Posted on 08/30/2025 2:39:05 AM PDT by RandFan
Politics is a numbers game. Whether it's counting votes, poll ratings, calculating budgets or seats in the house of Commons, it all comes down to numeracy.
Reform UK is a case in point. They might only have four MPs - one less than this time last year - but they're arguably the most influential party in British politics right now. Just look at the numbers.
They are leading the polls on around 30%, give or take one or two percentage points, well ahead of Labour's 20% and the Tories on 17%.
Membership has rocketed to almost 240,000 - making it the UK's second largest party behind Labour who have just over 300,000 paid up members, a number which is plummeting.
Its leader, Nigel Farage, has a dizzying following, at least six million people, on social media - TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, dwarfing that of Keir Starmer and Kemi Badonoch.
Reform has at least 500 constituency branches, 874 council seats across the UK, two regional mayors, countless defectors, mostly ex-Tories, and several women in high profile positions, countering what was once perceived as the party's achilles heel.
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UK government to declare Reform “extremist” and therefore illegal, just like the lousy blockhead krauts did with AfD, in 3...2...1...
Farage is killing his following by not being adamant about illegals. He is sounding more and more like a Tory (aka, RINO).
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