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The real story behind the recent UK general election, Professor Matt Goodwin said, is the electorate’s disillusionment and disengagement. The election results are due to an electorate that is frustrated and fed up with the policy choices that were made by a “Conservative” Party which no longer promotes conservative policies. Let’s not lose touch…Your Government and Big Tech are actively trying to censor the information reported by The Exposé to serve their own needs. Subscribe now to make sure you receive the latest uncensored news in your inbox… On Monday, Matt Goodwin, professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, spoke at an event held by The Heritage Foundation, an American think tank which promotes public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values and a strong national defence. Prof. Goodwin was asked by the organisers to offer a few thoughts on the recent UK election in the UK and the unfolding crisis of conservatism. “Suffice to say the Republicans, who are leading in the national and battleground polls, and have remained firmly connected to the post-2016 political realignment, are very confused by the direction of British conservatism and a Tory elite class that looks completely out-of-touch,” Prof. Goodwin noted in a Substack article. In his opening remarks, Prof. Goodwin told the audience the reasons why, as he believes, the Conservative Party just suffered their heaviest defeat in history. “The conservative party was severely punished by an electorate that largely agrees with many Conservative policies but came to the conclusion that after 14 years in government, the Conservative Party was no longer what its name implied,” he said. Adding. “Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that the election of the largest Labour majority since Tony Blair’s majority of 1997 indicates some kind of mass public enthusiasm for social democratic politics because that is misleading.” “Starmer and the Labor Party have just come into office with the lowest share of the vote for any incoming majority government since the 1880s. The level of turnout fell to one of the lowest levels that we’ve had on record. The combined share of the vote for the two established parties Labour and the Conservatives has fallen to the lowest share since the emergence of our two-party system,” he said. “So, the real story at this election, really, was about disillusionment and disengagement. It was about an electorate that is frustrated and fed up with the policy choices that were made by a Conservative Party.”
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