So we've had Reform, Reclaim and now Restore...
The right-wing branding guys have got to work a bit harder surely!
It's all just the punch and judy show and fun for the activist base like me.....and let's not forget Restore aren't a political party looking for votes but a policy pressure movement on the right.
Maybe it'll be what Corbyn ends up doing as well.....Corbyn and Lowe seem to respect each other much in the same way Foot and Powell did so maybe Corbyn will end up with a movement rather than a party as well....though I think there is more pressure on him to start a party, even though its destructive to Starmer's Labour.....but the Corbynites would be thinking more long term and about policy possibly after Starmer's reign.....Similar to how Lowe is thinking of what comes after Farage.
Sometimes political opposites can get on better than a politically close 'Brown' and 'Blair' situation because of personality clashes. For politics Corbyn and Lowe are both quite honest and earnest people.
However, unless something out of the ordinary happens, Reform are on track to win for much the same reason Labour won.....Things are going badly (which economically is very likely to contine) and people will think it's time for a change and Farage represents that. The normies will feel it's his time.
Labour can't turn it around, they just aren't capable of dealing with the very real and extremley deep seated problems.....mainly because they are intrinsically the same people as those in the civil service and treasury...who run the country much more than the classic normie believes. You can't get radical change from neoliberals because all their policies essentially have to go through several layers of acceptence....EU, banks, city....The system that brought us here isn't going to be the turkey that votes for Christmas.
Don't get me wrong....I don't think Farage will be able to do much either....mostly mouth and trousers and he'll be more a talking shop than change anything radically.....I imagine he'll just be happy to have reached the top of the mountain....probably won't even stick around for his full term.
But I do think they win in 29.....and I'll enjoy the punch and judy stuff.....plus it'll be nice to at least see the back of the DEI and progressive stuff for a while.
But the real stuff doesn't start until the system collapses proper.