New(ish) Conservative party faction just dropped. Let’s welcome the “New Conservatives” to the party.
They join the National Conservatives and a bunch of other factions such as the European Research Group, Covid Recovery Group, Net Zero Scrutiny Group, Common Sense Group, Blue Collar Conservatism, Northern Research Group and no doubt many others that don’t quite come to the top of my mind right now. One day there will be more factions than politicians if we lucky.
The New Conservatives faction has the extremely non-unique selling point of not liking immigrants. They did manage to come up with a 10 point policy, but every point is a unsubtle rewording of “immigration needs stopped”.
Although if they do ever fully exhaust our patience with anti-immigration cruelty they do have aspirations to move onto being - can you guess? Let’s all say it together: anti-woke.
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I’ll let the i headline speak for itself: ‘They’re dickheads’: New Conservatives group of MPs will cost us the election, Sunak allies say
In particular they appear to be very concerned that the current Prime Minister - who constantly explicitly tells us that lowering immigration, at a time where in some ways the country might actually need immigrants more than ever even for purely selfish reasons, is one of his top priorities at basically any cost - even the cost of breaking international law - should think about adding lowering immigration as one of his priorities. How efficient they are to have achieved their goals before they even existed.
There’s a fun interview on the July 3rd episode of The News Agents podcast where the one of the high-ups of this pointless new faction really really tries to wriggle out of agreeing that what he wants to is prevent is even the most cruelly oppressed and tortured women stuck in Afghanistan from seeking asylum in the UK amongst other things, when that actually seems to be the whole point of his tediously unoriginal faction. Add dishonesty to the litany of sins.