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I think Reform still haven't really got the message that you have to get out and about amongst the people to get yourself known. It's too easy for them to send me an email occasionally telling me about what's going on in Bedfordshire, nowhere near me. Or for Richard to appear once a week on Talk TV and every so often on his colleagues shows. I'm still meeting people who have never heard of them, at this stage it's not on. Also, Reclaim need to join Reform so as not to split the vote.

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I joined them last year. The local rep was off sick and not answering emails. I was redirected to W Midlands and Bolton. I hoped to form a local group of like minded and asked for some structure, Membership cards etc. I was asked to stop bothering them, they weren't ready, they had no money and the GE was years away. I asked for and received a refund followed shortly by a certificate of membership. They still write, last time inviting me to a village out in the sticks pop. 3600. Do you think I upset them telling them to get Farage back?

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Reform make Dad's Army look like the SAS.

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A very valid comment, and noticeable aspect to Reform’s campaigns pointed out. I myself have never seen anyone on the doorstep or have a clue if they are in my area. The ordinary ‘man on the street’ is desperate for tangible change and it seems to elude us because of the way our voting system works. The prospect of some obscene Lab/Lib/Green nightmare will be the final nail in the UK coffin.

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Shame Sunak got a bit of a reprieve. Three lost could have ousted him. Starmer's Private Pike won't know what's hit him, he'll be debagged and out with the Kiwi shoe polish and not all by Tories either.

Talking of ousting, Tice should retire to the back office and get his Isobel, Alex Phillips and Belinda de Lucy out on the warpath. Oh to be a fly on the wall of a Farage, Boris and JRM's meeting 'somewhere outside London.' The iron's getting hot, the public are starting to do the Police's job on JSO, Coutts have made fools of themselves and the BBC as well. Come on Nigel. Strike.

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Hear, hear!

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In the three by-elections, Reform scored a grim 3.7% (Greens 5.1%) a ghastly 3.4% (Greens 10.2%) and didn't stand in the 3rd, let Laurence Fox have a clear run (why?) for a pathetic 2.3% (Greens 2.9%).

So, Reform's results are AGAIN truly useless, Tice is clueless about presenting himself or the party.

The Tories hung on in Uxbridge largely because Labour handed them a stick to beat them with in the form of Sadiq Khan's idiotic ULEZ crap.

With all that's been going on in Britain for the last 5/10 years HOW CAN REFORM FAIL SO BADLY??

Tice needs to take a cold shower, ask himself why he's getting absolutely nowhere, maybe start by getting rid of those ex-UKIP adviser/wreckers and talk to some proper marketing people, and with gaffer tape over his mouth and ears turned to 'listen'.

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I have to agree with a lot of these comments as I feel Tice has not taken the party forward. I still think the GE is a long way off and it will be a stronger party when closer the time and more "faces" appear.

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