Idk. Turnout was half that a general election and I’d assume REF voters pretty motivated. Also, Reform vote is pretty inefficient and the threat will drive tactical voting. In short, read @benansell.bsky.social’s forthcoming substack post.

Great now I have to write it

@anthonyzach.be has moved beyond the Posting to Policy paradigm (h/t @duncanrobinson.bsky.social) and is now at the "posting to make others post" paradigm

Using former ambassadors as my catspaw. Can’t deny it feels classy.

Today only an activist at @defenddemocracy.bsky.social in Brussels 🇪🇺. Still classy, I suppose.

V classy.

Now That's What I Call Thought Leadership 2025

Yeah sorry about that. But I wanted to read it, so….

We need a @benansell.bsky.social AI. Sadly the one I coded to do Seumus Milne, Brendan O’Neill and Simon Jenkins won’t do the trick.

Jenkins was the easiest. Just write something sensible and the AI alters each sentence to make it mean the opposite (e.g., insert a ‘not’, change “will” into “won’t”, etc).

It's interesting that Reform voters are typically the least likely to vote in elections... Farage is now perhaps going to have to work quite hard to keep them onside? bsky.app/profile/luke...

All eyes on the next iconoclast...

Well one of the things about “reform voters do/don’t” is that by definition is refers to people who have previously voted reform. If there is a big CON>REF shift, how Reform voters behave changes mechanically.

So, potentially, a beast has been awakened?