You can walk all the way from Somerset to Sussex without crossing a Tory(保守党的；保守党人)-run constituency(选区), if you wish. You could also travel through each of the counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey without setting foot in Tory lands. They are now mainly Liberal Democrat(自由民主党), and there’s not one Tory MP in all of Oxfordshire.
如果你愿意，可以从萨默塞特一路走到苏塞克斯，途中不会经过任何一个保守党执政的选区。你也可以穿越威尔特郡、汉普郡、多塞特郡和萨里郡的每一个角落，却不会踏入保守党的地盘。这些地方如今主要由自由民主党把持，整个牛津郡甚至没有一位保守党议员。
Is Kemi Badenoch bothered? Everything she does seems cleverly designed to keep those places lost to her for ever as she woo(争取、讨好)s Reform voters, unsuccessfully. The more she leans right, the more she repel(排斥、使反感)s home counties(伦敦周边各郡) moderates. Those Reform voters are not coming back, psephologist(选举分析专家)s say. Without reclaiming the old “blue wall”, there is no hope, ever, of a Tory majority, say both Profs Tim Bale and Rob Ford and just about every political authority you care to ask.(蒂姆·贝尔和罗布·福特两位教授，以及你所能问到的几乎每一位政治权威都表示，若不夺回昔日的“蓝墙”，保守党永远别想赢得多数席位。)
凯米·巴德诺赫在乎吗？她所做的一切似乎都精心设计，只为在徒劳地讨好改革党选民的同时，让那些地方永远离她而去。她越向右倾，就越把“家郡”的温和派选民推开。选举分析人士说，那些改革党选民不会回来了。蒂姆·贝尔和罗布·福特两位教授，以及你所能问到的几乎每一位政治权威都表示，若不夺回昔日的“蓝墙”，保守党永远别想赢得多数席位。
Shooting the breeze at the party’s Birmingham conference, you might never guess the Tories still poll four percentage points below the last election, the worst result since the Duke of Wellington was dismissed in 1830 for rejecting electoral reform and defending every rotten borough.(在伯明翰的党代会上闲聊时，你或许根本猜不到，保守党的民调仍比上次大选低四个百分点——这是自1830年威灵顿公爵因拒绝选举改革、捍卫每一个腐败选区而被解职以来最糟糕的结果。)
在伯明翰的党代会上闲聊时，你或许根本猜不到，保守党的民调仍比上次大选低四个百分点——这是自1830年威灵顿公爵因拒绝选举改革、捍卫每一个腐败选区而被解职以来最糟糕的结果。