Reform Joint First & Musk Drives EU Mad

Party tied with Labour in national poll, Tories are third.

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My prediction that Reform will lead a national Westminster poll this year is looking more and more certain.

In yet another sign that the momentum is continuing to build for Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK are now level with Labour in joint first place in a national opinion poll.

Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe was among those immediately highlighting this key moment:

“Reform joint top of a national opinion poll for the first time ever. Real change is coming.”

The research comes from the firm Find Out Now, who put Labour and Reform both on 25%.

The Conservatives meanwhile are five points behind on 20%.

As the polling company have explained:

“The main shift since November has been the growth of Reform UK (from 22% to 25%).

“The main driver of this is Conservative switchers - up to a quarter (24%) of 2024 GE Conservative voters now saying they’d vote for Reform UK, compared to only 14% in November and early December.”

If Reform can now firmly establish itself as the main opposition to Labour then we can expect to see many more Tory to Reform switchers.

That comes on top of the evidence I reported on that 2024 Labour voters are already switching to Reform as well.

As for what Kemi Badenoch’s party will do about drifting back to third place? They usually like a leadership challenge before long.

The likelihood of that is dampened by the fact that we are likely to see widespread election delays.

Millions of English voters are likely to be denied their vote this year.

We now learn that around half of County Councils in England could now see elections being postponed at just a few months notice.

Maybe until next year, perhaps until 2027, we still don’t know. And it’s a complete disgrace.

What we do know is that MPs this week rejected a national inquiry into the horrific rape gangs scandal.

364 MPs voted to cruelly block such an inquiry, despite a YouGov poll finding 76% of the public in favour including 65% of 2024 Labour voters.

No wonder support for this Government is collapsing.

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The outrage being directed at Elon Musk by lefties - hilariously, on Musk’s own X platform - exposes a dangerous double-standard.

As The Guardian reported in 2018:

“George Soros 'proud' of donating £400,000 to anti-Brexit campaign.”

Just days before France’s 2022 Presidential Election run-off between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, we saw a joint article published in Le Monde from the PM of Spain, PM of Portugal and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:

“Antonio Costa, Pedro Sanchez and Olaf Scholz speak out against French election candidate Marine Le Pen, 'who openly sides with those who attack our freedom and democracy.'“

Germany’s Scholz also publicly backed Joe Biden over Donald Trump before the US Presidential Election.

So it’s fine for the EU establishment to weigh in on foreign elections, but Brussels go nuts when Musk does the same.

If you want an idea of just how loopy the European Union has become, consider this Politico report as to the EU’s surveillance of a conversation between Musk and AFD Leader Alice Weidel on X last night:

“Brussels will be watching whether Musk breaks EU law in far-right livestream.

“Up to 150 experts in Brussels and Seville will be checking whether Musk’s livestream interview boosts the German far right.”

That’s right, a simple conversation on a social media platform being monitored by 150 so-called experts.

Do you think they’re rattled?

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