Lewis Goodall

You know, he was speaking before he was a politician and now he's a politician.

He doesn't sort of speak for reform.

But the other funny thing, which is just worth dwelling on for a moment, is his pre-politician political beliefs, which the Times has dug up today, which suggests that he didn't actually vote for Brexit.

And the party's now trying to reconcile the guy who they think they're putting into the middle of this sort of very Brexity part of the world.

I mean, we can come on to that, whether it is or not.

With the idea that they've got this candidate who actually was quite pro-immigration, the sort of the West Streeting candidate of Makerfield.

And so now you've got this party trying to work out whether they do they carry on going on about Wokorati and oh, he's just a normal lad.

Or do they have to shut down the fact that he didn't even apparently vote for Brexit in the first place, which seems to kind of go against everything that their party stands for.

Why this becomes complicated is, you're right, Lewis, you know, most people don't think about their media posts in the same way that, you know, the prime minister or even journalists think about theirs.

But it doesn't really matter to some extent what we're saying about this.

We are kind of irrelevant in this whole conversation because there is an internecine fight that has already kicked off now between reform and

and the kind of even more insurgent party, the sort of kid sister that's bitey at their heels, which is Restore.

And in Makerfield, this is really starting to matter because reform in the latest polls are about three points behind Andy Burnham.

I mean, let's not even call it Labour, let's call it Andy Burnham.

They're sitting on about 40% of a share of the vote if that poll is correct.

Restore are sitting on 7%, which is enough of a percentage for them actually to do quite a lot of damage to the reform candidates' chances.

And I mean, yes, Carol Vorderman can absolutely right pinpoint the creepiness of that language.

And you kind of know that no women who thinks or likes Carol Vorderman would probably ever go near voting for Robert Kenyon.

But take this post.

This is just a random person with a kind of St.