Newsreaders are just attractive people who read out things they pretend to understand.

My assumption is that the Tory vote is now pretty solidly loyalist. People who have always voted Tory and always will.

Still some votes to take from Labour, so maybe some of the Red Wall and rural Labour vote will go to Restore.

And a lump of conservative non-voters will be tempted

Yes.

Restore is what the Conservatives are supposed to be, but never are.

Restore is fundamentally conservative with a small c, drawing on classical strands of right wing thought about duty, service, stewardship and sacrifice.

Reform is a populist melange, that ultimately seeks the approval of the liberal establishment.

Advance is an irrelevance, now part of Restore

This is a fundamental misunderstanding.

The point of the original post is that a national identity is about more than bureaucratic permission.

The PRCA! They have no investigatory powers or competence! They will just send an email to the pr company and ask a few topline questions.

What a weak excuse.

I read the whole article and I can’t see what policies or rights Tovey is talking about.

Just keeps saying how let down he feels (after less than two years).

Yes, I’m sure that is the point of Restore - to stop Reform drifting into the liberal morass

Luke here is getting desperate
Luke knows they’ve lost the upcoming by-election and I don’t think Luke knows what’s coming for his party in the May council elections
This intake of Labour MPs along with the leadership have absolutely destroyed the Labour Party
This is Luke’s legacy

And uk growth was 1.3% not 0.3%

This is basic stuff

Firstly your data is wrong (gdp per capita in nominal terms is higher in U.K. than France), secondly you’re cherry picking in a way that shows you know nothing.

Spain is a poor country that is finally recovering with a little bit of decent growth, mostly related to tourism rebound (post covid)

Tories chiefly to blame, yes.

I wish it was receding. I worry it will be Labour’s last throw of the political dice.

Imagine if we had spent the last decade ruthlessly focused on achieving economic competitiveness and strategic advantage, rather than pandering to these dipshits, who represent a huge swathe of the political class

Broken roads = left opposes new roads

Broken nhs = left refuses to reform nhs and prefers to import doctors rather than train our own

Useless services = left wants union power and unlimited immigration

Everyone miserable = lefty taxes, net zero and immigration

We live in the world you wanted

The problems with the NHS are in spite of massive spending increases and to do with the fact it’s a state run monopoly free at the point of use

crumbling infrastructure is because uk govts have made planning quagmires progressively deeper and prioritised other things

Brexit irrelevant

You’re one of those people who doesn’t know anything about Europe, economics or business.

For all our travails, we have outperformed Germany, France and Italy since 2016.

Divergence on tech and finance and strengthened our leadership position in both fields. Trade deals have reduced food inflation

And they’re bringing down income taxes for regular people, as a result?

I think we all understand what the word means.

The celebration parallax:

“It’s not happening, and it’s good that it is!”

Net immigration is high and we just had years of historically unprecedentedly high immigration.

If there are still shortages (debatable), that suggests yet more mass immigration is not the answer.

He said 9m people were on benefits. He didn’t say or imply they were all migrants.

He was mistaken about numbers because he said 2020 rather than 2000, but it is true that immigration has increased the size of the population dramatically and it is reasonable to describe this process as colonisation

It is not racist to observe that some parts of the country have been changed dramatically by immigration.

As for the language of colonialism, it is the left that has weaponised the term.

A colony is a simple description of what happens when a group of people move to an area and dominate.

I merely state observable, falsifiable facts

People Keir Starmer has hired, then fired for stuff he knew about when he hired them, a thread and a list:

1. Tulip Siddiq, given the economic crime brief, despite her aunt being PM of Bangladesh and mired in corruption allegations. Siddiq herself had faced questions over London properties.

I didn’t say any of that.

However, we are poor, in keeping with the rest of Europe, for policy choices we made:

Lockdown, quantitative easing, Net zero, mass immigration, expansion of welfare and disability benefits, etc.

Totally self-inflicted and nowt to do with Brexit.

You’re the one trotting out hackneyed lines from 2016, not me.

Well done for not mentioning Cambridge Analytica, I guess.

This is wrong on every count.

I didn’t say it was

Nonetheless, elites had a collective nervous breakdown, becoming vengeful as a result

And now here we are, with one hated government replaced by an even more hated govt

Will elites change course and do things that make them popular? No

They prefer to shoot the messenger

True enough, all politics is driven by elites, except that the former represented 90% of elites and 99% of institutional power, so the latter required the public to buy their arguments. The 90% have never forgiven them.