Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Could be an outlier, but I've felt for some time that Reform had reached their peak. There's only a certain percentage of nasty bastards out there, and even amongst them a good number want something a bit more than 'kick it all down'.

The work continues - there will be a large number of streets to trudge down before May - but it looks like there is less and less chance of a Reform breakthrough as voters lose the 'feels' and face the reality.

I'll settle for that. Interesting that the Tories haven't benefited from Reform doing worse in that poll.

The Cardiff University analysis seems to suggest that Plaid and the Greens are hoovering up all the Don't Knows.

It is possible that there comes a time when, despite what we're always told, Labour torching their own support on immigration does actually "work" in terms of undercutting Reform. There's very little else Reform can talk about with the same (bogus) authority. Even woke doesn't really cut it, because more than a few Reform-types will feel a sense of deja vu. With good reason, it's exactly the same as political correctness, before and after it went mad.

Now, perhaps Labour could manage to undercut Reform without chucking away easy growth from university students...