Could Reform Merge with the Tories?
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Published 2024-06-15
With Reform UK splitting the right wing vote and weakening the Tories' chances even further, speculation has been rife about whether the two parties could merge after the election. So could Farage try to reshape the Conservatives in his own image?
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All Comments (21)
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So they'd become... The Tories? Reform merging with the Tories is like worst case scenario for them.
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"Progressive Conservatives" is the perfect parliamentary party name. Completely and blatantly incoherent
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"Would you say you could lead the Conservative Party" Farage: "A new opposition centre-right party is going to emerge, and I can lead it to hold Labour accountable" "Let's say it's called ConForm" Terrible opposition name
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It would be suicide for reform if they do the whole point is to get away from the Tories, the number of ex-tories joining is making people hesitate.
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Dont forget this man said "ATTENTION ALL SUSSY GAMERS!" And "Big Chungus is out!"
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Apparently, every 8 years, the electorate's brain reboot
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The Tories. The leading party for the last 200 hundreds years that took the British Empire through it's "Managed Decline".
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In my opinion, if they merge with the Tories that kind of just defeats the purpose of Reform's existence in the first place. (Idk I'm Australian so I have zero authority to talk about British politics)
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If it's not called Reformatory I will be very disappointed.
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No. This would defeat the purpose of Reform
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Very unlikely like Farage knows he is endangering the tories why would he help them
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ConForm UK. Sounds ominous.
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A few corrections from a Canadian. Reform did not win a seat in 1988, they won a seat in a by election later. And Reform did not merge with the PCs. Reform became a new party called the Canadian Alliance who did merge with the PCs in 2003.
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Man whose chief complaint was “Unelected bureaucrats” … sets up a party where he is unelected
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If reform join with the tories wont they just become the same tories that the public hate?
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Why on earth would any party rescue them?
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I don't think people fully grasp that a lot of right-wingers are so angry at the Conservative party and the political system in general that they are tactically voting for Labour, not because they support Labour, but because they want to completely destroy the Conservative party and leave them with zero seats. Many of them would love nothing more than to have the Labour party sitting at 650 seats while only receiving 38% of the vote, because it would provoke a constitutional crisis and leave Labour in an extremely awkward position. When people like Farage say that this is "a revolt", they mean it in more ways than you'd expect.
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New name: RefUKTories.
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As a Canadian, it's strange to think our political history is influencing anything going on in the UK, much less any other country at all.
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The "Conform" party rolls right off the tongue doesn't it?! "Resvervatory" doesn't really work either
