Richard Tice says Sunak is ‘terrified’ of Reform UK as he bids for Boston and Skegness seat

10 comments

1. No one is terrified of reform Uk. Ironically the biggest joke in British politics

2. For the first time the right wing vote is split. Reform may not get many but it will have an impact in constituencies where the result is close. They will take more votes from the Tories and fewer from Labour and the LibDems.

   Please everyone vote. And if you want to get rid of the Tories, vote tactically. Ignore the Tory posters who will try to persuade you to vote for the party you support. They just want to split the left wing vote, meaning their defeat will be less heavy.

3. Once you start considering Boston and Skegness your best bet you know it’s over

4. Support for Reform UK is definitely a negative modifier for the Conservatives’ chances, but I’m highly doubtful they’ll meet the threshold to start winning seats. Labour and the Lib Dems are the ones rubbing their hands.

5. This shows how batshit stupid they are. Standing there will do nothing…it’s a Tory safe seat (one of the ones they would retain with liz truss polling) and it shows he’s obsessed with polling high percentage over actually trying to win seats or make a difference.

   It’s the tice grift over actually having a policy or hoping to make a change

6. Reform UK should be outlawed along with the other right-wing parties. We’ve had quite enough of right-wing ideology ruining our country, thank you very much.

7. Farage is the only one terrified to the point of giving up the fight even before the bell rings.

8. As usual never worried about the centrists and middle of the road voters that actually decide elections, but always in a rush to run towards the extremists and radicalised far right crazies on the sidelines.

9. Reform party, is a private limited company, possibly meaning if they do win seats, they could be sold to who ever pays enough..

10. For a small party to succeed they need to have a grassroots operation (which Reform are severely lacking in), or target their resources very heavily to a very narrow regional number of seats (e.g. the SNP, Plaid, LibDems in the south-west).

    Reform don’t fit any of these, and don’t have a regional-specific issue they can run with. Their best bet during the Brexit years would have been a constituency where a large share of the local electorate were in some way linked to the fishing industry. At present, it would probably be a constituency that houses a disproportionate share of Channel-crossers at the local authority’s expense.

    The fact that they aren’t really bothering with the latter and trying to run a “national campaign” suggests, once again, that it’s a grift for its founders.