Leaked messages show Tory campaigners are concerned about a surge in support for Reform, GB News can reveal.
Veteran Conservative Party volunteers wrote that Reform’s surge is “statistically significant” and one told GB News that he has “never seen anything like it” in his years as a Tory campaigner.
A lifelong Conservative activist told GB News: “I’ve canvassed and I never had anything like it as a Tory, Reform are sweeping us away.”
“Typical responses I’ve heard on the doorstep include: ‘Yes mate with Reform all day long’, ‘I would vote Reform 10 times over if I could’, ‘Priti Patel is a relative of mine, I like her but I’m still voting Reform’, ‘Reform definitely and that’s me and this whole household all of us’, ‘Our whole family and my son who lives elsewhere are all Reform’.”
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Meanwhile, leaked messages seen by GB News show one Tory activist in the West Midlands wrote in a group chat for fellow campaigners that during his canvassing he had “spoken to more than a few voters who described themselves as ex-Conservative, now Reform”.
The activist continued: “I even had a chat with a real life Alf Garnett who told me he won't vote Conservative because we've gone all left wing.”
“The point being that in my neck of the woods, Reform are more than a spectral assumption based on shopping habits. They are statistically significant.”
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He continued: “Nigel’s return has given people hope that a centre-right alternative to the Tory party exists. Millions feel taken advantage of and ignored, but because we didn’t have our act together these voters had no mouthpiece.”
“This is a shock for Tories because this huge constituency of voters were only awoken when Nigel announced his comeback.”
“Tomorrow careerist Tories across the country are going to discover what happens when you break your promises, destroy a country through years of mass migration, and then have the audacity to dismiss actual conservatives as fringe and unintelligent.”
“The revolt is coming.”
Another Conservative West Midlands activist in the leaked group chat claimed that the Reform vote was “not quite as potent as polls suggest” though admitted the Tories were being “squeezed from both sides” by Labour and Nigel Farage’s party.
He claimed that he “was in a 'Reform-minded area' today” and found “not one reform supporter”.
The Tory continued: “Most grumpy Tories who said they'd begrudgingly vote for us next month (or stay at home) and a couple of Labour voters.”
“At least for us, the spectre of Reform comes from CCHQ's internal readings, which are apparently based on shopping habits etc. to try to guess who will be more likely to vote Reform.”
“We knock on their doors and they aren't Reform supporters”.
Another wrote: “I think there are a lot of patriotic Brexiters who get close to voting Labour then will get the frighteners once Reform's message starts to hit.”
“Reform has filled the vacuum of small-c-conservative politics with true-blue, common sense, small state, pro-UK pro-Brexit messaging (you know, the type we should O be doing).”
“They will issue warnings about how bad Labour will be rather than compete with them to give the biggest handouts.”
“I expect the warnings from Reform will make many reds turn light blue, just a hunch.”
