But they don’t beat a coalition of left wing parties, which is surely the appropriate comparison.

The left vote is split in every single election - it happens to the right once and you get people trying to invent all sort of conclusions about what I means.

The winner of the election is very clearly the party with a huge majority, with Reform and Greens performing very well.

I voted Reform, not because I thought(or cared about) Tories Lying to us, what they did in their personal lives, or how much taxpayers money they wasted(although that does irk me somewhat), but that I believed their policies were failing the country. I don't believe Labour would be any better, their policies on the major things aren't different enough.
As a country we're going in the wrong direction, and neither Labour or Tory, in their current state, are going to change this.

Reforms policies identified the issues this Country faced, however unpopular or unfashionable they may be, and offered a viable alternative to the same old, same old priorities and strategies offered up by anyone and everyone else.

I do wonder what the chances are of a Tory-Reform Coalition at the next GE are, and how they'd perform...

Did you ever consider that our apathy to things like politicians lying to us and stealing our money are linked to the country going in the wrong direction?

Perhaps, if that was anything new.

This country has been going in the wrong direction since WW2 because we spent what was left of our empire wealth defeating Hitler.
It's only because of North Sea Oil that things looked better for a while, but now the reality of our status means that things are tough.
COVID has pushed us closer to disaster, and mass immigration has been used to massage the figures since Brown's Government.

We have to accept that we cannot continue to flood the country with immigrants or expect to provide lifestyles like the USA.

We are on the road to self destruction if we continue with the same short sighted band aid policies.

The Tories literally ran as liberals and lost.

Reform are a Thatcher lite party and Thatcher won three terms....Indeed Johnson won an eighty seat majority with the red wall thinking he was going to protect them from immigration.

I predict you're wrong. Unless the Tories vote in someone like Braverman and move to the right they aren't going to compete at elections.