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To think Lowe is going to wipe the floor with Farage?

238 replies

BlueJuniper94 · 15/02/2026 11:11

Just that. AIBU to think this is the end of Farage?

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StandFirm · 15/02/2026 13:15

Tryagain26 · 15/02/2026 13:07

Reform and Lowe's new even more right wing party are not parties for ordinary working class people though, they are Parties run by and for rich people exploiting poorer people's anxieties.
I was born and brought up in a council house, my family is firmly working class, I resent the implication that all working class people are concerned about is immigration and therefore drawn towards these far right parties. Most of us are not.
Most of us are much too intelligent to be taken in by the rhetoric and more concerned about the price of food and rent to worry about the very small number of asylum seekers.
Besides latest numbers actually suggest we could have negative migration soon anyway and we will probably have to beg people to come over here.

Exactly. Those types are unbelievably patronising towards the working class with their paternalistic regressive bullshit. They want to own people like a commodity. Disgusting.

MrsFinkelstein · 15/02/2026 13:15

ScreamingBeans · 15/02/2026 12:21

Do you think that premiership footballers came to Britain illegally in small boats and were housed in hotels prior to getting their contracts with their clubs?

You make no distinction between anyone who lives and works here who wasn't born here and you think people who support Reform are stupid and racist?

Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of either Farage or this other guy but the snobbery and viciousness of the Mumsnet class about ordinary working-class people's concerns is so vile that I don't blame anyone for voting for them.

I'm as working class as they come. Don't lump me in with the xenophobic, racist, misogynistic roundabout painters.

The UK takes in fewer asylum seekers/illegal immigrants than any other EU country. Our issues are caused by the very people who now claim they want into Government to "fix" things.

I absolutely do blame anyone who plans to vote for them.

FullLondonEye · 15/02/2026 13:13

Freysimo · 15/02/2026 12:38

Rupert has done more than any of the other parties to highlight the abuse of British girls by "grooming gangs".

That's great - except I get the impression he's only done that because the story suits his arguably racist narrative. I'm not sure he really cares about the women and girls, more about sticking it to the brown men.

StandFirm · 15/02/2026 13:13

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 12:34

Yep, that's the hope.

I believe he's backed by Musk. I might be wrong though - but Musk apparently thinks NF is too soft. Says it all.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 13:13

5128gap · 15/02/2026 13:11

Repatriate, Remove, Regress. A party who's values are on its R's.?

Repulsive? Repugnant? Retrograde?

Or just keep it simple and call it the Racist Party?

Westfacing · 15/02/2026 13:12

Freysimo · 15/02/2026 12:38

Rupert has done more than any of the other parties to highlight the abuse of British girls by "grooming gangs".

How far back in time does Lowe's interest in the abuse of girls go? I suspect he's a Johnny-come-lately.

I heard him being interviewed on someone's podcast and he kept referring to Angela Rayner as 'Big Ange' in a mocking manner - he sounded very disrespectful and sexist.

5128gap · 15/02/2026 13:11

PickAChew · 15/02/2026 13:07

What's his new party, again? Refurbish? Recycle?

Repatriate, Remove, Regress. A party who's values are on its R's.?

WeepingAngelInTheTardis · 15/02/2026 13:09

Many, many people are going towards lowe. Hes more honest than Farage.

PickAChew · 15/02/2026 13:07

What's his new party, again? Refurbish? Recycle?

Tryagain26 · 15/02/2026 13:07

ScreamingBeans · 15/02/2026 12:21

Do you think that premiership footballers came to Britain illegally in small boats and were housed in hotels prior to getting their contracts with their clubs?

You make no distinction between anyone who lives and works here who wasn't born here and you think people who support Reform are stupid and racist?

Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of either Farage or this other guy but the snobbery and viciousness of the Mumsnet class about ordinary working-class people's concerns is so vile that I don't blame anyone for voting for them.

Reform and Lowe's new even more right wing party are not parties for ordinary working class people though, they are Parties run by and for rich people exploiting poorer people's anxieties.
I was born and brought up in a council house, my family is firmly working class, I resent the implication that all working class people are concerned about is immigration and therefore drawn towards these far right parties. Most of us are not.
Most of us are much too intelligent to be taken in by the rhetoric and more concerned about the price of food and rent to worry about the very small number of asylum seekers.
Besides latest numbers actually suggest we could have negative migration soon anyway and we will probably have to beg people to come over here.

Dragonscaledaisy · 15/02/2026 13:06

smallglassbottle · 15/02/2026 13:01

None of the parties support or speak for the common man. They all universally despise the working class.

Agree

IdentityCris · 15/02/2026 13:02

Freysimo · 15/02/2026 12:38

Rupert has done more than any of the other parties to highlight the abuse of British girls by "grooming gangs".

Except that he has done that by studiously ignoring all inconvenient facts, such as the fact that many members of those gangs are British born and bred.

smallglassbottle · 15/02/2026 13:01

None of the parties support or speak for the common man. They all universally despise the working class.

IdentityCris · 15/02/2026 13:01

ScreamingBeans · 15/02/2026 12:21

Do you think that premiership footballers came to Britain illegally in small boats and were housed in hotels prior to getting their contracts with their clubs?

You make no distinction between anyone who lives and works here who wasn't born here and you think people who support Reform are stupid and racist?

Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of either Farage or this other guy but the snobbery and viciousness of the Mumsnet class about ordinary working-class people's concerns is so vile that I don't blame anyone for voting for them.

Asylum seekers have not come here illegally. You must know that if you have been on MN any length of time; after all, someone patiently explains it on every immigration-related thread. So why do you repeat something you must know to be false?

Equally if you think being housed 6 to a room in a former B&B hotel is the height of luxury, you have strange standards.

As for "You make no distinction between anyone who lives and works here who wasn't born here and you think people who support Reform are stupid and racist?" - what is that sentence supposed to mean? What distinction are we supposed to make, and between whom? If Reform voters want their views to be considered seriously, they need to try to write coherently, at the very least.

pocketpairs · 15/02/2026 12:55

HopSpringsEternal · 15/02/2026 12:33

The thing is and I say this as someone married to a highly clever working class man who doesn'tvote Reform. The reason people think the Reform voters are stupid is because they can't see that they're being played.
Its not to do with immigration, it's about making billionaires richer and more powerful.
I'll tell you who has the most contempt for working class people, its Farage.

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100% agree, introducing a insurance based NHS system is firmly in thier sights, which will disproportionately affect lower income brackets. Sad that even one of my friends things Farage..the privately educated, multi millionaire, ex-metal trader speaks for the common man.

cobrakaieaglefang · 15/02/2026 12:55

Newrumpus · 15/02/2026 12:47

Goodness me! How do you know these people?

Mainly through work...

GCAcademic · 15/02/2026 12:52

Freysimo · 15/02/2026 12:38

Rupert has done more than any of the other parties to highlight the abuse of British girls by "grooming gangs".

Has he always been a champion of abused women and girls, or did this particular strand of activism emerge only as a response as a facet of his anti-immigration views? What is he doing about the abuse of women and girls in his 93% White constituency?

Tryagain26 · 15/02/2026 12:51

No idea , but I hope they split the right wing vote and they both disappear into oblivion

MollyButton · 15/02/2026 12:51

Freysimo · 15/02/2026 12:38

Rupert has done more than any of the other parties to highlight the abuse of British girls by "grooming gangs".

But they are only interested in grooming gangs run by Brown men. I don’t believe they are the only ones out there.

pocketpairs · 15/02/2026 12:49

ScreamingBeans · 15/02/2026 12:21

Do you think that premiership footballers came to Britain illegally in small boats and were housed in hotels prior to getting their contracts with their clubs?

You make no distinction between anyone who lives and works here who wasn't born here and you think people who support Reform are stupid and racist?

Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of either Farage or this other guy but the snobbery and viciousness of the Mumsnet class about ordinary working-class people's concerns is so vile that I don't blame anyone for voting for them.

Here we go, another one comes out of woodwork...

Newrumpus · 15/02/2026 12:47

cobrakaieaglefang · 15/02/2026 12:11

I know quite a few ex reformers that now support Lowe, as they think reform taking conservative MPs will dilute the party and as conservatives didn't ' solve' the problems when they had the chance as reform they won't either..
Bluntly they don't think reform are extreme enough.
They want mass deportations whilst supporting premiership football teams 95% foreign players 🙈🤣

Goodness me! How do you know these people?

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 12:45

5128gap · 15/02/2026 12:42

If you're so concerned about the way working class people are viewed on MN perhaps you'd like to practice what you preach and stop linking being WC with support for racism? Because as a WC person, I'm sick to death of being told that anti immigration rhetoric and support for racist politicians are 'the concerns of the WC'.
In my WC opinion, Reform are 'vile' and I'd take being thought stupid any day of the week over being lumped in with their supporters.
Many of us WC people live quite happily in diverse communities and care far less about immigrants than we do about wealthy white people exploiting us as they have for centuries.

Well said.

I really hate the way in which the far right racists are now seeking to present themselves as the champions of the working classes and the defenders of women's rights. Nothing could be further than the truth.

5128gap · 15/02/2026 12:42

ScreamingBeans · 15/02/2026 12:21

Do you think that premiership footballers came to Britain illegally in small boats and were housed in hotels prior to getting their contracts with their clubs?

You make no distinction between anyone who lives and works here who wasn't born here and you think people who support Reform are stupid and racist?

Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of either Farage or this other guy but the snobbery and viciousness of the Mumsnet class about ordinary working-class people's concerns is so vile that I don't blame anyone for voting for them.

If you're so concerned about the way working class people are viewed on MN perhaps you'd like to practice what you preach and stop linking being WC with support for racism? Because as a WC person, I'm sick to death of being told that anti immigration rhetoric and support for racist politicians are 'the concerns of the WC'.
In my WC opinion, Reform are 'vile' and I'd take being thought stupid any day of the week over being lumped in with their supporters.
Many of us WC people live quite happily in diverse communities and care far less about immigrants than we do about wealthy white people exploiting us as they have for centuries.

Freysimo · 15/02/2026 12:38

Rupert has done more than any of the other parties to highlight the abuse of British girls by "grooming gangs".

PandoraSocks · 15/02/2026 12:36

Lowe won't be as successful as Farage but he will hopefully split the far-right vote.

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