Britain is full of people who don’t want to admit they’re Tories, Liz Truss told the launch rally of the new Popular Conservatism (PopCon) movement on Tuesday, 6 February. Speaking in central London, the short-lived former prime minister said: “Britain is full of secret Conservatives – people who agree with us but don’t want to admit it because they think it’s not acceptable in their place of work, it’s not acceptable at their school.” Ms Truss also hit out at Rishi Sunak’s government for failing to take on “left-wing extremists” she claimed had gained control of UK institutions.
  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    "You secretly love us" is not the approach I expected but I guess maybe I should have expected it

  • TWeaK@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    More like the generally right-wing British public no longer want to be associated with the corrupt scum that are the Tory party.

    It's pretty sad when the people that would support you by default have grown sick of you.

    • jabjoe@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      They UK public aren't that right wing. It's just FPTP. The left is spread over more parties. It's why UKIP/Reform drag the Consecutives round. They can't afford the vote splitting. We aren't as badly two party as the US, so Conservatives playing the US Republican playbook to keep their nutters happy, is just destorying them.