This is not a protest vote it is a Reform revolution, says Matthew Goodwin

If these numbers were replicated at a future general election, we’d be looking at a stonking Reform majority.

But one of the things I’ve noticed today is how the elite class—the ruling class, the media class—has responded to Reform’s result.

We’ve heard endlessly that this is just a protest. That Reform is a protest party. That Nigel Farage is leading a protest movement.

But doesn’t that imply that all of this is just some kind of irrational backlash against the system? That Reform voters don’t really know what they’re voting for?

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But actually, they do.

Look at the research. Look at the polling. People aren’t just voting against the system.

They’re voting for: Control over mass immigration, secure border, an end to the spiralling number of small boats, an end to a two-tier Britain, where our legal and judicial systems are being reshaped against the British majority

They’re voting for a political movement that wants to reshape the country and its institutions — not around an elite minority based in Westminster, Oxford, Cambridge, and Brighton, but around the hardworking, law-abiding, forgotten majority.

That majority is asking: What on earth is happening to this country?

"I no longer recognise the place I once called home. I feel alarmed at the pace of change swirling around me—and nobody in Westminster seems to have a plan to deal with it."

This is not a protest vote. This is a rational, clear-eyed decision by millions of people who want to change a status quo that is being imposed on them from above.