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Some fascinating polling on the supporters of each political party triggered a debate about what voting Reform means about you. Or, more bluntly, are you a bit of a ‘thicko’ if you think Nigel Farage should be Prime Minister? One very clever academic, a Professor and a Sir no less, seems to think so. Cary Cooper, a psychologist at Manchester University, posted a bar chart that showed Reform has the least educated supporters with a gleeful comment declaring: “Says it all!”

Boiling it down into three words of one syllable, the Prof made his message easy enough for even the most boneheaded among us to catch his drift. Clever people don’t vote Reform. The Prof faced a bit of a social media backlash in response to the post, with many questioning his response. Baroness Hoey, once a Labour MP, replied: “You don’t have to have gone to University to have common sense when it comes to how to vote!”

Julian Jessop, an Economics Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, wrote: “‘Education’ here is basically just a proxy for age, as younger people are now far more likely to go to university. The lack of detail on the chart is also revealing. Sloppy.” But the Prof is not the problem. His sneery tweet simply highlights the wider truth about the divisions tearing the country apart. Under the old class divide everyone knew their place, whether they liked it or not. But the rigid old hierarchy has been replaced by something much more insidious.

The old upper middle classes cannot show how much better they are than the rest of us as easily anymore. Instead they separate themselves by showing how nice and reasonable they are. Fatuous mottos like ‘Be Kind’ and ‘Choose Love’ are adopted to show moral superiority over the angry masses.

The Stats For Lefties chart that sparked the debate was based on YouGov polling. It had 42% of the “least educated” backing Reform, followed by 21% backing the Conservatives. Among the “most educated” voters Labour came out top on 25%, followed by the Greens on 21% and the Lib Dems on 18%.

Separate research found the less educated a voter is the more likely they are to back a right wing party regardless of how much money they end up having. The National Centre for Social Research found voters without qualifications were twice as likely to back right-wing parties compared to those with degrees.

Its Demographic Divides report said: “If one wanted to predict whether a person voted for parties of the right in the UK, knowing their educational background would give them a very good chance of making a correct prediction.”

But being academically successful does not translate into having a better insight into the realities of the world. Working class people are turning to the right because they have been abandoned by the left, which has lost touch with reality.

It is a completely rational response to parties that prioritise crackpot policies over dealing with the realities of everyday life, such as falling living standards, rapid cultural change caused by mass legal and illegal migration and a broken benefits system.

Labour, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats all became completely consumed by the utter madness around trans.

Instead of recognising that allowing men into women’s changing rooms and preventing children from going through puberty was cruel and dangerous, they thought they were the enlightened ones and those objecting were just too stupid and bigoted to understand being kind was more important than biological reality.

So-called cultural sensitivities were prioritised over tackling the mainly Pakistani heritage grooming gangs preying on young white girls. Securing the country’s borders from illegal migrants is abhorrent to the left, which sees only victims rather than opportunists.

NatCen’s report found when respondents were asked whether immigrants living in the country without permission should be allowed to stay, there was a 19 point gap between those with and without qualifications.

The Greens, supported by one in five of the “most educated”, are mopping up Labour supporters disillusioned with Keir Starmer through their radical agenda.

It includes the legalisation of all drugs, which means heroin and crack cocaine no longer being prohibited. A Scottish candidate for the party wants to go one further by abolishing all prisons.

Who are the stupid ones here really? People who want borders secured, law and order enforced and know the difference between a man and a woman – or the pro-crack, anything goes left who believe borders are racist? I know what I think.