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To hope all the reform voters take a hard look in the mirror?

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Tukmgru · 05/07/2024 23:23

I have to wonder how you live with yourselves. It’s like you know you’re awful people, not just filled with spite and hate but also motivated by it. I genuinely am so baffled how you can sit here on this forum that is largely about supporting others through difficult times - perhaps you’ve found help and comfort in the various threads MN has to offer, and then you go ‘yep, fuck everyone else’.

My aunt was a BNP and then UKIP supporter, and a grifter par excellence throughout her life, and all of her arguments were the same as the arguments I’ve seen on here by Reform voters here. 4 million people went out there to declare ‘I’m a complete dickhead to everyone around me but want everyone to hand everything to me on a spoon’

Just fuck off.

(I’m not even a labour or green or whatever voter, I just think you’re awful people and deserve nothing but contempt)

OP posts:
wintersgold · 06/07/2024 00:22

You should be ashamed of yourself. That's all I can say (and no, I'm not a reform voter)

Mothership4two · 06/07/2024 00:21

Like I said, everybody thinks they are in the right

DragonFly98 · 06/07/2024 00:20

spuddy4 · 06/07/2024 00:07

I just took a long hard look in the mirror and it's dark so I couldn't really see a lot.

I voted Reform because I believe that we should be helping the people in this country who are using food banks, in temporary housing, been on NHS waiting lists for years, can't get their children into a local school etc. I find it strange that you assume that I don't want to help others.

I've worked since I was 14 so I don't need everything handed to me on a plate.

Also you can fuck off right back because unlike you I respect the outcome of the election and I'm not going to get drunk then make a fool of myself on the internet by ranting at people who don't agree with me.

You believe that reform want to help the vulnerable. I just cannot comprehend that level of naivety. You voted for a bunch a vile racist misogynists who wouldn't spit on someone on food poverty if they were on fire. And their plan for the NHS is a US style insurance system.

ll09sm · 06/07/2024 00:18

Quick! Someone call the daily mirror and nominate OP for Pride of Britain award. Because she pounded her keyboard with moral and virtuous words on the internet.

Actually, scrap that. Just skip straight to the sainthood.

Whenwillitgetwarm · 06/07/2024 00:18

I feel sorry for people who didn’t vote Reform who live in towns with a Reform MP. Those towns will sink. Many potential tourists (internal and external) will be put off so inward investment will reduce.

I remember when the BNP gained one councillor (so not even an MP) in Broxbourne many years back. As a result people from towns around it used to slag Broslxbourne off. . It became a homing beacon to rougher elements which caused more slagging off and so on. After a short the councillor went back Tory.

Upupandaway10 · 06/07/2024 00:17

People have different live experiences than you and can vote who they want you to. We live in a democracy.

ll09sm · 06/07/2024 00:16

Oh dear, OP is like a caricature of a virtuous, progressive ‘be kind’ cliche.

Who knew that these people actually exist in reality and not just in satire.

spuddy4 · 06/07/2024 00:16

@Noteveryoneshouldvote I live in an area that is housing immigrants in two hotels and see firsthand daily what problems they are causing. It's easy for people on MN to judge and preach to people like me when you are not directly affected by it every day.

I don't need to educate myself, I live it.

Viewfrommyhouse · 06/07/2024 00:15

Noteveryoneshouldvote · 06/07/2024 00:12

@spuddy4 seriously, do you think immigrants cause these problems? Please educate yourself

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They never said that.

Wumblewimble · 06/07/2024 00:14

MyCatHatesSandals · 05/07/2024 23:45

Actually, I think the more productive thing for you is to look at yourself in the mirror. You don't see anything? Look harder.

I am not a Reform voter.

Exactly, a more productive use of time would be to listen to them and work out why they think Farage is a representative for them

Noteveryoneshouldvote · 06/07/2024 00:12

spuddy4 · 06/07/2024 00:07

I just took a long hard look in the mirror and it's dark so I couldn't really see a lot.

I voted Reform because I believe that we should be helping the people in this country who are using food banks, in temporary housing, been on NHS waiting lists for years, can't get their children into a local school etc. I find it strange that you assume that I don't want to help others.

I've worked since I was 14 so I don't need everything handed to me on a plate.

Also you can fuck off right back because unlike you I respect the outcome of the election and I'm not going to get drunk then make a fool of myself on the internet by ranting at people who don't agree with me.

@spuddy4 seriously, do you think immigrants cause these problems? Please educate yourself

MorningCoffeeBreak · 06/07/2024 00:11

not just filled with spite and hate but also motivated by it

A fair description of you, OP

Viewfrommyhouse · 06/07/2024 00:10

Who should they have voted for OP?

ilovesooty · 06/07/2024 00:10

Fargo79 · 05/07/2024 23:29

What's the point of this? I am not a Reform supporter and am entirely ideologically opposed to almost everything they stand for. But insulting and shaming people has never been an effective tool for changing their mindsets. Do you think that anyone who voted Reform would read this and recognise themselves in your description? Or care about the opinion of someone who is speaking to them like that? Or be motivated to change their opinions or world view?

If you genuinely want other people to share your outlook, this isn't the way to achieve that. If anything, it will have the opposite effect.

I'd agree with that. I loathe everything Reform stands for but I suspect taking people to task for voting for them will just make them more entrenched in their views.

spuddy4 · 06/07/2024 00:07

I just took a long hard look in the mirror and it's dark so I couldn't really see a lot.

I voted Reform because I believe that we should be helping the people in this country who are using food banks, in temporary housing, been on NHS waiting lists for years, can't get their children into a local school etc. I find it strange that you assume that I don't want to help others.

I've worked since I was 14 so I don't need everything handed to me on a plate.

Also you can fuck off right back because unlike you I respect the outcome of the election and I'm not going to get drunk then make a fool of myself on the internet by ranting at people who don't agree with me.

solsticelove · 06/07/2024 00:06

SkippysEar · 05/07/2024 23:45

4 million people say fuck off back!

😂

Whenwillitgetwarm · 06/07/2024 00:00

They are disgraceful. All decent people should call them out. When we said ‘never again’, we meant it. No sleepwalk into fascism. These ghouls have nasty plans for the UK and the US.

Liverpool52 · 05/07/2024 23:58

So are only people who agree with you entitled to a vote?

Circumferences · 05/07/2024 23:57

You're clearly out of touch.

SwordToFlamethrower · 05/07/2024 23:55

My dad was BNP and UKIP too. He has dementia and gets 24 hour care from brown skinned immigrants. The irony is delicious. Except he doesn't treat the nurses kindly. He would have been leafletting for Reform no doubt.

Yes he was an awful man who fathered children and was happy to let lesser men bring them up for him while he lived it up with a new woman.

He laughed at me when I said I wanted to remain, completely forgetting that I have 3 half Italian siblings and married a Dutch man. So selfish was he.

caringcarer · 05/07/2024 23:54

Epicaricacy · 05/07/2024 23:48

😂

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This. 🤣

Mothership4two · 05/07/2024 23:53

Well Reform voters think they are in the right and you are wrong OP (same as you). Same as voters for the other parties.

Ifittellsthebiggestlieswearstheloudestties · 05/07/2024 23:53

Did you go NC with your aunt? I wouldn't be surprised as you dont sound like someone who can tolerate a difference in opinion.

Also, heard of tactical voting?

Epicaricacy · 05/07/2024 23:48

SkippysEar · 05/07/2024 23:45

4 million people say fuck off back!

😂

Iffx · 05/07/2024 23:47

I doubt anyone who voted Reform is ashamed.

If I need to vote Reform to get Starmer out next time, I’ll do it.

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