YouGov has reported that one of the biggest shifts in public opinion since the general election is the continued rise of Reform UK. In fact, a quarter of all Britons have said that they would consider voting for Reform UK in a future election. Party leader, Nigel Farage, has actually compared Reform UK’s rise in the polls with Donald Trump’s US Presidental victory. On their website, Reform UK pledge a manifesto consisting of standing up for British culture, identity and values. They also plan to freeze immigration, and restore law and order. In a recent speech, Farage said: "Reform has all the momentum in British politics and we are only just getting started.” It’s thought that Reform’s focus on border control, tax cuts and opposition of supposed woke politics, resonates with a population who believe the political establishment has already ignored their growing concerns. But what do you think? Why do you think popularity of Reform UK is growing and would you like to see them form the next government?
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00:00Quite clearly, there is a lot of disillusion with labour.
00:06The Conservatives are on a road to recovery, but it's a very slow process.
00:11The incumbents, or the new kids on the block, which of course is Farage and his merry bunch
00:16of men around him, yeah, there is undoubtedly a case that they are going to become popular
00:21because, and he will look to what's happened in America and say the sort of things that
00:26Trump has sort of come out with, which of course has meant he's won a sort of a landslide
00:31in America of sorts, although of course, as we know, again, very thinly spread.
00:35So the fact is that I'm not surprised that the opinion polls are sort of put into reform
00:39in the sort of the pound seats, so to speak, and next time round in four years, and I do
00:44sort of stress four years, hey, at the moment, four weeks is a long time in politics.
00:48According to YouGov, those who favoured Reform UK reportedly said that it's the party's distinct
00:54identity compared to the other established parties, which is key to its appeal.
00:58Other considerers said the party's broader difference has an appeal with the fact that
01:02Reform represents a new approach.
01:05Another main consideration for people who ponder voting for the party was Reform's flagship
01:09immigration policies and the belief that the party will stand up for Britain.
01:14And in America, Donald Trump is back, and we see this in the sense of the great sort
01:19of maggot lot, you know, the make American great again.
01:22I think that that's the sort of the tack that sort of Farage will be taking, make the UK
01:28great again, and saying similar sort of things.
01:30And indeed, I have sort of said before, immigration is going to be sort of the key issue, and
01:34we saw the sort of the latest sort of figures from the ONS this week, that population is
01:38going to go up in this country mainly due to immigration.
01:41Now, whatever sort of the benefits that, that plays out very badly amongst a lot of voters,
01:46both Conservative and indeed the working class people who traditionally would have
01:49gone to Labour, but they don't tend to go for Tories, they would go for sort of a much
01:53more nationalistic party.
01:55But as I say, but who can predict what may happen?