• streetlights
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    85 days ago

    Apparently she’s quite popular among the Conservative base. Jenrick might be a bit too Ukippy for them.

    • @WilhelmStroker
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      94 days ago

      Yep you might be right. And let’s not forget that the cons base voted for Truss so everything is possible… Regardless who wins, they’re both going to try and get voters back from Reform by lurching even further to the right.

      • @Skullgrid
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        24 days ago

        Impossible to do so with an ethnic minority leading the conservatives. Racist/right wing britons won’t vote for an ethnic minority to be prime minister.

        Quantitive source : The previous election

        Qualitive source : LBC caller says Rishi Sunak isn’t British https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYdzIt7p7s

        • streetlights
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          34 days ago

          They’ll justify it by saying she’s “one of the good ones”.

        • @Jackthelad
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          14 days ago

          Lol. The Conservatives didn’t lose because Sunak was brown.

          People are so desperate to call out racism that they’ll just start imagining it in places it isn’t. 😂

          • @Skullgrid
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            14 days ago

            well, it’s right there in the qualitive source.

            • @Jackthelad
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              14 days ago

              One person who calls into a radio station. Great sample size there.

              • @Skullgrid
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                14 days ago

                Ok, and the election results has the sample size of … just shy of 11 million right wingers. They said that they’d rather vote for a white man with little chance of getting in due to being a third party over having a brown man in charge.

                How do I jump to this conclusion? The radio caller confirms what we know from being exposed to these kinds of people, and the election is quantitive proof of it too.

                https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/results

                • @Jackthelad
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                  4 days ago

                  People didn’t vote Conservative because they’d consistently failed on everything they’d promised for years. If Truss was still leader instead, the defeat would have been the same.

                  You’re talking bollocks and trying to find racism where isn’t any.

                  • @Skullgrid
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                    14 days ago

                    4,117,610 million right wingers voted for “conservatives but more racist” and they’re out there making it about race. yeah, sure, I’m the one jumping to conclusions.