Reform is eminently beatable. Every time things settle down toward normal absent some big event that sets things to chaos, we close the gap.
Providing Starmer survives past the local, Scottish, and Welsh elections in May, I don't think we'll have cause to fear a Reform victory in Westminster.
I've changed my vocabulary around the next election. I had been saying I wasn't worried. I remain unworried about the prospect of a Reform victory, but I have come to realise I am very worried for the state of the country regardless.
It feels like there's poison in the air with Reform and Greens in ascendency. Neither will win, but they'll tear the country apart regardless, and I don't see an end to the division, ignorance, and wanton undermining of our politics any time soon.
@rhys I really wish the government would take measures to unravel Reform's dodgy finances and GB News, and the easy ride the BBC has always been happy to give Farage. It'd give me confidence they'd taken things seriously.
(Obviously changing their terrible policies on migration would be ideal but I don't see that happening any time soon, whereas the above feels like low-hanging fruit)
merely rhys
Shimmin Beg (he/him)