Who would you vote for?(UK General Election 2025)

[Intell]

Partisan Tory til I die.

Really? Really?, Just Uhh, you vote for the party of Thatcher.

Of course I hate Thatcher, but I'm a staunch traditionalist and monarchist. It's also the party of Disraeli, Pitt the Younger and Churchill.

I certainly respect at least two of those PMs a great deal - but I don't really get voting for a party just because of former members who are dead.

They also have Cameron as PM.

[IceAgeComing]

Watson is pretty obviously going to become the Brown to Corbyn's Blair, just of the left side of the party. Sometimes the best fighters are those who used to oppose you.

...do you know anything about british politics?  Tom Watson was probably the best person standing for the deputy leadership imo, but he's certainly no corbynite...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Watson is old fashioned West Midlands Labour Right and even looks it.

[Blair]

If anything Watson is closer to a Prescott type role (he's quite popular on the right, and among brownites, just not the weird ultra Blairites) However, unlike Prescott he wants to be leader

[Kingpoleon]

If anything Watson is closer to a Prescott type role (he's quite popular on the right, and among brownites, just not the weird ultra Blairites) However, unlike Prescott he wants to be leader

I thought I understood that. Do you not see him falling in line with Corbyn over time?

Again, I'm not saying he's a "Corbynite" now. I'm saying I see him easily becoming one, either due to Corbyn's influence, gaining Corbyn's voter group, or some combination thereof. Maybe I'm just underestimating how solidly Labour Right he will always be.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah not sure if you understand how Labour factionalism works at all.