Best Of

Many of those who gleefully look forward to the end of days claim to be patriots. But it is a strange form of patriotism that declares the country essentially finished. This is still a long way from being true.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/09/farage-and-the-prophets-of-doom-have-got-britain-wrong

Telegraph, Times and Tory BBC have published articles against Farage and doomsterism. Has Nige threatened a news tax?

I haven't read any of the articles, but there is far too much doomsterism about. We can be far too "everything's hunky-dory" and ignore problems; but we also can go too far the other way and say "everything's awful", when it really is not.

Take climate change / green energy. We can look at our current situation and say "We've got to go further and faster, we're doing really badly and we're doomed,", or "we've done well so far, but there's further to go. Let's have another push!" Both could accurately sum up the current situation, but I think the latter is much more useful.

The campaign to stop Nigel Farage becoming next PM isn't going too well is it.

They've led the polling for 3.5 months. Ed Miliband led convincingly for 2.5 years and flopped to a big defeat.
There's a serious case of immediacy bias in this parliament

Yes. I don't think people are fully grasping the heft of the chunk of time which must flow between here and 2029. That's not next year, or the year after, or even the year after that. It's an eternity, esp in a world as volatile as this.

Nigel Farage is not 'marching to power'. With pretty much everything going for him atm, and under no scrutiny, and with his propagandists working like energiser bunnies, he has a nice little lead in the polls for something that is not even on the horizon let alone in clear view.

Quite. There will be any number of big events between now and then which will move the dial for the parties.
Labour will benefit from being the government, the Tories from being HMO at times. Reform won't keep everyone absolutely raging about immigration for 4 years and will have to show they can run things at council and devolved levels as well as present a plan for government.
If things are like this after next years voting then perhaps their support is hard. As it stands, they benefit from dissatisfaction and NOTA

The campaign to stop Nigel Farage becoming next PM isn't going too well is it.

They've led the polling for 3.5 months. Ed Miliband led convincingly for 2.5 years and flopped to a big defeat.
There's a serious case of immediacy bias in this parliament

Yes. I don't think people are fully grasping the heft of the chunk of time which must flow between here and 2029. That's not next year, or the year after, or even the year after that. It's an eternity, esp in a world as volatile as this.

Nigel Farage is not 'marching to power'. With pretty much everything going for him atm, and under no scrutiny, and with his propagandists working like energiser bunnies, he has a nice little lead in the polls for something that is not even on the horizon let alone in clear view.