Neighbour has put political banner on his fence

Wow, what a pretzel of a response.

I will leave you to enjoy your fantasy of the grifting bigot being in power. Whatever gets you through the day, I guess.

I would be asking them if they are standing as a candidate in the next local elections. Or perhaps if I could, looking at their social media to see if there is anything that could mean Reform would drop them as a candidate or party member.

Don't worry OP. The poster will like all things pass.

I remember when the farmer's fields around the west country were postered with Vote Conservative signs. Now the area is mostly yellow and the Conservative posters are lining chicken runs.

Reform don't have a manifesto.
They have some sort of list of pledges or 'contract'. i.e. an unbudgeted political wish list of notions like 'make school children proud of Britain by reviewing how history is taught'.

I have voted for all three mainstream parties too but reform is a far right wing party and as such I would look on people who voted for them differently.

I have a very good friend I have known for over 20 years who I recently found out voted reform and also admires Trump. I have to say I do look at her and her husband differently especially as little racist comments have started to creep in which I have shut down by making it clear I don’t agree with their politics. Obviously everyone is entitled to vote whichever way they choose but if there is a fundamental difference in values I think friendship would be difficult. They also have little critical thinking and just quote sound bites off YouTube so that irritates me.

Yes

The voting on AIBU isn’t binding on the OP.

Yeah 4 years ago, bookies were offering best odds on the incumbent party winning the next GE. And look what happened. So you’re right, that shows that Labour will not be in power after the next GE.

Not really 'wild' though is it. I certainly couldn't be friends with someone who thinks Tommy Robinson is some kind of god and that brown people don't belong in this country.

If you think that's a difference you could put aside, then that's up to you.

Personally that's where I would draw the line and could not be friends with a Reform voter, because FUNDAMENTALLY, we would have zero interest common.

My brother dated a woman years ago whose daddy was something in Whitehall. He's clever, as were we all, well educated and had a good job in IT and she didn't know him when he was younger.

In conversation, she made some comment about how she wasn't allowed to play with kids from council houses when growing up, and he looked at her and said "You mean like me? You know I grew up in government housing?" She went red. They didn't date very long and I doubt she changed her views, middle class and upper middle class people have their fair share of bigoted idiots.

I can't quite believe the entitlement in this question. Surely the OP is joking. Nobody - and I do mean absolutely nobody - will make any assumptions at all about any other house in the street.

Put up your own banner if it bothers you that much.

This'll be that tolerant left I've heard so much about over the years.

I don't feel superior to the radical right; I fear them. I don't consider them as my inferiors; I consider them as my enemies. They would undoubtedly consider me as theirs.

And it's not 'anyone who thinks differently'; e.g. many of my friends are religious and I'm not.. And yes, not everyone who votes Reform is radical right, but there's a high chance that someone who keeps a Reform poster out when there's no election going on probably is.

I sympathize with you, as (1) I hate Reform; and (2) it seems odd and inappropriate to have any election posters up outside of election time. However, it's not illegal, and the kind of people who would do it are unlikely to listen to your request; they'd just call you Woke. Best to ignore the poster.

Of course, but it’s the only data we have,

Well all I will say is if you had gone by what the bookies and the polls were predicting four years before the last GE, you would have been very disappointed.

PS I have already explained how the polls currently show that Reform won't be in government in Wales next year, unless they go into coalition with Labour or Plaid. Which seems unlikely.

Arguing with people on this thread is not going to change the data, but a lot can happen in 4 years so I wouldn’t get too worked up about it. In my opinion, Labour are only going to get more unpopular though.

Maybe I will, who knows.
Will you still vote Labour after everything they've done?

@CanSeeClearlyNowTheRainHasGone - "... I despair of politics where those who feel they are most liberal have some worrying authoritarian tendencies."

Hey - you should read The Righteous Mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt.

Those on the political left are more intolerant of different beliefs that those on the right.

Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives | TED Talk

I said your analysis runs counter to all polls and polling trends for the last 6 months, I was referring to your statement that Reform wouldn’t be the next government. I would probably ask you to provide evidence for how voting intentions in Wales and London presumably put another party other than Reform in Government.

I always go by the bookies personally,

Labour is still well ahead of Reform.

You have said in the past that you would vote Reform to get rid of Labour, if my memory serves me correctly.

Love your DGS!

Very true.

Ah but then there is always the risk of losing your sense of moral superiority if you humanise people who think differently to you.

Hope? I know you really really want to label me, but this is getting silly.

As for your previous comments, Labour are hemorrhaging support in London too, which I'm sure you already know.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-london-reform-conservatives-greens-liberal-democrats-poll-b1234351.html

I didn't say the current polls are wrong, did I?

I have set out why I think Reform's future is not as bright as you hope.