Reform UK seen as stronger and more trustworthy than Tories, Sky News poll suggests
Reform UK has made strides catching up to a beleaguered Conservative Party in recent months and now exclusive polling shows the scale of the challenge that Kemi Badenoch is facing against Nigel Farage.
Tories trail Reform UK on a range of key indicators according to an exclusive new YouGov poll for Sky News that reveals Nigel Farage's party now has the potential to reach as much of the electorate as the party run by Kemi Badenoch.
Perhaps we have to reach a point where voters put their trust in people rather than parties, vote by placing a cross against the candidate who has done well enough in the past, or who seems to have the most relevant experience and achievements.
It's one of the problems with Reform, the bar is too low.
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The Sky poll is still very much discussed from an Establishment point of view. You can argue about whether that is deliberately or accidentally intended.
If you consider that the Conservatives have been 'expelled' from the Establishment and that Labour are likely to suffer from voters remorse and so also be expelled from the Establishment then you might reasonably argue that the poll asks the wrong questions.
"the bar is too low": a subtle allusion to Mr Farage?
DJ - that's an interesting angle, the Establishment is easily cynical enough to expel the Conservatives if it decides no more can be extracted from them. Labour too perhaps. I wonder if Ed Davey sees it like that?
dearieme - ha ha - no but I wish I had thought of it.
But they never were completely trustworthy. What trust the electorate has is fast ebbing away now. We can't trust them because there is an irrevocable schism between the outlooks of the 'managerial elites' and most of the population.
Tammly - it's two-sided as well, they don't trust us to vote "correctly" which may have implications for Reform. We'll see.
One mistake Reform made was giving Ben Habib no choice but to leave. Even though he was not selected as an MP, he would still have been valuable as an advisor to Farage. I have my own doubts about Tice, who distanced himself, through misjudgement, from the people of Hartlepool, where he was originally going to stand as an MP, and wonder if he is as capable.
Penseivat
Penseivat - yes, even to an outsider, the Ben Habib move came across as a warning sign that all is not well with Reform.
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