Why Factionalism Could Hurt the Tories

The Conservative Party faces internal divisions as polls predict an end to their 13-year tenure. Backbenchers vie for leadership post-Rishi Sunak's potential defeat. This video examines party divisions, factions, and potential successors.

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[thecryingsoul]

How Truss still has such a base after the fiasco of her leadership is baffling to me lol

[napoleonibonaparte]

It still baffles everyone how Truss moved from LibDems to the very right wing of the Conservatives.

[Mondfischli]

... there's a lettuce growing in the crack between the factions 😂

[me]

"Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake"

-Napoléon Bonaparte

[TheRasteri]

the fact that "libertarian" now means "socially conservative" just shows you what a joke libertarianism has become

[KjV]

I like how you pronounced "swivel-eyed loon" as "Libertarian". Very diplomatic.

[ryanconnor]

You can't claim to be a small state conservative but then use government power to literally stopping the things you don't like.

[gp-]

How the bloody hell is truss allowed to govern anything!?!

[talideon]

Tiny correction: democratic socialists tend to be further left than social democrats.

[Itchyknee]

Jesus, the fact that Truss is so popular within the Conservative Party, shows how out of touch they are. Absolute disaster of a politician, who was so far out of her depth it would of been laughable if it hadn't been so damaging.

[SRFriso]

Sunak hasn't so much managed the hardliners as he has appeased them, that's the most important reason he hasn't sacked Braverman. He isn't a leader inspiring unity, he's a mailman trying to negotiate with an angry dog.

[MrMartinSchou]

A symptom of first past the post electoral systems - the only upside is that it hasn't devolved as much as in the US where there really only are two parties.

Proportional representation would allow both the Conservatives and Labour to split their hodgepodge parties into proper parties with proper representation in Parliament.

[noah]

Truss supporters being angry that Sunak never faced an election is ironic

[MagicSecretsandMysteries]

My dyslexic ass read the title as “why fascism could hurt the Tories” 😂

[Pikaling]

this is the party that is heading out of power.

[leonbanks]

2:08 David Cameron was leader until 2016, not 2015.

[pontimin]

The Tories should've elected the lettuce as their leader -- despite being a vegetable it would've done a better job than Truss

[Eurobrasil]

Looking at the clips with Truss her supporters seem in general young, they could well be fairly well off types who have heard of the 'Yuppie' types who did well under Thatcher in the 80s, and now want a bite of the same cherry.
What they fail to realise is there isn't the publicly owned assests to be sold off that there were 40 years ago, and Truss won't be able to serve their selfish greed without major reprocussions, as has already been painfully demostrated in the real world with her disastrous budget!.

[-M_M_M-]

Libertarians are not socially conservative. That's just being a conservative.

[JohnR]

More importantly it could benefit the country.

They really do need to split up.