Could the Conservatives finish third in the next election?
Nigel Farage just made it a lot more likely
The Labour landslide result of the 1997 UK general election was famously described on the night by BBC election analyst Anthony King as like “an asteroid hitting the planet and destroying practically all life on Earth.”
The Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago left behind an identifying calling card — a relative abundance of the rare element iridium in the rocks formed at the time, marking the boundary between abundance and extinction. We may come to call the marker at the boundary between Tory life and death “Nigel Farage”.
Farage is the factor that could turn this election from “just” a punishing and bruising defeat into a catastrophic wipeout. Labour in ascendancy with a collapse in the Tory vote would be bad enough for the Conservatives, but what they should really fear is losing votes not just to the centre, but to the Right at the same time…
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Unfortunately the Conservatives have been hijacked by left wing imposters, so currently we have Centre Left Tories, Left Wing Labour and Far Left Lib Dems, there is no Centre Right/ Right wing party at the moment which is roughly 50% of the country without representation so his hands and others hands have been forced.