AIBU to be utterly baffled at how many people are falling for Reform after the Brexit mess?

I read the OP and cut straight to the end. ‘The People’, those who voted Leave, are still being shielded financially from the consequences of their action. As a result, they still do not understand what they did; because they can’t understand why their lives weren’t instantly improved.

The ‘Leave Deliverer in Chief’ has cleverly spotted an ongoing opportunity. ‘Reform will deliver where Brexit failed you’.

Do not underestimate the drunken, feudal, cap-doffing, woefully undereducated Anglo-Saxon peasantry.

You've answered your question yourself... Critical thinking skills are severely lacking in large swathes of the population. It's that simple - many, many people believe what they read/hear in soundbites, election propaganda, social media posts and tabloid media, without critically evaluating what they've taken in.

By the time the next GE comes round Trump will have totally wrecked the USA and made RW politics untouchable.

And Reform will have failed their voters badly. They're already imploding as a party and ballsing up the councils they've won.

I just hope that Reform make that much of a hash of local government that it makes people stand up and think oh shit maybe we won't vote for them again.

Fuck me, AI, she says?!!!

I think people have lost faith in the mainstream parties and want change , but I don’t think the Reform party is the answer . I am not sure what is tbh! But government after government has messed up We need some great minds , a think tank or even AI to come up with a strategy to fix the UK, take into consideration all the problems and concerns everyone has, what a vision for good looks like for everyone and come up with solutions!

There's no reasoning with stupid
You won't persuade people to vote for you by sneering at them.

Protest votes.

And a lot refuse to believe Brexit was a mistake

Fuck me, the "disruptors" caused Brexit, the most ridiculous self-destructive own goal a nation ever voted for (until, maybe, America voted for "disruptor" Trump).

The ""disruptors" are self-serving elite bankers and billionaires whose policies lead to more money for those at the top of society and a discarded, divided underclass.

They are the last thing we need. We need consensus, collegiate politics if we are to face down the challenges of the demotic and the climate crisis.

A lot of people are a lot thicker than you imagine.

I'm surprised that more hasn't been made of Farage's comments about giving more tax breaks to married people and reducing women's reproductive rights. While he's not yet proposing Gilead there is definitely an undertone to it all that should have people far more worried than they seem to be. Then there are his comments about moving the NHS to an insurance based system, proposals to remove the equality act and leave the ECHR and more. Why are people not seriously scared of this man taking power? Yes, the mainstream parties are not great. But they are more moderate and less of a risk to us all.

They genuinely think that Brexit either hasn't been done, or would have been a shining triumph if only we'd done X/Y/Z. Often while simultaneously denying that it hasn't been a shining triumph. These are not serious people.

"Belief in Brexit" basically has nothing to do with the reality of things that actually happen, it's just a cult, a catechism, a way to belong to a tribe. At heart, you have to be stupid and/or gullible to have voted for Brexit, and stupid and/or gullible to vote for Reform. And there are millions of such people.

Yep. I spend an awful lot of time trying to counter this type of narrative on social media and get non stop abuse from people who really are regurgitating absolute bilge. They don’t even understand what they are saying half the time.

Yes well we got told that Brexit was a protest vote but guess what it won the referendum and we left the EU. The country had been struggling since the recession and since brexit it's going downhill even faster.

I don't think we need any more disrupting, just capable politicians with a sense of duty, some honesty and a long-term plan that doesn't involve austerity. They are in very short supply, it seems.

A lot of people dislike the truth/reality so when someone is saying it's all the fault of the boat people they buy into it.

Sorry OP. You're making the mistake of expecting people to apply critical thinking to their political choices. So many don't. It's about emotion. In hope or desperation, people hear what they want to hear and say 'Labour and the Conservatives have failed. We may as well vote for this lot and give them a go.'

Farage, sadly for his detractors, is an absolutely brilliant communicator, with no other politician coming close. He has the knack of homing in on what resonates with lots of people - immigration, British people failed by successive governments, wokery leading to nonsensical decisions, British values under attack from Islam, billions spent on illegal immigrants, Brexit betrayed. It's a complicated story of national struggle made simple, and it's one that populist politicians are telling across the West.

I listened to The Rest is Politics and Alistair Campbell was talking to a guy he met who was a reform member. He basically said that he knew Farage would be a terrible PM and he wasn't under the expectation that they would be in Government but he needed there to be something different to make the other parties make a change.

Still beefing about Brexit?
Still thinking people other than you vote the "Wrong" way?