Don’t get too caught up in the anti @reformparty_uk noise. They’ve already done the hard part of securing a real base of support. Holding that line at full intensity for a full five year stretch until the next election was never realistic, and the last ten months have been a rough patch in an ordinary political cycle though it’s not a permanent slide. The volume of the attacks tells you more than the attacks themselves. Media, @UKLabour, the @Conservatives and the usual chorus wouldn’t be working this hard to smear them, flip positions and cycle through leaders if they felt secure. They do it because they can see the threat. That’s exactly the reaction you’d expect from parties that have spent years dismissing Reform as a protest vote and are now watching it turn into something more durable. X is not the country and the platform rewards outrage and compresses everything into a permanent crisis it is a poor guide to how most people actually feel. Anyone who follows me will have noticed I’ve posted less recently. That isn’t because the case for Reform has weakened in my mind. It’s because this place systematically warps the picture. Outside it, the appetite for an alternative to the two main parties remains strong and the real world conversation is still largely favourable to what Reform is offering. Cycles turn and the noise will too. Vote 🗳️ @reformparty_uk

Really? telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

You don’t stop, do you? Anglo, stop doom spiralling. This obsession with Rupert being your gatekeeper is not borne out by the facts. The 3 to 5% he gets wasn’t going to Reform anyway the bigger vote is peeling off what’s left of the Tory right.

Ben Habib’s climb down is a masterclass in gutless, lawyered up hypocrisy. In May he went on Paul Thorpe’s show and casually accused Christopher Harborne of fixing the 2019 general election. He claimed Harborne conspired with Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, paid them £1 million each, and in return Farage stood down all 317 Brexit Party candidates in Conservative seats. He framed it as a monetary stitch up that handed Johnson his majority. He even dared Harborne “He can sue me if he thinks I’m lying.” That is not an apology. It is a carefully worded legal settlement statement designed to minimise damages while preserving the pretence that he was merely reliant on information rather than recklessly peddling an election rigging conspiracy theory to damage Farage. He has not said the allegation was false. He has not apologised for the smear itself. He has not explained what the information was or why he treated it as publishable fact. This is the same man who has spent years accusing others of inadequate or disingenuous apologies. When it was his turn to own a genuinely outrageous claim, he folded under pressure and produced the classic I should not have said it because my evidence was weak half retraction. Habib spent months trying to portray Farage and the 2019 decision as corruptly bought. The only thing fixed here was his own credibility.

How long before the Tory party steals half these ideas and tries to pass them off as their own?

It’s arrived. 👌🏻 vote 🗳️ @reformparty_uk

If only you didn’t need to lie to frame a narrative, David. Journalist? 😆

The way this is being managed is almost too obvious. One @Ipsos_in_the_UK poll comes out @UKLabour 32, @Conservatives 24, @reformparty_uk 20 and within hours it’s being treated as proof the recent break from the establishment is over. Reform has collapsed and Badenoch is having a renaissance. The tectonic plates are shifting and Britain is quietly sliding back to the old two party setup. The @Independent , the @Telegraph , the @DailyMail and others all ran basically the same framing, almost in lock step. The rest of the polls don’t support it. Singling out the one poll that best restores the familiar order, while treating the averages as noise, isn’t neutral reporting. It’s an attempt to talk people back into the old expectations before any further movement sticks. It’s the usual method they pick the outlier that flatters the story you want. Call a short term wobble structural change and decide that whichever of the two legacy parties is currently higher counts as the main opposition, as if the long stretch when Reform matched or led them never happened. They did the same thing after the Conservative collapse in 2024, after the locals that hollowed out both main parties, and during the months Reform sat at or above 30 per cent. The point is to persuade voters they didn’t really mean what they just did. People’s memories aren’t that short. The Conservatives went into the last election having lost control. Their support didn’t dip it collapsed and Reform’s rise was the result of that failure, not something the media invented. A modest bounce after a conference and a change of Labour leadership doesn’t wipe the record or the reasons people left. On immigration and asylum still the issue that decides it for a lot of those voters Reform keeps a clear lead. Polls that move on other questions while that grievance stays in place aren’t evidence of a settled realignment. Voters have already shown they’ll punish both main parties at once. They did it in 2024 and again in the locals treating every small Conservative gain as proof the old order has reasserted itself is an attempt to convince people their earlier judgement was only temporary. The sheer volume of the coverage is revealing how quickly collapse and revival became the default language, and how little is said about how close the averages still are. If the Conservatives were recovering on their own merits and Reform were genuinely fading, the story wouldn’t need this much reinforcement. We’ve seen the cycle before. Promises of renewed competence, followed by delivery failure, followed by a lightly rebranded version of the same approach. The current push to normalise a return to that arrangement isn’t a sign the arrangement has been vindicated. It’s a sign that the people who did well under it know the premise is no longer accepted on its own terms, and are trying to talk it back into existence before the next set of results makes the gap that much harder to close. Don’t take the framing at face value go look at the full range of the polls, not the headlines written off one of them. Refuse the idea that the only serious choice is between the two parties that have already failed the tests that matter. And when the next carefully chosen numbers appear with the same language of inevitability, remember what set the panic off in the first place a lot of people decided the old order no longer deserved the benefit of the doubt. That conclusion hasn’t been disproved it’s just been declared inconvenient. After all pollsters have agendas, a nudge here and a nudge there until you remember to do as you’re told. Don’t let them manipulate you 🫵🏻

Stop believing the polls. They consistently underrepresented the right wing in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2024, being 4 to 7 points wrong on the actual results. All pollsters are nudge units to convince the normie the outcome is set so they don't bother voting.

UK pollsters keep getting it wrong, and it is hard to keep treating that as just bad luck, it isn’t. In 2015 they told us it was neck and neck yet the @Conservatives won by seven points. The inquiry that followed said the samples were skewed with too many @UKLabour voters and not enough Conservatives. In 2024 they overstated Labour’s share by about four points on average and underplayed @reformparty_uk. Most of the final polls clustered around a comfortable Labour win in the popular vote that simply did not happen. Reform’s result was stronger than the picture the industry painted, especially in the places that decided seats. This pattern is not random especially as elections get closer, the numbers start to bunch together. Polls that show higher Reform support get softened or ignored. Different firms produce different results depending on how they build their panels and weight their data. The ones that draw more heavily from older, non graduate voters tend to show higher Reform numbers. The rest systematically under sample the exact groups that have been moving toward Reform. The weighting they apply rarely fixes the gap. The incentives are obvious once you look at them. Media outlets and parties pay for polls that give them a clear story. When those stories consistently show Reform fading and Labour recovering, that is the version that gets the front pages and the airtime. Results that cut against it face more scrutiny over funding and disclosure than the ones that fit the preferred narrative. The public is told the trend is clear, even when the spread between firms is wider and the recent history of missing the anti establishment vote is plain for all to see. You do not need to invent numbers to influence how people vote. A steady drumbeat that Reform is slipping encourages people on the fence to drift back to the Conservatives or stay home. It makes the one party actually challenging the old order look less serious. Then, when the result is stronger than expected, the explanation is always the same a late swing, turnout, technical issues. The industry adjusts a few weights and carries on. There is no real cost for repeatedly underestimating the same kind of voter. What we are left with is a loop and the polls help set the terms of the coverage. The coverage reinforces the idea that Reform is contained and the two party system is still the only realistic choice. Accuracy comes second to producing a usable consensus. When the numbers and the result finally diverge, no one is held accountable for the direction of the miss only for the method that produced it. The people who keep being told their support is smaller than it is are the ones who notice the pattern. @GHWTowler says it best and often “never believe a poll that makes you smile” he’s of course right but I would argue the opposite is more important, do not be fooled by one’s that don’t. The only poll that matters is election day so get out and vote do not be swayed by an establishment that is desperately trying to convince you it’s a wastes of time, these pollsters are not neutral players, all have an agenda.

WTF? 😆

You seem quite taken with Nadine, Stanley. She speaks for herself and nobody else. We see you, Stanley, and no amount of memes or deflection will change that. #ToryBoy 🫵🏻

You actively campaign online for the current Tory party. Stanley Reform does not. We are not the same. Keep deflecting it just shows others who you really are. 😆

Your attempts to deflect speak for you. You're a Tory and Tory supporter hiding in plain sight in Restore, though I understand why since Rupert does the same thing, Stanley.

You hide behind Restore to push the Tory party, Stanley. Your whole timeline is littered with it, so why not just stand up and be honest for once?

Stand down for who, Stanley? The Tory party, because you’re not talking about Restore, are you?

The arrogance is off the charts. A Westminster operator who staffed the same failed establishment now lectures the one party voters are actually moving towards, as if he alone decides the acceptable number of bad apples. A handful of idiots out of 2,300 councillors and 280,000 members got filmed saying appalling things. They were suspended or removed that’s what acting looks like. Your list of systemic failure is mostly they didn’t achieve perfection in a party that didn’t exist as a serious force until a few years ago. Every major party has had worse, longer, and more senior scandals. Pretending Reform’s version is uniquely disqualifying while the alternatives have the rancid cores you claim to care about is pure whataboutery dressed up as high standards. The country is choosing them anyway because the alternatives are worse. Get over yourself Petey.

Stop begging. It's all so desperate and pathetic now. What happened to "don't care"? 😆

Where’s Restore on that poll? I can’t see them, Stanley. 😆 vote 🗳️ @reformparty_uk

Was it something I said? 😆