World war 3 is an information war
โThe price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.โ
โ Plato
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โWe already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine we already know how to do.โ
โ Ben Rich former CEO Lockheed Skunk Works
People won't go to work unless they have a realistic chance of owning their own home otherwise what is the point? You can stay at home on benefits in council provided accomodation or go to work and rent a property for your entire life. I own my house but given that choice I wouldn't bother going to work.
Farage sees some people as far right who want extreme measures to remove foreign born legal UK citizens, which is correct in the normal use of the word (I would argue far left is more nationalistic like communist China/North Korea). Starmer, Burnham and the corrupt media use the term to describe anyone who wants any kind of border/immigration control.
@grahamrsimmonds@TiceRichard Reform's popularity isn't fading thanks the useless clusterfucks we have in government. Reform don't even need to campaign Labour are doing it for them.
I doubt it. Why would Reform voters go back to the failed Tory party? Speaking as one it makes me feel physically sick the thought of voting for them. Kemi is a nobody. Useless opposition speaker, uniparty plant. She and her entire cabinet are nothing compared to calibre in the Reform party.
@JaneAllman14137@LeeHurstComic Reform have been around longer, have a vastly larger voter base, more MPs and won huge in the local elections. Restore have basically the same policies. It's ridiculous to vote for another party with the same policies because you end up with nothing.
The establishment polling cartel relies on a single statistical sleight of hand: legacy weighting.
Every headline Fleet Street manufactures to comfort nervous Tory donors is built on obsolete past-vote models. The legacy pollsters routinely penalise challenger parties on the patronising assumption that working-class voters will panic and drift back to the status quo, while artificially inflating the two legacy machines. They are polling modern Britain through the prism of a two-party system that died two years ago.
When you strip out the establishment distortion and apply realistic turnout weighting to the latest @OpiniumResearch fieldwork via @electionmapsuk, the narrative disintegrates:
Labour: 26% (-2)
Reform UK: 25% (21% base + 4% turnout adjustment)
Conservatives: 18% (-2)
Green: 11%
Lib Dems: 10%
SNP: 3%
Reform is not jostling for second place; they are in a statistical dead heat for the national lead, while the Conservatives have collapsed to a catastrophic 18%.
The Conservatives can keep buying friendly Sunday headlines off leading questions. The ballot box does not care about an algorithm designed to save legacy party careers.