re: #85 The Ghost of a Flea

New polling dropped in UK politics today that is just amazing at first glance: If the election happened today, the Tories would be reduced to 34 seats and would not even be considered the official opposition as that title would instead go to the Lib Dems. More than one commentator has pointed out the bleedin’ obvious: If current laws did not require an election held no later than Jan 2025, then the Tories would never allow one to be called.

But having failed to learn their lesson from trying to fight off UKIP by adopting Brexit, the Tories are now trying to fight off challenges from Reform UK at a time when they need to be reaching out to moderate voters. UK voters want to know how they’re going to feed their families and roofs over their heads…and the Tories are telling them that the biggest priority is (wait for it) keeping “foreigners” out and attacking out groups (trans folks, Muslims, “woke” supporters, etc).