Joseph Robertson

mentality to net zero all of these things helped crush the red wall rather than raise it up a lack of commitment to infrastructure proper proper leveling up like transport etc so those uh people were kind of went into the ether i don't think a lot of them really voted labor a lot did vote reform already in the last general election but a lot just stayed at home um and nigel's promises of opening up you know steel industries getting fracking and going again coal and

All these key industries, which, by the way, if you went to AI or tech, we desperately need because we're going to be so energy intensive trying to grow out those sectors.

It's a pipe dream to suggest otherwise.

That's what will unlock growth in the Red Bull.

And I think voters are already quietly turning out.

You know, you've just seen 29 councils apply across the country not to have elections again this year at local level.

This is something the Labour government is supporting and encouraging and, in my opinion, inducing to try and prevent reform winning councils off them all over the place.

And the Tories are happily complying because the same will happen with their voters.

fewer councils that they hold.

But this is the big question.

How much will the Red Wall come out to vote?

I personally think that they will pour out for Nigel in the next election.

And I think we will end up having an even higher vote share than is predicted by the pollsters.

That's a good question.

I mean, they're Fabians, so patience will always be their virtue.

But I think in the front bench, there will be some panic because this signifies a unifying effect against them.

They only think in two ways.

They think in 100-year plans, and that's going back to my Fabian analysis.

But then they also think in two, three, four years, the very short term at the other end of the spectrum.

They will be panicking in a political sense because the problem is as reform unifies and gains more and more authority, they can level less and less this idea that they don't have experience in the party.