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Public don’t want to admit they’re Tories, says Liz Truss
(www.independent.co.uk)
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When you actually talk to people most people are pretty middle of the road left of center or right of center. So parties should be pretty close to the center if they want votes as you say going after the extreme fringe groups only alienates everyone else.
The Tory strategists know this, which is why they keep trying to pull the conservatives back to the center, but the likes of 30p, and Mog refuse to get the message.
By definition the majority will be at the centre. Where the centre is different by county of course.
That's not how politics works the center is the moderate.
If everyone in the country is a Nazi the center is not the average the center is the moderate. By definition not there for the average.
You ask those Nazis where the centre is. Their centre won't be ours. When talk about the centre, it will be their's they are taking about.