I’ll have a huff on this hopium too.
I mean, the reality is that they’ve mostly just cannibalised the conservative voter base.
The election results show that they’re not exactly sweeping labor strongholds, a lot of labor’s losses coming from SNP, the greens, lib dems and Plaid Cymru. Which is to say, that the voters aren’t pivoting to the right, they’re just pivoting away from labor.
If anything, it seems like media efforts to shove the voter base to the right, and labor’s effort to chase the media narrative, has just driven traditional conservative voters insane, while making left wing voters pissed at labor for moving so far rightwards.
Americans:
I hope, deep in my heart, that this is correct.
good old novara not doing doomer stuff
wow
yeah, the real winner was no overall control
sure they will win a few seats in towns that feel they have been ignored but they will have the fight of their lives on their hands in 2029 we will have to vote differently, regardless of whether you like or approve of the current incumbent, you may have to hold your nose but voting en-masse for them again will ensure reform don’t get back in
party politics will have to be left behind if you don’t want to see a racist government take over, the epstein network linked reform really do need to lose badly
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.
