Chance of a general election next year and Reform winning?

[Confused78]

They are winning in the polls it seems. I've been watching Nigel Farage's Instagram, he really just talks common sense. I find myself agreeing with a lot of what he says.
I'm definitely not far right and I'm not a leftie,
I think I'm somewhere in the middle.
But I am sick of Conservative and Labour and think it's time to give a new party a chance, especially if they are going to properly tackle illegal immigrants coming over and the ones that are already here.
I don't necessarily agree with his call to deport those with Indefinite leave to remain however.

Your user name is very apt.

If they call a GE because they think they are unpopular then they are even stupider than I thought.

Every party wants the country to prosper! They just have different ideas about how to achieve that. Reform seem to have only one idea and that's about immigration. And they might fall apart because of racist members spouting things they shouldn't and disagreements within the party.

Social housing is already prioritised for people with a local connection. How does Farage plan to pay for his uncosted tax cuts?

They’re not going to put an end to ‘illegal immigration’ he just wants you to believe that so you’d be naive enough to vote for him. Once he’s in he will remove us from the ECHR and replace the human rights act with an inferior bill. This is so he can remove basic rights lunch breaks, maternity leave and anti discrimination against disability and other protected characteristics. Once he achieves that he will sell of our already capitalised public sector.

Those if you hoping you’re welfare will continue or grow when he comes into power because he’s going to kick out all the ‘illegals’ who are taking your benefits will have a rude awakening. It’s your benefits he’s after, it’s your public services he’s after and it’s your rights he wants to take away.

@ShesTheAlbatross

”I was surprised when I read that the next election could be as far as 2029
What? Why would that be surprising? That’s always been the max time between elections?”

OP knows perfectly well that elections are every 5 years in the UK but is doing a somewhat hamfisted faux naïf play to keep the Reform hype train trending.

Seriously @Confused78 - get yourself a book on constitutional law. It is pointless to start a thread on politics when you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

Tut!

And if you’re a Reform plant, you’re awful at it!

Do you think.hes costed these tax cuts, OP, or do you think it's like the 350 billion for the NHS claim? That is pure populism through and through. I look fondly back at the time when that chancer couldn't get a parliamentary seat again and again. NB: see how well Reform councils are running to get an idea of the mess they'd create.

@Confused78
You'll probably get a chance to vote for the lying charlatan in 2029.

Until then I suggest you just stop listening to complete and utter bollox about general elections next year, and maybe read about how politics in the UK actually operates instead.

Actually, not that hamfisted - getting posters to tell her to research Reform’s policies, so that she could whizz back and post them here was pretty slick.

This is literally nothing like how the political system in this country works! That racist toad Farage can bleat all he wants but he’s not getting a GE. What a prick. 🤬

I think reform will get in at the next election.. next year though, no

Inheritance tax is absolutely not a horrible unfair tax - it’s an incredibly important tax that helps to reduce unfairness.

No wonder the country is fucked when people with this little knowledge of how the British political system works are able to vote.

Can we please introduce a test before people get voting rights?

I actually don’t care who people vote for, but they should know how the system works and know enough to actually research what each party stands for.

NF might want a general election next year but that doesn't mean there will be one.

OP, did you grow up in Britain yourself? I'm surprised that a British adult wouldn't already be aware that General Elections only have to be held every 5 years. Yes, they can be called earlier, but what possible incentive would Keir Starmer have to call one now when Labour has a large majority in Parliament, but is performing poorly in opinion polls.

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The reason you don't know what their other policies are is because they don't have many and the few they have announced are harbingers of mayhem: huge spending commitments (alarm on the bond markets, cost of government borrowing rockets, everyone panics); revocation of indefinite leave to remain (loss of thousands of NHS workers further weakens a service already on its knees, likely premature death of 100s of British citizens); withdrawal from the ECHR (EU slaps a 'pariah' label on the UK's forehead as we break the terms of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, threat of civil unrest in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland).

Yippee! I can't wait 🤩

@HedwigIsMySpiritAnimal how on earth is Inheritance Tax fair? Why should the children who inherit a house or houses from their dead parents have to give a massive percentage of it to HMRC, especially if stamp duty, rates and everything else was already paid.
Plus the home owners would have already been taxed on their wages that they bought the house with.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-liabilities-statistics/inheritance-tax-liabilities-statistics-commentary

Actually if Reform do want to abolish inheritance tax, that gives an interesting insight into who they are really interested in helping, as the super rich will be by far the biggest beneficiaries of that policy. The vast majority of UK deaths don't result in any inheritance tax being payable at all. In 2022/23 less than 5% of estates paid any inheritance tax. The first £325,000 of an estate doesn't get taxed. There's also a further £175,000 nil rate band on your home provided you leave it to your direct descendants and the value of your estate is less than £2 million. (The residence nil rate band is reduced on a tapering basis for estates above £2 million.)

So if you're worried about inheritance tax on a personal level, OP, you may well be worrying unnecessarily unless you or someone you're due to inherit from is pretty wealthy. (Also bear in mind that an inheritance from a spouse is not subject to inheritance tax.)

I won't fall for that again!

This
Op. Putting your obvious obsession with immigration aside
Please list a few policies ( health care education, foreign policy) that you admire?

And that would be a good thing?

why exactly??

It is more likely that Starmer will fall or be ousted and the party will attempt to stagger on for more years.