No prevailed by 22 points, 33 votes to 21 of 54, a clear but not overwhelming verdict that Reform UK isn't seen as a danger to British society by a majority of those who turned out, though more than a third disagreed.
The age breakdown resists the usual script. The 25-34s, the largest single cohort at 23 votes, split 39% yes to 61% no, close to the overall result, while the 16-24s and 55-64s were both notably more hostile to the "danger" framing, at 17% and 27% yes respectively. The 35-44 group, smaller at eight votes, bucked the pattern entirely with 63% saying yes, a reminder that on a self-selected vote like this, cohort size matters as much as cohort identity.
Gender told a more familiar story: men (n=32) were markedly more sceptical of the "danger" charge than women (n=13), at 44% yes versus 31%, a gap that echoes the broader gender divide seen on Reform and on immigration politics more widely since 2016. The pattern of women taking the more critical view of Reform's rise tracks polling on the party nationally.
What's most striking is the absence of a clean youth-versus-age culture war here — the sharpest divides ran through gender and through small, noisy cohorts rather than a single generational fault line.
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