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

I think many are forgetting that these elections are for local authority type councils, not national government. My area voted last year, so I’ve been spared making any judgement, but my criteria would likely be very different regarding who I’d trust to make sure I received a good service for council tax paid, rather than who I’d trust to make country wide policy affecting our long term stability. Local Government officers/Civil servants do the graft, appointed councillors/MPs decide direction. If direction is bonkers they’ll push back.

Do you have a link please?

1. Your local council can't do any of that. Local councils empty bins, look after roads and parks, provide social care, education and not much more.
2. The NHS would be absolutely fucked if all the staff who came from what you describe as 'third world' countries were deported. Are you keen to deport everybody who comes from such a country, regardless of their education, skills, tax contribution and so on? What if they entered this country legally?

What a shame. This country is crying out for housing.

Ah I think the leopards will catch up with him…

People have been talking about it for decades and decades.

@BurntBroccoli

Here are Reform's healthcare policies:

End training caps for all UK medical students.
• Write off student fees pro rata per year over 10 years of NHS service for all doctors,
nurses and medical staff.
• Harness independent and not-for-profit health provision in the UK and overseas.
• Tax Relief of 20% on all private healthcare and insurance.
• Put patients in charge with a new NHS voucher scheme. Services will always be free
at the point of use.
• Improve Efficiency by cutting waste and unnecessary managers
• Operating theatres must be open on weekends.
• Review all NHS private finance contracts for significant savings potential. Charge those who fail to attend medical appointments without notice.
Abolish the NHS race and health observatory.
• Save A&E waiting times with a campaign of ‘Pharmacy First, GP Second, A&E Last’.

Of course how achievable or where the funding is coming from to pay for all this is another question.

Again, it wasn't just local government elections today.
And the Manifesto for Wales Senedd wasn't much more fleshed out tbh.
Just a few examples:

They're taking a 1p off the Tax bands that will cost them 371 million by the end of the term but with no explanation of how they will pay for this, and at the same time as promising lots of reforms and improvements to the NHS and Dentistry (for example) none of which is reliant on privatisation - they claim they are committed to keeping the NHS free at the point of use - the figures don't add up.

They do say they will stop the 'foreign aid' spending of the Welsh Government especially at a time when the NHS in Wales is at such a low and A and E waiting times are so high.
That's approximately £58 million.
£58 million will run the Welsh NHS for less than two days...

They will also end all Migrant Hotels in Wales. They don't qualify it is only in 'Reform areas', like they have in England, either.
Just all of them.
As of the end of 2025 there were 74 migrants in hotel accommodation in Wales. Not 74 hotels, 74 individual people.
So that's good...

They will also prioritise social housing for Welsh people. But they don't clarify who Welsh people are, as far as they are concerned. So maybe they mean anyone born in England (or other parts of the UK) but living and working and paying tax in Wales, are now 'Foreigners' who will go to the back of the queue. Which is odd, because we know that Nigel Farage (beautiful British name there...) considers Welsh people to be 'Foreign Speakers'... so that's clear then.

I didn't vote reform. But one of their policies locally that I liked was not building on some green belt land. Labour had given the go ahead. The council is no overall control now and with the alliances that will be formed.. reform, green.. conservative, that project is now dead in the water.

I wouldn't bet on that happening. Farage has already retreated on much of his tax cut hype
https://www.tax.org.uk/reform-uk-tax-nov25

You do realise that you cannot deport people to a country unless that country accepts the individual belongs to them.

Nor can you deport brown people who are British citizens. Of which there will be many.

Mass deportations simply will not happen. The system isn’t equipped to handle it.

Extreme snobbery on here. So you don’t know what policies they voted for but you’re still going to demonise them.

Totally agree.

We voted Reform only because Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain isn’t ready yet, but hoping they will be good to go for the general election. Mass deportations and ending 3rd world immigration is the primary driving issue.

1. has been dropped already as they can’t cost it and know it won’t happen
2. they won’t do that. It’ll be tied up for years as we rely on fossil fuels.
3. how is better public transport a waste of money?
4. why?
5. the issue is their racism means that the skilled migrants won’t be any to come anymore

Scrap the NHS as a public body and sell the assets to the highest bidder, then invite US medical insurance companies to sell us their policies.

They’ll blame Labour, sadly.

How do they get away with never working

it must annoy you

I wouldn’t vote for them but this is a good policy

the frozen allowance is an absolute disgrace

My brother is a passionate supporter of Reform because he says, they will 'stop immigration' and 'cut costs'. He also supports the hunt and believes Reform will reverse the ban.

He has lived on benefits for the last 25 years. Every month a carrier bag of free NHS prescription medicine is delivered to his door. His partner is also 100% dependent on free NHS treatment and medication and lives on benefits. She is in her early sixties and has never worked. The government funds everything for them including paying the interest on their mortgage.

They live in a part of England where less than 5% of the population are immigrants. Neither have ever traveled abroad and they have not left their home town in 15 years. Almost without exception the only immigrants they ever meet will be treating them within the NHS or delivering their parcels/food/takeaways.

Despite the low immigration population their part of town is awash with Reform flags.

I wonder how they think a Reform government would change their life for the better. When I ask him about the NHS and benefit changes under Reform he seems to think that this will apply to other people - not him.

Interesting video about Reform representatives' comments. Scary views on abortion and family values.

I would say this is another bad loser anti Brexit/Farage thread. However, in response to the OP question, I would comment as follows:

1. People can vote for whoever they choose. There’s no obligation to explain why.
2. Immigration has been talked about since the late 60s. Enoch Powels famous rivers of blood speech comes to mind.
3. Reform policies I like are;

1. Increase personal allowance to £20K. This will be a big help to those on lower incomes.
2. Move away from net zero, which only seems to increase energy costs, towards small modular nuclear power plants. France ignored the EU wish to have zero nuclear power and have reaped the benefits as their energy costs are not tied to oil and gas prices.
3. Stop wasting money on projects like HS2 and the Edinburgh tram system.
4. Leave the ECHR.
5. Migrants will be needed in the future as population is ageing and birth rate is declining. So, more working migrants will be needed. However, they will need to have secured a job before they are allowed to enter the UK. Switzerland, who have stated they will never become an EU member, has a similar policy.

I live in a LA where they have swept the board. I have a SEN child who according to the White Paper may lose her EHCP on y6 transition as it is. Now council policy is about to be guided by councillors who belong to a party which claims that neurodiversity is over diagnosed and we need to just get on with it. I’m also a school governor and couldn’t disagree more. Trash bin collections and potholes if that’s what it takes but not education and social care.

I’m willing to vote for the wildcard tbh. The country has gone down the pan. City centres are full of foreign men walking around aimlessly at night making females feel unsafe. It’s certainly how my daughter and her friends felt on the last night out before some twat pipes up and calls me racist. Yawn.

Labour and Tories just haven’t got a grip on it and every other person now has ADHD or claims PIP. Bit of an inevitable outcome to woke culture I think. They’ll get in at the next election. We will just have to see. No point whinging about it.