Change UK are not the problem for the Conservatives. Rather, it is their own change narrative is ultimately weak.
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Quangos, councils, media outlets, even the police are apparently content to apply unequal restrictions to those of us whose views they dislike.
It rarely worked for the Conservatives when they tried to out-UKIP UKIP.
When asked for it, the three MPs presented none. The reason is simple: this supposedly sinister entryist army does not exist.
The SDP analogies are all wrung dry. But nobody has looked at what a more recent insurgency can teach the new outfit.
The failure of the SDP by no means proves that a new movement of this kind is doomed to failure.
“I don’t think a new Farage Party will be where the votes go.” Plus, Rees-Mogg’s view on Corbyn and May’s letters, and Tusk’s “confused” theology.
Today, May is swinging towards her Party’s leavers. The logic of the Chancellor’s position, and that of his allies, is to block her – or try to.
Plus: Marion Little carries can for CCHQ – and many agents of all parties will think: “there but for the grace of God go I.” And: Am I creepy?
The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.
Let us hope not. It’s unlikely, but not completely impossible. The Government must battle four trends to reduce the risk.
UKIP’s dominant figure tried and failed to keep his party free of Tommy Robinson’s poison. The worst possible people are taking over at the worst possible time.
She looks increasingly like the captive of pro-Remain cross-party MPs working together against the pro-Leave referendum mandate.
At the same time, my research shows some of the hurdles any theoretical new movement will have to cross if it is to survive contact with reality.