General British politics discussion thread

This is exactly it ….. by current party standards Sunak is a 'moderate' …. as you point out the party is packed with extremists like Braverman …. I remember I preferred Sunak at the time to Truss who ended up winning and then sinking 3 weeks later !! … Sunak though is no moderate really …. like a lot of autocratic regimes the leader who could be the PM or the President …. almost always is more 'moderate' than other members …. in case it is needed …..

I don't know if or when the Tories will head back to the centre …. current talk is Farage has designs in taking them over …. and that is hardly a step towards the centre …. I predict Sunak will not last much longer after the election which he will lose …. and he could be replaced with someone like Braverman, Truss again or even Farage …..

Abbot continuing to show all criticism of her is warranted, the levels of narcissism she is displaying are astounding she must have all attention on her at all times and keeps disrupting labour's manifesto announcements to grab attention back.

I doubt she was the one who deleted it and expect a staff member correctly took control.

You cannot move where the party membership doesn't want to go. Since the Tory party membership is at its lowest ebb in its history and the remaining rump are to a man over 60's rich bigots - how can you bring back the party to a moderate center. If you try the members are likely to drift away to a more extreme Reform platform and leave a party unable to campaign on the ground or field candidates.
They have chosen their path and I feel it will drag them to hell before they find a way back. The same is happening to the Republican party which is turning itself into an irrelevance which can only get elected by extreme illegality and gerrymandering. Unfortunately the Tory/Republican media echo chamber will cheer them to hell and make the poor saps imagine they are the "hidden majority" that will have their day if they just keep faith and double down.

Oul Nigel has a big announcement at 4pm today apparently.

An emergency announcement, no less

this is the sort of patronizing drivel you get from both extremes of the political spectrum. Be it the Morning Star or Gript. People constantly harping on about the main stream media lieing to the uneducated sheeple and only they know what is good for them.

If you dont understand the huge influence of the Tory media in UK politics you are not paying attention.

The Tories and Labour seem terrified of the right wing press, but to have no fear at all of what the likes of the Guardian and the Mirror are saying.

There is virtually no left wing media in the UK to begin with. Never has been.

One former broadsheet with a low circulation (Guardian), one mass market tabloid (Mirror)

There is also a right wing but anti the Tories since Boris mass market tabloid (Star)

There are 5 serious Tory papers to the two left wing outlets - so there is a huge screud bias.

Didn't he say he was staying out of the UK elections because it was more important to be shilling for Trump?

140 seats for the Tories is being very optimistic : they could easily drop below 100.

That was one adjusted for maximal tactical voting, not a direct vote based one.