Because it’s easy to take populist pot-shots from the side, compared to defending your decisions while actually running the country at the same time.
It’s much harder to take pot-shots from the side of you are even slightly on the left. The elite won’t give you a microphone.
Personally I think they’ve made a mistake running any candidates in local elections. Now everyone will see they’re all hot air and snide comments, but lack any actual ability to govern, obey the law or even simply read the room.
This is honestly my hope. All these locations are getting a free trial of Reform competency.
In the same way Clacton are having a fun time getting in contact with their MP for surgeries.
Because he’s not been in public-facing power (ie in the cabinet), and being in power is awful for approval ratings as a lot of the time there’s no good decisions and things you’ve had no influence over still turn the people against you.
And also Labor are cucks.
Presumably the Owners want him in power.
Mostly because of Murdoch.
It’s not (just) Murdoch. Fascists are getting propped up by media everywhere because they say polemic stuff, and polemic stuff drives “views”, which drive ads revenue, which drives media oligarch’s yatch fund.
It’s almost like he’s getting paid by someone not in the UK to do something other than participate in our democracy in good faith. What an outlandish notion.
But the question is more about why nobody calls him out for it. The standard for Labour is perfection, the standard for Reform is “Oh, that’s just Nige.”
Reactionaries aren’t known for their internally consistent ideologies.
Edit: swiftly moving past the point about Labour being perfect, mind you
It’s not just reactionaries though, it’s the entire political and media establishment.
