Reform Uk Streaking Ahead

[Khandro]

Well, at least by a poll being carried out by The Express asking how would you vote today? ;

Reform UK, 52%
Tories, 29%
Labour, 11 %
Lib Dems, 2%
SNP, 1%

and yes I know it's The Express, but still interesting don't you think?

[Zacs-Master]

shrug? Thanks for the detailed explanation.

[Untitled]

what naomi has described is called the "spoiler effect"... it is an inevitable consequence of FPTP and it is quite a serious problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_splitting

[Khandro]

naomi; I've stuck by the Conservatives for a long time (before that I was Labour) but I now no longer wish to give either of them my support, I find both parties EQUALLY disagreeable, & so released of a feeling of loyalty, I feel free to vote for whomever I like.

[naomi24]

Me too, khandro - but however I vote, loyalty won’t be a consideration. It never is.

[tomus42]

I've never heard of Reform UK.

[tomus42]

I've never heard of Reform UK.

Was the poll restricted to Reform UK members?

[Khandro]

tomus: //I've never heard of Reform UK.//

That's fine, but let's face it, you aren't really interested in UK politics are you?

[Zacs-Master]

Khandro is so knowledgable on UK politics he went to live in Germany!

[Zacs-Master]

Sorry I forgot …..

;-)

[Khandro]

Zacs-master; //Khandro is so knowledgable on UK politics he went to live in Germany!//

As I've said ad nauseum, I have many interests & pay lots of taxes in the UK.

And, if residency is a pre-requisite for observing & having views about events in another country to one's domicile, you must forfeit the right to have views on European, American & Russian politics too.

[tomus42]

Sorry, but any poll producing the numbers you quote above is obviously complete nonsense, unless the poll was OF Daily Express journalists rather than being organised BY them.

Do you have a link or anything to substantiate the OP?

[tomus42]

..thought not.

[THECORBYLOON]

He provided a link on Monday but it comes up with an error. I Googled the report and it come up with a hit from Saturday's Express but that link was also broken.

I could ser a bit of the article in the hit so I copied it and Googled that but had no success. A bit later, even that hit no longer appeared.

I think that if those figures had been correct and I am not doubting that KHANDRO had seen them, there would have been headlines all over the media.

I think the figures were erroneous and the report in the Express has been deleted.

[tomus42]

Fair enough Corby. I think one would have to be a bit foolish to believe they weren't erroneous in the first place.

[Khandro]

tomus & Corby; Don't you two goons realise that these stats are not to be taken too seriously?

[tomus42]

Aaaaah, so you knew it was nonsense all along, despite giving no indication of that until 76 answers in. OK.

Pmsl.

[Snackrite]

Reform Uk sounds like a project or think tank within a party that is just fanciful rubbish that will come to nought, a tiny clan of like minded individuals who will never see their pipe dream come to fruition in their lifetime. A microcosm of Liberal Democrat’s if you will.

[Gromit]

// A microcosm of Liberal Democrat’s if you will. //

Far from it.

They are the Brexit party renamed, and got 2% of the vote at the last General Election. Their President is Nigel Farage.
They are like the Tory Party on acid.

[Snackrite]

I wasn’t comparing their ideology to the Liberal Democrats just their numbers in comparison to mainstream political parties.

[Khandro]

Snack: //Reform Uk sounds like a project or think tank within a party that is just fanciful rubbish that will come to nought, a tiny clan of like minded individuals who will never see their pipe dream come to fruition in their lifetime. //

That's what I'll bet you said about the Brexit party. It didn't win any elections, but turned out to be momentously influential.
Go figure!