Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
No what you claimed is a very different thing:

"P.S. At the most recent by-election in Scotland, Farage?’s ReformUK and the ?‘sink the boats?’ crew won 26.1% of the vote. That means that 73.9% rejected their stance."

not voting for reform does not mean you have rejected their stance on any given issue. it just means that you feel more strongly about other things. See my very first post on this matter re the cats. In a referendum you'd have been right, but this was a electoral vote where all concerns about all issues will be reflected in that voting: particularly as Scottish nationalism is pervasive in the particular consituency (in England we may have seen different patterns)
I take your point, but in your ‘electoral vote where all concerns about all issues will be reflected’, Reform’s appeal, at a time when they are very high profile and the new government is quite unpopular, only extended to marginally more than a quarter of voters.
Whichever slant you might wish to place on things, that suggests to me that Farage’s policies, largely about immigration, are insufficiently appealing to attract the support of around 75% of the electorate.