‘Elections are not won from the centre.’ Jacob Rees-Mogg on why Tories win on right-wing policies

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[Wackaz]

Yeah, but the point is, when you win on a right wing platform, you don't deliver it - you instantly fall to the "middle-muddle" centre, as you always have done. You didn't get Brexit done, you totally botched it up. The Tories aren't competent, they haven't gotten anything meaningful done competently in decades - offering little that serves the people, offering nothing that dramatically improves their wellbeing. You, Mogg, were often at the helm of that project.

[shaft_raiser]

Okay his self awareness is quite refreshing

[SH-lmek]

It was neither cuddliness nor competence that cost the Tories, it was corruption

[tcfkdhx]

Tories didn’t win based on their 2019 policy. Jeremy Corbin was so far left people voted to avoid labour not because they agreed with Tory policy.

Tories lost this time around because of a lack in confidence of deliver, public in fighting.

If people voted for policy not people then Tories would have won again.

[GayorgVonTrapp]

It’s a no brainer Jacob. Move to Reform. We like you.

1 million per cent Reform
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[davidlythgoe]

You are complicit.
You will never get back into power be ause of your betrayal.

[oneukum]

A conservative party can appear cuddly. DeGaulle managed. The inability to do this is the major weakness of British and US conservatives.

[wasifbhatti]

Who can actually make an emotive, feeling based argument against this man.

Coming from a Labour voter

[lenabo]

You did well in 2015. First majority conservative since 1992

[andyd]

I'm 58 and I've never known a competent Labour government.

[niceone]

He was not capable of being a minister or a secretary of state. He was more at home snipping from the side.

[nicks]

Well I think Mr Rees-Mogg is cuddly, kind, Christian, a gentleman.

[Squinge]

The 2019 large majority was instantly a victim of its own success because, just like Brexit itself, the final supposed outcome was very very vague with lots of different ideas on what it should be. It was also a one major issue election, which was never going to have gone down well with an electorate because they would soon start asking, “What about this other issue, what about that”. Because the UK has been fixated on Brexit for so long, a lot of people just thought, “oh come, I’m fed up of brexit, let’s just get it done”, not, “I fully endorse everything the conservatives stand for”. What a lot of people similar to Rees-Mogg and in the last government don’t realise is that 2019 was a freak event not necessarily based on support for their policies. On top of that, I agree with Rees-Mogg, that a conservative government needs to be seen as competent and from 2019 they were far far far from that.

[benmapp]

Competent? Five PMs in fourteen years? That's competence?

[alphanet]

I thought being not re-elected would mean I wouldn't have to hear this Mr. Rees-Mogg again. I's a pain :)

[ECECECECEC]

His self awareness is screwed. Doesn’t he get that we all know that he’s incompetent?

[stevec]

We were doing well in 2019? Maybe some statistic suggests we were but it sure as he'll didn't feel like it for normal people. Isn't the average person's finances what should be the real measure of how the country is doing?

[Alphamask]

Politics is a cycle and we don’t know how long Labour will have a domination they could have a long or a short run, however with the rise in Reform this could be the new way that right wing voters may move for in the future maybe, it’s back to the drawing board for the conservatives until they can present themselves as electable again, Rees-Mogg does make some valid points

[Bliefking]

Well, they tried lurching to the right in 2001 and 2005. this is a very nitpicky analysis.

[christhegardener]

Centrist policies are what helps the most people most often. Just not the rich, and the Tories are for the rich. Brexit was dressed up as nationalism but was instigated to bypass the planned increased tax rates for the rich put forward by the EU, a policy that would be funding our public sector very well with the super rich barely noticing the difference.