Given the amount of dirt they have on Farage and Reform, corruption, Russia, incompetence, racism, the media could destroy them tomorrow if they wanted to.

With all the ammunition gathered over the years. Racism. Corruption. Incompetence. Russia.
Farage and Reform could be destroyed tomorrow by the media if they so decided.

Was gonna say the Lib Dems would be getting excited. But they already hold it.
Who will these newly radicalised voters turn to ?

And always congratulating each other on suddenly discovering the bleeding obvious.

They only go if someone else pays for it apparently.

You “feeling” something doesn’t automatically make it true.

Discrediting the centre and right on policy isn't exactly difficult, given [gestures expansively at everything]. But it's never going to be achieved purely by combative confidence and a slick messaging style. You either back that up with genuine substance or the facade will crumble pretty quickly.

He doesn't need a PhD. Doesn't need to become a pseudo-technocratic policy "wonk". He just needs to become a knowledgeable and highly competent generalist in the key areas. Anyone can do that if they have the willingness to put the work in and learn.

There's a large eco-system of progressive left NGOs, think tanks, charities, etc out there, full of serious experts in a range of policy fields. If Polanski wanted to get up that learning curve fast, the resources are there to help him do it. I'd say he has a responsibility to do that.

Parts of the UK left significantly over-emphasise "comms", "messaging" etc at the expense of policy substance. No doubt those things are very important. But if you look closely at e.g. AOC & Mamdani they have a serious grasp of the relevant subject areas, without which their messaging wouldn't work

In less than 4 years Polanski could hold the balance of power in parliament. He could have a senior position in a coalition cabinet or be making big, consequential calls in a confidence and supply scenario. So he needs to get right up that learning curve pretty damn quickly

Says he bringing it to everyone’s attention.

Again: do you see how this is worse than what’s happening in Trump’s America? It’s like this because Britain is in some ways much further down the elite radicalisation spiral, because we have the most toxic and malicious media outlets on Earth.

Nice organisation you have here. It’d be a real shame if a gaggle of flag-waving fascists harassed your staff, the Mail and the Sun ran a hysterical hate campaign against you and then crack team of very expensive legal crackpots annihilated your finances. Yes, that’s right, do as you’re told.

There’s no democratic element to any of this: it’s Britain’s astonishingly poisonous media outlets and their tame politicians, who they can destroy whenever they want, hand in hand with billionaire-funded crackpot activists. Gangsters, musing about one carelessly dropped match.

And he has it all in his script. Great performance.