Glasgow Tory council leader defects to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

[Nearly Sane]

In one sense a small story, though it is 50% of the Tories on the council. I know the councillor though and he's positioned himself up to now as on the One Nation wing of the Tory Party. Now in part that was ambition, and that's what this is. That someone who had been doing OK, and was likely to be given a reasonable chance at election to Holyrood/Westminster, does this highlights that ambition for someone on the centre right can see Reform as ok.

https://news.stv.tv/politics/glasgow-tory-council-leader-thomas-kerr-defects-to-nigel-farages-reform-uk

[Free Willy]

In one sense a small story, though it is 50% of the Tories on the council. I know the councillor though and he's positioned himself up to now as on the One Nation wing of the Tory Party. Now in part that was ambition, and that's what this is. That someone who had been doing OK, and was likely to be given a reasonable chance at election to Holyrood/Westminster, does this highlights that ambition for someone on the centre right can see Reform as ok.

https://news.stv.tv/politics/glasgow-tory-council-leader-thomas-kerr-defects-to-nigel-farages-reform-uk

Don't get why he would join an English Nationalist Party.

[Nearly Sane]

Don't get why he would join an English Nationalist Party.

Because they aren't. Because he thinks that this is a better chance of getting up the greasy pole.

[ProfessorDavey]

Don't get why he would join an English Nationalist Party.

Sounds as if he's got an eye on becoming an MSP in the 2026 election, and with the electoral system used for Scottish parliament and the likelihood of Reform getting a reasonable voteshare then being a pretty big fish (an ex tory council leader) in a small pond (reform potential candidates in Scotland) sounds like a pretty good route to success ... if you are ambition and unprincipled!!

[Nearly Sane]

Sounds as if he's got an eye on becoming an MSP in the 2026 election, and with the electoral system used for Scottish parliament and the likelihood of Reform getting a reasonable voteshare then being a pretty big fish (an ex tory council leader) in a small pond (reform potential candidates in Scotland) sounds like a pretty good route to success ... if you are ambition and unprincipled!!

I'm wondering whether he'll be deleting some social media posts as he hasn't exactly been a cheerleader for Farage and Reform.

[Nearly Sane]

Alex Massie on what the possible point of the Tories in Scotland could be


https://archive.vn/DZqAD