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

I assume immigration and not just to stop it but reverse it.

There is not an EU wish to have zero nuclear power. In fact Nuclear is seen as essential to getting to net zero and they have enacted several laws and policies around this.

Which groups of immigrants do you want to stop?

All groups?
The biggest groups (students and those working)?
The smaller groups (asylum seekers illegal)?

How do Reform say they will do this?
What will the impact be?

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

I came on here expecting a huge number of Reform voters, sharing the huge positives of Reform policies….where are they?

I think it’s worth remembering that we’ve had this conversation before.

In 2013 UKIP won 25% of the vote in the local elections and the same conversations were being had.

By the time the GE arrived they didn’t even come close.

It’s also worth noting that while reform have gained some seats, the councils which they already ran they have lost. All of them. 10% of their existing counsellors have either quit, been thrown out or are in jail.

And people think that it’s somehow cool to make protest votes?

Anyone who votes for a party just because they don’t want someone else in is an idiot. Especially if that vote has the potential to lead that party to actual power.

One thing to vote for an independent candidate, quite another to vote for a party where power could be achieved. In that case you earn the judgement of family and friends and to be branded a racist bigot. Even if you claim not to be one.

Around 5.9% of the population claim PIP and around 3% of adults gave ADHD and about 5% of children have ADHD. Your anger about the state of the country is absurdly misdirected

Land actually covered by residential buildings (houses) in the UK is estimated to be just over 1% of the total land area. While total "urban land" (including roads, gardens, and green spaces) covers around 7% to 8%.

For comparison golf courses occupy more land in England than homes do.

I'd rather people had somewhere to live.

I assume you have a house to live in?

I don’t think it’s right to be in the midst of a housing crisis whilst land, whatever colour it is, is just sat there unused.

People need property, that they can afford, and at the moment that’s lacking. There has to be an answer somewhere, and small groups of people owning land that could house upwards of 20 families who need it, isn’t good enough.

I'd rather see more fields tbh. It doesn't have to be covered in concrete just because it isn't being used.

Ten years ago nobody was talking about immigration , were they?

It was a huge topic back then! Don't you remember all the sexual assaults in Germany on NYE 2015? 1200 women sexually assaulted on one night by men described as of 'Arab/North African appearance'.

The Cologne police chief 'suggested that the perpetrators had come from countries where such sexual assaults by groups of men against women are common.[19]'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaults

I live in an area that’s just had a New Town rejected after much campaigning, it was going on green belt.

Literally nobody is using that land. It’s owned by a variety of farmers, who grow nothing on it and do not have animals using it either, and just live in the often large house on that property and look at their empty fields.

So no, IMO - build on some of it.

Do you think green belt is the best solution? You don't think brownfield sites might be better? Especially in an area you likely know very little about?

I reckon there is a bright side for the SNP too. We were chatting earlier and my question was “if Reform got in to the U.K. government, and SNP had an independence referendum, would you vote to leave the U.K. Every single one of us said yes. Every single one of us would previously never voted yes and think independence would be quite problematic in the short to medium term. I hate the SNP and how badly they have run Scotland, but I would rather that than living under a Reform Government. Any party who can convince me to vote SNP are seriously problematic.

Workers rights.

If they got rid of every immigrant currently living in the country, and didn’t allow a single one in, there would be no meaningful improvement on public services, housing etc.

A) Studies have not consistently shown that certain groups are disproportionately impacted because of immigration. There is one study which showed a 10% increase in immigration would have an impact on low skilled workers wages to the tune of £1 per year. The studies show an increase in population can lead to a lack of public services, but that even without the increased population our public services would be at a similar level due to a lack of government investment over the decades. Those living in poverty are impacted more by a reduction in immigrant labour because the low paid services that labour supports tends to be services that they are more likely to need which are provided by government agencies. The biggest one being personal care services, but also any of the “gig economy” services.

B) Labours policies have been diluted because the media machine of parties like Conservative and Reform have blown up every single policy as being a terrible one, even when they actually made sense. The reason they have e.g had to roll back cuts to the WFP but managed to implement lifting the two child cap is because it is very difficult to spin the lifting of that cap as a total disaster. Reform’s base are most likely to benefit from it, they would have lost a lot of support if they came out loudly against it.

”Will their policies be workable or not…..Labour’s didn’t add up either” suggests you haven’t looked at the other things they want to do. Getting rid of all the diversity and equity polices, which they say they will, will be of serious detriment to 50% of the nation. They will be targeting things like abortion and family planning services, they want to privatise the NHS. They want to scrap any climate related policies. All of these things will be hugely damaging for the country. If you are happy for this to be the price we pay to get rid of the brown people, then go for it. But don’t pretend they are in the “they’re all as bad as each other, let’s give this bunch a go” category because the downside of their government is much worse than anything you can imagine.

I think you’re misunderstanding the role of Reform.

Nobody is voting for them because they think (eg) their education policy is excellent.

They’re doing it because after 30 years of practically begging the government to sort immigration (which in turn majorly impacts housing, infrastructure, rents, education, healthcare…), and nothing being done, they’ve decided it’s worth voting for a party that may be a bit shambolic in all other areas but will ‘sort’ the main problem from which so many others stem.

Once immigration is under control and hopefully net zero pretty much, we will know what can and should be done about our other issues as the population will stabilise and we will be able to forecast long term. Right now we can’t because what will our population be in 10 years? Another 5 million people? 8 million? No fucker knows

I don’t vote Reform, and I really don’t like them for a variety of reasons, but I think it’s blindingly obvious why people vote for them.

Immigration has been the number one public concern for at least a decade now, and both Labour and the Tories have failed to address it, or worse, arrogantly thought that they could ignore people’s concerns.

I doubt that many Reform voters care what Reforms policies are, just so long as they tackle immigration. It’s a protest vote.

You may well be right, but abolishing the legislation certainly isn't going to help. Not many businesses are going to spend more than the minimum if they don't have to.

Grenfell was decades of outright neglect. You can put in all the red tape you want, but if people are going to ignore basic building safety, it's not going to help

Plus at the time a lot of that type of cladding did pass regulations.

@Periperi2025 "bureaucratic red tape that is government quongos created enmasse by Gordon Brown, that prevent every democratically elected party effectively seeing through on their manifestos."

can you tell us more about this, please? I'm aware that councils are really stuck in terms of independence, but I'm not quite sure what happened

@DangerQuakeRhinoSnake that made me laugh. However, I'm not sure how many areas there were where it Green vs Reform. I see it get mentioned a lot so there must be far more than I thought. Obviously, I know G&D was one.

Vague promises to cut red tape worry me. I haven't forgotten the Grenfell fire. A lot of red tape is important because it forces companies, businesses and other organisations to consider health and safety, not just profit and targets.

Two hours after OP had posted, no one had responded, so I chipped in.

Sorry it didn’t meet with your approval Mum 😂

Feel free to report my contribution to MN. Or you know, just scroll past? 🤷‍♀️

What policies did Labour have before the general election that you liked, that they carried out once in office?

Have they said HOW they will cut the “red tape”?

Is it like their promises to “cut council tax”?