No one I know is talking about the Tories - its all Reform Reform Reform - Adam Brooks

Since that time I've been in Nigel's company a few times and on every single occasion he has asked me how my pub is going and how my family is, I genuinely believe that he is interested in others and that is why he is connecting with so many people.

Until Nigel stepped up to lead Reform, I had taken a keen interest in their growth as a party, but I was not sold on them enough to ever think that they could challenge the top two parties, so I was politically homeless, I did not want to vote and I simply did not trust the Tories anymore, or could I forgive them for what they did to businesses during covid.

Labour just looked utterly crazy to me...Back in 2019, I was firmly behind the Tories, we had the impending threat of Corbynism and his marxist bunch, so there really was no alternative but to back Boris and lets be honest, he was a good salesmen, we all had hope for the future.

There was a real buzz about the country again, many of us thought that we finally had a patriotic and passionate Prime Minister again, but then Covid hit, it was a tidal wave of fear and misinformation from our media, from our medical advisors and that changed everything.

Boris was captured by these doom mongering, agenda-driven advisers and his reign started to collapse from under his feet.

With media pressure, civil service tantrums and back stabbing, Conservative colleagues did not shy away from sticking the knife firmly in.

The Conservative party started to implode from within, their arrogance and contempt for what Tory voters and members wanted, showed, when they pulled out all the tricks in the book to get Rishi Sunak installed as the leader of the party.

I predicted live on GB News that he would be a disaster and that he truly was. A Prime Minister with no backbone, no connection with the average Brit, continuing on Boris' lack of action on immigration, he then raised taxes to the highest point in decades and failed to support small businesses like mine, instead of growth, the country hit the buffers and the people had had enough.

The Tories collapsed in the polls, opening the way for Nigel to step in and fill the void, and fill that void they really have, reaching near mid twenties in some polls and putting the wind up both the Tories and Labour.

Unfortunately the last election came too soon, but the next will be a different matter.

We have seen Donald Trump take his rightful place as President of of America again, that optimism for change has already reached our shores, we have common sense MPs like Rupert Lowe challenging the Government on what Brits really want answers on, we have Lee Anderson talking tough on the migrant hotels, and we have Nigel Farage and Richard Tice holding this Labour Government to account on the two tier justice, two tier policing and pushing back on everything that the actual opposition should be, but are not.

It feels like our Government is at war with us and the country is starting to wake up.

Personally, I thought Robert Jenrick was the obvious choice for Conservative leader, his tough talking and brave speeches made me believe that the Tories could become conservative again down the line... but they went with Kemi Badenoch, someone I fail to see as having leadership quality and that I think, was evident recently during PMQS, on the day of the farmer's tractor protest.

No one I know or speak to will vote for her and the Tories, all I hear is Reform, Reform, Reform, that is from builders through to city high flyers, the momentum of change is truly staggering.

The two party system has failed us over the last two decades, it is time for change and the only people making the right noises are Reform UK, and as the country inevitably starts to fall apart under Labour, that support will multiply rapidly.

Picking a fight with pensioners over a possible saving of 1.3 billion pounds per year, was political suicide, picking a fight with the farmers over a £500 million yearly saving ( one day of NHS funding ) was just idiotic, and now the students are angry, a party that promised to abolish tuition fees, just put them up !...Throw in business and property owners, Labour's support is dwindling fast, so watch this space.

I can see Reform hitting 30 per cent in the polls over the next 18 months and that is when things will get interesting, expect more defections and more high profile backers, times are changing.