Centrist politics - why have Tories gone further to the right?

[malumbu]

With the Labour bashing that often happens in the Lounge I thought it good to get some balance.

You don't need to bash Labour as they are doing it themselves.  I expect you could say that the LibDems are taking the centre left.  Despite Polanksi's landslide I don't see him as uniting the country.

So the question is why under Badenoch, following on from Truss and Sunak, has the Tory party continued to lurch to the right?  The obvious answer is their membership, some see many of these as climate change deniers and xenophobic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68581917

Will going down the direction of Reform win them any votes?  

What ever happened to one nation conservatism??

Genuinely interested.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by malumbu
Bad Enoch

[jazzer]

It's Kemi Badenoch, at least get her name right.

Lurching even further to the right, maybe in your opinion.

Kemi is quietly getting on with the job of being in opposition, putting policies together and sharing those. 

British politics needs a radical change, however IMO, Reform is NOT the answer, only a distraction. Nigel is a flash in the pan having failed as UKIP he's come back as Reform who are so far right they are truly scary.  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7545yz0171o#comments

 

Edited 1 hour ago by jazzer

[malumbu]

Corrected, a typo, easy to remember Bad Enoch, after the infamous politician

Edited 1 hour ago by malumbu