And of course the response is going to be 1) focusing on the immigrants already here instead, and 2) claiming that the statistics aren't real.

Or you can, but the results look a lot like what's going on across the Atlantic.

Same set-up chez moi. Always said I'd never turn in to my dad but here we are...

(Rocking up to secondary school where I didn't know anybody in an early-80's style donkey jacket circa 1992 when those dayglo skiing jackets were already almost universal. Not bitter about it or anything.)

Smart TVs are kind of pointless when you can just plug a laptop in to the input and get the same functionalities” I say to the kids, blissfully unaware that this is just the modern version of the “charity shop coats are just as good as new ones” spiel my parents used to give me.

There’s a market in them for retro gaming, particularly the big ones. I looked into it but the weight/size of a wide screen CRT is quite prohibitive: we’re talking 60kg for some of them, two-man job to get them up the stairs.

Sorry lightgun games, but I’m not playing you.

This one always raises a laugh. I’m the happy owner of a big flat screen that a neighbour literally couldn’t give away for a whole month.

I think the bit they always had at the end where they just grab stuff being blown around would be a more fun way of developing policy.

And holding a referendum looks just as bad an idea, since it there's a strong likelihood at this point just be used to "give the government a kicking".

Would simply legislating (and then ramming through a no-doubt resistant Lords) be "revisiting" the question in any meaningful way?

Politically, doing this without a referendum looks very dubious.

I'm not sure "FPTP is a stupid voting system!!!!1111oneoneone" is an election-winning strategy in the country where a referendum was decided 2:1 in favour of keeping it.

My hope is this government can turn it around, that some of the more obvious liabilities for Reform (e.g., having a leader who thinks/thought that "Hitler was right") might finally start to sink in. But none of that is a given.

So Reform are presently outperforming all the other parties in polling. Whether or not thinking that this polling might last or even improve for Reform by 2028/9 is "stupid" is up to you.

That was also the reality for the Conservatives in 2024. The outcome wasn't the Conservatives remaining in power.

... but then again, the 18% they polled in the latest YouGov poll was the same as Labour, so...

Not unless you're talking about the Tories specifically...

In the moral sense yes, in the polling sense, no.