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The Conservative party Faces a Canada-Style Death Blow
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | May 12, 2019 | Editorial Board

Posted on 05/12/2019 6:53:33 PM PDT by Jim Noble

The Conservative Party faces electoral annihilation. According to our bombshell poll, if there were a general election tomorrow, they would get just 19 per cent of the vote – their worst result in history...They would lose 139 seats...

The incredible thing is that the Conservative leadership seems oblivious...

Take the 1993 election in Canada, when the centre-Right coalition of the Progressive Conservatives shattered...The PC tried to save things by changing leader, but the damage was done: on election night they collapsed from 156 seats to just two.

There is a moral lesson to such stories: don’t let down the people who voted for you. Across many countries, the older, established parties of the centre-Right have bowed to the cultural pressure of the Left, abandoning their traditional positions on issues such as economics and crime out of fear of being labelled reactionary. But even if the elites don’t like their own grassroots, they can’t possibly build a victorious coalition without their enthusiastic support. Here in Britain, the Conservative leadership committed itself to Brexit,.. But then it cooked up a Brexit-in-name only, a patent betrayal of the referendum result that may well have done so much damage to the Tories’ reputation that they cannot recover fast enough to beat Mr Corbyn.

Our poll shows that even with a new leader, the Conservatives are still in serious trouble, which is why – although a new leader is certainly needed – a philosophical renaissance is required, too. .... Even if Tory MPs cannot comprehend the sheer disaster of a failed Brexit or a Labour government, let them mull on this: they stand a good chance of losing their own seats. That thought alone ought to spur them into action.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitparty; corbyn; labour; nigelfarage; rinos; snp; theresamay; tories; unitedkingdom
This editorial from London captures the US political crisis perfectly. "There is a moral lesson to such stories: don’t let down the people who voted for you. Across many countries, the older, established parties of the centre-Right have bowed to the cultural pressure of the Left, abandoning their traditional positions on issues such as economics and crime out of fear of being labelled reactionary" - Yes, RINOs, they're talking about YOU
1 posted on 05/12/2019 6:53:33 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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Problem is, the RINOs don't give a shit about we Normals. Whether they're being paid off by the Mexican Drug Cartels, getting blackmailed for pics of them sleeping with a dead boy or a live goat, or whatever, the RINO's love them some Obama and hate them some Trump.

Yes, John Cornyn, I'm looking at you.


2 posted on 05/12/2019 6:56:47 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Jim Noble

Read this mittens Rommney. I am SORRY I ever voted for you.


3 posted on 05/12/2019 7:05:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of ColoraTake up ado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

It is amazing that all these pubes knocking Trump are the Karl Rove House of Representatives GOP failure of today...


4 posted on 05/12/2019 7:32:31 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

RINOS despise you, despise President Trump and despise the Constitution. They are quintessential losers and degenerate liars ,


5 posted on 05/12/2019 7:36:02 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

I fell on a youtube video epoch times explaining that while Comey is claimed to be aRepublican, he was parading in college with the same reds that Obama coddled with,


6 posted on 05/12/2019 7:38:27 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Jim Noble

Sounds like the Canadian version of Bush League Republicans.


7 posted on 05/12/2019 8:00:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jim Noble

British version, too.


8 posted on 05/12/2019 8:02:24 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jim Noble

Frustration leads to indifference, a brief political void and then the seizure and concentration of power by extremists. That is how the Left takes power. You are right to worry that it will happen in the United States. When it does the country will be so transformed that American children will salute the UN flag every morning.


9 posted on 05/12/2019 8:14:24 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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10 posted on 05/12/2019 8:18:18 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: Jim Noble

The parallels between here and the UK are quite striking


11 posted on 05/12/2019 8:24:45 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

“...getting blackmailed for pics of them sleeping with a dead boy or a live goat...”

I’m not certain that type of blackmail would actually work on politicians anymore.


12 posted on 05/12/2019 8:29:33 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Another POS


13 posted on 05/12/2019 8:33:42 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Yeah in this degenerate age a pic of one of them with a real woman would ruin them.


14 posted on 05/12/2019 8:40:11 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: Jim Noble

Turns out the voters really do want brexit.


15 posted on 05/12/2019 9:43:13 PM PDT by lurk
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The thing about many rinos is they would switch party’s and be fine with it.


16 posted on 05/13/2019 4:11:41 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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Senior Tories press May to abandon Brexit deal talks with Labour

Heather stewart and rowena mason
may 13, 2019 18:46 edt
the guardian (uk)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/13/top-tories-under-pressure-to-oppose-mays-brexit-deal


17 posted on 05/13/2019 4:54:16 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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