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Originally Posted by Tom Wilde
All very true and nicely put. Daniel Hannan seems like a good guy. Can't imagine why he is with the Tories rather than in UKIP.
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Because he realises that reforming the Tory Party is currently the only long-term hope of getting the UK out of the EU; UKIP aren't going to win a button in the General Election, never mind a seat - and never mind the parliamentary majority needed to get the UK out.
That said, the Tories are a very slim hope indeed and I for one have little faith in them - although I still maintain that UKIP are an electoral non-entity come the enxt election. I think the only way it's ever going to happen is if the Tories voluntarily disband and set up a new centre-right Party. The Conservatives are too broad a church ever to be able to have a proper anti-EU policy; the leadership will always have to compromise to pacify the rabid leftists on the Tory benches.