Media pageantry for Reform is obscuring the meaningful trends demonstrated at the local elections. Nigel Farage’s party is stuttering, argues Sam Bright.
Fingers crossed. I wonder whether the Reform supporter base will get burned out by the time of the general election. A mixture of inexperience, not realising you have to actually do work for no pay as a councillor and some “character flaws” that suggest they don’t play nicely together could mean that their activitsts will have had enough of things within a year or two. Regardless of what Farage says about growing, there is an limited base for Reform in UK.
Unfortunately I don’t think people pay enough attention to council politics to put the blame for poor local solutions at the door of Reform. Local elections tends to be “with the heart”, national elections with the head. Let’s see. I do agree with the point that reform is most likely to shift voters towards an “against reform” vote; it certainly would mine.
Fingers crossed. I wonder whether the Reform supporter base will get burned out by the time of the general election. A mixture of inexperience, not realising you have to actually do work for no pay as a councillor and some “character flaws” that suggest they don’t play nicely together could mean that their activitsts will have had enough of things within a year or two. Regardless of what Farage says about growing, there is an limited base for Reform in UK.
Unfortunately I don’t think people pay enough attention to council politics to put the blame for poor local solutions at the door of Reform. Local elections tends to be “with the heart”, national elections with the head. Let’s see. I do agree with the point that reform is most likely to shift voters towards an “against reform” vote; it certainly would mine.