Reform UK Are a Party Run on Hype and Nothing Else

The folly of Reform

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Ever since the 2024 election, there has been a considerable buzz around Reform UK and Nigel Farage. People fairly quickly fell out of love with Labour in what turned out to be a loveless landslide and started to look elsewhere. Unfortunately, one of the places many seem to be gravitating towards is Reform, a party who are offering little in the way of actual change or reform, despite their name. It’s a bit of a cliche at this point, but Reform really seem to be a party of ex-Tories. After all, so many Tories have defected to Reform in the last year and a half that it’s hard to see Reform as anything but a place for Tory rejects.

Still, Reform seems to be doing really well in polling, with consistent polls showing that if an election were held today, Reform could even wind up with a majority; some polls have even shown Reform would win over 400 seats. For context, the Labour party currently has 404 seats, the third most they’ve ever had, the first and second of which occurred in the 1997 and 2001 elections of Tony Blair.

I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m not worried about Reform UK and the prospect of them making it into government on their own. The simple reason for this being that Britain has a first-past-the-post electoral system and, for better or worse, such a system…