The Conservative Party loses a battle until death

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Is it ended with the movement that I like to describe as “the most successful political party in the world”? History warns against writing deaths for conservatives, whose longevity has a supernatural talent for renewal. But the Bill and Diserry party, Churchill and Tashcher, is in a desperate problem.

She is not alone in her ordeal. The results of the local elections for this week show that the Labor Party is also supporting bleeding, which leads to the alienation of the voters to its left, and the disappointment of many of its traditional base of the working class and the loss of a similar percentage of advisers.

This simultaneous collapse of support and disappointment with the two main parties has fueled the great rise in Nigel Faraj reform in the United Kingdom. Basically, Britain does not have a popular problem. It has an unpopular problem.

But the Labor Party is at least in the government and has four years to determine the agenda and improve its wealth. For conservatives, this existential moment. The Farage Road to Download Street requires that conservatives be replaced first as the main opposition. While some conservatives quietly talk about electoral agreements, the increasing pellets have no incentive for Parli.

The UK has witnessed moments of third parties before, and conservatives will extract from the political arc of SDP, which was in the 1980s, they aspires shortly to “breaking the template” of British policy. This came within 700,000 votes from overcoming the Labor Party, which moved sharply. But the UK electoral system limited the new group to only 23 seats because the vote was ineffective. By the following elections, the Labor Party began to return to the center and the moment of SDP took place.

However, there are good reasons that make conservatives wise not to assume that reform may go in the same way.

The stars are well aligned with Farage. Its assault comes on their shares because the Tory brand is desperate. It is chased from almost every region. The loss of the Earth in the north is bad, but the loss of its base in the south is deadly. Voters looking for opposition to work are simply not interested in conservatives. In a multi -party race, repair needs a much lower share of voting to prove the narration as the primary alternative.

While SDP clashed for the center of the center, the reform threatens conservatives from the national right. The instinct now will be the transition to restore these lands, but that will make it difficult to strengthen their southern voters who migrate to liberal democrats.

In the eighties of the last century, the Labor Party had institutional advantages to support the unions, the loyalty of the upper parties with a lot and a clear demographic base. Nothing of these are true for conservatives today.

They need to search for their place by appearing to provide answers to the main issues related to voters. So far they failed. Kimi Badnouch, the new leader, does not seem to be voter and is shown by Robert Jenrik, her defeated rival, who is more vibrant and effective. Her front seat fails to drop economic failure in the Labor Party.

Part of their problem is to exhaust Brexit talents. Conservatives of caliber, thought and charisma have a large extent from the party. Her leadership competition was from the chandeliers.

On the contrary, Farage is a talented generation leader who has set the British policy agenda for two decades and continues to do so. He chooses its causes and then works to generalize it instead of the other round. This may be his moment. Throughout the West, the right to reorganize its trademark of popular nationalism.

Farage evacuates some right -wing lands of what the new center sees, which is culturally conservative but left economically. But it seems that the conservatives are not sure whether it will fight it for this space or a more visible liberal economic platform.

Their only hope is a different and comprehensive approach that seems to provide a better, more ascetic and comprehensive alternative to reform and stop them as if they hated half of the country. In other words, they should compete in the main current with labor and restore the land by appearing as a viable alternative government rather than a stalled alternative opposition.

It is not surprising that the recently crushed party is struggling to find its feet. But the rise of the reform means that it does not have the luxury of time.

The policy is very brutal for confidence on how things are in general elections for four years. Reform will make mistakes. The Labor Party believes that voters can be voters from Farraj over its proximity to Donald Trump, and most importantly, its position on NHS.

But the conservatives can no longer be in any doubt. The world’s most successful world party is currently losing a battle until death.

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