The most pernicious secret about Reform

Abortion rights are meaningless if the law won’t even name who they apply to. Equality protections collapse if the protected class can’t be defined. You can’t improve women’s pay, safety or conditions if women are no longer a legally coherent group. So give your own head a wobble.

Protecting the category of women as a sex class is the foundation on which all other women's rights are built.

Which mainstream party other than Reform have unequivocally pledged to do so?

This is a candidate for Advanced UK:
“Nick Buckley, the Advance UK candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, has posted a series of social media messages where he makes hugely insulting and derogatory claims about women.
In May 2025, Buckley wrote on X: “Many British young women are whores but don’t realise they are.”

“Many British young women are whores”
In the same post, he claimed that “the days of morality & decorum are over,” adding that young women “make poor wives & poor mothers.” He further stated that they “contribute to the idea that all women are easy & can be abused.”
There are many such posts in his X feed. In one, he claimed that “feminism has NOTHING to do with the welfare of women,” describing it instead as “a Trade Union for ungrateful underperforming Western women” and asserting that “the more feminist policies we have, the more unhappy women become.”

Feminism – for “ungrateful underperforming Western women”
Another post declared: “Women lie – we all know this to be true,” before alleging that “even the DEI lesbian astronauts have problems with women lying to destroy their reputation.”
‘Immoral and evil’In a further example, Buckley wrote: “Many Western women are immoral and evil. Feminism ruined them and weak men allowed it to happen.”
In another post from July 2025, Buckley wrote: “Western women have fallen so low that they think it is acceptable and their right to dress as strippers and pole dancers. It is not. Bring back decorum.”

“Western women have fallen so low…”
Buckley has not removed any of these the posts and has continued to comment on similar themes across his social media accounts.
He has previously defended his online presence as “speaking uncomfortable truths” and rejecting “political correctness”.”
Searchlight magazine Tony Peters

From WIKI

Brendan Nicholas Buckley MBE(born April 1968) is a British charity worker and political figure, a member of Advance UK who previously represented Reform UK He spent 15 years working with the homeless. In 2011, he founded The Mancunian Way, a charity which dismissed him in 2020 after he posted an article critical of the Black Lives Matter movement. However, the board of trustees later resigned and Buckley was reinstated. He is a candidate in the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election.[1]

Oh this is all so dangerous. The two main parties eating themselves and fucking everything up, the Lib Dems invisible and so people are searching for alternatives. Extreme left greens or extreme right reform. Both exceptionally bad options.

why Is Lib Dem invisible?? They might be the answer.

I don't like that women are expected to be happy about choosing between bad and worse, or even feel particularly vested in it.

All political parties that have even a shred of power are quite happy to throw women under the bus at every turn in different ways. It's like pigs voting for different farmers; you can't forget that they all just see you as meat, ultimately.

I follow Reform on Facebook (just to see what's happening). They had a pic of a pretty blonde woman behind a bar with the tagline, Save British Pubs. Pretty much all the comments were from men randomly saying "Vote Reform" but mainly saying something along the lines of "I wouldn't mind pulling her" "I wouldn't mind her pulling me", some a bit more crude.

They show the people who they are over and over and the people just don't listen.

Any party would be an alternative to Reform.

I probably sound ageist but I am sick and tired of older people voting for shit and then they don't even live long enough to have to deal with the consequences e.g. Brexit. They have zero consideration for those generations following. Those 65+ men who are choosing to vote Reform are probably largely the ones who think it's only 'banter' when they sexually harass women. It's so grim.

Wow. Let’s hope you don’t need the NHS, pension payments or anything else that’s being propped up by immigrants whilst the UK birth rate drops off a cliff.

You really think Reform is going to improve your life in any way? They don’t care about anything except getting voted in and saying whatever is needed to get there. None of what you are complaining about will change under Reform. Other things will definitely get worse.

And what when Reform do absolutely nothing to reverse any of that? When you realise the problems you’re facing have absolutely nothing to do with those non English speakers? What then?

Desperation suggests you think there is a real alternative who will do something to help you. Who will you turn to then?

We have it in action in America. The current government have rolled back trans rights.

However, they have also made abortion illegal in many states even for women who will die without intervention and for child rape victims. There are people aligned to the ruling party openly calling for only the head of the household (explicitly the man) to be allowed to vote and for women to not be allowed to hold positions of authority. They are removing sex based protection in employment. They kept a dead woman alive so her 9 week old fetus could be incubated.

These things seem pretty existential threats to women's rights to me and reform is engaged with the same people.

Really? More concerning than taking away rights to abortion? Than stopping any “DEI” initiatives to improve working pay and conditions for women? Than rolling back the Equality reforms that have been hard won?

Give your head a wobble.

I'm also worried by the Greens and their 'progressive' misogyny among other things.

Men are not studs some are just complete slags attempting to sleep with anything that has a pulse. then slagging them off calling THEM slags for sleeping with a man.

I will be voting Reform. Like most people, I will do so out of desperation. Mainstream politicians have contemptuously ignored our concerns for decades. A speechwriter for Blair said that New Labour’s plan was to use mass immigration to “rub the right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.” That has been achieved. As Starmer said, this is now an “island of strangers.”

Unfortunately, however, though I no longer have any sense of national identity/belonging, I still have to live on this island, and I cannot stand the overcrowding. My local woods have been hacked down and replaced with two giant new housing estates, a second estate has been built at the other end of the village, and now we’ve been told 400 new homes are going to be built in the centre of the village. It just never ends. The traffic is so awful I rarely go out.

Judging by the languages spoken, I’d say at least half the people who’ve moved onto those new estates weren’t born in the U.K. My quality of life has massively declined over the last two decades. Even driving to the supermarket is now an ordeal. I don’t care about Reform’s misogyny. If a centre-left party gets back in at the next election, and mass immigration (including illegal immigration, and people cheating and exploiting the system) continues, rural Essex is going to be uninhabitable.

Thanks for the chart, OP. I am shocked by the number of Reform supporters among over 65 men. How depressing.

Literally anything is better than Reform IMO.

Women are not a fractional part of society. I am not sure of your point? What is your current alternative to Reform?

Any right wing party leans to the conservative and traditional rather than the progressive. Its always about power and privilege being retained by those who traditionally held them, and 'wanting things back' rather than believing its right that other groups have begun to share them. It should therefore come as no surprise at all that Reform would want to roll back progressions women have made that challenge the old order and that a cohort of males believe has been to their own detriment.

Reform will tell us they care SO much about women and girls. They want to protect them from brown boat men. At the same time there’s quite a few Reform members who have criminal records ? Some for DV / assault. Maybe it’s men with brown shoes we need protecting from (did you see the recent photos from their gathering !) ?
Farage has some strong views on abortion as well, not as extreme as the views in the US but you can see how he would start with minor restrictions and escalate, imo a much bigger threat to women and girls than anything else.

It’s not a surprise, surely, that people who are racist and want to take Britain back to the 1950s are also likely to be sexist. The Venn diagram of racism and sexism is known to have a huge overlap.

I have no idea why any woman would support Reform. But then I have no idea why anyone would male or female.

totk are you saying you’d support Reform because they don’t believe TWAW?? I sincerely hope not? I’m as GC as anyone but there’s no way a single issue I agree with Reform on would close my eyes to the rest of their abhorrent ideas.

It is a complete rolling back of women's rights once that category is blurred or treated as optional?? It isn’t a marginal issue affecting a tiny group; it affects the foundations of every protection women rely on. It's disingenuous to pretend it's only affects a fraction of society.

I do think a lot more men buy into what seems simplistic solutions- and usually are anything but . Wealthy men think itsall about cash and if they have and keep tons of it ( regardless of how they get it ) their world will all be well, those not in that position want to find someone else to blame for their situation or poor decisions, so better to blame it all on those ‘not like them’ -