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

My hidden reply was about how Reform is funded by a cryptocurrency billionaire.

Their crypto currency pollicy proposal isn't surprising.

The 9 million include
Carers
Students
SAHM
Early retirees who fund themselves
People on long term sick leave because they are waiting for/unable to get the help they need to get well enough to work again.

Nobody is writing these people off as unemployable but they aren't seeking work because they have good reasons not to.

The actual figure for people looking for and able to work is much lower than 9 million.

"I only got as far reading on Reform website as their policies about making HMGov accept cryptocurrency as payment and having a Bitcoin Reserve Fund, which are Fking insanity. Crytocurrencies are corrupt volatile environmental disaster nonsense.
"HMRC must build systems to accept Bitcoin (and other approved crypto) for tax liabilities, using HMRC published GBP exchange rates at the time of payment. •
Crypto collected can be converted into sterling or added to the Bitcoin Reserve Fund."

Interesting that Farage and Reform receive millions of pounds from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Over £20 million pounds in fact. All from this guy who lives in Thailand and whose company is registered in El Salvador.

It was a £5 million pound 'gift' from him that persuaded Farage back into politics.

Harborne, who doesn't even live in this country and who has a vested interest in Crypto is literally bankrolling Reform. Nothing dodgy there at all?

No. I don't see immigrants as the problem. That is what the uber wealthy want you to believe so you keep punching down and don't look at them. It is populist nonsense. Before Brexit, they were pointing at Bulgarians and Romanians. Now it is Muslims.

Most sexual violence and attacks on women and girls are by people known to them.

Net immigration to the UK is down by around 70% year on year. More British people are dying than being born. We need and rely on immigrants to keep this country going.

One attack by anyone is too many. Of course some people who come to live in this country will turn out to be violent, just as unfortunately some people who grow up here do. I say 'people' but of course the vast majority of violent offenders are male. Something goes wrong in the way many men and boys are brought up to make them think that violence is the answer. That's what needs to be addressed. For the safety of the rest of us, violent offenders should be locked up and if they are here illegally deported. Unfortunately the vast majority were born here so we are stuck with them.

We can, but as Reform seems to have done particularly well in areas that voted Leave ten years ago I'm not hopeful that all voters are going to look at the facts rather than the rhetoric. Going back to Brexit, making it harder for businesses to export and import was obviously going to cause huge problems, affect profitability and therefore the prices they charged in the UK. A lot of UK citizens were benefiting from freedom of movement across the EU for work, study and holidays, which they were going to lose. There were clearly going to be tricky issues because of the UK border with Ireland in Northern Ireland. A lot of what the Leave campaigners said would happen didn't happen and couldn't have happened. All of this was obvious before the referendum and it made no difference.

One attack by an immigrant is one attack too many. Are you saying immigrants aren’t a problem, when it’s clear some are most definitely predatory?
Re your comment about the young man being killed. No indiscriminate attacks are legitimate attacks and there should always be serious consequences.

There was a murder here last week. A former Afghan special ops soldier who supported the UK armed forces. A young man, recently married with a baby on the way.

Murdered by a gang of white Reform supporting thugs.

I am ashamed by people who fall for the lies that it is immigrants that are the problem.

Bang. On.

I am far less worried about foreign nationals than I am about Terry, or Bob, or in the past my own father and ex partners.

if Scotland had less renewables they’d probably have been higher bills. The reason bills are higher are again really complicated and not down to one factor. They pay a higher standing charge for one.

There is some university in New Zealand running a test farm growing crops in the same fields as solar panels which sounds interesting. I understand the concerns around solar panels on land but I just don’t think that Reform, who want to scrap renewables and look to oil, gas and a return to coal mines, are the answer here.

The only Reform voter I know well is pretty much housebound with ill health.
She has GB News on all day which constantly says the country is going down the pan and immigrants are everywhere doing bad things. She loathes Starmer (bcz of what GBN says). She seems confused that I go out & about and enjoy our city & doing stuff in UK & don't have constant problems with bad people & bad govt & bad else on the streets and in life. That I'm not constantly dismayed and outraged. I have considered getting peeved that She can afford to take taxis to hospital but opts for free hospital transport instead, and then moans about how the free transport means waiting around for hours (which it does).

The only immigrants she ever encounters are the health professionals (who may come into her home), or the pharmacy delivery drivers, and a few volunteers (like me).

I only got as far reading on Reform website as their policies about making HMGov accept cryptocurrency as payment and having a Bitcoin Reserve Fund, which are Fking insanity. Crytocurrencies are corrupt volatile environmental disaster nonsense.

"HMRC must build systems to accept Bitcoin (and other approved crypto) for tax liabilities, using HMRC published GBP exchange rates at the time of payment. •

Crypto collected can be converted into sterling or added to the Bitcoin Reserve Fund."

Given that 85% of rapes and assaults on women in the UK are carried out by British men, the vast majority of them white, 90% are carried out by someone known to the victim and over 50% are carried out by a partner or ex-partner with one in 3 taking place in the vitctim’s home, with the statistics even higher for children, can you articulate why you think it’s important to focus on the tiny fraction committed by immigrants and not on the huge male violence towards women issue that is currently endemic in the UK?

Also, can you please explain how you think a party led by a man who is friends with known rapists like Trump and Andrew Tate, and who are happy to put forward reform candidates who celebrate rape on social media, are convicted paedophiles, and celebrate the crimes of rapists like Jimmy Saville are the party to reduce rape offences towards women and children?

The Greens hate everyone who disagrees with them. You are a monster if you say a man can’t be a woman.

They also have a big problem with antisemitism.

please do enlighten us - how, exactly, do they love the UK, and what about the greens makes them “the party of hate”? This is the problem - baseless hyperbole, without evidence to support.

It’s probably not being used because the farmer will be receiving a payment to either regenerate the soil by planting cover crops, or to not use them in some way. There’s still a value to the land. Ridiculously.

I voted reform. It’s time for a sea change, but I’m in Scotland and some people can’t see beyond the SNP. Pleased reform managed to get (the last time I looked) 15 seats. The reason I voted? I’m so tired of seeing news reports of sexual assaults and attacks being carried out by foreign born nationals. I’m ashamed of the powers that be that they continue to perpetuate this. One attack by a foreign born national is one attack too many. But it’s not just one is it?

Agreed. Plus I do think any failures will be blamed on the government hating on Reform and new sunlit upland promises that even Reform councils will improve alongside potential Reform gov’t. They’re slippery!

My daughters already live in a Reform run council - dire - with adult Ed cut, SEN provision cut, care homes being reviewed for closure and wow the pothole fixes were incredibly mismanaged - they’re still paying an increase in council tax though!

Still tbf a lot of councils aren’t that great - just Reform seem worse - then they have to get rid of the worst of the new councillors for many reasons - then some seem to find Reform not racist enough some of them and go independent/Restore too.

None of this seems to phase the Reform voters though so I doubt council (mis) management will lose votes at a GE. Maybe Wales/Scotland mismanagement would have made some impact, but they didn’t get to win those.

Edited - sp and clarity

People can't work out that Reform policies eg 'immigration' are not sorted at council level do you think they will make the link.

Still living with your Parents @alexandrasm is nothing to feel ashamed about and no need to ever fib about it !

I don't think Farage loves the UK. He does nothing but disparage the UK. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that. Between his disparagement of the UK and his costing up to Trump are 2 of many reasons I don't think Farage is a suitable candidate for political power.

Are you wearing everything in your wardrobe? Is every bedroom in your house permanently occupied? Shall the government commandeer these things?Perhaps not because you worked for them, you paid for them and you own them exactly the same way that farmers worked for, paid for and own their land.
You may be astounded to know that grass is a crop not an empty field, where do you think that hay comes from?

I look at moving to Scotland now and again as I’m not sure I could bear to live under Reform - and there’s no further I could go. Then again I think I’d also feel obliged to keep my boots on the ground objecting - to so many things ha - including the NHS where I think I may find those against my side on current marches suddenly join in lol.

I do notice that Reform voters are very much ‘Ingerland’ tbh and seem to have no knowledge there’s a further 3 nations of Great Britain even - it’s embarrassing to own to living here tbh at times.

I mean even Farage ignores the potential impact on NI (and all the U.K. therefore) of withdrawal from the ECHR - as they did in Brexit - it shows a sad lack of knowledge of our history most bang on about - and its abhorrent of course!

Immigration, immigration and immigration- although local councils are not responsible for this and can’t change it.

One of the councillors elected yesterday in my city - thought those who built the Olympiastadion were real visionaries and asked for a sun symbol on a flag - mind as Tice says we are all human so that’s ok then! And thank god it wasn’t my ward.

I’m never quite sure if some voters understand WWII - and if they get confused with anti semitism and Islamophobia- mind I think this councillor hates everyone not white Brit for the last billion years, so equality in that.

The other point on immigration- Labour is doing what these voters say they want already - net migration down, bringing in ILR changes, tightening visas. Personally, this is not what I want, but they’re actively doing what is said all the people want so what exactly would Reform benefit in this area.

It’s repulsive talking of camps and mass deportations- obviously folk like it though - I think we need more honesty from any government on what immigration is - ie be clear on different categories, explain our responsibilities re refugees, explain why we need it economically etc - then set out a plan - to include integration too! I doubt that will happen. What I know won’t happen is Farage making the changes that folk say they’re voting for so there’s that too.

Scrapping the ECHR might be a vote winner but it will be a disaster for everyone’s rights, our international relations and probably the Good Friday Agreement- about time if we are so nationalistic that we recalled NI is part of Great Britain.

The reality is that many of them cannot work, but many of them also don't want to work. I know people in both categories. There are people who've been dealt terrible cards - life changing strokes, degenerative diseases, cancer etc. But there are also huge numbers who don't want to work - I don't know how we deal with the latter group, but even if Amazon paid £30 per hour they probably still wouldn't take the job.