Will Nigel Farage destroy the Tories?

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Nigel Farage has unveiled Reform UK's manifesto. Except, it's not a manifesto, because he says the word is synonymous in voters’ minds with ‘lies’. It promises a freeze on non-essential immigration, a patriotic curriculum, leaving the European Court on Human Rights, and cutting taxes by £88 billion.
Is this contract more of a wish list? How much damage can Nigel Farage do to the Conservatives? Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Heale.
Chapters
00:00:00 - 00:01:38 Reform's manifesto launch
00:01:38 - 00:04:02 Is Reform outflanking the Conservatives to the right?
00:04:02 - 00:07:05 Is Reform's manifesto deliverable?
00:07:05 - 00:09:19 How badly can Reform damage the Conservatives?
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@edwardderby178 8 дней назад

I dont think you guys understand how angry people are with the tories.

@A.Mardle 8 дней назад

Smug and complacent commentators. Reform is about to eviscerate the Tories, and may shake Labour up too. The political establishment won't get this particular genie back in the bottle.

@alanthecat59 8 дней назад

yep , way out of date , big lag on there wifi for sure

@philipdenner8504 8 дней назад

Spot on.

@fiveromannumerals 8 дней назад

They don't understand because they are leftists in DENIAL.

@jackbuchanan2 8 дней назад

@user-3282 Maybe so, but Labour have the advantage of not having been in Government for 14 years. Their voter base will turn up out of complete disdain for the conservatives terrible mismanagement of the country. Centre left voters like what Starmer is offering and The left may not like Starmers stance on many issues, but by and large they will vote for them unless tactically preferable to vote Green or Lib Dem. The right is completely split.

@rahbourelas6457 8 дней назад

The “Conservative” are not conservative, Reform is.

@britainbetterthanyou 8 дней назад

Reform isn't conservative, it's Hard Right and doesn't speak for most conservatives, let alone most Brits. I PERSONALLY like a lot of what they say but there is ZERO chance of winning any election.

@missaleromanum5614 8 дней назад

Reform is not conservative either. They are Thatcherite Neoliberals.

@SlowhandGreg 8 дней назад

Reform are Libertarian nothing conservative about them same old Truss rubbish

@TheMushroom74 8 дней назад

This may as well be king jong interview

@philipdenner8504 8 дней назад

Spot on

@miraforeman7567 8 дней назад

Tory destroyed Themselves

@IainFrame 8 дней назад

Farrage isn't far right. He's just right.

@carolegeorgina6114 8 дней назад

@@vincentvangogh8092 not true absolute rubbish.

@michaelellis7326 8 дней назад

SO ????

@neilrobson3064 8 дней назад

He soils his slacks and flees the scene leaving someone else to clear up the mess - it’s what he does…..

@carolegeorgina6114 8 дней назад

@@neilrobson3064 not this time .

@richessery8475 8 дней назад

carolegeorgina6114 You are too thick to realise Farage is manipulating you. Farage's real views include abolition of the NHS, most of the public sector and compulsory national service in the military. He is thoroughly dishonest.

@lotus7eater 8 дней назад

The Tories increased immigration by an astonishing amount. To Fraser Nelson that is business as usual. To voters it is a disaster.

@SlowhandGreg 8 дней назад

Duh that's because they removed FOM

@vincentlauria7857 8 дней назад

@@SlowhandGreg what are you on about, you blithering nincompoop?

@jonnybingham1 8 дней назад

Fraser Nelson is hopeless. I read the spectator for Douglas Murray. Rod Liddle is also very good

@braxxian 8 дней назад

It’s cheap Labor for big business. It’s terrible for society.

@michaelolver7684 8 дней назад

Fraser is the characateur of a tory boy who just doesn't get why people don't like immigration. It's fine for him, because he gets a cheap nanny out of it and his takeaway variety is on point. Oblivious to the fact that the social fabric of places is falling apart in towns and cities around the country and Britain is becoming an intolerable place to live.

@jmiller7209 8 дней назад

Mass migration is a civilisational issue

@edmundoftheangles7977 8 дней назад

But the Conservatives are no longer right wing. The right hasnt split, there is only Reform UK

@True_Heretic 5 дней назад

So Austerity was Communism was it? That's what I love about right wingers and their total lack of reality. Reform takes Tory votes away and now, the new Nazi UK party will take votes away from Reform. A three tier right wing with extremists, pseudo moderates and moderates. The one thing the Tories had on Labour was a united front. Now the right eats itself and Labour strolls to power in EXACTLY the same way that Blair's NEW LABOUR did. Welcome to New New Labour.

@lefroy1 8 дней назад

The Tories destroyed the Tories, right around the time they turned their back on conservatism.

@susannamarker2582 8 дней назад

2005 under Cameron. Actually before, when Duncan-Smith was ousted.

@kevinadamson5768 8 дней назад

I've always voted labour but not anymore, reform for me all the way. 😊

@vincentlauria7857 8 дней назад

Same, voting REFORM 🇬🇧 people’s revolt.

@Ray-gm2iz 8 дней назад

Yet the Tory media continually back them regardless.

@susannamarker2582 8 дней назад

@@Ray-gm2iz Tory media ???? Back in the 80s, perhaps. Where have you been since 1997 ?

@Hipnosis65 8 дней назад

The Tories doused themselves in gasoline and lit a match. Vote Reform.

@morsmagne 8 дней назад

Fraser Nelson’s powerful friends are about to be sacked! That’s all you need to know to understand his mental gymnastics!

@mfecanegukurahundi24 8 дней назад

well said.

@equaltemper 5 дней назад

Fraser Nelson sounds devastated

@gerrykelly2440 8 дней назад

It's clear people have had enough of 'pretend' Tories.

@Molesey_97 8 дней назад

Vote reform 🇬🇧👍🏻

@Bzakey3 8 дней назад

Vote Conservative, get Labour. Vote Labour, get Islam. Vote Reform.., SAVE Britain! 😎

@snowyowel7961 8 дней назад

❤REFORM❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🌟NIGEL FARAGE🌟

@carolegeorgina6114 8 дней назад

They are running scared I’m sick of the main two party’s we’ve put up with them for yrs. time for a change this country is being destroyed bit by bit…. I’m voting Reform.

@zella417bcarter9 4 дня назад

REFORM for me too

@amandaowen5091 8 дней назад

I've never not voted Tory. Not this time. Reform for me. If that means I've got to suffer 5 years of Labour, so be it. The Conservatives shouldn't have shat all over their vote base. Fxck 'em.

@helenrushful 8 дней назад

Yes, vote for a man that lied to you about Brexit, worked for Russia Today spouting Kremlin propaganda and supports Trump….the single biggest threat to global democracy in history. What can go wrong ? Lol.

@XYZ-td6sn 8 дней назад

So it’s the likes of you who got us here, nice one.

@vincentlauria7857 8 дней назад

Same - my whole family have always voted conservative. We’re all voting Reform now.

@gavwan 8 дней назад

Labour will walk it, with or without Reform so it's the perfect time to tell the Tories their voters want a traditional right wing party not Labour-lite.

@rw9854 8 дней назад

How on earth is leaving the ECHR “radical”? The fact that the editor of the spectator thinks that, shows how far the Overton window and “accepted opinion” has shifted left. We need Farage and Reform to smash through that bubble and get issues people care about on the table

@Tackytiger74 8 дней назад

Fraser, you must be the only person in the country that thinks Rishi Sunak "would like to" leave the ECHR!!!

@Bill-uf6os 8 дней назад

Reform is the only way.

@JD83000 8 дней назад

What is Fraser Nelson? Is he even on the right anymore? Him and Kate Andrews pratically endorse open borders.

@tomk8729 8 дней назад

At the start of the interview he is spot on There are two conservative parties, one properly right, the other not really conservative at all. But I think he's wrong that Reform are taking away from the Tories, the Tories are not worth saving and I suspect he'll do far better than the pollsters are predicting.

@michaelblackmore4332 8 дней назад

Tories gave up on Conservatism....Let Reform give it a go.

@paulshanesmith 8 дней назад

59 year old bot here who's always voted Conservative and after being lied to and betrayed never will again. I'll let you guess where my vote is going.

@nicholashoward7251 8 дней назад

The spectator is really out of touch with its (soon-to-be ex-) readership

@Ray-gm2iz 8 дней назад

All tory media is now.

@GodsOwnPrototype 8 дней назад

No country can have Net Zero immigration lies Fraser.

@mikefish8226 8 дней назад

Yes, it's amazing that nothing existed before 1997 and mass immigration.

@vincentblack7467 8 дней назад

Vote Reform.. You know it makes sense..

@LettyK 8 дней назад

Give Reform a go, they need the seats.

@Bertrum123 8 дней назад

Why vote for more tories lol there all ex failed tories ..but good for labour .

@helenrushful 8 дней назад

….it really doesn’t. You seriously want to vote for the man who lied to you (and continues to lie to you) about Brexit……and supports Trump, the biggest liability to stable global democracy in history ? A man who worked on Russia Today (a Kremlin-controlled media outlet) parroting Putins propaganda….? Really

@JANICEJANILLY 8 дней назад

The tories have destroyed themselves

@JulieMalone-oy1ll 8 дней назад

Reform all the way

@True_Heretic 5 дней назад

.... down.

@peterpan1435 3 дня назад

@@True_HereticBrother we need you to help us and to help yourself, along with those you love. Do you want Democracy? Or are you content to be subject to governments who pull the wool over our eyes?

@True_Heretic 2 дня назад

@@peterpan1435 This government never pulled the wool over my eyes. I've understood exactly who the Tories always were. Most people on the Left have done. And now, just because many on the Right aren't getting everything they want from them anymore, they feel that they have some new insight. Right wing politics are selfish and retrograde. Be they from moderates or extremists on the Right. All Reform offers is convenient answers and distorted truths. Though Farage is a clever man, for sure. But he's in it for himself and nobody else. Which is why he made a mint out of Brexit whilst the country still loses billions every year. Yes I want democracy. And I also want to see politicians and journalists, AND online influencers, who deliberately lie to our people to be classed as traitors and face punitive measures. We need to put truth and integrity at the heart of all future debates about British politics.

@anonnemo2504 8 дней назад

Utter twaddle from Mr. Nelson when he attempts to draw similarities (based upon his interpretation of intent behind the words) between the Reform UK contract and the Tory manifesto. Re illegal immigration, Sunak actually said that, given a choice between national security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court, he would choose national security. That is hardly the same as a commitment to leave the ECHR. When the situation arose, regarding any individual, that individual would probably be deemed not to be a threat to national security, thereby eliminating the need to make the choice. I had to laugh at Mr. Nelson's claim that Reform UK are a party of protest and that nobody should take their contract seriously. My advice to Mr. Nelson would be to ask himself whether people are likely to continue to take him seriously as a journalist, that is, of course if they ever did.

@Tracertme 8 дней назад

Remember Nigel Farage was one man pretty much on his own for a very long time in the EU and look at the impact he has had on that organisation, and what he predicted for their future, I am sure with one Nigel Farage in the House of Commons we would see a very significant impact… not to be underestimated.❤

@narkyspark 8 дней назад

Hope so. And Labour too. Vote Reform. 🩵

@the1beard 8 дней назад

Fraser is out of touch .. and way off the mark .. we will see .. and he will be surprised at how very wrong he was.

@goharikjones7387 8 дней назад

Reform is THE Conservative that we haven't had for 14 years, They call themselves Conservative by name only !! Reform is THE Right party to Vote for !

@TJ_USA 8 дней назад

conservatism without Conservatives is not "the same sort of thing" as Conservatives without conservatism. Liz Truss didn't have a program of spending cuts. What are these guys smoking?

@manfrombritain6816 8 дней назад

they're not smoking they're sniffing their own farts and saying nothing of substance

@jimbo-yv5jh 8 дней назад

Why can't Reform be classed as the party of popular opinion? A manifesto has no legal standing in law so why is Fraser boy moaning about the contract of the Reform party? Toryboy Fraser

@anonnemo2504 8 дней назад

Good point, well made and utter twaddle from Mr. Nelson in his attempt to draw similarities (based upon his interpretation of intent behind the words) between the Reform UK contract and the Tory manifesto. Re illegal immigration, Sunak actually said that, given a choice between national security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court, he would choose national security. That is hardly the same as a commitment to leave the ECHR. When the situation arose, regarding any individual, that individual would probably be deemed not to be a threat to national security, thereby eliminating the need to make the choice. I had to laugh at Mr. Nelson's claim that Reform UK are a party of protest and that nobody should take their contract seriously. My advice to Mr. Nelson would be to ask himself whether people are likely to continue to take him seriously as a journalist, that is, of course if they ever did.

@jdg9999 8 дней назад

The Spectator should go down with the Tories. Bunch of shitlibs.

@LettyK 8 дней назад

@@anonnemo2504Farage repeatedly claimed their contract was not a protest.

@anonnemo2504 8 дней назад

@@LettyK Indeed, he did.

@vincentlauria7857 8 дней назад

The last four tory manifestos have all been totally irrelevant, they’ve not stuck to any of the policies and have in fact gone the opposite direction. Vote REFORM 🇬🇧

@Elizabeth-jd3mn 8 дней назад

Sunak and the Tories will not abandon net zero or leave the ECHR. They've made it clear the party will not allow it so nobody believes anything they say. I'll go Reform no matter what the Tories say. Reform UK.

@mycatspethooman5590 8 дней назад

Given that around 500,000 people leave the uk each year net zero migration is very achievable

@laurenceseale 8 дней назад

yes but what are we getting in the half million?.Over ten years thats 5millions non British

@mycatspethooman5590 8 дней назад

@@laurenceseale we need to replace those who leave whether we like it or not

@jdg9999 8 дней назад

It's not possible to not have net immigration above zero? Lol wut? Nelson is a clown.

@laurenceede6881 8 дней назад

I think Reform will take significant votes from both Tories and Labour, but not enough to gain (m)any seats.

@Bertrum123 8 дней назад

If farages voting record to become mp is anything to go by then hes toast lol

@michaelellis7326 8 дней назад

Big surprised inevitable !

@kevinadamson5768 8 дней назад

You might be in for a shock. 😢

@vincentlauria7857 8 дней назад

Reform 🇬🇧

@SamG-py7ej 8 дней назад

They will get seats, not many, but this is only the beginning

@alexiosi2646 8 дней назад

"we all know how Westminster works, can't be changed, blah, blah, blah" We can't be stuck in this paradigm forever, people are becoming sick of being held hostage by 'The Market', that kind of leverage is running out of steam. Like many people I know I've reached the point where I don't care if the whole system burns to the ground and to hell with the consequences, it ain't working for us anyway.

@castropianoforte 8 дней назад

Immigration was running at about 40k/year in the 1990s. Why can't it be brought down to that now?

@jamesdrury8405 8 дней назад

Because nobody are having children anymore, so that amount isn't enough to keep the country functioning. Want lower immigration? Need to actually fund social support networks for families and fund the NHS back to what it was under Labour during the 90s...

@grai 7 дней назад

@@jamesdrury8405 Immigrants also grow old so what then.? Ship in a revolving door of younger immigrants It doesn't solve anything long term

@docken11 7 дней назад

@@grai Agreed! It's ultimately a pyramid scheme isn't it? Hence my point about funding social services, strengthening the NHS and actually enacting family friendly policies to turn our birth rate problem around. People just aren't going to have children if the economics are so stacked against you that you don't have a stable, long term job, can't get access to reasonable housing, and fear for your health should you get ill. Pretty simple!

@AnnDale-ie3jn 8 дней назад

Fraser open borders nelson is so out of touch with social realty immigration and the diversity it induses has totally distablsed Britain it has so distorted our demographics that native British people are a minority in London Birmingham Manchester soon to be in Leeds this has lead to many in the native population feeling disfenchised in there own country which is odd thing to happen in a democracy during the COVID 19 pandemic there was a lot of concern about migrant derived communities being affected disproportionate indeed the country was accused of being racist and discriminating against these communities which is a bizarre charge to make when discrimination is outlawed in this country are we to believe that there people in important jobs are breaking the law and discriminating against non white people in this country ? I don't think so where there was real intuition failure is places like Rotherham and Rochdale where the police and social services aided and betted Pakistani rape gangs these rapes also these sex crimes where racial and religiously motivated yet not one of these crimes carried a hate crime tariff

@JosephStealin 8 дней назад

Zero Seats for the Tories

@Opel314 8 дней назад

7:45 By voting Reform, the labour party may win a big majority but will then spend 5 years destroying itself. The Tories have only themselves to blame.

@monkeyboy8424 8 дней назад

On page 2 of Braverman's letter to Sunak dated 15/11/23 she states; "You never had any intention of keeping your promises" - Was Ritchie lying all along....

@XYZ-td6sn 8 дней назад

Haha. These Notting Hill snoots wringing their soft, delicate L’Occitane soap fragranced hands.

@bobwinner8936 8 дней назад

More silver spoons in that room than Rishi Sunak's cutlery drawer! 😅

@barriewilliams4526 8 дней назад

With any luck at all he will! We need reform, vote Reform👍

@BattleDrunk 8 дней назад

Vote Reform WAKE UP BRITAIN!!!!

@wanderingsoul7935 8 дней назад

It is not a protest party, it is an alternative to the main two and people see them as the common sense party, not protest.

@jimeaston3325 8 дней назад

Fraser talks rubbish! We are in do da and FN gives us the higher intellect rubbish. This is survival not the same old sane old. Grow up Spectator.

@yoof01 8 дней назад

I think it’s not meant to be a credible manifesto, simply a document to show us all, the kinds of things they believe in… I can sign up to a vision without accurate numbers, there’s no vision anywhere else, and we all love to believe in something. They have a good few years to sharpen their pencils, and the next contract has to be credible, i’m sure it will be.

@andybrice2711 8 дней назад

Regarding the "immigration tax" I've was thinking recently: If we have immigration numbers which our infrastructure can't sustain, why don't we just increase visa fees?! Then we'd have fewer people and more money. If you had a business with too many customers but no profits, you'd obviously raise your prices.

@turquoiseowl 8 дней назад

Looks like the Tories are splitting the Reform vote now.

@pennymcneela7095 8 дней назад

No, I can't see that happening. Reform UK are taking away their votes.

@oscarvi3232 7 дней назад

I am increasingly of the opinion that the Tories are done and Reform will become the main opposition. I cannot imagine that any self respecting conservative would vote for anyone other than Reform.

@bishvegas4834 4 дня назад

VOTE REFORM UK !!!!

@mary.e645 8 дней назад

Nigel Farage everytime I'm voting REFORM

@thomridgeway1438 8 дней назад

The Conservatives have had 14 years in power! Fourteen years! Other than Brexit (which is still a Dog's dinner, even now) what did they actually achieve in those 14 years? Answers on the back of a matchbox please!

@JamesA4 8 дней назад

I wish the Spectator took a longer term view of the situation. The Conservative Party doesn't have a divine right to rule; everything eventually comes to an end. The Conservative Party is in it's final moments, we must salvage something from the ashes - to me that is Reform and Nigel Farage.

@Dr-T 8 дней назад

I'm voting REFORM. Anybody else?

@sophie.sienna 8 дней назад

100% voting Reform

@andyxox4168 8 дней назад

Seriously … how do you get such bruises on your knees 😂😂😂

@Uno-1968 8 дней назад

Vote R.e.f.o.r.m.UK 🇬🇧

@joeyclarkejoey6212 8 дней назад

Vote Reform!!

@frankbirch3877 8 дней назад

This intensely soporific wordfest reminds me of one of the skits in Harry Enfield's doco on the history of the BBC2 and even Monty Python. Is the fella in the grey shirt

@530jazzercise 8 дней назад

the great replacement is supraparliamentary policy..it cannot be stopped in westminster

@LettyK 8 дней назад

Ah, the Kalergi Plan. It's certainly now in operation.

@GodsOwnPrototype 8 дней назад

Yes it could. Whether it will ever be or have to come from another source time will tell.

@LettyK 8 дней назад

My comment is hidden. One more try. You are talking about the K a l e r g I P l a n. which is certainly now in operation.

@Psych911 8 дней назад

You lot fail to comprehend the absolutely incandescent rage of the Tory membership. Zero seats please.

@mfecanegukurahundi24 8 дней назад

It is really stupid to say no Government can achieve net zero immigration; sure it may be be beneficial to have a few thousand people to come and work in the UK for a few years, but they can come on 5 year working visas and then they must go back.

@woodlander_0 8 дней назад

Do you not think that some of the red wall voters, who gave the Conservatives a mandate they threw away, will be prepared to give Reform a chance?

@CaptainGrimes1 8 дней назад

Why can't we get net migration to zero? We're told we can't but why?

@paulharvey439 8 дней назад

The markets will try to destroy any party that isn't globalist.

@jamesanderton903 8 дней назад

They're missing the point, Reform is not a protest party. I will never vote Conservative or Labour ever again.

@Ray-gm2iz 8 дней назад

Even if it was, I don't get what the problem with that is anyway myself.

@brigittapayne6203 8 дней назад

Reform have the right ideas , look at Argentina , what has been achieved in a very short time , very simple logical steps were taken. 😊

@josephyoung7592 8 дней назад

Fraser Nelson still doesn't seem to understand that nothing the conservative party have done is conservative. People have figured that out now and won't be voting for them in the future. The truer conservatives parties are Reform UK and SDP, however its only Reform UK that are having the necessary cut through now.

@ibana8449 8 дней назад

I forgot to mention, Vote Reform !

@WilliamCoward-vo1xg 7 дней назад

The critical difference that the wet Fraser Nelson either can't or won't accept is that the Conservative party say that they are in favour of certain policies but given the opportunity never do it

@richardellis74 8 дней назад

This argument is based on the tenant that the Tories have conservative / free market / traditional values. This isn’t believed by the public anymore - the tories and Liberal Democrat’s by another name and now it’s time for a new right of centre party.

@ezioauditore3128 6 дней назад

"No way this can be done....no way that can be done" ...... boils my piss.

@xne1592 8 дней назад

Vote Reform, the alternative is unthinkable...

@joselynefletcher6150 2 дня назад

Boris Johnson did not have a coalition that was David Cameron, we had Teresa May after the coalition

@jones6119 7 дней назад

Reform! 🇬🇧

@elvispearce5422 8 дней назад

Dont put yourself forward as some sort of political analyst and still be stating 42% for labpur in the polls. They have been dropping. This guy is a hard left winger with a wannabe tory accent.

@iancallard3561 8 дней назад

Oh dear. What a load of reactionary waffle. Spectator, I'm disappointed in you.

@JohnTruscott-gz9ly 8 дней назад

*who is that with the plum in his mouth who talks crap?!

@Bill-uf6os 8 дней назад

A contract sounds more than a manifesto, Fraser. What is your agenda as the status quo is not working?

@dereks1264 7 дней назад

"Patriotic Education"? Where have we heard that before?

@vincentlauria7857 8 дней назад

Vote REFORM 🇬🇧

@geoffball4431 8 дней назад

I have always insisted Conservatives have said Brexit is done , I say it is not done. The waters are controlled and over fished by EU massive fishing boats electrified waters kill everything 90% not wanted. All EU boats should be banned from British waters , all caught in our waters should be given to British citizens who want to be fishermen. This will rejuvenate all our fishing towns

@zella417bcarter9 4 дня назад

@geoffball4431 I agree

@AnnDale-ie3jn 8 дней назад

Fraser open borders nelson thinks being concerned about immigration both legal and illegal is seen as low status

@pearl1606 7 дней назад

The Tories are so fragmented they don't even possess the unity of the shattered. The only choice now is the Maoist Starmer versus the Reform Renaissance.

@peterdockerty8077 8 дней назад

If only your old mate James Forsyth had the balls to write this for his mate Sunak, the tories would be looking good

@JD83000 8 дней назад

It's is hilarious how their buddy James, ex political editor of The Spectator, is one of the masterminds of the demise of the tories 😂

@markbaker5080 8 дней назад

@@JD83000 Absolutely spot on, I should imagine shares in Forsyth are dropping through the floor.

@peterdockerty8077 8 дней назад

@@markbaker5080 let’s also remember it was Forsyths wife as comms director for Boris who released the video of her laughing at trying to explain partygate. She was Gove’s man on the inside and before her promotion worked for Sunak. The Spectator brought down Boris as they were in cahoots with Gove and Sunak

@markbaker5080 8 дней назад

I remember it well. I used to wake up to the Today programme, go to bed after Newsnight and subscribe to the Spectator magazine ( I realised I was only reading Liddle, Low Life and Melissa Kite’s Real Life). I haven’t done any of those things for 10 years. Nelson always maintained that the magazine should include all sides and I get that, but it’s line was centre right back in the day and it certainly isn’t now.

@peterdockerty8077 8 дней назад

@@markbaker5080 spitoons Mark. It now turns out they are New Labour, they were great on lockdown but then wanted to give all asylum seekers a free pass and give them all citizenship. Lets face it besides the Forsyth debacle you have one editor who worked for MIT Romney in the States so that tells us her politics, there’s another who married a Labour MP another who married into a family of lefty Marxists and activists. Mr Nelson is now so great and beige he’s just a weak woke wet

@JaredJohnston 7 дней назад

We haven’t had a right wing government since 1997

@zilefn9212 8 дней назад

Nelson is hopeless. He says here that the Tories and Reform are offering essentially the same thing. He also says, in virtually the same breath, that the Tories are offering Conservatives without conservatism and Reform are offering conservatism without Conservatives. The two are nothing like the same thing; they are opposites. His words are just salad.

@dave.F0X 6 дней назад

The Tories started their own destruction in 2016; Reform is just helping them to finish off the job.

@josezerpa8177 8 дней назад

I wish we had a true nationalist outsider here in Canada as well.

@clivewalford3148 6 дней назад

They have destroyed themselves!

@leehallam9365 8 дней назад

I don't buy the idea that how this vote goes decides the next two. That really depends on what happens after the election. Will they merge, do a pact or will one kill off the other? Saying that you can't turn over a landslide in one election, is out dated thinking. Politics moves faster now.

@chuckymcchuckface8768 8 дней назад

Canada 1993 election. Look it up, and I suspect you will all see some similarities, plus I don't think our Conservatives will fare as bad.

@paulharvey439 8 дней назад

He's not trying to destroy the Tories but restore them.

@jamesanthonyclarke9418 7 дней назад

The Spectator needs to start understanding this quickly or it will go the same way the tories are.

@josephprice6617 8 дней назад

Some great points and the Edinburgh guy referencing Belinda Carlisle was truly cutting insight.

@yourma2000 8 дней назад

7:44 What does it matter how big the size of Starmer's majority is? That's like saying "'I'd rather be put to death by a firing squad of six than a squad of nine."