Reform U.K. has hit its highest-ever polling support level at 14% in the aftermath of the Tory row over the suspension of Lee Anderson. The Telegraph has the story.
A YouGov survey, published on Friday, showed that the Right-wing party, led by Richard Tice, was now at 14 percentage points – up one from the previous week.
The Conservatives were just six points ahead of their rivals on the Right, polling at 20 points. More than one in five 2019 Tory voters currently intend to back Reform.
The poll, conducted between February 28th and 29th, suggests Mr. Tice may have benefited from Tory splits over Mr. Anderson, a former Conservative deputy Chairman who lost the whip last week for claiming that “Islamists” had “got control” of Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London.
Mr. Tice has reportedly gone on to hold talks with Mr. Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, who he said “speaks for millions of people who are appalled by what is happening to our country”.
The poll showed that Labour remained on 46 points despite a difficult few weeks for Sir Keir Starmer. The Labour leader has ditched a flagship £28 billion green spending pledge and faced criticism over his handling of an antisemitism row in Rochdale.
YouGov said: “This is Reform U.K.’s highest vote intention share to date, with the party currently taking 21% of those who voted Conservative in 2019. The Tories are holding on to just 35% of their previous voters, with 12% going to Labour and 20% unsure.”
Responding to the poll, Mr. Tice wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Our first 14% national poll for Reform – just 6% behind the toxic Tories.”
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Right of centre people have to go somewhere. If the Conservatives are not going to be right wing anymore then we will have to go somewhere else that is right wing. ——–If you fancy a cold beer and the pub you used to go to doesn’t sell cold beer anymore then what are you meant to do? ——Keep going to that pub or choose another one?– I choose another one.
True, but not sure about this:
The Reform UK Emergency Health and Social Care Recovery Plan (nationbuilder.com)
More staff and more money to save the NHS
Tice and Reform were full on Rona retard. Had no problems with stabbinations. Some differences with the uniparty but not many.
Agree too little too late on “Covid”
Look you either vote for reform or NO ONE. If all you have is a choice of 5 plus the Monster Loony Party where are you going to put your X? —-You can nit pick because you want a party that ticks every single one of your boxes, but you will NEVER get that. Plus remember that a vote for Reform might actually stimulate conservatives into being conservative again. We could easily end up in 5 years time with PM Braverman. ——–If you wait for Utopia it will never happen
Those are all fair points – just need to decide which issues are red lines for me.
Cheers mate.
Hung Parliaments then proportional Representation are the only way this country is going to avoid widespread discontent and rebellion.
You’re very optimistic. I can see no prospect of widespread discontent being avoided, though I will probably not be around to see, my kids will.
I’m looking forward to it.
Pitchfork at the ready.
GlassHalfFull
Sadly, those unseen hands who are behind the divisions created by the minority woke and other movements they support and fund want exactly the reaction you demonstrate.
The moment people generally are provoked to violent revolt is the moment we all lose the freedoms of a democratic society. We have so few left as the Covid pharcedemic and lockdowns demonstrate.
The whole world practically was put into lockdown on the basis of what is becoming clear was an engineered health disaster with people like Bill Gates investing in advance and increasing his vast wealth further.
Proven it could be done once worldwide, how do any of us know it is not in the process of being done again and perhaps in different ways.
How long ago was the die cast? How much of what is happening now is engineered?
Ask yourself who are the organisers of the weekly marches in London and elsewhere – do you know? Where are they getting the resources to organise these weekly events?
What about the midweek protests outside Parliament which led to the disruption of our political system with the Speaker’s job under threat and Keir Starmer threatening the Speaker.
Starmer denies threatening but the mere fact he turned up in the Speaker’s office was an implicit threat in itself.
Someone somewhere is laughing contentedly – how many someones and how many somewheres?
The “broad church” concept worked fairly well when we had two distinct philosophies to choose between and the nation was recognisably British.
Now we basically have one philosophy – WEF/Globalism – and the nation has been fractured with mass immigration.
We’re already into a Civil Unrest situation and it’s only going to get worse.
I would like a system of PR within slightly larger constituencies.
For example each constituency provides 5 MPs based on PR within that constituency.
Reason being that with straight PR the urban vote is too strong.
Seriously, WTF is this? Imagine, you never asked for this, you never voted for this, but as a taxpayer you have to pay a shed-load to get rid of what the parliament muppets foisted upon you;
”The astronomical costs involved with the U.K.’s Rwanda deportation scheme have been laid bare in a new report by the government’s spending watchdog which revealed that each migrant sent to the West African nation will set the British taxpayer back at least £171,000 (€200,000).
According to the National Audit Office (NAO) report published on Friday, the British government has paid Rwanda £220 million already through the Economic Transformation and Integration Fund (ETIF), which is designed to support economic growth in the country, despite not sending a single migrant to Kigali.
Three further payments of £50 million will be paid annually up to 2027 and an additional payment of £120 million will be sent under the Migration and Economic Development Partnership once Rwanda has relocated 300 migrants from Britain.
One-off payments of £20,000 will be paid for every migrant received by the country with a further £150,874 per individual paid over five years for processing and operational costs.
The financial arrangement could see the British government pay £541 million (€632 million) to relocate just 300 migrants — a cost to the British taxpayer of £1.8 million (€2.1 million).
These are just the costs to the Rwandan government and do not factor in the accommodation costs ahead of deporting migrants arriving in Britain, any legal fees, or flight costs — the latter of which the Home Office estimates to be at around £11,000 per migrant, including fuel and chartering planes.”
https://www.rmx.news/uk/british-taxpayers-to-pay-a-minimum-of-e200000-per-migrant-sent-to-rwanda/
Yes …. and every one of those deported migrants will know full well that they only have to carry out a jail-able crime in Rwanda and they’ll be sent straight back to the UK.
Not much of an incentive then ….. !
Extensive comment …well done. ———-I remember Hitler in his bunker looking over maps and still dishing out instructions to generals (the ones that were still alive that is) despite being surrounded on all sides by the Allies and the Russians were actually at the outskirts of Berlin. ——–Mass immigration and the sectarian clutter we have brought upon ourselves is making me feel like Hitler in that bunker soon to swallow a cyanide capsule. ————–The War is LOST.
The Rwanda plan was never going to be a serious plan to deal with illegal immigration and perhaps it was never intended to do so. This cockamamie scheme was yet another perfidious attempt by the Tories to give the impression to their credulous voters that they had a plan to sell to their credulous tribal voter for the 2024. After all they have been stringing their own supporters/voters/members along every time they have been in government over the last 50 years. Why stop the deceit now when the average Tory continues to support them whatever tosh they come up with.
Not in Rochdale.
CCHQ still thinks it will be HM Opposition.
Has no idea of what’s coming.
I’d find it easier to back Reform, had Tice not supported the fascist evil of vaccine passports.
We all make mistakes. You cannot get everything right. This was a new thing that no one understood and had never dealt with before. The important thing is if you can admit you made a mistake and make sure you intend never to make it again.
It wasn’t exactly a big secret the injections did not stop you getting it and it was almost harmless to the kind of people who would be needing to show vaccine passports. It wasn’t a mistake, it was going along with his own kind on the issues that actually matter.
Sorry, but I completely disagree. Right at the start it was known that: Antibodies play no part in respiratory infections, unless they become systemic. No successful vaccine had ever been developed against a corona virus, despite decades of trying. If a vaccine works, then it protects you; why do you need proof of vaccination? If it doesn’t work, then likewise. Bodily autonomy is paramount, what right does anyone have to force / coerce me I to taking a drug, particularly a new tech untested one?
That is great that you disagree. ——That is what is good about this site. What I am saying to you though is that you will never vote for anyone if you expect a party to have every single policy that you happen to want. There are only about 5 parties to vote for, and I could find fault with all of them, but so where do I put my vote? —Nowhere?
Has he and Farage he admitted they made a huge error of judgement?. Don’t forget that Farage was urging the Government to employ Blair of all people to take charge of the jabbing agenda!!!!
Farage had nothing to say. Tice nothing to say. That alone disqualifies them from office. Tice and Reform will not close the borders either and have little to offer on the Muslim Jihad and rape gangs, other than the usual platitudes. I can see the Blob very quickly eating up Reform.
It looks like you are disqualifying everyone from office though. So who are you going to vote for?