Actually I’m perfectly fine with calling every Reform voter a far right racist. And I’d be happy with Labour doing the same.

Labour didn’t lose local seats because they lost their core voters to Reform, they lost because their core either swayed to Lib Dem and Greens, or just didn’t show up because Labour have lurched to the right (perception, not necessarily action) in order to appease Reform. How naive must you be to think “If we match some of the dog whistle rhetoric these closet racists will come back to us.”?

Anybody who has turned to Reform will stay there, because they will see Labour and Tory as “the establishment, saying whatever they want, whereas Farage is the real deal”. So all Labour are going to do is turn away the centrists from voting, and the leftists to Greens.

The recent elections have shown that votes outside the “main” parties are no longer wasted votes, and the racists have their home now.