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Tim Almond's avatar

Kemi spent the best part of 20 years being in the Conservative Party as it shifted away from her claimed political hero, Margaret Thatcher towards something more like the SDP. Not tearing up her membership card and joining UKIP, happily standing as a Conservative candidate in 2017 after 7 years of the Conservatives doing nothing, except what UKIP forced them to do. Watching May call the old Conservatives "the nasty party". Watching Cameron do nothing to object to Browns spending rises. Being in cabinet as they locked down the country and taxed us to the hilt?

How credible is someone who claims to be a Thatcherite who went along with all of that while taking no action to oppose it? And why should I give her 5 years to continue to be all mouth after all that?

For all his faults, Farage is clearly someone committed to what he says he is. And Reform are top of the polls. So, why bother with the possible fake when you can have the real?

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Tom Dixon's avatar

I think that sadly we (the British people) are not at rock bottom yet. Hard to believe but thats what I think speaking to people. Yes I know many people who think as you and I do that radical change is needed. I also know many more who still get their news from the BBC and the broadsheets who think that one half or the other of the uni-party is the answer. Until that changes we’ll continue to decline slowly and inexorably to 3rd world adjacent status. Like Eastern Europe was in the 1980’s.

I’m starting to think that our best hope is some kind of crisis or war that gets us to rock bottom quicker. Painful though that may be. And if anyone is capable of delivering that it’s Rachael from accounts and probably not Kemi.

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