@_Sik_a Also worth saying, he adopted the right’s rhetoric trying to outflank them (that immigration speech got compared to Rivers of Blood) and it backfired since it’s not even Reform ousting him, it’s his own party. Labour MPs are the ones who lost patience and pushed him out.
@_Sik_a I think it’s deeper than numbers tho. Reform voters were never mad about net migration as a stat, it was always about who’s coming/culture stuff (cough- racism) dressed up as a numbers debate. So net migration dropping 82% in 3 years doesn’t touch their actual issue.
@_Sik_a Can’t say for everyone, but for me specifically, his failures were around his pivot to centrist and in some cases centre right politics with no real governing identity. A politics that was overall just always reacting to the far right with no positive vision of its own.
Don’t forget when Dwyane Wade came off the bench in the 2008 Olympics and led the team in scoring over Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
Prime D-Wade was unstoppable.
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”