Reform UK have had a good week. That shouldn’t bother the Tories – just learn lessons as to why
Ask why this angle was chosen.
It might astonish the uber-Reform campaigners that have camped out for the last two years in our comments section, but I’m going to say: by any measure Reform UK have had a good week.
Am I about to switch teams? No not at all but I’ve never underestimated them, I talk to them, and so far, my prediction that 2026 would be the year both they and the Tories fight it out until both realise, they aren’t going to destroy the other, is proving true.
I mean it’s also true that when the Conservatives hold this truly awful Labour government to account – the scalps of Mandelson, Rayner, McSweeney, and forcing countless Labour U-turns – Reform would rather die than give them any credit, and immediately gun for the Conservatives but the Government’s U-turn on local elections would not have been possible without Reform pressure.
Suella Braverman opined it was “only possible” because of Reform, somewhat reinforcing my point above, which isn’t true since the Conservatives were officially against delays too, as were the Lib Dems. 5 councils run by Tories opted to request a delay, which has been leapt on as overall party complicity. That is bogus, however Reform should get credit for this one, and unlike them, I’m comfortable admitting it.
In hindsight it was a mistake for the Tories not to insist those councils didn’t follow the party line, but I understand why, and actually the issue back then now lies in Reform. When the delays were first contemplated, the Conservative expectation was May 2026 local elections could be as brutal for them as 2025’s had been. They’ll still be difficult.
Since nearly everyone in the parliamentary party was aware that whilst still a Tory, Robert Jenrick would have made a move for the leadership in those circumstances and at that point, I can see why there was a political argument to let 5 councils opt out. Reduce the number of losses. But it was a mistake.
After all, the utter nonsense that Labour made the decision to do with the law, and local government restructuring rather than political necessity has now been exposed, and in keeping with their entire modus operandi since in Government: they’ve taken all the pain of trying to stop something, for ulterior motives, and ended up in a worse position than where they started.
Labour are cooked. I think we can say that without any party badge on. Doubly cooked with Starmer at the top, but with or without him they are heading further and further left, and there are no solutions to Britain’s problems there.
Reform of course want everyone to believe the Conservatives are heading left too, or rather their new line; that Kemi Badenoch may be on the ‘right’ but a cabal of secret Lib Dem leftists ‘won’t let her do anything she says’. This too is phooey, but I see why they need to say it. …
Ask why this angle was chosen.
It might astonish the uber-Reform campaigners that have camped out for the last two years in our comments section, but I’m going to say: by any measure Reform UK have had a good week.
Am I about to switch teams? No not at all but I’ve never underestimated them, I talk to them, and so far, my prediction that 2026 would be the year both they and the Tories fight it out until both realise, they aren’t going to destroy the other, is proving true.
I mean it’s also true that when the Conservatives hold this truly awful Labour government to account – the scalps of Mandelson, Rayner, McSweeney, and forcing countless Labour U-turns – Reform would rather die than give them any credit, and immediately gun for the Conservatives but the Government’s U-turn on local elections would not have been possible without Reform pressure.
Suella Braverman opined it was “only possible” because of Reform, somewhat reinforcing my point above, which isn’t true since the Conservatives were officially against delays too, as were the Lib Dems. 5 councils run by Tories opted to request a delay, which has been leapt on as overall party complicity. That is bogus, however Reform should get credit for this one, and unlike them, I’m comfortable admitting it.
In hindsight it was a mistake for the Tories not to insist those councils didn’t follow the party line, but I understand why, and actually the issue back then now lies in Reform. When the delays were first contemplated, the Conservative expectation was May 2026 local elections could be as brutal for them as 2025’s had been. They’ll still be difficult.
Since nearly everyone in the parliamentary party was aware that whilst still a Tory, Robert Jenrick would have made a move for the leadership in those circumstances and at that point, I can see why there was a political argument to let 5 councils opt out. Reduce the number of losses. But it was a mistake.
After all, the utter nonsense that Labour made the decision to do with the law, and local government restructuring rather than political necessity has now been exposed, and in keeping with their entire modus operandi since in Government: they’ve taken all the pain of trying to stop something, for ulterior motives, and ended up in a worse position than where they started.
Labour are cooked. I think we can say that without any party badge on. Doubly cooked with Starmer at the top, but with or without him they are heading further and further left, and there are no solutions to Britain’s problems there.
Reform of course want everyone to believe the Conservatives are heading left too, or rather their new line; that Kemi Badenoch may be on the ‘right’ but a cabal of secret Lib Dem leftists ‘won’t let her do anything she says’. This too is phooey, but I see why they need to say it. …
Reform UK have had a good week. That shouldn’t bother the Tories – just learn lessons as to why
Ask why this angle was chosen.
It might astonish the uber-Reform campaigners that have camped out for the last two years in our comments section, but I’m going to say: by any measure Reform UK have had a good week.
Am I about to switch teams? No not at all but I’ve never underestimated them, I talk to them, and so far, my prediction that 2026 would be the year both they and the Tories fight it out until both realise, they aren’t going to destroy the other, is proving true.
I mean it’s also true that when the Conservatives hold this truly awful Labour government to account – the scalps of Mandelson, Rayner, McSweeney, and forcing countless Labour U-turns – Reform would rather die than give them any credit, and immediately gun for the Conservatives but the Government’s U-turn on local elections would not have been possible without Reform pressure.
Suella Braverman opined it was “only possible” because of Reform, somewhat reinforcing my point above, which isn’t true since the Conservatives were officially against delays too, as were the Lib Dems. 5 councils run by Tories opted to request a delay, which has been leapt on as overall party complicity. That is bogus, however Reform should get credit for this one, and unlike them, I’m comfortable admitting it.
In hindsight it was a mistake for the Tories not to insist those councils didn’t follow the party line, but I understand why, and actually the issue back then now lies in Reform. When the delays were first contemplated, the Conservative expectation was May 2026 local elections could be as brutal for them as 2025’s had been. They’ll still be difficult.
Since nearly everyone in the parliamentary party was aware that whilst still a Tory, Robert Jenrick would have made a move for the leadership in those circumstances and at that point, I can see why there was a political argument to let 5 councils opt out. Reduce the number of losses. But it was a mistake.
After all, the utter nonsense that Labour made the decision to do with the law, and local government restructuring rather than political necessity has now been exposed, and in keeping with their entire modus operandi since in Government: they’ve taken all the pain of trying to stop something, for ulterior motives, and ended up in a worse position than where they started.
Labour are cooked. I think we can say that without any party badge on. Doubly cooked with Starmer at the top, but with or without him they are heading further and further left, and there are no solutions to Britain’s problems there.
Reform of course want everyone to believe the Conservatives are heading left too, or rather their new line; that Kemi Badenoch may be on the ‘right’ but a cabal of secret Lib Dem leftists ‘won’t let her do anything she says’. This too is phooey, but I see why they need to say it. …
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