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Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK
The ex-MP told the Daily Mail the Tory Party was dead and its members now "need to think the unthinkable".
I have thought this for a while. It seems foolish to me.I feel like at a certain point this 'Tories in a wig and fake moustache' approach is going to backfire on Reform.
It's not the best strategy for Reform surely?
Labour didn't win the election because the public became less racist and -phobic and unpleasant. They won specifically because the Tories spent all of their time plotting and backstabbing and being incompetent. Farage himself frequently called them out for such self-sabotaging behaviour. Why would you welcome that into your circle?
I'd love to know what the plan was that was 'uncovered'

According to an unnamed Tory MP he "left his resignation speech printed out and hanging around"![]()
GOODI noticed the Mail shitting bricks this morning about the right becoming divided. Chickenshit wankers.
If they can't depose Trump for being a literal rapist and paedophile, nothing will shift Farage. All sense of propriety and decency has gone from politics.I do hope there must be some sort of smoking gun that sinks Farage and leaves Reform dead
But ugh
I feel like at a certain point this 'Tories in a wig and fake moustache' approach is going to backfire on Reform.
God their socials are lame.I can already picture the "Reformers: Tories in disguise" meme that the Labour will hastily pull together for socials...
That conversation has fully taken place or at least "half joked" about - I have no doubt about that.You just know they've had meetings about whether or not having a poster where a black woman is being controlled by a white man might be "a problem".
I agree about Reform. I only reserve a faint glimmer of hope, compared to the US, because I do think UK voters are historically more likely to 'vote for the club' by which I mean a perception of economic competence, plus the polls put Farage behind all the others head to head (even Starmer) for who people would prefer to be PM. Trouble is the centre/left options are more numerous.I like the idea of Reform undoing themselves with a load of old establishment Tories, but I worry the rules of voter behavior don’t apply to Reform in the same way they don’t apply to Trump. People aren’t buying into people and policy, they’re buying into an ideal, and their ideal is less brown people, less rules, less money spent on services and more in my pocket. It doesn’t really matter what Reform does, how many go down in flames and whether they can actually deliver on promises. People just want the fascist dream.
I worry they are as unbreakable as Trump is. And history has proven that we don’t learn from America’s mistakes