤔

[@user-nq2th7zw2b]

Why dont you switch of an go play out side kidd

[@rogerhudson9732]

Cameron will lead the party from the Lords like Salisbury.

[@duncanbradshaw8993]

Vote Reform to save Britain 🙂

[@kanedNunable]

no thanks putin

[@johncranwell3783]

What jack boots marching down the street? And if you can't imagine that then you're unable to see how fascist reform ideology really is.... Taking away human rights, Making youth take jobs they don't want, Dismantling the house of commons, Banning judicial government reviews, The poor become desperate, Picking on less fortunate groups/race... Oh what a bright future

[@duncanbradshaw8993]

@@kanedNunable have read any of Putin's books?

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@duncanbradshaw8993 I wouldn't trust oracles that have bugs in them that dismiss so many lives as so unimportant as to eradicate them. That includes Trump, Putin and Farage and members of Reform.

[@zhanruide84]

Kemi Badenoch

[@ZenoGotWet]

I would say Patel as she has Israels' ear

[@duncanbradshaw8993]

Vote Reform to protect British children.

[@dalemaddison4599]

Vote Reform for Change ,💯🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏

[@James-mb3je]

Beep boop

[@johncranwell3783]

What jack boots marching down the street? And if you can't imagine that then you're unable to see how fascist reform ideology really is.... Taking away human rights, Making youth take jobs they don't want, Dismantling the house of commons, Banning judicial government reviews, The poor become desperate, Picking on less fortunate groups/race... Oh what a bright future

[@duncanbradshaw8993]

Vote Reform to give Britain a bright future. 🙂

[@johncranwell3783]

What jack boots marching down the street? And if you can't imagine that then you're unable to see how fascist reform ideology really is.... Taking away human rights, Making youth take jobs they don't want, Dismantling the house of commons, Banning judicial government reviews, The poor become desperate, Picking on less fortunate groups/race... Oh what a bright future

[@GarethPrice-ji6ph]

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[@johncranwell3783]

What jack boots marching down the street? And if you can't imagine that then you're unable to see how fascist reform ideology really is.... Taking away human rights, Making youth take jobs they don't want, Dismantling the house of commons, Banning judicial government reviews, The poor become desperate, Picking on less fortunate groups/race... Oh what a bright future