The Tories focusing on culture wars and stoking divisions, seems to be failing and back-firing.
It's only shining a light on their own record re immigration, and their huge failure to come close to meeting their own repeated, cast-iron pledges to drastically cut net migration. That in turn is angering more and more people on the right of the political spectrum and / or who are socially conservative, and persuading them to switch to Reform, stay at home or maybe even in some cases return to Labour if they switched in 2017 or 2019.
When they bang on about 'stopping the boats', many members of the 'target audience' are simply responding that they've been in power for 14 years, and are questioning why they've failed to 'tackle' that issue, why net migration has increased under their watch, and why they've repeatedly broken their own promises (they stupidly set completely unfeasible targets to keep their back-benchers, swivelled-eye loon party members and the right wing media outlets happy) to drastically cut it.
And they can't get away with blaming the 'woke, lefty opposition' (to quote their standard claptrap) for scuppering their plans, given the size of their comfortable working parliamentary majorities since 2019, on top of the fact they've been in power for since 2010.
And of course their credibility re managing the economy has been shot to pieces. So they've complely snookered themselves.
It's only shining a light on their own record re immigration, and their huge failure to come close to meeting their own repeated, cast-iron pledges to drastically cut net migration. That in turn is angering more and more people on the right of the political spectrum and / or who are socially conservative, and persuading them to switch to Reform, stay at home or maybe even in some cases return to Labour if they switched in 2017 or 2019.
When they bang on about 'stopping the boats', many members of the 'target audience' are simply responding that they've been in power for 14 years, and are questioning why they've failed to 'tackle' that issue, why net migration has increased under their watch, and why they've repeatedly broken their own promises (they stupidly set completely unfeasible targets to keep their back-benchers, swivelled-eye loon party members and the right wing media outlets happy) to drastically cut it.
And they can't get away with blaming the 'woke, lefty opposition' (to quote their standard claptrap) for scuppering their plans, given the size of their comfortable working parliamentary majorities since 2019, on top of the fact they've been in power for since 2010.
And of course their credibility re managing the economy has been shot to pieces. So they've complely snookered themselves.
Last edited:
