Have Restore Britain "split the vote?" Amidst a fall to second or third place in the polls, Reform have taken to blaming Restore Britain for splitting the vote. A new MRP/Find Out Now poll puts Restore at 8 per cent, and 10 per cent if proportional representation is introduced. The accusations of vote splitting have become increasingly insulting, even as Reform insist Restore voters must support them instead. But their narrative presumes Restore voters would vote Reform if Rupert Lowe weren't on the ballot. It also presumes the reasons they're not already voting Reform are Rupert Lowe's fault, rather than Reform themselves. Every vote Reform fails to win is their fault, for not offering something that Restore are prepared to. Vindictive though the ITV and Channel 4 stings have been, they have damaged Reform's reputation. Other wounds were self-inflicted: from despised Tory defectors like Nadhim Zahawi and Nadine Dorries, to idiotic comments denouncing deportations, denying English ethnicity, and accommodating Islam. These problems are baked in, unless Reform changes its rhetoric and personnel. They went out of their way to estrange their own voters, and are now furious that they didn't disappear, and formed their own party instead. When that party offered a pact, Nigel Farage called them fascists. Some in Reform now realise their critical friends were right. That this situation was preventable and is regrettable. They have committed to a less hostile tone toward Restore and their sympathisers. But spending thousands on a Reform TV YouTube channel won't win them back. Unless Reform engages with the alternative media they estranged, and gets better spokespeople, they will never recover the credibility they lost with their former supporters.