What I would like to ask Reform supporters what are the specific Reform policies they support?

They even mention in their post it's based on real life experiences. Maybe leave your keyboard and get a train into any large town sometime or anywhere near a migrant hotel. I used to walk across parts of London by myself completely pissed late at night - I would never do that now - knife crime almost doubled in London 2015 to 2025. Now we also have massively increased anti-semetic attacks - the Hatzolah ambulances were allegedly burnt down by Rehan Khan and Hamza Iqbal - the worrying thing is they may be second or third generation immigrants but have failed to integrate and under Labour the existence of parallel communities with no incentive to integrate will continue - they're too scared of losing vote share to push the issue.

@Skates
I am not a reform voter. However, I understand why people are voting for them. Unemployment has increased under Labour with the rise in national insurance and the increasing minimum wage so that businesses are employing fewer people. Young people can't get jobs partially due to this and immigration being too high. People are angry about not being able to access services e.g. GP appointments due to the population rising too fast. This is why they are concerned about immigration. British people are known for tolerance but their tolerance has reached a tipping point. For example, the Greens and the far left's support of Palestine and by association extremist Islamic views, which could affect women's rights in the UK. The increase in anti-semitism in the UK, which doesn't make sense when British Jews have nothing to do with a war happening in another country. The UK government cannot change what happens in the middle-East and we need to focus on peace and creating a cohesive society in the UK. The pro-palestine marches are causing more divisions in society when we need to focus on integration and cohesion in the UK.
I think the ECHR needs to be amended to allow us to control our borders. The EU and Starmer are already discussing how it can be amended. Many EU nations including Denmark believe it needs to be modernised. The conservatives also think we need to come out of the ECHR. While I am concerned that Reform may not be pro women's rights, I am also concerned about the greens, labour and lib dem's views support of mixed sex toilets/changing rooms that do not protect women's safety.

The 25% figure is from DOJ though, maybe a different year?

I’m what you insultingly call “one of those brown or black people”. I voted reform. You’d be surprised how many of us “brown or black people” do 🙄

The country is crying for housing principally because of high immigration. Population growth without it would be negligible. I'm a massive supporter of new housing but often the local lib dems, who on a national level support immigration, are the biggest objectors to any new housing to the point of overriding planning officer recommendations. At least with Reform you don't as yet see that hypocrisy- their policies on oil, NHS reform make sense unfortunately. The generation above us has been living off future generations for too long and we cant afford the current level of social spending including pensions in a hjgh interest rate environment - they were going to scrap triple lock but realised better to get the votes and leave pension reform to later.

Yes he probably is

why aren’t the main parties listening to the people is the problem and why has it had to come to this

and I won’t vote reform because of this uncertainty

Reform are a one trick pony. Let’s get rid of all the foreigners. They will pull us out of the UCHR. But people forget the UCHR is there to protect everybody not just foreigners. It holds governments accountable for draconian laws that affect the liberty of the people. We will replace it with a bill of British rights. But who do you think will write those rights? He will force private health insurance on everybody. Get rid of the minimum wage get rid of workers rights and also get rid of women’s rights. He is a millionaire grifter A Temu Trump. He just wants to get richer and he will do it off your backs. He has nothing in common with us. In fact, just like Trump, he loves stupid people.

See my other comment - if they don’t privatise or in some other way defund the NHS, how on earth are they going to fund all the spending promises in their manifesto? It is one big spend, spend, spend and no details on how they are going to fund it.

Paid for how, exactly? I looked at the key points from their manifesto the other day, and they were basically just a load of uncosted, unfunded, pie-in-the-sky spending promises. As far as I can see, the only way they would have a remote chance of funding them would be to privatise the NHS. Oh, wait a minute...

You can try but in my experience they won’t answer, just call you names. Most can’t see beyond ‘boat people’ and have no idea what a total shit show Reform are and how they want to decimate the NHS, treat women as if we’re in Gilead and trash human and workers’ rights.

Farage is on broadcast record saying he is in favour of an insurance-based model. He would probably destroy the NHS and if you couldn't afford good quality health insurance or didn't work for a big firm that provided it as a perk you could expect a very basic level of care - or to go bankrupt like millions of people do in the US. But as other people have said Farage has hypnotised the nation with wild claims about stopping migrants and now they think it's the solution to all their woes and don't hear anything else.

I think people have been talking about immigration since the 90s, it was fine before then but not now

I agree. Reform voters are fixated on immigration, but what they really mean is that Britain should be a white country. They often talk about "indigenous" people being pushed out and say that it was better in the UK before WW2, but they don't seem to understand that Britain had an empire that included India, much of Caribbean, much of Africa, etc. (I'll leave out the Romans, Norman, Huguenots, et al) and that people living in those subject nations had the right to come here. Many of those hated brown and black people also fought for the allies in WW2. Many people came in the 1950s and 1960s were recruited to do jobs that the "indigenous" people didn't want to do, and they were treated with hostility.

The hostility we see today is not just towards asylum seekers, but is often directed at public sector workers, including doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff, GPs, and teachers, who are leaving in droves, and then they complain about waiting lists and delays in A&E, and blame that on the Labour government. It's frankly batshit crazy, and I am ashamed to be British these days, something I never thought that I'd feel until Brexit happened.

This was a reply to @Frrrout. The quote was messed up. Stop with your faux outrage. I'm white and where I live the browns and blacks refer to us as " whites ".

was your wife
no doubt garnered a she’s load of support on mumsnet
left you
now happy and settled with new man and primary custody of the children

a happy ending

It also deprives people in other countries of qualified people if they all leave to work abroad. Brain drain is a real thing.

But not on local councils.

What you say can be the case but it doesn't apply to everyone. Not everyone will have already decided. It's always worth trying.

The people affected by it always have.
Perhaps you don't know anyone affected by migration.

Rents have soared. So perhaps your family is wealthy enough to not rent nor care about the hpi if the last 20 odd years

Maybe you've not noticed threads about UK trained doctors being unable to get a job due to people from overseas.
We should be ashamed we steal so many NHS staff from abroad,at the detriment to our own children.

I'd go on but suspect you'd not hear me from up there in your ivory tower.

I don’t sit with anti semitism at all - I don’t sit with one party either - and I will call out what I see as problematic too - you won’t agree here, but I dislike Labour’s immigration policies and I say so for example. Overall, for me, it’s about basic humanity - love not hate - not party politics although I do sit on the left.

As Starmer is bringing his own kids up as Jewish and Polanski is Jewish then I have more confidence in their general anti-semitism. I do see a lot more anti semitism when I go to counter protests against the right - I see Nazi salutes, I hear ‘Heil Hitler’ and I see self avowed Neo Nazis - far outweighs anything seen on the left side - it’s disturbing.

Whilst I’m here though - and 4th time to ask - disproportionate numbers of DA/SA offenders hanging around on the right - any comment?

I'd have thought it was obvious that Reform's first priority is to tackle illegal immigration? No need to snipe at those who have different political views - its called free speech.

Yes unfortunately you are right

How do you sit with the anti semitism in the Labour or Green Party ?

Give them 3 years when they have screwed up all the councils they control & voters will change their minds about them, see sense & vote for someone else.