
James Frayne: Why the Conservatives must go negative on Corbyn
In my view, they’d be mad not to make him a defining feature of their campaign. The party should be running a contrast campaign with ‘Corbyn’s Labour’.
In my view, they’d be mad not to make him a defining feature of their campaign. The party should be running a contrast campaign with ‘Corbyn’s Labour’.
Plus: I have the right to speak my mind about Liverpool. Plus: am I a true Conservative?
Would they actually think that, now Brexit’s done and immigration back under control, that they can return to their natural home in the Labour Party?
Middle class hostility to the working class and lower middle class is common, while working class and lower middle class hostility is practically non-existent.
The NHS, the environment, childcare: the creative energies of Team Johnson must be poured into new policies for these.
In the absence of counter-arguments, we can’t really be sure what the public thinks about state action on unhealthy lifestyles.
MPs and activists should be asking themselves a big question: what is it that made him popular in the first place?
Plus a sixth, less formal, question: are they ridiculous?
No one has a prayer of bringing voters back to the Party if they don’t get on their knees and beg for forgiveness from the electorate.
There are clearly dangers in accepting the terms set out by green activists – who essentially argue that we can only protect the environment by slowing growth.
It is mistaken to believe that the British people are collectively optimistic, happy-go-lucky, and modernity-obsessed – and on the same wavelength as those that are.
Everyone likes the sound of it – so long as they believe it is going to deliver their preferred outcome. Already Tory poll ratings are visibly on the slide.
Change UK are not the problem for the Conservatives. Rather, it is their own change narrative is ultimately weak.
It’s hard to see how the Conservatives can sustain their electoral position by U-turning on Brexit. Its core vote will surely completely collapse.