Reform Making Election Impact

Farage's party standing more candidates than Labour or the Tories.

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Stuart Mitchell/@IncMonocle

Outside of social media bubbles, something highly significant happened last week.

Of course opinion polls are one thing, election results quite another.

Reform has achieved some notable local by-election wins, including in St. Helens last week.

But the real test will be on 1st May when elections take place across the country.

Of course many were cancelled due to a stitch-up between Labour at national level and Conservatives at local level.

Millions have had their vote denied this year, but many will still get to vote.

Of course fundamentally a major political party has to give the public that opportunity.

That requires organisation and the hard graft to get quality candidates in place.

Labour and the Tories have longstanding local branches and veteran campaigners.

Which makes Reform’s achievement, as still a relatively new party, even more impressive.

Reform will be standing more candidates in the local elections than either the Conservatives or Labour.

Both of the old parties will be contesting fewer local election seats than the Reform Party. That is a pretty staggering shift.

The Liberal Democrats, another long-established party, are putting up 1,395 candidates. That means the LibDems are standing in 85% of the seats up for election.

But Reform easily beat them, putting forward 1,630 candidates, covering 99.3% of seats.

That level of organisation underlines why Keir Starmer’s Labour Party are now obsessed with attacking Reform.

Meanwhile the latest mega poll points to a thumping Westminster result.

The Electoral Calculus MRP poll has got Reform leading on 25% with both the Tories and Labour trailing on 23% each.

That would make Reform the largest party with 227 MPs compared to Labour on 180 and the Conservatives winning 133 seats.

It isn’t surprising. Just consider the illegal migration crisis that Labour said they would ‘smash’. As Simon Jones reported over the weekend:

“The number of migrants who have crossed the Channel in small boats since Labour came to power has exceeded 30,000.

“154 people in four boats arrived yesterday.

“It has been a record-breaking start to the year for Channel crossings – with a rise of 25% on the same period last year.”

A Labour Government, same as the Tories, are totally complacent and seemingly happy to allow this alarming situation to continue.

On 1st May, many voters will get to have their say. A big moment for a Reform Party now providing serious opposition nationwide.