Konstantin Kisin

But first, and much more importantly, we have to recognize that reform has no choice but to continue salvaging what they can from the rotting carcass of the Conservative Party.

Why?

because Britain is not America.

Our electoral system does not allow a charismatic leader with a small band of acolytes to storm to power in the way that President Trump did with just J.D.

Vance, RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and Vivek Ramaswamy

his side.

To become prime minister, Nigel Farage has to have 650 men and women stand as candidates in constituencies across the country and more than half of them to actually be elected.

Even now, when much of the public is fed up with the status quo and Keir Starmer enjoying the lowest favorability ratings in history, having a reform rosette pinned on you will not guarantee victory in a specific constituency.

especially to an unknown, politically inexperienced candidate.

Once elected, that MP will be faced with the reality that standing as an MP is almost the exact opposite of being an MP.

A political campaign is about making speeches, knocking on doors, and selling yourself to the public.

But once the sale is made, your constituents need you to solve their problems.

Making witty comebacks on TV requires an entirely different skill set to filling potholes.

And metaphorical potholes are no small matter.

nor one to worry about once the election is in the bag.

The only way reform can succeed as a political project is to win the war of the next election and then win the peace by actually delivering both locally and nationally.

Which brings us to the final reason why reform has no choice.

If elected, the biggest challenge they face is turning the sinking oil tanker that is Britain around.

This will require an understanding of how the machinery of government works, something that can only come from experience of being in government.

Many recent defectors are being described as Tory failures, and in a sense, this is fair and correct.