To ask when Reform supporters will

Ypu said they couldn’t find anyone English. Which suggests you don’t think anyone of any other ‘ethnicity’ (the ethnicity definition you are quoting doesn’t quite say what you think) or even someone Welsh, Scottish or from NI should be British PM. That’s quite racist.

What are those u turns please? When I’ve seen lists they’ve been policy tweaks before implementation. That’s the way politics is supposed to work.

No they aren't

Nothing was real then you know what I mean

Which party has no scandals over money and fundraising?

Sir Keir declared accepting donations from Lord Alli in the register of MPs' interests, including accommodation worth more than £20,000.
The prime minister also stayed at his pendthouse during lockdaown though he said this was to support his son during his GCSE exams.
Lord Alli has also made donations worth more than £32,000 for clothing and spectacles to Sir Keir and his wife.

Morgan McSweeney Labour Together Donations (2020-2025): Think tank Labour Together received large donations (around £740,000) that were not declared before Keir Starmer's leadership win, leading to an Electoral Commission fine in 2021, with recent leaks reigniting questions about potential misleading of the commission.

"Contracts for Donors" Allegations (2025): An Autonomy Institute report suggested companies donating to Labour won substantial government contracts, drawing parallels to issues under previous administrations.

The Liberal Democrats
The party line on trans issues “has been consistent for at least 5 years” i.e very opposed to women's rights. The party has also accepted donations of £1.4mn from Ferring Pharmaceuticals (makers of puberty blockers) since 2013.
- are they being paid to promote/simplify gender transition to the financial benefit of big pharma?

Does what's happening in America change your mind? Because what terrifies me is that no-one really believed Trump would do this and he has. Not even just the ICE stuff but the states seriously discussing the death penalty for abortion, people with close links the the leadership proposing one vote per household (the man).

Farage has explicitly said he doesn't agree with the current abortion limit, he's exploring said he wants an American model of health care where hundreds of thousands of people go bankrupt for medical bills each year, he's explicitly said he thinks Putin is admirable.

Normally I feel like you can survive the next 5 years of parliament and hope for better next time but I'm not sure the American people are going to get a next time.

Farage and Zack Polanski are both equally awful. I don't agree with Starmer's politics(not sure he even does) but I don't dislike him quite as much as them. I like Badenoch.

Nope I didn't say that, you were suggesting that anyone whose parents had been in the war couldn't possibly vote reform - or saying you couldn't understand how they could. I am giving you an example to show that it's not as black and white as that. It's not an "all" I am in no way saying my parents represent everyone.

It is easy to communicate a negative message, one that almost entirely feeds on negativity and fear.

It's another to have to come up with solutions, budgets and strategies. Farage never does that. When he has to tell people that their taxes are going up to do the things he plans people will begin to notice that 'incredible communication' is all he can offer.

And Hitler was also an incredible communicator. What’s your point?

Yes, and I also hear tractor production is up. 🙄

Thank you for your honest reply.

How can you trust a party full of Turncoats- surely a huge question mark over them having the courage of their convictions?

13 u turns,and saying we "shouldnt say"only women can have a cervix: yeah, I distrust him

Does Farage have good communication skills though?

His communication skills rely on him hammering home the same message over and over again, without nuance, without changing his method to appeal to different listeners, without subtlety.

Whatever his message I wouldn't find him appealing. He has a beef faced, hectoring, relentless quality that is common in people with no empathy, a mean spirit, no view of a broader picture and a complete dismissal of people he thinks of as lesser/other. His message does not appeal to people who dislike that kind of brute faced 'he says it how he is' stance.

Yes indeed, totally backed his own words in Jenrick as a recent example.
Also fairly recently he must have believed he knew Ian Watkins and he was a good guy - oops sorry tricked.
He believed in our fishing industry but couldn’t plan anything or even turn up at the relevant EU fisheries committees.
He believed in Brexit - a Norwegian style one, a great deal one, a no deal one - anyway we got the ‘wrong’ one he believes that.
I do agree he is genuinely racist but this is the bit he actually tries to play down instead of stating clearly.
Doesn’t matter how hard he believes in stopping immigration completely, well not all of it now he says - or in stopping the small boats, well again not that easy he says now - he is incapable of actually doing so, and this video just reiterated to me that he’s barely capable of doing anything properly, even a small time grift.

It’s not cancellation, it’s postponement to save time and money and because turnout at local elections is always poor but having two elections in quick succession would mean it would be even worse. It’s postponement until the council is reorganised and is requested by the council not enforced by the government. Cancelling elections is bad. Postponing for a short time for sensible reasons is…well…sensible.

What I don't understand is why people go on about polling. Yes right now Reform are polling well. But at national level Labour has a majority of about 160MPs. The only way to force a General Election is for the opposition to propose and win a vote of no confidence. For that to happen, All the opposition party MPs of every 'flavour" plus about 80 Labour MPs would have to vote for the motion. If as everyone on here says Labour will be trounced and out of office, are many Labour MPs really going to vote themselves out of a job?? Botton line Reform have to keep up momentum for about another three and a half years and I don't think they will be able to.

It doesn’t help that this story seems to be completely ignored by most of the media, including the BBC. You’d expect constant coverage, it would have ruined pretty much any other politician. Ditto the story about the former UKIP MEP being convicted of taking bribes from Russia… Where did that story even get reported? It’s just insane. He clearly has the right connections and will likely win the next GE as a result.

This story gets played off as being the silly mistakes of a teenager, as if we were all massive racists as teens who told Jews they should have been gassed ffs. He enrages me.

Also appalling, what’s your point?

Cancelling elections should not be within the gift of a government of any colour.

I wouldn’t vote Reform, but let’s face it, previous Tory governments have been awful, and this lot in power are dreadful. 🤷‍♀️

But, Reform will win the next election I’d imagine.

And what about these ones that postponed under a Tory government? Why was that?