The conservatives have never been particularly good for the country but lately they've gone completely bonkers. Who do they think these kind of policy measures are appealing to? The closed-minded idiots that used to like this kind of thing have all gone over to reform now. So they've decided that they now need to make sure they alienate their remaining voters.

Could this be the party desperately seeking to replace revenue streams as donors abandon them en masse?

Fortunate that the government actually seems to care about climate pledges, energy independence, and reforming planning permission in a way that allows for easier building of climate infrastructure.

Conservatives and Reform are absolutely nuts on this issue (and many others tbh).

Thing is I read recently that the thing people like the least about Farage is his ties to the fossil fuel industry, so this seems a strategically poor thing to copy.

The Conservatives still exist?

What a cunt

I'd quite like to scrap Kemi Badenoch.

If you are going to try to out-farage the farage party, you might as well go all in on the cartoon evil, I guess.

Another Farage puppet

While I wish Labour were further from the Conservatives and Reform on immigration and trans rights, this is one serious difference between the parties that really matters.