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A poll of grassroots members of the Conservative Party suggests they want to ditch Kemi Badenoch and get a new leader… possible Nigel Farage of Reform UK.
Here‘s The Guardian:
64% of Tory members want pact with Reform UK, and 46% support full merger, poll suggests Andrew Rosindell is not alone in wanting a pact with Reform UK. According to new polling by YouGov, almost two thirds of members want a pact, and almost half of them would support a full merger.
The same poll found that half of members want Kemi Badenoch to be replaced as Tory leader before the next election, while 46% want her to stay on.
Logically, these party members believe they can’t win the next election with Kemi Badenoch as their leader. They probably believe that Nigel Farage and Reform UK can.
So they want to get rid of Badenoch, and possibly merge with Reform UK, because they think it’s the only way they’ll get back into power.
But that would drag them further to the right of politics, making them undesirable to many.
And it’s entirely possible that Farage and Reform UK will make a big mistake (his parties usually do).
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This is a fascinating – and dangerous – contradiction within the Tory grassroots.
On one hand, they appear to recognise that under Badenoch, the Conservatives have little chance of winning the next election; on the other, their proposed solution — merging with or allying to Reform UK — would likely compound that problem in the longer term.
So what they are really expressing here is desperation.
They see their voter base draining to Reform UK and believe that Farage holds the key to “saving” them, but they’re not considering how profoundly such a move would redefine their party.
A merger would effectively formalise a hard-right bloc — nationalist, culture-war driven, and openly populist — at the expense of the party’s more traditional, moderate conservatives.
That might deliver a short-term bounce in polls, or media noise, but it would alienate swathes of voters in the political centre and make it harder to return to government.
As for Farage: every political vehicle he has created — UKIP and the Brexit Party — has eventually imploded under its own extremism or internal chaos.
The idea that absorbing Reform UK would stabilise the Conservatives is, in historical terms, wishful thinking.
It’s a classic case of a party mistaking noise for strategy: chasing Farage’s populist energy instead of confronting the underlying rot in their own policy and credibility.
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Here‘s The Guardian:
Logically, these party members believe they can’t win the next election with Kemi Badenoch as their leader. They probably believe that Nigel Farage and Reform UK can.
So they want to get rid of Badenoch, and possibly merge with Reform UK, because they think it’s the only way they’ll get back into power.
But that would drag them further to the right of politics, making them undesirable to many.
And it’s entirely possible that Farage and Reform UK will make a big mistake (his parties usually do).
This is a fascinating – and dangerous – contradiction within the Tory grassroots.
On one hand, they appear to recognise that under Badenoch, the Conservatives have little chance of winning the next election; on the other, their proposed solution — merging with or allying to Reform UK — would likely compound that problem in the longer term.
So what they are really expressing here is desperation.
They see their voter base draining to Reform UK and believe that Farage holds the key to “saving” them, but they’re not considering how profoundly such a move would redefine their party.
A merger would effectively formalise a hard-right bloc — nationalist, culture-war driven, and openly populist — at the expense of the party’s more traditional, moderate conservatives.
That might deliver a short-term bounce in polls, or media noise, but it would alienate swathes of voters in the political centre and make it harder to return to government.
As for Farage: every political vehicle he has created — UKIP and the Brexit Party — has eventually imploded under its own extremism or internal chaos.
The idea that absorbing Reform UK would stabilise the Conservatives is, in historical terms, wishful thinking.
It’s a classic case of a party mistaking noise for strategy: chasing Farage’s populist energy instead of confronting the underlying rot in their own policy and credibility.
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