Hi guys, Islander 5 is out to purchase now. As you can see from this amazing cover,

this edition's theme is Heroism, Power and Modernity. And the articles in there, which I have to say

are rather good, don't you know, and I'm not just talking about mine, I'm talking about all of them,

they discuss what the Heroic Society is and why modernity is destroying it but why the spirit

of the hero is looming throughout everything that's happening and again i say the cover goes hard right

because i mean look at it just you you would think that this was tailored for the current events

but no we're always ahead of the curve anyway it's thicker than normal as well because we just happen to have a load of extra content in there. We've got an exclusive interview from Rupert Lowe, Lutz from the editor, and a comic that's halfway through that's philosophically informed, which I think you'll enjoy. So get it while you can at shop. dot lotacies.com. The link will be in the description. Folks, welcome back to another one of Carl and Dan's political chats.

A lot's going on at the moment and it's really fast and we've got a lot to cover.

So let's just crack on. Polling has been very strange, right?

So here's a you gov poll from today with, from Sky News reported by sky news uh you gov being i think the fourth

most reliable pollster in the country out of something like 50 so they're pretty good they get most

things correct reform on 25 labor on 21 conservatives on 17 greens 16, and no one cares about the Liberal Democrats.

So that's a low poll.

This is sort of a high poll.

We'll get Reform on 32, Conservatives and 18, Greens are 17, Labor on 14, Lib Dems on 11.

So let's have a look at the average of polls.

There has been a bit of a

downturn recently for reform, but they got a 1% bump from the Tory defections. Interesting.

1%. The thing that strikes me about this is, is your first poll, okay, let's contrast your

first poll of your second poll. The second poll where it was actually quite a strong difference. Yeah. It's something that we talked about a whole bunch of times, and that is reformer in first place and everybody else is in second place. And that is inherently unstable because in a two-party system, first-past-the-post is designed to be a two-party system. You can't have four parties in second place it doesn't hold.

But what your first poll shows is you've actually got five parties in second place.

There's no clear leader. Now that is wildly unstable for a political system.

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