Reform are getting a shitload of voters

The vote share is very different. 9.6m to 4m so not quite half

Seats though big difference in number

If it were nearly half in representation it would be very different governance and policy etc

Your first objection makes no sense. The problem was the party in power so they didn't vote for it.

I’m getting a bit fed up of listening to Labour politicians crowing about their landslide and the huge mandate the electorate has given them. Yes they got all the seats but only because of our FPTP system. 35% share of the vote in a low turnout election is not a landslide. I watched many of the votes coming in and Reform were the second party in loads of constituencies. Their 4 seats do not reflect their share of the vote.

It is a huge success for labour you can only play the political election that you have and we have always been first past the post - in many countries percentage of vote doesn’t necessarily mean being in charge (Hilary Clinton got more votes than Trump but were in heavily populated cities).

The Liberal Democrats for the first time benefited from the first past the post so often they haven’t and it was interesting seeing that question put to Ed Davey

Reform aren’t the 3rd party in Government not by a long way and their voters really are v understandably disenfranchised Conservative voters the centre and the left got more voters than the right and are far more likely to tactically vote

because tactical voting was key

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From what I have seen the teens are getting fed up of all the woke agenda. Most of them have more sense than a lot of adults

This. At my son’s school they held a mock election and Reform did very well. This generation after Gen Z are very cynical about the woke agenda and see Farage as the only politician who calls it out.

Kovos - how would they distribute wealth?

CGT on your main house would result in NO ONE moving. Or worse house prices would increase to take this account but again wouldnt benefit people trying to get on the housing ladder.

Interesting numbers

Top three parties on roughly 10m, 7m and 4m

That seat difference for 10m and 4m is something, when it’s a bit under half of vote share

Thanks for this. I am trying to explain this to my liberal leftie family who just will not see it. I may link the article.

Well said 👏👏👏

The logic on some people is astounding. It’s so transparent the way there is evaluation of what has happened in this election suits their original political viewpoint. It’s laughable.

Personally I wouldn't p* on a Reform if they were on fire, but of the things in their 'contract' I can see tax cuts for small businesses with £100k tax free (gig economy?), tax relief on school fees, extra spending on the NHS, scrapping the TV licnce and raising the stamp duty threshold all appealing to the under 30s

When a large number of your party’s candidates are openly and unapologetically racist, homophobic and bigoted, and when there are many other more “mainstream” parties more likely to get into power who don’t broadly have those views, then of course it makes sense to assume those voting for the little racist bigoted party’s are likely to be racist and bigoted themselves. Or don’t care about those issues. Which is the same thing.

@Tracker1234 where are you going then?

That’s why they need to introduce a land value tax. People with millions in housing should be paying more than people in an apartment.

Labour will be getting the money off the wealthy, one way or another.

Unlike Labour and Tories who want huge migration because it suppresses wages and gives the impression of increasing gdp.

Rather than entice unemployed people from the unemployment hot spots, train and house them, they’d prefer to let other countries train people, let them move to the UK.
Those policies haven’t worked since the de industrialization of the UK.

No, it’s the racism and bigotry.

Exactly- most countries specifically allow people in if they’re worth ££££.

As for that posters view on CGT on house sales, exactly the sort of idiotic mentality that got Labour in. The housing market would stagnate, house prices of the few on the market would increase to account for tax.

People who say the wealthy wont move and will continue to be taxed and taxed, of course they will! With money you can move. This view that the very wealthy who spend in our hotels restaurants etc wont leave because they live in the same house as where they were born with their Mum round the corner is laughable.

I could move abroad now. We looked at it a number of years ago but husband didnt want to leave his parents. They have both passed as have mine so the reason to stay isnt there.

@ Yalta “Most countries would welcome you with open arm if you have wealth”

Which countries? You need a lot of wealth, and moving to somewhere like Thailand is not for everyone. Nor Malta etc.

Nigel Farage is not a great campaigner for women either

@Yalta “I am moving abroad and I certainly don’t have wealth
But being in the UK is just not safe.“

Safe from what exactly?

Yep that’s women voting for labour - Turkeys voting for Christmas

Oh there’s plenty. From what I have seen the teens are getting fed up of all the woke agenda. Most of them have more sense than a lot of adults

You can get into anywhere if you have the money

Most countries would welcome you with open arm if you have wealth

I am moving abroad and I certainly don’t have wealth
But being in the UK is just not safe.