Is Reform done for?

@5128gap

Because they give an indication into public feeling at that given time

They don’t. A sample of 2000 can never be extrapolated to reflect what each registered voter, approximately 48 million, is thinking.

Because they give an indication into public feeling at that given time. However unless a GE is imminent they have little meaning for that party's prospects of gaining power. Their value at this stage is only as a barometer to the public reaction to the political events of the week in which they were taken. But people change their minds, as we see by the differing results.

Then why are they produced?

Some statistician somewhere must find them useful.

Yes i believe so

Polls at this point in a parliament are meaningless.

To answer the original question, Reform and Labour are level-pegging on 24% in one poll I've seen.
In the IPSOS-Mori Poll Labour has 24% and Reform 26%,

so the answer to the original question is "No"

Not really. The 'people' were a group of 100 maximum, armed with bats, rocks and eggs trying to drag people from their homes. That behaviour is absolutely not 'to be expected' because the vast majority of law abiding people wouldn't dream of it. People who bite police officers are not representative or reflective of the views of 'the people'.

Depends on your underlying political persuasion I guess.
I'm happy to have a Labour government and I'm happy to have a new Labour PM who has said things are going to be different. The things he's said he'll change are the things I agree need to be changed. I don't think he has a magic wand and immediate fixes, but I'm happy with the direction of travel so far.
As far as I can see, the only thing Reform want to do is stop the boats, and I think there are other priorities. I also don't think they're even capable of that as their plan is pie in the sky, and they don't have people of sufficient skill and experience to govern. Their performance in local councils is shambolic and the corruption at the top is appalling.

@anotherside , you wish but absolutely not.

People have had enough of immigrant problems, no party seems willing to do anything about it, so the people saw anger, it’s to be expected

What is the answer, more of the same is not working, it’s like picking between a shit sandwich or a shit roll, better have one of them because something new might be worse

I agree. And we would have to put up with more of these savages, biting police woman:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74g1gxvwlvo

😂😂😂think this applies to most politicians to be honest.

And given that Reform MPs are currently mostly defected Tories who were largely instrumental in getting us into this mess in the first place, what makes them the answer ?

I suspect that people who take the attitude that 'they can't be any worse than the other two' are going to be in for a very nasty surprise if Reform do get their hands on power....

Of course, no one could accuse Farage of narcissism...

Burnham is not your answer! He is not a decent man, he will tell you a great story, very good at bullshitting but he will only do things that benefit Burnham. He did very little for Manchester, very little against the grooming gangs, see Maggie Oliver, debt has increased, homelessness has increased. Manchester is nothing like it used to be, Piccadilly Gardens are a disgrace! I would like Burnham to succeed for the sake of the whole country, but after seeing who he has appointed in his cabinet I am very disappointed and have come to the conclusion that he is just another narcissist.

@5128gap

Because I could sit here and say the other parties haven't solved the problems. I'll do it differently, promise! Vote for me! But the devil's in the detail.

The other parties have had decades to solve problems, but have not succeeded. Hence the rise of support for less well known parties.

There is no guarantee they will be better, but when the others have a long history of failure people will either choose a new party or not vote.

Turning that around then, how are Reform the answer? What are their policies that are new and will work raise standards of living and reduce the cost of it? How do they plan to address the decline in WC neighbourhoods? What are they going to do to address the housing crisis? And what new and innovative ways are they going to use that means they'll succeed?
Because I could sit here and say the other parties haven't solved the problems. I'll do it differently, promise! Vote for me! But the devil's in the detail.

If Reform is not the answer, what is? Surely we can’t keep electing the same two parties and expecting a different outcome, Britain is a downward spiral we need something, someone different, a different course, a new and fresh party,new ideas, Labour waited a decade to get back in power had all that time to think about new policies and ideas, came in, nothing new. Already got ride of one PM.

Absolutely. The fact that his killers were convicted of manslaughter rather than murder so are therefore amongst the eligible for ER is very distressing for his family, unpopular with the public and problematic politically for the PM.
Not sure what the answer is though, as to make these killers ineligible would give rise to questions about the eligibility of other people in prison for manslaughter. Most notably those who have killed children due to careless driving.
So really we would be looking at excluding many many more people from ER, it couldn't just be Andrew Harper.
This would mean we'd have to stop arresting and sentencing new criminals, because we've nowhere to put them. It's not a problem I'd want to be faced with.

Andy Burnham is only a couple of weeks in. He isverymuch in his honeymoon period. The media will have their knives into him by autumn, like every previous pm.

I do hope so. A bunch of narcissistic, corrupt and opportunistic snake oil salesmen/women.

Yes, the best people's opinions are those directly affected by actions. Andrew Harper's family being a case in point.