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Are you now more likely to vote for REFORM (the party)

932 replies

Decisiondecisions · 18/02/2026 14:49

NC for this and apologies if Q already asked. My quick search yielded no result.

Reform plan to undo the reversal of 2 child cap benefit. Are you now likely (or more likely) to vote for them? There have been endless threads about the welfare bill.

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LunaDeBallona · 18/02/2026 17:54

RunSlowTalkFast · 18/02/2026 16:07

Mumsnetters are largely female and educated so not really the target market.

How very rude and ignorant.
I feel ashamed of every woman who votes Labour -the party who don’t know what a woman is and certainly don’t support white girls and women with their abhorrent voting against a public enquiry into the Muslim Rape Gangs,
How educated is a woman who votes with a party that hates women and girls and cares not a jot about their safety??

Ediblechalk · 18/02/2026 17:50

I’m voting Reform. I’m basically a one issue voter, with the one issue being reversing the children’s education and vocational training tax that Labour implemented . All the parties outside Labour, Greens and the SNP have said they’ll reverse it but Reform is the best way to make my vote count in my area. Outside of that, Reforms outlook is very pro growth and they’re making all right noises on sensible taxation. Quite excited about it to be honest.

Isthatsoandso · 18/02/2026 17:44

Urgh . I would rather pierce my eyes out with a rusty tin opener than vote Reform. They are nasty grifters.

TooBigForMyBoots · 18/02/2026 17:41

Selenassunsetsangria · 18/02/2026 16:23

When Labour got in, people went to such places as Dubai. If Reform get in where will people go?

I don't have the answer hence the question. Wondering what the outcome would be.

Nowhere?
On a downward spiral?
Or leaving the UK.?

Take your pick.

dizzydizzydizzy · 18/02/2026 17:41

Sirzy · 18/02/2026 14:50

I would vote for the Monster Raving Loony party before even considering voting for reform.

This!

Reform are blaming all problems on immigrants. It must be the oldest trick in the book and one that Hitler used to great success.

Notmymarmosets · 18/02/2026 17:40

Dragonscaledaisy · 18/02/2026 17:34

I agree with reinstating the cap but it would have no bearing on how I vote.

I agree with reinstating the cap, and it will have some bearing on how I vote, but I still can't vote reform.

Mingspingpongball · 18/02/2026 17:39

Never.
ever.
And anyone who can envision a life without the NHS or imagine themselves or a loved one becoming disabled should reflect on what they’d introduce.
Same for BAME employees.
Same for women.
Ok so they might try to refuse calling trans people by their chosen names or whatever… but at what (enormous) price on every other aspect of life.
I guess they think they’ll stop the millionaires leaving the UK.. as if!!!
But never in a million years would I vote for them.

Nosejobnelly · 18/02/2026 17:35

Never

Dragonscaledaisy · 18/02/2026 17:34

I agree with reinstating the cap but it would have no bearing on how I vote.

Judellie · 18/02/2026 17:31

No way would I be daft enough to vote Reform!

CaptainMyCaptain · 18/02/2026 17:21

When Hell freezes over.

Onlyontuesday · 18/02/2026 17:17

No. Nigel will say whatever the highest bidder wants him to. That should be obvious enough with his links to Russia and the levels of Russian interference in the Brexit vote.

Treasonous little bastard wants to rob us all.

ScholesPanda · 18/02/2026 17:07

No

GreenCherries · 18/02/2026 17:07

MandingoAteMyBaby · 18/02/2026 16:38

I would rather shove fistfuls of wasps up my arse.

Reform is a party of millionaires representing billionaires, which seeks to further entrench inequality and rip off everyone for their own benefit.

This sums it up nicely for me.

CurlewKate · 18/02/2026 17:05

SilentMajority1 · 18/02/2026 16:54

Was going to vote Reform, but now we have Restore Britain, so actively monitoring how this new party is developing. Love the manifesto and they seem to be gaining traction 🙏

What do you particularly like in their manifesto?

BotterMon · 18/02/2026 17:00

Fuck no.

Thedogscollar · 18/02/2026 17:00

Hell will freeze over first.

MrsTerryPratchett · 18/02/2026 16:57

Going from minus 100000000000 likelihood to minus 999999999999 isn't significant.

GeneralPeter · 18/02/2026 16:57

Decisiondecisions · 18/02/2026 16:38

Thank you for your time.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

How do you think Jenrick’s other policies will play, beyond the benefits cap?

How did it compare to what you expected from them?

It was less populist than I expected, which is good.

I still doubt they can deliver competent government. I dislike a lot of their social stuff.

But at least they have an economic policy that, if implemented, has a chance of reviving growth and lightening the fiscal burden we are bequeathing future generations.

ChaToilLeam · 18/02/2026 16:56

Not before, not now and not ever. Bunch of grifting wankers.

CurlewKate · 18/02/2026 16:54

There are no circumstances in which I would vote Reform.

SilentMajority1 · 18/02/2026 16:54

Was going to vote Reform, but now we have Restore Britain, so actively monitoring how this new party is developing. Love the manifesto and they seem to be gaining traction 🙏

TooBigForMyBoots · 18/02/2026 16:53

ThingsAreNotWhatTheyWere · 18/02/2026 16:15

And those of us with poor health/disabilities will be stuck as it will be prohibitively expensive, if even possible, to get health insurance abroad...

You, along with every other British person living with illness, disability or poverty. And most other working and middle class people. The reality is moving elsewhere costs money. Whether you move a mile up the road or to Dubai.🤷‍♀️.

The idea that most people in the UK have the means to up sticks and migrate Somewhere cheap? is for the birds.🙄

GoldenGeishaGirl · 18/02/2026 16:53

No. Absolutely not. Never.

They’re fucking awful.

LakieLady · 18/02/2026 16:52

neverbeenskiing · 18/02/2026 15:44

I would rather lick piss off a stinging nettle than vote for Reform.

I'd rather do that AND eat my own vomit than vote for Reform. Ditto Restore and Advance UK.

If they were the only parties on the ballot paper, I'd have to spoil it by adding a new box with "None of the above" in it, and putting an X by that.