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Why’s that important? If he’s not going to start it’s not really worth bemoaning who we took as a 4-5th choice defender.

Personally, no. They’re on 7% in the polls and it looks silly having 5 candidates to go through. At least the Lib Dem’s are forecast to get 30-40 seats.

A quick look at the polls should tell you. A debate with Starmer, Sunak, Farage and Davey is debate the public want to see. With Plaid and SNP, there’s no point in having them on national election debates as they only field candidates in Wales and Scotland respectively.

Branthwaite isn’t a LB though. Konsa and Gomez can cover multiple positions and that’s why I think they got in ahead of him. As for Dunk, he’s experienced and a club captain who the most similar to Maguire. Had Maguire been fit I’d suspect Dunk would’ve been left home. Personally, I’d prefer...

Sorry, who?

On point number 2, how out of step is Farage on public opinion though? Especially on immigration which scores as the most important of issues outside of cost of living. Labour will get a landslide because the electorate rejects the tories, but the electorate is hardly enthusiastic about Starmer...

Boris Johnson was popular with working class voters and apparently too was Major in ‘92? The one thing I’m interested in that no one has picked up on here… Is that a leader of a party openly called for NHS to be moved to an insurance model and somehow ‘won’ the debate according to polls. In...

We’re saying the same thing here.

Two questions: 1) Why is Reform overtaking the tories in the polls? 2) Why is Farage so popular among Tory members?

I’m not calling it right wing, but balanced budgets are associated with ‘small government’ and you won’t get many on the left calling for budget surpluses. It’s contextual Shmmeee, who was calling Blair RW? Certainly not tories but the Labour left.

If Labour can survive Corbyn, I think the Tories could survive Farage. The latter is actually a popular populist and Corbyn had net negative ratings from Day 1.

Blair economically accepted free markets and introduced market reforms in the public sector (education and healthcare) and achieved budget surpluses. So can see why the Labour left brands him ‘right wing’. Balanced that out with increases in welfare spending, so he’d fit in as a One Nation Tory...

Why not? If he gets elected in Clacton there’s every chance. The Tory MPs will be reduced to a rump and he’s a character that is overwhelmingly popular among their membership.

Ask tories how right wing the government is and the answer you’ll get is ‘they’re not’. Part of the reason Reform got to 13% in the polls is the perception that the government is basically ‘social democrat’. I believe Sunak when he says he’s Thatcherite. The economic shocks of COVID and the war...

Mordaunt is odds-on to lose her seat. It genuinely wouldn’t surprise me to see Farage stage a takeover of the tories if the polls get any worst for the tories. Gaffe after gaffe is gifting Labour an easy election.

They said all their plans were funded so if there’s a £40bn black hole, someone at HQ is either lying or terrible at maths.

They don’t have to deal with the consequences of their policies because they won’t be in government. It’s why the minor parties can articulate their policies on these big debates well because no one is interested in scrutinising their program.

Immigration is single top priority for voters so it shouldn’t be a surprise that a party that says they’re willing to address that is surging in the polls. The political class has had over 20 years to address the concerns people have had. There’s been complacency that we won’t experience what...

Apparently Nigel Farage won, Rayner second and Mordaunt finishing 5th. Watched the England game instead of the debates so regretting that now.

I’ll let you do the legwork for that… 😂