I think it's a GOOD thing that Reform have the very limited chance to dabble in local government now - they will hopefully show that they are no good. Let them fail. Let them show their true colours. Better to find out now. If Farage wins power, he will probably make the massive thieves and criminals Boris Johnson and Tony Blair look like gentlemen. I don't think Reform are the magic bullet people think they are; and if they gain power, the magic bullet will shoot the people who voted for it.
Much as I despise all politicians and government, I think Labour are the least of all available evils right now. They are the closest thing we have to "adults" in charge; and after Boris Johnson, I don't trust anybody who promises miracles, which is what Farage is doing. Labour are not good at communicating what they are doing right, and they don't have the Tory press on their side. They were given a very, very shitty situation to put right, and they were not promising miracles. To me, any politician promising miracles is a huge red flag.
A headline in the Express said a couple of days ago "Farage promises: three strikes, and it's jail for life" (I saw the headline, didn't read the article). That's exactly the soundbite that appeals to his right-wing Daily Mail readers as they froth over their morning cornflakes. It's an ideology that I used to support, but the reality is far more nuanced than that, especially as we have so few prison places that we have to keep letting criminals out, and I don't think Farage is going to woo his voters with "I'm going to invest billions not in the NHS (let the ill die instead), but in Titan jails, with generous salaries to tempt officers to work in them."
Farage is a disruptor: he says radical things to make the government change their tune, but isn't really offering a credible alternative. I think people sometimes vote for disruptors to show the government the red card, thinking that whoever they vote for isn't going to win... and then it's a shock if they do. I think some people voted Brexit simply to show their indignation for government bureaucracy in general, or immigration in general, not expecting it to win, and were stunned when it did. Maybe even Farage wasn't expecting it.