Dunning-Kruger Effect

My God! Politics is giving me a field day at present.

Danny Kruger has defected to Reform – swapping a sinking ship for a dinghy that was never seaworthy in the first place. He tells us the Conservatives are “over.” He might be right – but joining Nigel Farage’s circus isn’t the answer.

Reform dresses up slogans as if they were policies. Mass deportations that no one can deliver. £80bn in tax cuts plucked from thin air. “Drill baby drill” in an oil basin that’s already run dry. NHS miracles with no staff and no money. None of it survives contact with reality.

And yet Kruger insists he’s joined the team “preparing for government.” That’s not strategy – it’s the Dunning–Kruger effect in full view: a man mistaking his own overconfidence for competence, and signing up to a party too blind to see it hasn’t got a workable programme between them.

He calls the Conservatives a toxic brand. Perhaps. But Reform is worse – delusion packaged as destiny. Kruger hasn’t become a pioneer; he’s become the first lemming off the cliff.