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To reckon that Reform will win the next election, and to be utterly terrified about it? 😪

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/01/2026 14:33

i am a leftie

I think they’ll win

If don’t, they’ll have the majority in a hung parliament and govern as a minority party before joining with the Tories.

i’m going to tighten my belt re running my home and prepare for onslaught as the country becomes unrecognisable

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BeFairOliveBear · 26/01/2026 14:47

You'd imagine we would have learned something after Brexit, his would be much much worse 😢

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 26/01/2026 14:47

AmIReallyOCD · 26/01/2026 14:44

Well….
surely with what was revealed in Davos last week, its time for a change. The end result of what the current leaders are all trying to engineer is purely sickening.

You think Farage has something better to offer?

5128gap · 26/01/2026 14:46

I think if they do, they're going to very swiftly discover there is a huge difference between braying about what should be done and actually managing to do it. Between spouting any old nonsense promise to gain support and delivering on them to keep it.
I think there will be a very uncomfortable, distressing period when underprivileged and disadvantaged people sold the lie that their problems would be over if we 'stop the boats', realise they are actually no better off at all, and that the protections they are most likely to need, the welfare state and NHS are the price they've paid for this pie in the sky.
After which they will be voted out. My fervent hope as a fellow leftie is that parties that are supposed to represent this end of the spectrum get their act together ready to fill the gap.

AmIReallyOCD · 26/01/2026 14:44

Well….
surely with what was revealed in Davos last week, its time for a change. The end result of what the current leaders are all trying to engineer is purely sickening.

Talkinpeace · 26/01/2026 14:44

Just wait till one of the Tories with Cabinet experience challenges for a top post.

Nige will flounce out to form a new party
and the whole thing will collapse

Eskarina1 · 26/01/2026 14:43

Google Neil kinnock 1992. We cannot predict the election this far out - they couldn't predict it 24 hours out.

Yes it's scary. Not in a Tory austerity worries me way but in a they have suggested abolishing free at the point of need health care, reviewing abortion rights and introducing a UK ICE kind of way. We can see the leader literally lying and people believing him against all the odds and that kind of cult worship is frightening.

But there are 3 years to go. We can do something. Active hope and taking action us healthier

frozendaisy · 26/01/2026 14:43

Why don’t you wait until they produce their manifesto first. They will be scrutinised by the top political journalists, they will be forced to cost their policies, they will be held to account.

A UK prime minister does not have the same authoritive power as a president does.

What are you scared about exactly?

(I am the most left in this house, I think if Reform get in it will be x3 years of nothing getting done just scandal over ineptitude and text messages).

Playingvideogames · 26/01/2026 14:40

I’m not at all a leftie and I’m also terrified.

They’re awful, corrupt, incompetent snakes and will be a huge risk to national security.

VikaOlson · 26/01/2026 14:38

Don't they have about 7 MPs at the moment out of 600+?
I don't think they're going to win any time soon - what they will do is split the Conservative vote though.