A shift i've noticed in focus groups which I think explains why Reform are up to low 20s- the type of people who'd previously have said "I like that Farage says it like it is, but don't want him as PM" now say versions of "We've tried the others, hasn't worked, so we may as well roll dice on Farage"
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After Labour are 6 months into their term 🤦🏻♂️
How are Labour are meant to have fixed everything immediately?
Next election is 4.5 years away, media needs to remember that
The coverage is rough at the moment, but Labour are laying foundations for some real improvement.
https://bsky.app/profile/juanpablodewes.bsky.social/post/3ldqhb6fwz22x
Look how well that worked out
These include planning regs, the NHS, workers rights, social rents etc where Reform have been clear on their views.
People are dense
Eradication of social services & massive tax-cuts for the wealthy is their MO. The NHS won't stand a chance.
..& that £300 winter fuel payment wouldn't even touch the sides.
Destroy the economy, change your name, look to destroy the country, all mediated by a client media dreading a socialist government!
How about the media giving Farage a bit less air time than the SNP? I realise this guy's always good for a quote but politics isn't just entertainment and we're still trying to recover from the damage done by our last flamboyant chancer.
Apols to LibDem/Green but you're just not cutting through really.
Reform UK ltd worries me, maybe more that it should. I see it as a real threat to us all.
There is just one flaw in that approach…..
Joking apart it will bring change and perhaps the “throw the bomb in the room” is the only way.
The level of anger from progressive voters towards Labour, over their refusal to address urgent issues with media & mis/disinformation, is palpable. Foreign donors also.
REF would crumble under scrutiny, true, but where exactly would this scrutiny come from?
Course, I also think that their core support won't be affected by this but it will put off potential voters
There is a lot to be said for boring competence, and there isn't enough of that around
Read explicitly, I think this exaggerates the spread of the 2019 Tory coalition (it basically expands by absorbing Auth-Centre ppl the Brexit Party were picking up).
But I think the broader "how far can expand to Auth-Left quadrant" question obv stands.
(Unless you're Hungary and can pay people off with EU money!)
And the same media machine that always pushed Farage keep pumping him.