If you voted Reform, I would love to know why?

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I am not here to judge so would just like to hear from Reform voters for their reasoning.

Did you see the Asian Green Party winner in Sheffield unfurling the Palestinian flag on the Rostrum - and you wonder why we voted Reform!

Not vanity projects, i don't know what the pp means by them, but i think the fundamental reason Labour lost so badly is the general feeling that working people are being asked to pay ever-increasing bills to fund a growing welfare culture.
You might not agree but i think that is at the heart of Thursday's results.

People vote in the local elections to put pressure on those at a national level. Why do you think so many people are calling on Starmer to go after yesterday, if local elections didn’t matter? And why was Farage travelling around and making videos in Reform won council areas if it didn’t matter?

In reality most people don’t care who runs their council and probably wouldn’t know what party it is without looking it up. But until the next GE, voting in these local elections is the only way people can let their feelings be known.

@climbintheback

i disagree. I live near a couple of reform councils lots of regret on local pages at the moment as although voted in last year nothing has been done re local infrastructure which has just got worse, nothing they stood for has been done or even started a year in, and of course the promised no council tax increase hasn’t happened and the most they can put it up has been taken. Cllrs can’t be got hold off and show little to no interest in the electorate.

When this is repeated up and down the country after yesterdays elections the realisation will come for reform voters that actually they are just the same, or worse than all the other parties at running councils, and have no track record running a country

Nigel may be riding high at the moment but I am not sure it will continuing to 2029

Not once constituents realise what a mess they've made of running their local council it won’t

voting in local elections on national issues is stupid.

By repeating this in answering my explanation as to why this is not so, you are making yourself look a bit silly.

''We are all fascists now, we like the architecture''.

It was largely a protest vote yesterday.
The whole country did not vote. The turnout in some places was not great.
At a General Election people do behave differently, and often vote differently too.

Really? My friend's son could not access student funding to attend any UK university as he was considered international, and they had only been out of the country seven years.

I really like their stance on reducing benefits and was really tempted to vote for them as I feel strongly about this, but I don't like anything else, so did not vote for them.

I didn't vote for anyone and spoiled my ballot paper, as did DH.

If it averages out at that number over a year, why does it matter if it’s not literally every day? It still averages out at 100-200 daily. It doesn’t matter if none came Monday to Friday but then 1000 came on Saturday, the numbers are the same than if they came in smaller numbers daily.

Did you arrive on a small boat? How much did that cost you? Or are you confusing legal with illegal immigration?

Great post.

Every other rapist and murderer seems to be a failed asylum seeker or ‘student’ on a dodgy visa or a Cardif choirboy - so it ruffles a few feathers don’t you see!

Doubtful. People generally don’t care about what their councils do or know much about their responsibilities. Just as long as their bins are collected.

Here's hoping. It's not looking good though is it.

Agree. It’s so wrong that a party can base its policies around an overseas one. Local elections are for local issues, not to focus on overseas issues. Ironically the people now responsible for the increased Green Party vote for example are generally from the Muslim community, who follow a strict religious code, yet apparently think it’s okay to vote for someone whose policies include legalising drugs and making porn more accessible, but because the party slip ‘Gaza’ into their manifesto, they vote for them…….

So not a response to the present government then?

I think this applies to people who voted any party - many, many of them will have voted on national issues, not local. What about the Gorton by-election, where the Greens made Gaza their sole focus??

Unfortunately I don't think any of them are going to fix the potholes, it's gone past fixing now out of council budgets.

Seems or IS? Go on, make your mind up.

I'm far far more concerned about the rise of the Green Party under Polanski.

And let’s not forget the Greens LGBTQIA+ stance. It’s completely incompatible with Islam which views being gay as haram and transgenderism as a mental illness.

The money for potholes is minuscule. Most of the council budget goes on social care.

Can we end the scare mongering that Reform will remove the NHS?

Free at point of use NHS is not going to be taken away. The way it is financed has to change, the current system is failing badly. No other country finances their health service the way we do.