The Ignorance of Reform UK Voters is a Godsend

Will Black
2 min readMar 9, 2024
Ai-generated image of the Tories going over a cliff

There are many ways we could describe the inevitable devastation of the Tory Party in the forthcoming general election. I’ll suggest a handful:

Conservative carnage, delusion-driven destruction, annihilation of arseholes, deeply deserved disintegration, being flushed down the toilet by an angry god or goddess, karmic retribution, being stamped into the earth — or going over a cliff and being shattered on the jagged rocks of reality.

For the many millions of us who can see the damage the Tories have done to society, it will be a rare treat to watch vast numbers of Tory seats be lost — followed by a bloody tug of war of the shredded, diseased ‘heart’ of the party by right-wing zealots and any ‘moderate’ ‘one-nation Tories’ left.

That will be hilarious — and even more so because the devastation is being compounded by another right-wing party, Reform UK. Their efforts to push the UK further right could help destroy the only right-wing party with a shred of credibility — giving Labour multiple terms in power.

Reform UK, the rebranded Brexit Party, started babbling about other issues to try to shed its one-trick-pony image, after the idiocy of Brexit was finally imposed. In addition to peddling anti-immigration narratives, it suddenly decided it had expertise in epidemiology and virology and…

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Will Black

Will is an anthropologist, journalist and former clinician. He is the author or Veneer of Civilisation, Psychopathic Cultures and Beyond the End of the World