That's a pretty fair commentary. We are watching the gradual growth of the hard right-wing that feeds its supporters through tabloid comics like the Mail and the Express as well as pop-up "news" channels on the internet. Farage is the Daily Mail made flesh and spouts sound bites with no real substance but which go down well among his rabid, attention-deficient followers. The difficulty that the more realistic and moderate members of the public face is that moderacy doesn't make headlines.
It's long been known that the average Conservative Party member is considerably more right-wing than the average Tory MP: that's how Liz Truss became PM.
Perhaps when they picked Badenoch as leader – a black female Diet Farage with little hope of competing with the white male full-fat Farage – the Tory membership were intentionally euthanizing their own party for Reform's benefit.
After all, Reform can truly succeed in the Red Wall in a way the Tories didn't even in 2019, as it lacks the "they shut our pits" stigma that still hasn't _entirely_ dissipated from the Tories.
That's a pretty fair commentary. We are watching the gradual growth of the hard right-wing that feeds its supporters through tabloid comics like the Mail and the Express as well as pop-up "news" channels on the internet. Farage is the Daily Mail made flesh and spouts sound bites with no real substance but which go down well among his rabid, attention-deficient followers. The difficulty that the more realistic and moderate members of the public face is that moderacy doesn't make headlines.
It's long been known that the average Conservative Party member is considerably more right-wing than the average Tory MP: that's how Liz Truss became PM.
Perhaps when they picked Badenoch as leader – a black female Diet Farage with little hope of competing with the white male full-fat Farage – the Tory membership were intentionally euthanizing their own party for Reform's benefit.
After all, Reform can truly succeed in the Red Wall in a way the Tories didn't even in 2019, as it lacks the "they shut our pits" stigma that still hasn't _entirely_ dissipated from the Tories.