Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
To a certain extent I understand courting the fringes of your party every now and then. But for the life of me I don’t understand making that cohort the main goal of your increasingly nuttier and nuttier rhetoric.
What is this electoral calculus?
WestBromwich@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Maybe those views constitute more than the fringes when it comes to the Tory party.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Maybe within the Tory party, for sure. I can believe that. But does he not want the Conservatives to be electable in a general election scenario.
I’m not trying to be funny, but isn’t this exactly what Labour did with the Corbyn years? Appealed to what looked like a large majority of their membership that turned out to be spectacularly unpopular at a general election level.
I cannot believe the Tories want to repeat this lesson. I mean, if they want to be out of office for a decade then that’s cool with me.
WestBromwich@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Maybe Jenrick could do what Starmer did - make some radical statements to win over the party and become leader, then soften your stance to become more electable to the general public later on.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
I’d hope he sends the Tories further down in parliament such that the strong opposition is the Lib Dems. The Tories can language in Green or SNP territory.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
He’s got to appeal to the Tory base who are mostly racist boomers who were never taught about colonialism outside of how the British showed up and tried to civilize the savages.