Reform winning big

[Keirawr]

Reform had a good night, winning county councils, probably will win a mayoral seat and won the parliamentary by election also.

You don’t have to be a Reform voter to acknowledge that they are taking votes off Labour. Or that they are being electorally effective.

No doubt the ‘basket of deplorables’ crowd will be along in a min with their usual quips calling reform voters names, having learned absolutely 0 from Brexit. Insult the voters at your peril.

These same people also totally miss the point that winning is winning. Feeling all moral and superior about ‘oh well, what will they actually do’ changes nothing.

Perhaps those who label everyone that wants immigration limiting as ‘racist’ Will think again. But likely not.

Sorry to be old-fashioned, but 'reform winning big' is illiterate.

Anyway, yes, a good night for Reform, but the interesting thing will be to see how they perform. I'm doubtful that they have the experience to do well.

Winning ‘big’ in places that are right leaning to start with. Agree with poster above, they lack experience.

Like clockwork. Point proven in first reply. You couldn’t make this up.

How they perform is somewhat irrelevant to the point OP is making. The fact they've taken these gains is pretty astonishing, and if the main parties don't take this on board and consider why people have voted for them beyond as OP says the usual comments about them being stupid, then they'll cause even more shock waves in the next general election.

I'm over the moon. People really are waking up.

Robert Jenrick will be thrilled. See you later Kemi 👋

It will be interesting to see how they do in practice. In many ways they represent working people the way labour no longer does.

I want to see whether they are indeed racist, ableist bigots or whether they are pragmatists. That usually plays out with appalling behaviour, so we’ll see.

Perhaps I've misunderstood but isn't the Runcorn & Helsby result a huge swing from Labour, not Conservative? BBC news reporting it as a 17% swing from Labour?

Can't believe people see what a waste of space Farage is as an MP and still vote for Reform.

Give it a year and they will disappear.

‘I don’t agree with this post so it must be AI…’

Shouldn't it be 'reform winning bigly'

To be fair don’t we all lack experience when we first start doing a job? Isn’t that literally how you gain experience by doing it?

I am not surprised there were some dodgy polling papers voting for Reform in these areas.

The UK has been brought to it's knees (figuratively, before I trigger any pedantry) under the governance of experienced parties! Health, education, economy - all in dire decline. Experience does NOT equal competence.

Reform are a bunch of nasties, and they will continue to gain momentum and everyone will scratch their heads as to why?

That’s the issue. No one is listening, has listened, or will ever listen.

The country is a shit show with working people taking home very little whilst our media blames immigrants. It is an issue though.

Labour won’t listen, the Conservatives are too arrogant and the LibDems and Greens are never going to go anywhere.

Reform are just getting going and our politicians brought it on themselves.

There is no point op. As you say Brexit over again.

Nobody wants to listen to those who are fed up of what we keep getting other than as you say name calling.

Lessons were not learnt.

Why are these people so predictable?

less than 1 page in and it’s like a bingo call card -

You’re illiterate
You AI
Reform cheated

Like I say, learned nothing from Brexit.

We've learned plenty from Brexit. It's an utter shit show.

The anarchist in me actually hopes reform could win a general election. Discounting the chaos it would cause, it would be hilarious to see Farage actually have to be accountable. Then again, he'd probably do a disappearing act like he did after the referendum.

I don't think he's been at a clinic in his constituency once since he was elected as an MP.

This is one of the big issues for me - Farage demonstrates on a daily basis that he’s all talk and yet voters still vote for them. Looking at the rise of populism in the US is very frightening - our electoral system will hold them at bay for a while but not forever 😩.

Not really, lots of established Politicians are amongst them but any experience they do happen to be lacking they will gain now, well ahead of a GE.

Can we stop with calling op ‘illiterate’, clearly she isn’t illiterate. She is expressing her view perfectly clearly. Cheap doors are not welcome.

I am politically homeless currently, but I can see that Reform may well become the real party of the people, working people, in the way Labour used to be many years ago. They could very well snatch votes both sides.

People want change.

Like clockwork. Point proven in first reply. You couldn’t make this up
What point? That WAS illiterate. The English language is a beautiful thing, don't abuse it.