Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

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.

I can't stop you putting your head in the sand and pretending there isnt a growing popular support for reform policies, but I think you would be wise not to. By this I do not mean you should adopt them, but rather take the threat a little more seriously rather than see it as a ranting of a minority that will blow away. But your choice: become the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal at your peril.

[ramAnag]

I can't stop you putting your head in the sand and pretending there isnt a growing popular support for reform policies, but I think you would be wise not to. By this I do not mean you should adopt them, but rather take the threat a little more seriously rather than see it as a ranting of a minority that will blow away. But your choice: become the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal at your peril.

Lol! No head in the sand from me, GP. I take the threat very seriously, hence my long standing outspoken opposition to Farage, Robinson etc and all of their ilk. An opposition I might add that you have repeatedly attempted to ridicule and criticise.

Of course I recognise that there is growing support for Reform policies. There’s bound to be really isn’t there? The didn’t exist before the last election, the Labour government are hardly popular, the Tories totally discredited and someone has to provide a haven for all the disgruntled Tory voters, former UKIP voters and wannabe racists.

My only point is that, fortunately, I cannot envisage such views being attractive to more than between a quarter and a third of the electorate. I accept that represents a significant minority and I accept they pose a threat to common sense and decency but, as doesn’t seem unlikely, in the event of this government being replaced in four years time by some sort of coalition then I think a combination of the other mainstream parties, who do not support Farage’s extremist witterings, will prove capable of keeping him a safe distance from real power.