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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Therefore, at this point, Reform cannot be ruled out. Imo.
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You summed it up with..
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
A wise Reform leader
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In the main, Reform voters aren't going to be swayed by a "wise" leader; that's who they've been trained to rebel against. After all, politics needed a 'reform', right? Something different from the "usual" politics.
This is why former investment banker Farage is trying to portray himself as "one of us". Many Reform fans are attracted to knee-jerk ideas ("send them all back" etc), and a wise leader will stay away from these, thereby marginalising the traditional Reform voter.
As Damien says, all the political ambition of the Lib Dems. What does make reform different (although still no more likely to win an election) is their ability to "worry" the main parties, in the way UKIP's rise in popularity pushed Cameron into offering the referendum