whenever I see Badenoch fighting Farage for the pro-Trump vote I wonder if she realises this is a small minority of the UK population (polling from October) - ThreadSky

pickardje.bsky.social • 104 days ago

whenever I see Badenoch fighting Farage for the pro-Trump vote I wonder if she realises this is a small minority of the UK population

(polling from October)

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stavvy.bsky.social•104 days ago

If only Auntie, Labour and the rest of them would realise too.

voodoo78.bsky.social•104 days ago

Small minority who get a disproportionate amount of media attention.

philipstephens.bsky.social•104 days ago

Extraordinary that Badenoch is pitching for the votes of fa right nativists who will always see her as Nigerian rather than British…

pickardje.bsky.social•104 days ago

yup I don’t see how she thinks she can beat Farage on who is most anti-immigration

vaudindavid.bsky.social•104 days ago

Farage's useful idiot

petebraham.bsky.social•104 days ago

Why have the Diet Coke when you can have Coke.

jstockbridge1.bsky.social•104 days ago

A very good point. She is sinking her party.

jaksays.bsky.social•104 days ago

But the bigot and xenophobic vote is a very large demographic

Seeing the result of Brexit may have reduced it a little, but it's still very present and paraded daily in the Express, Telegraph, Sun, GB News, Sky News etc etc

That's who they are playing to

johanrob77.bsky.social•104 days ago

Ahh yes the silent majority we were told. In saying that a lot more of my friends are talking about voting for Reform as they reckon they'll get things done. I really hope they don't get any further than they are because so far if that's the best they've got then heaven help us if more get elected.

marypcbuk.bsky.social•104 days ago

wouldn't it be nice if they both dug themselves into holes in the ground chasing that tiny minority and left the rest of us alone

jpmendis.bsky.social•104 days ago

I thought politics was about stating your policies based on your principles and then seeing who would vote for you. It seems I’m mistaken

simontilford.bsky.social•104 days ago

Yes, but that's only because the universities are indoctrinating people.

davewvero.bsky.social•104 days ago

Ah, sarcasm is alive and well.

rebelfox17.bsky.social•103 days ago

Whilst that's true, the combined Reform-Tory vote in recent polls has been around 45-50% of the electorate. So despite the strategy seeming to be bad, there's a fertile market for "not being the Labour government"

ukbababa.bsky.social•104 days ago

Always torn between the hope that she doesn’t and it leads to electoral oblivion, and the fear that she mainstreams it into no longer being a small minority.

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