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Tories alarmed by threat from the right as Reform UK focuses on pro-Brexit seats (www.theguardian.com)

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Conservative MPs are warning that their party risks being wiped out in the red wall by an emerging threat on its right flank, amid alarm after two disastrous byelection losses.

The right of the party is seizing on the dire results in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth – two supposedly safe Tory seats – to demand a harder line on immigration and tax cuts designed to nullify the threat posed by Reform UK, the successor to the Brexit party.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

🤔... So red wall racist Labour voters can no longer vote for the Tories and are abandoning them for Reform? Surely that's something to embrace? Neither major party needs that type of vote. Leave them to the fringe parties that will never gain power.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We need to work on those people, not abandon them. They are normally like this because of ignorance and misattributing poor fortune.

To clear, humans are rubbish at changing their minds, so it's the kids we can have hope in. Invest in their education. If they live in a mostly monoculture area, bus them to mixed areas to de-other other cultures. At least for trips.

I know this is happening in some places already, but we need more.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

That's a fair point. However both of the two larger political parties have taken the view that they'd rather court the votes that will win them local (as in UK) power than win them global power. I'd much rather a coalition that was outwardly and globally powerful than a majority government that that makes us look like racists and clowns on the global stage. 🤷