By mrfahrenheit211 on Skatehive
Picture shows Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. The Tory party is being hit by a veritable wave of defections to the Reform Party. Some of those who have defected I would reasonably assume are defecting for cynical reasons such as hoping to save their Parliamentary seats should the Tories take a massive hit at election time. Some of those are without doubt likely to be hypocrites as they are going to be railing against policies as Reform members/MP’s that they might have supported during their time as Tory MP’s or Ministers. However I’m giving those in the second category a bit of a pass as many of us understand that it is possible for a person to change their political views and travel from Left to Right or vice versa in response to new information or life events that cause them to change their views. A lot of those former Tories who have joined Reform are those Tories who are from the Right of the party. This is depleting the Tory party of political talent from the party’s Rig