Kenneth Clarke, a major figure in the Conservative Party
(a former Chancellor, Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Justice Secretary,
Education Secretary and Health Secretary) explained “If you have another
recession or if the Conservative Government becomes very unpopular, he could
win. In difficult times the party with the duty of government can become
unpopular. He will be difficult to campaign against.”
Matthew d’Ancona, former editor of The Spectator and Deputy
Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, is well-connected in Tory circles argues a Corbyn’s
leadership “would drag the overall debate to the left and the tiny risk of his
victory would be a catastrophe for Britain”. … Even Corbyn’s failure would
threaten to re-define the centre ground and, by definition, make the Tories
look more rightwing.”
Oliver Cooper – Tory Councillor and Chair of the
Conservative Way Forward organising committee – warns Conservatives not to
welcome Corbyn’s success. “Corbyn’s views will be more left-wing, so will shift
the entire political debate to the left. Long-term, so long as Labour and the
Conservatives remain the two major parties in the UK, the only way to make
progress is to persuade Labour to accept our position. Our ideas don’t win just
when our party does, but when the other party advocates our ideas, too. a
Corbyn victory would lend credibility to the far-left … giving a megaphone to
their politics. Inevitably, this would skew the discourse, letting Corbyn’s
ideas become the default alternative to the Conservatives. Corbyn’s brand of
socialism would poison the groundwater of British politics for a generation:
influencing people, particularly young people, across the political spectrum.”
Asa Bennett, assistant comment editor at The Telegraph,
argues:
https://timholmesblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/yes-corbyn-scares-the-tories-heres-why/
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