Tim's research is always fascinating - and this is particularly so.
Not a huge amount of surprises here, Reform are very much who they appear to be.
The overly online element also isn't a suprise - but I suspect that, and economics, present a real weakness.
Not a huge amount of surprises here, Reform are very much who they appear to be.
The overly online element also isn't a suprise - but I suspect that, and economics, present a real weakness.
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Adam Payne
Who are Reform members?
- older
- not in London
- hostile to net zero (much more so than Tory members)
- economic Thatcherites (unlike the party’s target voters?)
- like leaders “stirring up a bit of controversy”.
- *very* online
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- older
- not in London
- hostile to net zero (much more so than Tory members)
- economic Thatcherites (unlike the party’s target voters?)
- like leaders “stirring up a bit of controversy”.
- *very* online
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And yes, would be very interested in seeing crossover with loneliness.
And it's agorhythem is mental, but entirely missed by most of us because we don't use it.
My mum is basically speed pumped right wing content (and mystified by it)
It was a one off bonfire and can never be repeated.
Though the Coalition did their level best.
Hence the dismal state of things.
It isn't a suprise that it's proponents response has been to demand the same but harder
As opposed to a century of underinvestment, poor management and rentier capitalism.
And bloody steowdents of course
*unless the right is divided or the left can unify around a centrist candidate (eg Blair)
It’s an electoral strategy not a governing one.
However it has two electoral strengths:-
1. Keeping the money you earn "seems" fair.
2. You can make a plausible sounding case that you are the best person to know how to spend your money.
These are hard to counter.
Can see some impressive explosions coming
I really fiind it bizarre that net zero has been made such a wedge issue.
I'm not sure it's something those of us who support those changes have really grasped. Look at the response to emissions zones or LTN's
Farage has always, somehow, just kept himself within publicly acceptable bounds. Reform are a risk to that
Think the big danger is a Sailsbury style disaster on a foreign policy issue, being driven by being too online. Ukraine came close to having that impact last year.
> publicly acceptable bounds.
I think the mechanism for tipping over is that right-wing newspapers decide you're a liability - as their readership shrinks and becomes more ideological, that becomes a much smaller constraint.