Pingu the Penguin
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Watched a podcast the other day where Dom Cummings (I know!) was talking about Reform. He's doing lots of political focus groups at the moment. Labour are in trouble - no one (he says) thinks they are any good. The Tories, in his view from what he has heard, are totally finished and an irrelevance. No-one saying they would even consider voting for them.
That leaves the up and coming parties like Reform and the Greens - people saying, well we may have to vote for them as the other 2 are rubbish.
On Reform though, interestingly, Farage appears to have strong voter recognition. However the focus groups are picking up that there is no wider "team" of sensible people visible to them, who they had confidence in to properly run the country. In Cummings' view if Farage can't build that team (attracting best and brightest from public life to come on board) then they can't cut through at an election.
He didn't say this but strikes me that the Greens have a big opportunity now - but aside from Polanski, they don't appear to have a visible team either?
That leaves the up and coming parties like Reform and the Greens - people saying, well we may have to vote for them as the other 2 are rubbish.
On Reform though, interestingly, Farage appears to have strong voter recognition. However the focus groups are picking up that there is no wider "team" of sensible people visible to them, who they had confidence in to properly run the country. In Cummings' view if Farage can't build that team (attracting best and brightest from public life to come on board) then they can't cut through at an election.
He didn't say this but strikes me that the Greens have a big opportunity now - but aside from Polanski, they don't appear to have a visible team either?