What happened to all that “smash the uniparty” energy? Guess the uniparty has remained
HotelPuzzleheaded654 on
I knew it, there’s no other partner for the Tories and polling suggests a coalition will be required for any working majority.
Unless the Tories miraculously reclaim the right, I don’t see any other scenario.
pppppppppppppppppd on
Pretty obvious this was coming, despite his previous insistences. There’ll be more Conservatives in Reform than there are in the Conservatives by the next election anyway.
_JR28_ on
So much for “we will tear down the two party system and take it all by storm ourselves”
blahchopz on
Typical, boshing labour in order to murk 20 years of austerity and he’s gonna be the messiah isn’t he?
TheChattyRat on
Whenever it went to shit for the tories the trick was to change leaders and pretend you didn’t know the previous leader. That stopped working with truss and sunak. So the next trick is to simply change the name plate on the party and pretend its nothing like the previous.
Snaidheadair on
The Reformatives goes from a nickname to the coalition name, just a rebrand and nothing else.
swolleninthecolon on
The amount of shit the labour party got for a potential coalition of chaos/secret coalition pact/ rainbow coalition from the right wing
I hope farage and the tories bring each other down.
Also hopefully there are some tory mps who still have an ounce of self respect and wont align with farage (admittedly doubtful)
Medical_Seaweed1073 on
You all understand that “Labour” is just an umbrella group of different factions right?
claireboobear on
two party system yet again will it ever end = probably not
Brexit-Broke-Britain on
It makes sense for the two Russian funded parties to join together, for Putin anyway.
lordnacho666 on
Why doesn’t Reform, the largest right wing party, simply eat the Conservatives?
jtthom on
So it’s more like what MAGAts did to the republicans… conservatives used to be people who wanted a small state with low taxes. Now it’s people who want a big state bullying people they don’t like.
IlIIIllIIlIlllII on
They are 90% ex tories anyway,.mostly made up of those who couldn’t rise any further
marknotgeorge on
So he found out he might have to do some actual work and ran away scared?
ZealousidealYam896 on
Any working class people who want this fella in charge of the country are just stupid. He spends most of his time basically holidaying around France and America. He’s lazy and unbelievably untitled and privileged. He was photo graphed the other week having a £500 pound bottle of wine with his dinner!
Somhlth on
I think I saw a version of the movie in the US. The MAGA monster took over the GOP and now there’s shit everywhere.
coalitionofminnows on
A Conservative-Reform/Reform-Conservative coalition?
I mean the names at their simplest definitions are literally opposites of each other. Not sure how you can simply define what they stand for
MidlandPark on
Dulwich College, ex-Tories, career politicians, ex-bankers, ex-MEP, tv ‘news’ shows, votes against improving workers rights, deals with the Tories
Not the establishment, deffo not the establishment
Repeat after me, not the establishment
Deffo not
Lol
Impressive-Bird-6085 on
If course Farage has said that! I wouldn’t expect less from the man. He’s an epic charlatan!
limeflavoured on
This was always going to happen. Maybe a bit surprising that its this soon, but Reform is now dead. Labour should now be able to keep a reduced majority in 2029, maybe with some Lib Dem and Green gains, but the Tories will be the opposition.
Foreign_Plate_4372 on
they are just far right tories, he’s been hoovering up tories that lost their seats
such a climbdown for the conservative party hooking up with the far right and may drive whatever voters it has left away
it is a sign though that despite the bravado he knows he is in for a fight
So within 24h we’ve gone from never ever trust them to expect to do a deal.
Absolutely mental.
Visual-Report-2280 on
“I might be willing to stand aside, you’ll just have to have to beat the current 4 million ruble payment I’m receiving from a chap named Plad Vutin” ~ Farage (probably)
SeoulGalmegi on
This kind of adds to the narrative that despite the bluster Farage is shit scared of actually *becoming* PM. He may be lots of things, but not a complete idiot and wants to snipe at things from the side rather than being actually *responsible* for anything.
There was/is a non-zero chance of a Reform government and more ambitious leader who wanted to actually lead the country could take the momentum and actually try and turn it into a genuine chance. This is the start of the deceleration.
sideshowrob2 on
Do yourselves a favour and have a look at the election results for reform on Wikipedia. Once you’ve stopped laughing then ask why are we giving such a small loud group of racists so many column inches?
Why is “racist man telling racist friends whatever they want to hear” a news story?
doitnowinaminute on
I wondered why there was a raft of positive Kemi articles.
This is a surprise to no one.
They are a one trick pony led by a single figure head.
I’m just surprised it’s come this soon.
Although, perhaps it’s had to. Labour are starting to steal the magic from their trick. Nuance about the right type of migration isn’t what their core voters want.
And the figure head is starting to rot. When you are being called a racist on the 80s there’s only so much you can try to deflect with age. Especially as they have 18yo in charge.
I thought he’d try and be involved on the next GE. I’m less sure now. This feels like succession planning.
oldie349 on
So he is conceding his party can’t win the leadership
limaconnect77 on
Said it before – when Reform get into power there’ll be a noticeable % who finally grow a pair and take the Expat route.
KebabAnnhilator on
What about all those voters ‘that want something new’
B1ueRogue on
Nonsense just stop voting for them…theire dropping by the day in the polls..just stop giving the traitors air time.
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What happened to all that “smash the uniparty” energy? Guess the uniparty has remained
I knew it, there’s no other partner for the Tories and polling suggests a coalition will be required for any working majority.
Unless the Tories miraculously reclaim the right, I don’t see any other scenario.
Pretty obvious this was coming, despite his previous insistences. There’ll be more Conservatives in Reform than there are in the Conservatives by the next election anyway.
So much for “we will tear down the two party system and take it all by storm ourselves”
Typical, boshing labour in order to murk 20 years of austerity and he’s gonna be the messiah isn’t he?
Whenever it went to shit for the tories the trick was to change leaders and pretend you didn’t know the previous leader. That stopped working with truss and sunak. So the next trick is to simply change the name plate on the party and pretend its nothing like the previous.
The Reformatives goes from a nickname to the coalition name, just a rebrand and nothing else.
The amount of shit the labour party got for a potential coalition of chaos/secret coalition pact/ rainbow coalition from the right wing
I hope farage and the tories bring each other down.
Also hopefully there are some tory mps who still have an ounce of self respect and wont align with farage (admittedly doubtful)
You all understand that “Labour” is just an umbrella group of different factions right?
two party system yet again will it ever end = probably not
It makes sense for the two Russian funded parties to join together, for Putin anyway.
Why doesn’t Reform, the largest right wing party, simply eat the Conservatives?
So it’s more like what MAGAts did to the republicans… conservatives used to be people who wanted a small state with low taxes. Now it’s people who want a big state bullying people they don’t like.
They are 90% ex tories anyway,.mostly made up of those who couldn’t rise any further
So he found out he might have to do some actual work and ran away scared?
Any working class people who want this fella in charge of the country are just stupid. He spends most of his time basically holidaying around France and America. He’s lazy and unbelievably untitled and privileged. He was photo graphed the other week having a £500 pound bottle of wine with his dinner!
I think I saw a version of the movie in the US. The MAGA monster took over the GOP and now there’s shit everywhere.
A Conservative-Reform/Reform-Conservative coalition?
I mean the names at their simplest definitions are literally opposites of each other. Not sure how you can simply define what they stand for
Dulwich College, ex-Tories, career politicians, ex-bankers, ex-MEP, tv ‘news’ shows, votes against improving workers rights, deals with the Tories
Not the establishment, deffo not the establishment
Repeat after me, not the establishment
Deffo not
Lol
If course Farage has said that! I wouldn’t expect less from the man. He’s an epic charlatan!
This was always going to happen. Maybe a bit surprising that its this soon, but Reform is now dead. Labour should now be able to keep a reduced majority in 2029, maybe with some Lib Dem and Green gains, but the Tories will be the opposition.
they are just far right tories, he’s been hoovering up tories that lost their seats
such a climbdown for the conservative party hooking up with the far right and may drive whatever voters it has left away
it is a sign though that despite the bravado he knows he is in for a fight
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/01/never-ever-trust-the-tories/
One day ago.
One (1) day.
So within 24h we’ve gone from never ever trust them to expect to do a deal.
Absolutely mental.
“I might be willing to stand aside, you’ll just have to have to beat the current 4 million ruble payment I’m receiving from a chap named Plad Vutin” ~ Farage (probably)
This kind of adds to the narrative that despite the bluster Farage is shit scared of actually *becoming* PM. He may be lots of things, but not a complete idiot and wants to snipe at things from the side rather than being actually *responsible* for anything.
There was/is a non-zero chance of a Reform government and more ambitious leader who wanted to actually lead the country could take the momentum and actually try and turn it into a genuine chance. This is the start of the deceleration.
Do yourselves a favour and have a look at the election results for reform on Wikipedia. Once you’ve stopped laughing then ask why are we giving such a small loud group of racists so many column inches?
Why is “racist man telling racist friends whatever they want to hear” a news story?
I wondered why there was a raft of positive Kemi articles.
This is a surprise to no one.
They are a one trick pony led by a single figure head.
I’m just surprised it’s come this soon.
Although, perhaps it’s had to. Labour are starting to steal the magic from their trick. Nuance about the right type of migration isn’t what their core voters want.
And the figure head is starting to rot. When you are being called a racist on the 80s there’s only so much you can try to deflect with age. Especially as they have 18yo in charge.
I thought he’d try and be involved on the next GE. I’m less sure now. This feels like succession planning.
So he is conceding his party can’t win the leadership
Said it before – when Reform get into power there’ll be a noticeable % who finally grow a pair and take the Expat route.
What about all those voters ‘that want something new’
Nonsense just stop voting for them…theire dropping by the day in the polls..just stop giving the traitors air time.