The two main issues, as of Tuesday a.m.

The two major stories this morning are the US Senate treachery in failing to kick illegals off welfare due to Thune:

and over here … this:

The optics, as they call it, are not good on either of those developments.  The timing of Ben Habib (who?) forming this one man party, albeit with tacit support from many pundits was immediately followed by Rupert Lowe launching his own initiative and the Lib Dem Sarah Pochin attacking both in support of Farage/Yusuf.

Not a good look … where can it actually go?  How far can it get?  The Tories are deliberately being useless, controlled Labour opposition … Reform certainly has the results so far, esp. at local level (councils) and their PR is better.

The problem with Reform is that straight after they score resounding grassroots victories, Farage then betrays them as usual. His agenda is simple to see and involves the very cult most Brit polling so far is down on.  More specifically, he sees himself as one of the inner powermongers, taking no truly populist position for long.

Oh and of course … the fault is all ours, seen as splitters.  Very clever.

Rupert has popular support but how many outside of the online lot know of him? Plus it’s not a party … it’s crossparty … how does that actually get legislation into place?

And there we are.