Reform party seems to be ahead in my area.

Farage says a lot of things. France won't take them back.

Ben Habib, Reform's deputy leader said that asylum seekers should 'suffer the consequences of their actions ' and drown.

Are you voting for Reform?
Or is this what you think they will do?

I'd like to really clear how people who are voting Reform because of immigration think that they will be solving it.

We can't turn boats around, it's against international law. The only way to tackle it, in my opinion, is investment and international cooperation.

I am interested in someone who is voting for Reform answering this.

I am not sure what the actual plan is. Even if it is leaving them to drown, that will require a workforce committed to that, as there are many who would instinctively want to save people from that.

If it's send them back, who will do that? Will Farage be on the beaches turning boats around?

Farage says a lot of things. France won't take them back.

Ben Habib, Reform's deputy leader said that asylum seekers should 'suffer the consequences of their actions ' and drown.

How do you think Reform will deal with it?
Do you think they need to form a government to do so, or will they be able to make a difference with a few MPs?
Farage has talked about sending people back to France, how do you think he will do that?

Yes, I will be voting Reform. Politically, I'd describe myself as a moderate conservative, or even a left-leaning Tory, but I am very worried about immigration. The conservatives have utterly failed to deal with the issue, and pretty much ignored voter's concerns. They deserve to be punished. In 2022, 750,000 extra people settled in this country (when you add in illegal immigrants, it may well have been a million). It's just insane, and it can't go on. To house that many people we'll need to build three new Manchesters. WHERE? Obviously, on what is left of the British countryside. But I don't want more houses and cars. I want more trees and fields and silence. In the last ten years, my local woods have been hacked down to make way for two big new estates, including blocks of flats. And at the other end of the village another giant estate is under construction. We've also just heard that 800 new homes are going to be built on the long road that connects our village to the town. That road is clogged with traffic now, so what the hell is it going to be like when we add an extra thousand cars?!

No matter how many of these ghastly rabbit huts they jam on top of one another we always need more, more, more. Obviously Labour won't do anything about it. On the contrary, they'll be much worse. And make no mistake, this problem isn't going away. In spite of concerns about falling birth rates, the world's population is still growing. In 1960 there were three billion humans. Today there are eight billion and we're heading for ten. It looks like the world's population will peak in the 2050s, just as climate change begins to bite. Right now there are awful heatwaves in southern Europe and central America. In fact, Mexico just broke its record heat. Pretty soon people are going to start moving en mass. Either we face up to this or we'll be overwhelmed. I'm all for helping people, don't get me wrong. The rich countries have a moral duty to help the poor. But allowing millions of people onto this small, crowded little island isn't the answer.

Yes, I will be voting Reform. Politically, I'd describe myself as a moderate conservative, or even a left-leaning Tory, but I am very worried about immigration. The conservatives have utterly failed to deal with the issue, and pretty much ignored voter's concerns. They deserve to be punished. In 2022, 750,000 extra people settled in this country (when you add in illegal immigrants, it may well have been a million). It's just insane, and it can't go on. To house that many people we'll need to build three new Manchesters. WHERE? Obviously, on what is left of the British countryside. But I don't want more houses and cars. I want more trees and fields and silence. In the last ten years, my local woods have been hacked down to make way for two big new estates, including blocks of flats. And at the other end of the village another giant estate is under construction. We've also just heard that 800 new homes are going to be built on the long road that connects our village to the town. That road is clogged with traffic now, so what the hell is it going to be like when we add an extra thousand cars?!

No matter how many of these ghastly rabbit huts they jam on top of one another we always need more, more, more. Obviously Labour won't do anything about it. On the contrary, they'll be much worse. And make no mistake, this problem isn't going away. In spite of concerns about falling birth rates, the world's population is still growing. In 1960 there were three billion humans. Today there are eight billion and we're heading for ten. It looks like the world's population will peak in the 2050s, just as climate change begins to bite. Right now there are awful heatwaves in southern Europe and central America. In fact, Mexico just broke its record heat. Pretty soon people are going to start moving en mass. Either we face up to this or we'll be overwhelmed. I'm all for helping people, don't get me wrong. The rich countries have a moral duty to help the poor. But allowing millions of people onto this small, crowded little island isn't the answer.

Spoiling the paper is utterly pointless. No one cares.

A proper vote will make far more of an impression.

I cant belive that people would rather support and re for reform than spoil their paper.

I get people are unhappy with the current choices, but reform?! Really?

The views farage holds are revolting. I watched the party political broadcast last night, was very slick and I can see why people would think that’s reasonable but surely people don’t just base who their voting for on that alone?

He pretends to be a nationalist, but his recent comments about his admiration for Putin, and how the EU forced him into declaring war and killing thousands and part destroying Ukraine, make him nothing less than a TRAITOR

@Blackcats7 whats wrong with Depeche Mode?!

I would recommend that the citizens of mumsnet stop ‘othering’ and monstering Reform and its voters. And start encouraging the other parties to actually talk about issues like security, defence and immigration and its effects. Otherwise the exact same thing will happen as with Brexit - those who aren’t listened to by the main parties will simply vote for the ones that bother to engage with them.

The reduction of international relationships and all disputes to ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ with nary a though is also unhelpful. Reality has nuance. It is also perfectly possible to recognise that evil people can be strategically brilliant or good orators without condoning what they chose to do with that skill. Pretending they were dumb as a box of rocks is stupid and reflects more on the commentator making such a suggestion. But hey, we live in a Hollywoodised era where apparently people are incapable of logic or reasoned discussion.

The sheer arrogance shown on most threads by left wing voters is astounding. As is the description of policies that are merely right of (true) centre as ‘extreme far right’. They are not. Most police's and positions that the modern left objects to have in fact been proposed in the past by politicians on ‘the left’.

This election is going the same way as Brexit - and the ‘left’s’ Refusal to engage like grown ups with issues that do actually concern a large part of the population is going to have the same effect now as it did then. It was 17.4m “fuck offs” back then. That’s a wide pool for any party to drawn from.

We're the 6th largest economy on earth and 21st re GDP per capita. My point still stands

@cupcaske123 If your point relates to millions are using food banks and a quarter of kids are in absolute poverty then we're on the same page. But we are in an economic mess, much of our own making. We 100% do need improved investment, improved productivity, and improved policy development and delivery by whoever forms the next gov, and a much more collaborative approach to the problems we face rather than the current ideological and dogma driven approach.

Do I think Reform are the answer? Not in the slightest. But their very existence and level of possible support should be a massive wake up call.