It's All Your Fault

Watch this video without ads on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/... Amidst a fall to second or third place in the polls, Reform have taken to blaming Restore Britain for splitting the vote. An MRP/Find Out Now poll released while editing this video puts Restore at 8 per cent, and 10 per cent if proportional representation is introduced. The accusations of vote splitting have become increasingly insulting, even as Reform insist Restore voters must support them instead. But their narrative presumes Restore voters would vote Reform if Rupert Lowe weren't on the ballot. It also presumes the reasons they're not already voting Reform are Rupert Lowe's fault, rather than Reform themselves. Every vote Reform fails to win is their fault, for not offering something that Restore are prepared to. Vindictive though the ITV and Channel 4 stings have been, they have damaged Reform's reputation. Other wounds were self-inflicted: from despised Tory defectors like Nadhim Zahawi and Nadine Dorries, to idiotic comments denouncing deportations, denying English ethnicity, and accommodating Islam. These problems are baked in, unless Reform changes its rhetoric and personnel. They went out of their way to estrange their own voters, and are now furious that they didn't disappear, and formed their own party instead. When that party offered a pact, Nigel Farage called them fascists. Some in Reform realise their critical friends were right. That this situation was preventable and is regrettable. They have committed to a less hostile tone toward Restore and their sympathisers. But spending thousands on a Reform TV YouTube channel won't win them back. Unless Reform engages with the alternative media they estranged, and gets better spokespeople, they will never recover the credibility they lost with their former supporters. Listen to this episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/19s5... Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson   / connortomlinson   https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqU... Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9... Claim $10 in US Stablecoin (USA₮) free and send your first tip with Rumble Wallet. Use code Connor10 at signup: http://wallet.rumble.com/connor Promotional funds may only be used to tip creators on Rumble and cannot be withdrawn, transferred, or cashed out. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary. Offer available to US residents only. Offer not available in New York State. Must be 18+. Offer is available for a limited time and for the first 500 wallets activated and funded. Restrictions apply. Details and full official rules available at http://rumble.com/promoofficialrules. This is a paid advertisement for Rumble Wallet. Rumble is compensating me for this ad. Use my Gold Bullion Partners affiliate link: https://goldbullionpartners.co.uk/dow... Gold Bullion investments are tax-free (CGT, VAT), pension (SIPP) eligible, provide allocated and segregated storage in London and Zurich exchanges (with preferential storage for those who use my affiliate link), and offer wholesale access to supply and pricing. Gold Bullion also offers a buy-back guarantee to all customers. Chapters 0:00 — Reform has fallen in the polls 4:47 — Sponsor: Rumble Wallet 6:14 — Reform has lost Gen Z support 11:20 — Reform could fall to 15 per cent in a few weeks 14:46 — Reform councillors resign while Restore exceeds 10 per cent in 180 seats 20:33 — The rhetoric putting voters off Reform 30:13 — Can Reform win even if Restore didn't exist? 36:06 — The media hit pieces costing Reform votes 49:28 — Nigel Farage says "We can't turn the clock back" and that anyone with a British passport is British 52:14 — Nigel Farage says anyone can be English again 57:58 — Suella Braverman says we should denaturalise and deport foreign-heritage terrorists 1:02:19 — Suella Braverman says Islam and Islamism are different, then admits she hasn't read the Quran 1:07:22 — How are Reform trying to win estranged supporters back?