Heh. Where to start? Reform doesn't have anyone who could convincingly replace Farage. Tice is an imbecile, Jenrick is tainted, Braverman is a Tory (and a moron), and that leaves Zia Yusuf, who just isn't likeable. This was always Reform's problem. It cannot withstand the departure of its own leader. Farage designed it that way.
Meanwhile, if Restore carries on as it is, it will do just well enough to keep Reform out of power, leading to a hung parliament, and a rainbow left blocking alliance, which will cause an all out war on the right. What you're then left with is a badly mauled Reform party that cannot seal the deal, stalked by yet another right wing slop party, led by a man who will be completely senile by 2034, with no obvious successor - that has all the same structural and intellectual problems as Reform. Too far to the right and its unelectable. Too far to the centre and its core abandons it. It's hard to escape the conclusion that the right wants to lose.
Fucking hell. If Restore deny Reform the Makerfield seat and land Andy Burnham on us, Reform HAVE to look at replacing Farage. If Reform don't win the next election and win it decisively, with a manifesto that every patriot can get behind, we're looking at a hard left dystopia