It’s happening folks. Not just in polls, but with actual votes.
Stevenage has long been viewed as something of a bellwether constituency.
The Hertfordshire town saw an easy Labour victory there just last year, with Keir Starmer’s party gaining the seat from the Tories with 41% of the vote.
By contrast the Conservatives came second on 26% and Reform were a distant third on 18%.
As we know though, a lot can change in the space of a year.
Last night’s local Council by-election in Stevenage underlines this once more.
The Reform hype is real: big things are happening.
Because what we saw last night was yet another Reform gain from Labour, and it wasn’t even particularly close.
Reform took the seat with 39%, with Labour down to 27% and the Tories on just 12%. The LibDems lost support as well on 11%.
Yes, this is just one ward in a local Council by-election. But in an area like this, it shows the direction of political travel.
This wasn’t Reform’s only gain of the evening either, also winning a seat in Thanet, Kent.
The country has had enough of the extreme open border policies we’ve seen under the Tories and Labour that have made this country less safe, and is costing us a fortune.
Nigel Farage this week put forward an ECHR Withdrawal Bill in Parliament, but it was heavily defeated.
But voters know the country cannot go on like this.
There is one consistent theme in the national polling research now: big Reform leads.
Beneath that though, remarkable things are happening.
Could the Green Party actually emerge as the main opposition to Reform?
Well a Find Out Now poll this week has put, for the first time ever, Reform first on 32% with the Greens now the distant second on 17%.
Meanwhile you’ve got the Labour and Tory parties in that poll only on a combined 32% between them.
If those vote shares actually occurred at the next General Election, it would be the end of the present party system as we know it.
Don’t rule anything out.
Nice to hear some good news Michael, thank you. Let's hope that the Watermelons don't do too well, because we know that they're green on the outside, but actually red inside, and I think we've had a belly full of Red! Have a good weekend everyone. 🙋
The run up to the General Election hasn't even started yet. The Party of Hate will obviously leave that to the last posible moment becos they knows what they gon GIT. And I'd say Reform is in government like hands in gloves. Except riddle me this: what is to stop the Hate Party cancelling or postponing the general election? Britain is under attack by FAR RIGHT RACIST TERRORISTS, is it not? Obviously they'll have to arrest a couple of Reform MPs . And I can think of other scenarios, can't you? Remember these people are desperate, fanatical and immoral. So if they DO cancel under an invented emergency, have you considered what you will do? Would you phone other Reform members and discuss it? Of COURSE you would not. What would happen if you contact your Reform Parliamentary candidate? They would be puzzled and floundering. Taken by surprise, wrong footed. You would get no reply and no communication at least initially. There would be YT videos in abundance, all as usual WHINING impotently and pathetically. So we'll just insist and pretend it could never happen.