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11 Tory MPs on defection watch list over fears more could join Farage’s Reform (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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The watch list, drawn up before Mr Jenrick’s defection, and seen by The Independent, includes former ministers and veteran MPs Suella Braverman, Sir John Hayes, Mark Francois, Esther McVey, Andrew Rosindell and Sir Desmond Swayne.

Also included on the list are MPs from the 2024 intake – Katie Lam, Bradley Thomas and Lewis Cocking, as well as shadow ministers Matt Vickers and Joy Morrissey.

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[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So basically Reform are just becoming Conservative 2.0 but with more racism and sucking up to Putin/Trump

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

More that the Conservatives have been moving towards UKIP/Reform (functionally the same thing) for the last 5-10 years, so it's only a short hop to whoever seems like they'll be more popular this year.

But yeah, Reform really likes to focus on that pro-Trump, pro-Putin, pro-paedophile, pro-racist agenda.

[–] Flisty@mstdn.social 7 points 4 months ago

@fakeman_pretendname @Corporal_Punishment the post-Farage UKIP seems to have gone the way of the BNP, while Reform is pretending to perform respectability politics (although isn't that far off the old BNP either). I almost miss Nick Griffin. At least fewer people swallowed his bullshit.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Please, take on all the people that caused the Tory implosion in 2024. Voters haven't forgotten the clusterfuck.

New party is same as the old party

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Would you rather :

Be a part of the poor hating, ethnic minority oppressing conservative party that is run by a self hating ethnic minority woman, OR
Be a part of the poor hating, ethnic minority oppressing conservative party that is run by the white man that brought you the concept of Brexit

I have said this before, and I'll say it again, the racist wanker that preferred Boris J. over Sunak was right in the way he perceives british voters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYdzIt7p7s

He's a racist and a wanker, and I don't think he's right, but his perception of british people is correct.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Let them go. Scroungers the lot of them. Send them to the racists party.