Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the podcast of the Loader Seaters for Wednesday, 18th of February

2026. I'm joined by the Restore Britain team, Lewis Brackpool, Harrison Pitt and Charlie Downs.

Thanks being a gentleman. Hello, Carl. Hello. And today we're going to be talking about how the people

have actually already told us that they won't restore. They just don't know it yet. Then we're

going to be talking about Nigel Farage's response to the Restore Britain Party.

And then we're going to be talking about how reform have just come out today, literally and admitted, that they're just pure containment.

In literally every way that actually is substantive.

And so it's going to be a big podcast, so we'll just get straight on with it.

So back in 2020, this report came out, and it's called Mind the Values Gap. And what this did

is show us the distinction between the general public and what the average person in this country

actually wants and what they're getting in Parliament. And it's

pretty bad. So we'll just, we'll start on page seven. There's a lot to this, obviously. So I'm going to

pluck a few things out that are particularly relevant. But yeah, there we go, page seven. So you can

see the economic values here, right? So as you can see, the voters are actually kind of center left when it comes to economics. They are, of course, accepting of markets. They're of course accepting of private property ownership, and they accept that, you know, I mean, nobody likes paying taxes. But you can see that none of the MPs, and remember this back in 2020, so you really only had two horse race. There are only two games in town, Conservatives and Labour.

So that's based on the paradigm that's breaking down.

But it shows you why that paradigm is breaking down.

Labor MPs and voters are far to the left,

but at least the Labor voters and the Labor MPs

are kind of roughly aligned.

Conservative voters and Conservative MPs massively out of whack.

Conservative MPs and the councillors and the candidates and the members are all way

to the right, which means extreme free marketeers, compared to not only conservative voters,

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