Can you name one current political figure you admire?

Or at all. If we end up having to chose between that and defence for example.

”I think you shouldn't be able to claim benefits for anxiety and depression unless extremely severe.”

Er, so exactly as it is now then?

I think you shouldn't be able to claim benefits for anxiety and depression unless extremely severe. Obviously. Having had family experience of both. We used to just have to crack on. Shit but that's life. And symptoms are too easy to fake.

Ah yes. I did watch NFs speech. Hes got a point. Labour have made it too expensive to employ young people. So unless ENI is cut then the minimum wage will have to go down. Labour have shafted the young. We all knew that. Nothing left or right about it. The Law of unintended (but perfectly obvious) consequences.

Reform are going to remove the 2 child benefit cap. Is that left or right wing in your opinion?

Wow! Really. If this is true its dreadful, how is he still in post?

No they aren’t.

Farage has said he’d withdraw any benefits for those with anxiety and depression.

As for xenophobia. How obvious does it have to be? I mean come on!

https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-says-reform-uk-could-cut-minimum-wage-for-young-people-and-defends-u-turn-on-tax-pledges-13463252

This has all been in the news in the last week. How come you don’t know about it, yet think they are left wing?

Not perfect maybe, but admirable, and I admired him. And how.

No not one in the UK. Not too upset with Mark Carney so far (Yeah not UK politician but was Governor of the Bank of England before PM Canada so maybe that counts a little bit?).

There’s probably only one that I’m broadly aligned with politically and who is also an impressive person and communicator - Ruth Davidson. Unfortunately now in the House of Lords.

More broadly I’ve a lot of time for:
Rosie Duffield
Shabana Mahmood
Jeremy Hunt
David Davis

The last two are subjective opinions

Something needs to be done about the NHS. We are currently a health service with a small country attached.

Can you expand on the minimum wage reduction? What age does the reduction apply to and by how much.

Badenoch? No way. She said she would create an ICE-like force here.

THIS is what immigration control looks like in the US right now, a complete disgrace! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/los-angeles-immigration-agents-toddler

Far right/right.

Privatising health care
Reducing minimum wage for young people.
Pretending anxiety and depression don’t exist for the purpose of benefits
Xenophobia

Kemi Badenoch, she's intelligent and quick with morals and knows what a woman is. Rebecca Paul Tory MP, she's trying to get men out of Downview the women's prison in her constituency . Wes Streeting. Although he's going quiet on women's issues recently.

I quite like Bernie Sanders.

Nope

Farage has never said he is "far right "(whatever that means these days. No one really knows). Which Reform policies are "far right"? Because on the economy for example he's sounding a bit lefty....

And the current number of MPs reflect the pre election erroneous assumption that Labour couldn't be worse than the Conservatives. That wont be the case in 2029 and looking at the polls Reform will benefit from the disappointment in the two main parties. Only a fool would consider them "fringe". They are currently setting the political narrative and Labour are treating them as the Opposition.

Frank Field, though now gone and done, was a politician who did good.

He was an admirable man.

“Reform and the Conservatives will probably do a pact for the sake of the country.”

Yes, they definitely come across as country before party before selves (in some parallel universe).

At least he has been very honest that being a twat is the only way the media ever report on LD, despite having a bigger chunk of the vote than Reform. They love Farage on BBC so much I think a university actually took them to Court for not reporting on any of the LD policies but constantly having Farage's mug up for tiny things. It's the only way he can be seen.

Ed Davies??? He spends half his life doing ridiculous publicity stunts, like some hapless shadow cabinet member from The Thick of It. I find him so embarrassing and depressing. If the Lib Dems were a genuinely viable alternative, maybe fewer people would turn to Farage and his odious ilk.

Wes Streeting sounds human and intelligent which is rare for any politician these days, when most have been trained to be soundbite bots.

Ive worked on projects with Andy Burnham. He is a clear thinking man. Obviously not perfect (who is) but I like his attitude towards community ownership and power.

I think Farage has admitted he is far right, and his policies most certainly are the most right we have ever had in politics. Given that his party is only a couple of years old and Reform has 0.7% of the seats in parliament, that is pretty fringe by any definition

Why not listen to his politics?

Zack Polanski - i’m sure there are others less visible.

Jeremy hunt is doing an ok job in Surrey

I do think it’s hard to take seriously somebody who used to hypnotize boobs bigger….