This migrant problem is going to let Reform in isn’t it?

You're free to vote for whoever you choose. That's how our democracy works.

I'm free to think that you're an idiot to vote for a party that will make your already difficult life much harder for you.

But you go ahead. Ultimately, the electorate gets the quality of government that it deserves.

@MrsBennetsPoorNerves Dont insult me, you are part of the problem if you think this and you are part of the problem/reason we only get 1 of 2 parties and none of the county issues are ever dealt with.

Under labour and tories, immigration has rocketed public services dont work and the cost of living crisis which has been forgotten means I can just about barely afford bills when I work a million hours a week. On HMRC app for my tax apart from the NHS most of my tax goes on welfare and I bet a lot of people it goes on people who choose not to work

How can I not vote for a third party to see how the perform when the existing two are so shockingly bad?

When this is the level of thinking amongst the electorate, it's hard not to lose hope really. How can we have hope for the future of the country when this is the level of reasoning that people apply to their choices?

I am torn between feeling furious with people like this and simultaneously feeling really sorry for them.

Farage wants to ban abortion? Really? I didn’t know that.

Farage wants to ban abortion? Really? I didn’t know that.

Farage wants to make America light. He wants to ban abortion. He wants to stoke culture division and race wars. He wants to go down in the history books and he doesn’t care what for.

I want Reform win I voted for them last time

They wont fix immigration or do right but it will give Labour and Tories a kick up the a** to stop ignoring general public

I want Reform win I voted for them last time

They wont fix immigration or do right but it will give Labour and Tories a kick up the a** to stop ignoring general public

I want Reform win I voted for them last time

They wont fix immigration or do right but it will give Labour and Tories a kick up the a** to stop ignoring general public

Labour pledged to stop using hotels anyway. It looks like they’ve messed up on the gang thing so yes they’ll probably see Reform gain from that.

What a ridiculous statement. While Labour's actions may be deeply unpopular, there is no waging a war on the citizens of the UK.

The rnli are getting paid for these rescues by the government. It wouldn't be possible otherwise

We want the Nordic Countries excellent public services but dont want to pay for it personally (insert VERY good reasons why the extra tax shouldnt come from you!). We want others to pay. Amazon, rich people, businesses large and small - anyone but me!

That comment doesn’t help does it? You are sweeping me into a far right bracket because I am a conservative voter. All that does is push people who are politically pretty middle leaning into a far right position which is what is happening all over social media.

I have worked for at least three public sector organisations (depends how you count them as some have merged)! We've had re-organisation after re-organisation, each resulting in at least 90 redundancies. I've seen departments merge, whole organisations merge, jobs evaluated, regraded, or changed beyond recognition, new organisational structures created by expensive management consultants... you name it, they've tried it. Needless to say, most of the "nice to have" non-statutory services were cut years ago.

Many local authorities can no longer no longer make ends meet. Not due to financial mismanagement, but mainly because the model of social care funding simply doesn't work. Local authorities have complex statutory obligations regarding social services and the demand has increased enormously over the last few years (mainly due to an ageing population and an increase in those with complex care needs). Council incomes haven't increased by enough to cover this and selling their assets will merely buy them some time. I've also heard many anecdotes of family members being pressured to become full-time carers, even though this would force them to give up their own jobs and rely on Carer's Allowance.

The crisis in social care funding is impacting on the NHS, which was already struggling. Some of the waiting lists are unacceptable and in our area at least, urgent referrals for patients with suspected cancer are no longer on the "two-week-pathway" but a new "28-day-pathway". Also, our local hospital is in a poor state and has needed rebuilding for decades. Successive governments have agreed, but the money has never materialised.

I think we should have discussions about the kind of public services we want. For example, do we want the "Ryanair model" (as I heard proposed by management consultants), whereby taxes are low, and statutory services are extremely limited, but all "extras" are expensive and must be paid for privately? Or do we want the model of high tax but excellent public services favoured by the Nordic Countries?

But it is absolutely true that Reform won't get a majority in Wales next year. Not unless its share of the vote soars to at least 45%. Under current polling, Reform wouldn’t even secure a majority via coalition with the Welsh Tories.

The local by-election in Wales last week saw Reform come third, btw.

I am not playing down the threat from Reform, but I think we need to keep calm.

The RNLI will not stop helping the migrant boats as that’s literally what their job is - saving lives or preventing the loss of life. The French have no interest in preventing the launching of ships filled with young men as it takes them away from France. The only reason the camps used to exist on French soil was because we were part of the EU and had an agreement with them. Directly we left the EU we terminated this relationship and they were literally just waving them through. I think we now pay France to do something but I don’t know what.