There's no electoral reward for Starmer being polite about people vandalising public property or storming shopping centres and hotels. Those thugs will never vote Labour. They probably won't even vote Reform UK. They'll vote for one of the more overtly fascist splinter parties, if they vote at all.
Fortivery few of them can read, so they are unlikely to recognise a Polling Station if it poked them in the eye with a flag on a pole.
I think a good number of them will vote Reform
But I agree there's no reward for Starmer for this bizarre appeasement act
The (fully deserved) reward will be losing more core voters to the LD/Greens
They will stand in front of polling booths to stop people voting…