And it was all going so well. Indeed, it still is. Polling last week, as my colleague Patrick O'Flynn revealed, showed levels of support for Reform holding steady in the mid-20s, percentage-wise. That puts the party level with Labour and ahead of Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives.
But that’s not the point, is it?
The point is Reform offers a wake-up call to career politicians and bloated political parties who have got away for too long taking the mick out of the electorate.
Talking tough, doing nothing and toasting their incompetence together in the many bars of Westminster.
For the first time in a long time, there was a sense of change. And, by God do we need it.
So why are the likes ...