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He’s got his dreams, and can’t blame him for that, but those are looking as feasible as Saints getting top 2 this season and if Reform carry on sliding (5% in a 5-way picture within a month is huge) then it’s more like the odds of overhauling Coventry if it’s under their own steam. To show the scale of the task, 25% of Tory members on that party’s own private polling were willing to vote Labour in a seat where it was them v Reform. The ‘Stop Farage’ coalition is both broad, deep and far bigger than Farage’s core vote. That’s why he’s been having a meltdown at YouGov for modelling tactical voting because he knows it’s accurate.

We all have dreams…but unless the current Remain majority in the electorate between three parties Sir John Curtiss describes breaks apart, or the Tories elect a centrist leader who can siphon off some of that group (unlikely as it stands, but May might change their membership’s minds), Reform A and B won’t get sufficient seats in FPTP. They’ll do OK on popular vote but the chances of winning when Reform’s polls are sliding by 5% plus is a pipe dream. I’d love for Saints to win the play-offs, then top 10 PL and win the FA Cup next season. Is that possible, yes? Is it very realistic? No.

Exactly this. Add in the impact of Trump’s moronic tariffs which the ripples on global trade will take several years at best, to reverse, and it’s spot on. So the very last thing the UK needs is a populist government modelled on Trumpian lines. Last time the public - or 52% of them - listened to Reform/UKIP, we needlessly slashed 6% off the economy. Then the same people whine that their public services have dwindled. They more likely won’t get in anyway. As Sir John Curtiss says, barely 1 in 10 Labour switchers are going to Reform/Cons. They are a Conservative issue. The movement away from Labour is to Green for the ex-Momentum brigade and Lib Dem’s for the others. But the key point is that all the movement is within the Remain ‘bloc’. I’m sure the red tops will scream about a coalition of chaos or suchlike, but it’s five-way party politics now, at least in England.

@Weston Super Saint fill yer boots…

The reason for the venom at Starmer is all about this, plus the Coulson and Brooks prosecutions https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvx5xpze5o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxdy01z0r8o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dvz6ldevqo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjnnyp79rwo

You’d have thought the Republicans had learned from JFK murder and Watergate, both driven by Cuban exiles. But no, like moths to a flame. And to think they used to criticise the British empire.

They frustrate me but 1k new GP hires has made a difference and Streeting is scything through the expensive and wasteful mess of the Lansley system. Whilst Starmer has been disappointing domestically, he’s strong on foreign policy, has handled Trump fairly well and kept us out of the current war when Badenoch and Farage would have us straight in. Migrant hotel usage is well down from the peak under Johnson and Mahmood has done more so far to tackle illegal immigration than Patel and Braverman ever did, and the appeals are clearing faster, albeit plenty to do. The EU trade deals have made some difference which will grow. As a Remainer, it’s still unsatisfactory but a lot better than Badenoch and Farage’s bonkers positions.

Reform are not the same as the BNP and have no association with the views of Tommy Robinson (calm now Soggy!)… https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2026-03-27/reform-candidate-stands-down-after-appearing-to-do-nazi-salute-in-photo The risk with stacking yourselves with ex-Tories is that the actual Conservative Party has years on dirt on these people ready to use. Just like today.

@rallyboy or @whelk come on, own up, you’ve hacked @AlexLaw76’s account haven’t you?

QT didn’t admit to Skinner being a paid up Reform member which is naughty. As for him saying SM divides people and that he spreads some love online instead, calling the Green Party leader a bell end (he is, but that is not the point) demonstrates his hypocracy. Also, Tom thought Trump would be good for the UK economy. I’m sure Nigel Redknapp will find some shithole seat for Tom to compete for even so, Bosh! Keeps on claiming Strictly was rigged so he doesn’t have to face the reality that the vast majority of the public see he’s a grifting cunt who steals our taxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Skinner_(businessman) A bit like his new boss really.

Some of the Israel Lobby have seriously lost the plot over there. Another one of them being Trump’s son in law.

Nice fella…https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg46r0p7v0o

What about a nice fruit cobbler in the summer?

Semla?

Sussex are truly in the 💩. Sounds like we’ve approached their left arm spin all-rounder James Coles. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c4gx2404dv3o