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If only you didnโ€™t need to lie to frame a narrative, David. Journalist? ๐Ÿ˜†
Replying to @Ben_Bradley_32
If only your press office was as forthright as you Ben
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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 itโ€™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 donโ€™t support it. Singling out the one poll that best restores the familiar order, while treating the averages as noise, isnโ€™t neutral reporting. Itโ€™s an attempt to talk people back into the old expectations before any further movement sticks. Itโ€™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 didnโ€™t really mean what they just did. Peopleโ€™s memories arenโ€™t that short. The Conservatives went into the last election having lost control. Their support didnโ€™t dip it collapsed and Reformโ€™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 doesnโ€™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 arenโ€™t evidence of a settled realignment. Voters have already shown theyโ€™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 wouldnโ€™t need this much reinforcement. Weโ€™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 isnโ€™t a sign the arrangement has been vindicated. Itโ€™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. Donโ€™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 hasnโ€™t been disproved itโ€™s just been declared inconvenient. After all pollsters have agendas, a nudge here and a nudge there until you remember to do as youโ€™re told. Donโ€™t let them manipulate you ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿป
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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.
Labour call a snap election tomorrow. Only a Reform/Conservative coalition remove Labour and prevent them from winning another five-year term. How do you vote?
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UK pollsters keep getting it wrong, and it is hard to keep treating that as just bad luck, it isnโ€™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 Labourโ€™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. Reformโ€™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 โ€œnever believe a poll that makes you smileโ€ heโ€™s of course right but I would argue the opposite is more important, do not be fooled by oneโ€™s that donโ€™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 itโ€™s a wastes of time, these pollsters are not neutral players, all have an agenda.
As Iโ€™ve been saying, the trend is very clear now.
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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 ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿป
Wrong again. Tory Reformtards are already calling for a merge. ๐Ÿซช Get begging to Kemi cupcake.
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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. ๐Ÿ˜†
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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.
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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?
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Stand down for who, Stanley? The Tory party, because youโ€™re not talking about Restore, are you?
Reform peaked last year and now flopped again. All they're doing now is helping leftards. Practice what you preach, stand down.
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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 thatโ€™s what acting looks like. Your list of systemic failure is mostly they didnโ€™t achieve perfection in a party that didnโ€™t exist as a serious force until a few years ago. Every major party has had worse, longer, and more senior scandals. Pretending Reformโ€™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.
So the argument here is: โ€œthat group of racist is not as bad as that other group of racistsโ€ - heaven help us ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ Itโ€™s not a few bad apples: - itโ€™s 7 years of the same scandal - Itโ€™s the relaxing of standards - its lack of accountability - itโ€™s the whataboutery - itโ€™s โ€œdefend the indefensible,โ€ - Itโ€™s the leadership overruling the standards - Itโ€™s advising how to get around vetting standards - itโ€™s โ€œhe canโ€™t apologiseโ€ - itโ€™s the lack of internal structures and zero professionalism - itโ€™s shooting the messenger over acknowledging they handed them the gun Itโ€™s promising to fix this issue in 2024 and 2 years later getting caught in the same scandal and blaming people for pointing it out The issue of the ITV exposed documentary is not a few bad apples, itโ€™s that Reform UK are repeatedly failing to fix the problem then refusing to take accountability and do something about it
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Stop begging. It's all so desperate and pathetic now. What happened to "don't care"? ๐Ÿ˜†
Join Restore Britain. Support common sense politics Lets get our country back.
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Whereโ€™s Restore on that poll? I canโ€™t see them, Stanley. ๐Ÿ˜† vote ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ @reformparty_uk
GE on the cards. Totally wasted opportunity for real change. Seems like deliberate self sabotage by Farage, who won't stick around when Reform loses again. Destroying the "far-right" is what he does best. He needs to f^ck off for good.
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No amount of masquerading will ever make your head smaller, let alone a normal size. You are just weird, that is a matter of fact.
No amount of masquerading will ever make Rishi Sunak or Suella Braverman British, let alone English. They are Indians, that is a matter of fact.
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What I donโ€™t understand is sheโ€™s clearly blocked you, so youโ€™re deliberately going out of your way to find her posts and screenshot them just to rant about Boomers. Why not just go about your day? She blocked me too but I ainโ€™t that salty to care.
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It wonโ€™t happen, but if it did, Iโ€™d vote Reform. Simple as that.
Hypothetical scenario. By the end of November, Restore poll at 12% and Reform drop to 18%. Labour at 27% and Tory party at 22%. Farage refuses to do any form of deal for tactical voting to ensure the right stand a chance. Burnham then calls snap election. What to do? How do you think this would and should play out?
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I posted something similar a while back. They should definitely aim to win, but many are underpricing what becoming the official opposition would mean itโ€™s a death blow to the Tory Party and legitimising @reformparty_uk in wider society. Itโ€™s not ideal for those who want a Reform government now, but another brick in the wall to becoming one in a historically unprecedented way. Five more years of labour would all but guarantee a Reform government in 2034 from the opposition benches.
Reformโ€™s primary aim should be to become the official opposition in a snap election. Government isnโ€™t on the cards in a snap election.
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So are you now supporting the Tory party, Stanley? This isnโ€™t the first post youโ€™ve done like this it canโ€™t be Restore, as they donโ€™t even show on that poll outside other.
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