To feel like I'm not sure where I sit politically anymore, and to worry about it.

It’s unfair to say poorer people commit all the crime and make places not pleasant to live in. It’s criminal people who do that. Criminal. The people who do the exploiting are rarely poor. The question is: why don’t we have a police force that will do anything about it? Why have they stood by and let young girls be raped. I think I’m reasonably tolerant but a crime is a crime whoever commits it. Politics doesn’t come into it if the police turn a blind eye. No one meets what I would like to see either. Labour taxes business and expects to see growth! Economical literate. Everyone should be aware you cannot have a vast welfare state without business doing well. Employees and business owners pay for it. No government can expect growth if they keep taxing more and more and disincentivize saving.

Are you from the midlands? (Because of your username!)

I completely understand what you’re saying. I was 100% a Labourite, but I cannot support them now.

For me, I pay just under £1900 a month in tax.
It’s not even that I wouldn’t be willing to contribute more, it’s just that I don’t trust that it would be spent wisely!

How much tax do you currently pay and how much more would you be willing to contribute to address the issues you're concerned about?

I could have wrote this. What the future holds, god only knows, but I dread to think what the tipping point will be, one way or another.

Feel exactly the same OP. Overall quality of life is going down in this country.

We simply cannot sustain the numbers of migrants coming here. We also would be naive to ignore the issues their cultural differences bring when it comes to attitudes towards women and girls.

I'm also sick of the whole net zero con and similar green washing. More profit driven smoke and mirrors.

Same here OP. I was swept up in Corbyn fever even! Now, my opinions are changing.

Or, perhaps, the left went so far left that if you stood still, you ended up right of centre.

I have quite a few friends that feel the same way. They’re all intelligent people and definitely not racist… yet they’re all leaning towards Reform UK. I can’t even say that ‘I would never vote Reform’ anymore because I don’t know if I will definitely feel that way when the next GE happens. That’s how bad it has gotten. We can no longer dismiss all Farage voters as being thick and racist.

Wouldn’t there be less poverty, fewer housing problems, and thus less crime if there were fewer immigrants? Particularly the ones living in poverty and so contributing as you say to the crime rate.

I've had similar feelings. I feel a mixture of annoyance at the Labour government for not making a better fist of things, then sympathy as they inherited such a poisoned chalice and who actually has the answers? Reform and the Tories I don't trust or like at all. The Greens and Lib Dems are captured by the TWAW rhetoric. Further left Labour is simply not realistic or affordable and has been rejected already too many times by the electorate. So what option is there? I genuinely don't know.

There is also an issue with the number of people who cannot work and need to be supported by those who do. The numbers are becoming unmanageable.

I want dignity for people with disabilities. I don’t want people who work to be poorer and have fewer choices and opportunities than those who don’t work- and both are represented among my friendship group.

I agree with a lot of what you say, except I don’t think all or even most of the crime and anti social behaviour you described can be attributed to immigration. It’s mostly to do with poverty, and the decimation of public services, housing and support for the poor and working class (of which some will be immigrants) that occurred over the 14 years the Tories were in power.

I feel the same and you’ve articulated it really well. I’m also an immigrant to the UK so I feel particularly unsettled about my thoughts on how immigration is driving a deterioration in British society. Well, it’s immigration and uncontrolled benefits I think. I’ve also been a Labour or Lib Dem voter in the 12 years I’ve lived here and I’m just not sure how Labour can fix things. I’ve found getting more involved in my local community has helped me make positive changes at a local level.

I have the same feeling of guilt and embarrassment about my feelings about immigration. Have always considered myself left wing. I am the daughter of immigrants. Yet, I can't help feeling sad about the way my home town has changed for the worse. Ironically, this happened under the Conservative government but I don't trust Labour to do much about it and would never vote Reform!

I can relate op. I feel the scales have fallen from my eyes. Always been brought up “left good right bad” but it’s just not that simple anymore is it? I want to ensure those in need are helped but it’s got ridiculous and unsustainable now with the number of working age adults on benefits and so many migrants needing support. I think we need to be more protective of our values and way of life. Also gender critical and been appalled at how eager the left were to hang women out to dry on that too.

You’re not being unreasonable to feel politically homeless, and I feel exactly the same for all the same reasons.
However, I’ve realised that in order to maintain my own mental health, I just can’t spend time worrying about politics. I know it sounds lazy to kind of wash your hands of it, but I’d never sleep again if I didn’t.

Are you in favour of a more left wing government? One that wouldn't slash welfare and would address deprivation.