If Nigel Farage became leader of the Tory party….

[Diefrausagtnein]

Would it help their electoral chances ?
Apparently there’s a rumour circulating that Tory MPs want to orchestrate a coup and replace Sunak with him as he’s seen as catnip to certain voters and would improve their abysmal chances of winning the next GE. If you’re a disillusioned Tory voter would you be tempted to vote for them with Nige at the helm ? And red wall Brexiteers, would it influence a return to Labour, either way ?

Nigel Farage lost an election to a man in a dolphin costume, I really don’t think he’s the Tory secret weapon to winning victory

The Tories haven't been Tories for many years. Not since many moderates were turfed out by Liar Johnson.

Not a chance. Most Tory voters are conservative (with a small C), they aren't rabidly insane. NF only got air time over Brexit because the electorate (red & blue) had been denied a say for 40 years, and that always ends badly.

When Liz Truss & KK got in to power, the majority of constituency Conservative parties were horrified and made their views known immediately & very clearly.

It was Conservative Party members who voted for Truss to be leader. Nutters voting for a nutter.

It is scary. There’s a huge lump of middle-aged to elderly voters who have swallowed ‘it’s all the immigrants’ fault’ and are rabidly blind to anything other than ‘stop the boats’. They DGAF about anything else a given party will do, just that. They like Nigel, the same as Boris, because he’s posh, but speaks what they want to hear, a bit comical, but he understands Rule Britannia as gospel. Whilst they moan about the roads, the GPs, cost of living, lack of dentists, not enough police.

Oh, but look over there, at that immigrant - that’s the problem.

My shockingly racist and determinedly ill-informed parents would vote Boris back in as he landozed their dilapidated park home/caravan into oblivion. And they would let Nigel settle ruins on fire ‘but the immigrants’.

5 years until I can leave this pathetic little britain small b. It’s horrific.

No one in their right mind would vote for Farage

I'm sorry you have shockingly racist and ill informed parents and I agree that Nigel Farage would be the worst kind of nightmare. Do you think ageism has any place in this though ?

I wouldn’t vote for him because I believe that right and left politics is poisonous and divisive. I would like to see moderate conservative and moderate labour people working together. Not extremists from either side. I hate extremists. And farage is extreme.

, but he is a good speaker and can be very funny and charismatic when speaking. So I think he would win quite a few votes actually. Plus he does have some good ideas (not brexit obv). For example he wants hospital car parks to be free.

Why bring age into it? There's plenty of young racists around you know!

@DontLeanOnTheKeyboard Your agism is every bit as bad as NF's racism. You are just as bad as he is.

Think about it !

I think of him as the younger cousin at a wedding where people humour them because there is no other kids their age around

I don't see it really

Completely agree.

I'm not sure where "hopefully improve" came from. Bloody predictive text is getting worse. I meant "hopefully unlikely".

Farage is an idiot of the worst proportion. He was another Brexiteer who didn't have a plan. How would he ever know what the EU was all about? He had the second worst attendance record. The only MEP who was there less was a disabled chap who couldn't physically get there.

The state of british politics these days is a joke. Actually, the state of global politics is a joke.

No strong leadership, no strong opposition. It is tragic. I can't believe I'm the only one who feels this way, I just don't know what I'll do come the election. I've spoiled my paper in the last few, but it's too important this time.

What a horrible shame for the country that we ended up getting him at all 😢

Apparently there’s a rumour circulating that Tory MPs want to orchestrate a coup and replace Sunak with him

Now? He can't be leader of the Tory party, their rules state that the leader must be a sitting MP.
Not only is he not an MP, he's not even a member of the Tory party.

I don't think he'll become leader of the Tories, a prominent role in Reform maybe .
I think if he and Lee Anderson ramped up Reform they would get a sizeable Red Wall vote . Not enough to win but certainly to give the Tories a bloody nose .
The country has gone down the toilet and people want change ,

I think this also

What a horrible shame for the country we ended up getting him at all. He has a proven track record of being a liar going back decades.

It's like the UK took an intelligence test and failed. Twice. Once with Brexit, and then for a second time voting him in. 🤦‍♂️

@DontLeanOnTheKeyboard
5 years until I can leave this pathetic little britain small b. It’s horrific.
Why wait 5 years, go now or are you locked up - any chance you can be let out of your institution earlier?

Nigel Farage won't become leader of the conservative party and they will not win the next GE because we need the next generation to experience a socialist government.

5 years later, the conservatives will return (without NF).

Yes but a far right party would want turn that quickly into minus 700,000. To suggest the Tories, Farage, Reform etc are far right is laughable, when genuinely intolerant cultures are not only being allowed to grow in the UK, they're indulged.

He's not even an MP - having failed about seven times!

They can't even parachute him into a 'safe seat' as they no longer exist

It's just more lunacy from the Tories

I think you need to stop paying attention to daft rumours.

@TheThingIsYeah But they won’t. They aren’t going to stop migration and anyone who thinks they will has a serious misunderstanding of economics and politics. They certainly aren’t going to magically increase the birth rate.

Exactly. The Tory membership is quite different to Tory voters. I can see that the membership would put him in if the had the chance and it may get a few of the reform voters back. It would almost certainly lose the part of their vote which is switching to Labour and Lib Dem though.

Nigel’s biggest barrier is getting elected as an MP though. The Tories biggest problem is they are losing voters to the left and right. Nigel won’t help that even if they do manage to get him elected.

This. He can’t even garner enough votes to be an MP.