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HOW TO BEAT REFORM: BY @dai_alectic Nigel Farage’s Reform succeeds because it gives words and ideas to people, which they can use to feel they better understand what is happening to them and the country, and can plan action to make it better: the elite did it, because they are stupid lefties who don’t understand the traditions which have served us well; stand by them, raise a flag, vote Reform and do your duty as part of the resistance. That political argument has been developed and propagated online for years, and applied by hundreds of thousands of people to all kinds of issues and local experiences. For me the twin issues are understanding Reform’s base and understanding why said people are voting for Reform. Labour seem to understand neither. Firstly, the Morgan McSweeney strategy of winning over the working class (in the abstract) seems to have alienated Labour’s new progressive base while also not winning over said “working class”. Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher understood that the “hero voters” are not the working class but the petty bourgeoisie: the lower middle classes who are being squeezed and broken by the current economic settlement. Labour have thus far totally alienated this group through minimum wage hikes, the national insurance burden, and increasing bureaucracy across the board. Nigel Farage understands this and much of Reform’s pitch is to this group. Labour have to win that group back over. newstatesman.com/symposium/2026…
















