This is not a protest vote it is a Reform revolution, says Matthew Goodwin (0.776595744680851)

<iframe frameborder="0" height="100%" scrolling="no" src="https://www.gbnews.com/res/scraper/embed/?video_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmm-v2.simplestream.com%2Fiframe%2Fplayer.php%3Fkey%3D3Li3Nt2Qs8Ct3Xq9Fi5Uy0Mb2Bj0Qs%26player%3DGB003%26uvid%3D52876995%26type%3Dvod%26viously_id%3D" width="100%"></iframe><br/><p>Let me ask the question that everybody else is asking across the country: Is Nigel Farage going to be our next Prime Minister?</p><p>It has been a remarkable set of results for the Reform Party—not only winning that crucial parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby, but also gaining control of several councils and securing 30 per cent of the equivalent share of the national vote, according to today's projections.</p><h3></h3><br/><p>If these numbers were replicated at a future general election, we’d be looking at a stonking Reform majority.</p><p>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.</p><h3></h3><br/><img alt="\u200bMatthew Goodwin" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a00c4cd10e30dae85a9f1e60c968794e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="b99fe" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gbnews.com/media-library/u200bmatthew-goodwin.png?id=60133668&width=980"/><p>We’ve heard endlessly that this is just a protest. That Reform is a protest party. That Nigel Farage is leading a protest movement.</p><p>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?</p><p><strong>LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/doctors-infected-with-a-woke-mind-virus-says-matthew-goodwin" target="_self">We have doctors infected with a woke mind virus, says Matthew Goodwin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/keir-starmer-not-patriotic-opinion" target="_self">'Keir Starmer is not a patriotic leader, he opened up our southern border to illegal crossings,' says Matthew Goodwin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/keir-starmer-not-patriotic-opinion" target="_self"></a><a href="https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/matthew-goodwin-losing-touch-with-political-reality" target="_self">A few people out there might be losing touch with political reality, says Matthew Goodwin</a></li></ul><h3></h3><br/><div class="embed-latest"></div><p>But actually, they do.</p><p>Look at the research. Look at the polling. People aren’t just voting against the system. </p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><h3></h3><br/><img alt="Reform UK leader Nigel Farage" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ab83968a907091b7636f3bcba58be23a" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="f6f20" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gbnews.com/media-library/reform-uk-leader-nigel-farage.jpg?id=55470198&width=980"/><h3></h3><br/><p>That majority is asking: What on earth is happening to this country?</p><p>"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."</p><p>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.</p>