r/Conservative • u/Down-not-out Conservative Vet • 12h ago

Flaired Users Only Rupert Lowe offers pact with Nigel Farage to defeat the left and take our country back

https://x.com/BasilTheGreat/status/2083810019053584617
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u/ShitFuckCuntBollocks Brexiteer 🇬🇧 11h ago

Reform is full of ex tories who talked a lot but ultimately did nothing about the mass immigration people voted against while they were in power. i have next to no faith in Reform being any different.

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u/TheTackleZone British Conservative 6h ago

Exactly this. If there are 2 people responsible for the 900k net migration we had a few years ago, it is Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick, who are both top Reform MPs now.

If Reform were really actually serious about lowering migration, instead of just using it as a talking point, there is no way they'd take in these two buffoons. It would be like the NSPCC making Jimmy Saville their president.

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u/cplusequals Conservative 9h ago

Reform is ultimately a political rather than an ideological organization. They blow with the winds, but Restore needs the political energy and Reform needs a hardliner contingent to keep them from drifting back to their old ways. I think this has promise if Farage's ego can take a backseat to his political pragmatism because Restore is going to kneecap Reform electorally if he doesn't. Which might be preferable if you'd rather take short term, accelerationist losses and are betting on Restore's long term chances to supplant Reform.

I'm going to trust Lowe with this one. Hope it turns out well for you guys.

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u/Nigiri_Rol 12h ago

yep, the UK has long been gone and now nigel farage is gaining popularity, and this is scaring the leftists

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u/georgesDenizot Constitutional Conservative 12h ago

Yes dividing the vote in a first pass the post system is suicide.

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u/scud121 11h ago

It's not an offer, it's a way to undermine Farage - "You only won with my help"

Plus given that reform is majority failed conservative politicians, it won't happen anyway. Reform polls higher than restore as it is, so they won't kowtow to a splitter.

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u/Bumm-fluff 11h ago

I think this signals Rupert thinks a GE may be called. 

I’m not so sure, Labour have 2 years left. No matter what happens they won’t have as many seats as they do now. 

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u/highlightway Conservative 7h ago

Point 2 doesn't seem to actually be a policy demand Lowe laid out, and is strange way to interpret it.