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Originally Posted by Russ

You summed it up with..



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

As I said, voters are fickle. They might choose Reform on the basis of not Labour nor Conservative.

My point was that Reform would need to have pre-sorted out the HOW of getting the economy right within a reasonable timeframe taking into account the forces that bear on the matter. This might gain them votes from people who are not fickle, but the "anyone else" vote is what they're after.

Actually I don't thin that we are in disagreement on this.