I was just thinking about "survivor" bias and what will hopefully happen if the polls come true.
Tories get wiped out - and people like Badenoch "survive" and become leader. But they don't focus on why they lost. And (in my wishful thinking?) it's because many of their traditional voters don't want to vote for them anymore.
So they are focusing on the survivor and she might become Leader but they don't focus on the reasons they lost and instead go more right towards Reform.
And maybe repeat it again in a 2029 election.
I hope that parties revert to the way things were a while ago - where there were no major extremes in beliefs.
I sometimes imagine a semi circle of MPs - instead of an opposite chamber like we have. Imagine those with more similar beliefs in the middle of the semi circle - and then the ones with the further right beliefs go towards the right and the more left ones go further to the left. We seem to be heading towards something where there are going to be just a few Tory MPs but their beliefs might well be somewhere away from the centre ground.