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[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
They also lost a lot of votes to LibDems too as voters were appalled by how far to right the Conservative had gone. Going further to right to chase the Reform/UKIP/Brexit party down the crazy rightwing hole will have lost them more still on the left & centre.
not really. they lost some seats to the lib dems, but not the majority of their votes to the lib dems.
My long post on this issue is here :
https://lemmy.world/u/Skullgrid?page=5&sort=New&view=Comments
Just for fun, let's choose a place at random :
https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001387
North Devon results
Liberal Democrat, Ian Roome
Conservative, Selaine Saxby
Reform UK, Nigel James
Labour, Nicky Edwards
Lib dems gained 12%, Nazis gained 15% . Conservatives lost 27. The swing went further for Nazis than lib dems.
Conservatives do not want an ethnic minority running the country. If Kemi Badenoch becomes the next head of Conservatives, that party will most probably die, and we'll have Nigel Farage as the opposition lead.
We're fucked either way, because Farage might even become the leader of the Conservatives anyway, and they'll turn the Conservatives from the nasty party to the Nazi party anyway.
The only hope we have is that Keir Starmer can sort out britain before the next election.
I do not like conservatives, I won't want them or the nazis in charge
My point is they can't have those voters who have gone Nazi, and those voters who left for the Lib dems. They can't win on the Nazi vote alone. The Nazi vote isn't really growing.
2015 - UKIP - 3,881,099 - 12.6%
2024 - Reform - 4,117,221 - 14.3%
my brother in christ how do you think they stayed in power for all that time AND got the referendum to do brexit?
Odd phrase and I've noticed your on Lemmy.world. You not a Brit?
Anyway, it fell apart didn't it. In 2019 Boris made it look like it could hold, but it absolutely couldn't. Though I would say a lot of that election was really anti-Corbyn.
2015 was pre-Nazification of the Conservatives. Before Brexit made them bat shit. 2024 was it all coming home.