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

Dangerous to who ? The ultra wealthy ?

Unlike Reform who are dangerous to women and will make moves to restrict access to abortion if they were in power.
Dangerous to everyone who needs to use the nhs.
Dangerous to anyone non white who they decide is the cause for any kind of wait for anything that a white person wants

I would do the opposite as it's much too early to do this. Instead I would look at what is resonating with the people and how this can be integrated into opposition parties too in a more palatable and less extreme way. People clearly care about immigration and want big changes. What can the opposition parties do in this space? They need to be more radical and look for real change. They may lose some of their existing voting base but the spoils could be huge if you can seriously challenge Reform on the big issues they are breaking through on.

Perhaps they are taking their time developing them? We are a few years out from a General Election so I think parties would be very foolish to have a comprehensive manifesto now that might need to be radically changed in a few years time when things inevitably change. I imagine when we get there then Reform will lay out their stall one way or another and people can vote accordingly. I think healthcare and the NHS is a very tricky area and one that deserves more time and consideration. Unlimited demand and very limited funding.

I Heard a few talking about the asylum seekers in their area that are convicted paedophiles and would be put to death in their home country, so not shocked that they would think that Reform was their best option.

Aren’t they going to bring back weekly bin collections and smoking in pubs??

A lot of people I’ve spoken to it’s about asylum hotels and because Big Nige is a “top bloke” or something like that.

Immigration concerns I understand, I even understand the appeal of Nige, but when people think he’s “one of them” or a “man of the people” I do stop listening to them. If he’s a man of the people I’m a member of the landed gentry.

Well, many issues are for Central Government. But locally a Council can be in charge of social care, for adults and children.

Consider that for a moment.

Not just bins, housing and trade initiatives.

And today wasn't just local government elections...
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In any case, that PP was simply answering the OP, which didn't distinguish between central government, devolved government or local government.

I do think if I were in opposition I would go through the Reform manifesto pledges and pick them apart bit by bit.

NHS. Won’t be one. Not resembling anything good.
Pensions. Forget that too.

Okay I’ve looked.

Where are the health policies and NHS?

I read their manifesto at the last general election. I did for all the main parties standing.

I don’t believe you should make decisions without being informed. I was quite surprised to see that I agreed with a few Reform policies and I thought I might have gotten them wrong. But as I continued to read through their policies, I found the majority of them were thoroughly opposed to what I believe. So I remain thoroughly opposed to the vast majority of what they represent - and also how they present it. Their shtick is all about whipping up hate.

I always do my research. I don’t vote out of loyalty or blind bias.

But that’s all irrelevant - the question was: why are Reform voters voting for them? And certainly in my very subjective experience, the only thing they can say is “immigration”. It’s a very rare Reform voter who has read their manifesto or knows their broader policies.

They don’t even know how Farage is planning on “stopping the boats” - they just trust that he will because he said so.

For balance, that’s not a criticism solely confined to Recorm voters, although I do believe - based on experience - that their voters are almost consistently ill-informed.

The problem for me is that although I have a strong preference against the Tories, they can at least run a country with a degree of knowledge and competency. So Ill-informed voters are less of an issue. I wholeheartedly believe that Farage is deeply corrupt and if Reform get in, the country will be in desperate trouble - because they have neither knowledge or experience, plus policies that don’t fiscally stack up. For me, that’s my issue with Reform voters - they’re responding to a dog whistle without having a clue what they’re actually voting for.

I suspect a lot of this. I'm in Scotland, and was dreading a significant increase for the Greens who are the most anti-women party in existence up here.

Politicians have 2 choices - to continue as they are or to wake up to what the electorate are telling them. They've still got a while to turn this around and stop a Reform Govt at Westminster, so let's see what they come up with. No point in complaining and throwing accusations of 'stupid racists', otherwise we will end up with another Brexit.

immigration and nostalgia seem to be the main themes. Oh and pro-fossil fuel.

Well, yeah, it was as it turned out. Economics was a fucking ridiculous area to focus on, because the 'spoils' of membership weren't shared equally. And so we got what we got, the establishment being given a bloody nose.

The policies are pretty easy to find:
https://www.reformparty.uk/policies

They might not be the most comprehensive policies known to man but we are a few years away from a General Election. Leaving the ECHR for example is a key enabler for truly reforming immigration.

No, I don’t recall that at all. I’ve never heard anyone saying anything like that either, about polish people etc. but I just read the less emotive and more informative post after yours that explains the situation about immigration in the UK. So I get the picture, yes, and like everyone else, I guess, I wonder if the issue is ever going to be addressed.

Fancy using economics as a valid reason to remain in the EU!

i mean, how stupid can you get?

They still walk among us. I thought Brexshitters had died off.

Google your local Labour Party website and they will be there. For eg https://www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/

Yes, I think there was a lot of tactical voting to keep the Greens out.

No it's not. I think a lot of people use these elections to signal to government the direction they want to see.

To be fair I didn't see any campaign information in my area for any of the parties so not sure what the local policies would be.

I’d like to know their NHS policy. There’s nothing on the website.

There is a very good 2 part documentary that was on BBC2, so probably still on iplayer and it categorically shows that resistance to immigration started gaining serious ground as soon as Eastern Europe had the freedom to move and work here. We were told 40k max a year would be making the journey, we were getting 300k and more. It's not sensationalist, it's not hyperbolic, it just follows the trajectory of the immigration debate. People wanting fewer immigrants predates Brexit by more than a decade but it absolutely shows that Brexit was nailed on and the dickheads who were pushing for remain and using economics as their reasons were always going to lose. This country has wanted less inward migration for a very long time and in that time we have added 20 million people.

Policies for what? National government or local government? Does any party set out a manifesto 3 years ahead of a national election??
id be intrigued if Labour have policies for local government as never seen that and I am in a labour council area. I’ve no idea what they stand for but they keep putting up the council tax.

Where have you been?
Brexit was 10 years ago, and I distinctly remember seeing people reading the daily mail on the tube with headlines screaming about those dangerous Polish, Romanians or (gasp!) even the Bulgarians ‘coming over here and taking our jobs’ as far back as 2004. Day after day after day, nothing but vitriol for Eastern European migrants. I remember it distinctly as I was fairly new to this country at the time, and wondered how white people could so thoroughly hate other white European people quite so much for seemingly no good reason.
Brown or black people coming here never stood a chance.