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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

The Great Tory Replacement

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Carl and Dan discuss why Reform UK are so determined become the new Conservatives.

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0:00.0

Hi folks, welcome to another one of these political chats that Dan and I have.

0:03.2

Instead of talking about the Labour Party this time, we're going to be talking about reform.

0:07.7

That's not because they've hit Wockham yet.

0:09.7

No, no, no.

0:10.4

No, it's still in freefall.

0:12.1

They are in a bit of a dip, and they're doing very weird things.

0:16.5

And everyone's looking around saying, well, that was a bit unexpected night.

0:21.8

What was this for?

0:23.5

But before we begin, Islander 5 is currently on sale.

0:27.6

It is the best issue we have ever done.

0:29.8

And it is also the fastest selling issue we've ever done.

0:32.6

Half of the stock has been sold in the first week.

0:35.5

It's not going to last the sort of month, month and a half we were

0:38.0

going to sell it for, so get it while you can. Anyway, right, let's go on to some polling data,

0:45.3

shall we? So, Pletco's Poll of Polls, and he goes up to January the 8th, so it's about a week

0:51.6

out of date. And everything looks fairly healthy on here. Look Like this is good numbers for nige. So if you're looking at the polls a week out of date, you're thinking, well, everything's fine. I don't know, you know, I've been through a couple of little dips, but there's nothing major and I'm about 20. There's plenty of fresh air between reform and everyone else. Yeah, exactly, more than 10 points, you know, more than 10 points in the polls. But if you go to different polling trackers,

1:15.9

that are slightly more updated, I mean, the U-gov one goes up to the 12th of January.

1:22.1

So when we're recording this, what's the day to day, it's the 15th, so this is only a couple of days ago.

1:26.8

You'll notice that actually they've been taking a dip there.

1:30.4

And the polling average is down to 24%.

1:32.5

That's a lot thinner, isn't it?

1:34.7

It is.

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