I couldn’t sleep last night, worrying about a Reform government

[Cluborange666]

I am really worried. I think they’ll wreck the economy. I’ve got a few years left to pay off my mortgage from my job that deals with immigrants. I don’t want our pensions to tank. I don’t want my sons’ lives to be messed around. I worry about more racism, the more ‘voice’ that Reform get. I live in a very multicultural city and non-white people tell me that they are experiencing more overt racism. It makes me feel very insecure about the future.

wish Labour would do more to show that they are on the side of ordinary people as I think that’s what is driving this (I’m a Labour voter). I don’t think the creation of Your Party will help, just give Reform more advantages.

Sigh. Happy to be told I’m unreasonable as I think the future looks bleak.

How rude. Their suppport is from a very wide demographic where I live including many who would be considered an ABC1 demographic. I have a small business and the customers are wide and varied in their backgrounds - most just want closed borders. That is not racist, it’s common sense.

What about Corbyn? Does not him give you nightmares? Or if he is ok for you? Because he will also wreck your life and the economy if he ever gets in.

Voting intention for reform has doubled in over a year, did those people become rabid racists in that time? Was it Starmer's Island of Strangers speech?

Oh sorry rabid racist fool's that play golf 👍🤣🤣

Whatever he’s doing it’s working for Reform not Labour.

If you need to ask. 🙄

Worry about it when we are close to an election, things may be radically different by then. You may have to worry about Corbyn instead! No point worrying now.

There have been a few surges in Reform's popularity since the g.e, first around the WFA, then while Labour was denying the need for a grooming gang enquiry when they really made hay, after their success in the local elections and then again when Kendal was trying to push through disability reforms.

Reform is still a protest vote but Labour is fuelling their numbers.

Labour clawed back some of that popularity when Starmer was trying to mobilise a European response to Russia and after the Island of Strangers speech.

What do you mean 'get ahead of myself'?

Why do I care about your identity or who you are married to?

I am just responding to words on a screen.

But they didn't say that migrants are the biggest problem that we have at the moment? It's one of the issues. One of the many issues that we have to deal with.

And that's the winning comment to highlight why Labour drive people to Reform 👏👏👏
Despite Goldenbear claiming they could spot a Reform voter by sight, Reform voters are no more 1 homogenous group than Labour voters.
Many, like myself, will vote Reform as the only way of ousting Labour in their constituency.

But yeh keep on pushing more voters towards Reform by calling them rabid rascists!

Many, like myself, will vote Reform as the only way of ousting Labour in their constituency

Is that your only reason for voting Reform, to oust Labour? Or do you genuinely think the UK will be better off under Reform than under any other party?

For example, if the Tories get their act together between now and 2029, would you vote for them instead?

Yes I would vote Tory, that's naturally where I now lie politically, but they have no chance here. I want Labour out so I will vote Reform.

Well, go on then. Why is my distance to and knowledge of migrant hotels relevant to anything I've said?

There is a lot they can do to make it worse. The NHS for one, working from home for another.

It’s all Farage talks about

These people never learn. Brexit taught them absolutely nothing. And then they squeal when the electorate gives them the result they don’t like.

What about the NHS?

And what about working from home? The country is literally headed towards an IMF bailout at current rate, and you are talking about work from home. Oh dear, how did we get here.

Reform are a one trick pony, if people want to support them and the clowns manage to form a government, a year in they will all be like I am soooooo disappointed in this shit show, they’ve wrecked the economy and omg how many small boats have arrived today!
In a town near where I live a number of Afghan people have been housed, paid for by the MOD, and you’d think the world had ended
The local FB page has had false reports of local girls being raped, and one local councillor is agitating everybody into a frenzy. The police and the council have stepped in to say the reports are false and to explain that the people have a legal right to remain, but oh no the townsfolk with their pitchforks will not be satisfied until they have been sent back to where they came from.
iIt’s an absolute disgrace and a direct result of Farage, Tommy Robinson and the Daily Mail etc.

😂😂😂

Im sorry, but that is hilarious. You literally couldn’t sleep because you’re worried about a right of centre government getting elected in a few years?!

Some people really need to get a grip. You don’t even know they are going to destroy the economy, or even do a terrible job? You want them to though, clearly.

If certain problems in the country aren’t sorted, and Labour certainly won’t then what do you suggest? You have no idea what an actual “far right” party could look like, because Reform certainly isn’t that.

Why is this country full of so many shivering pansies these days.

Stop being obtuse. Hybrid working helps a lot of people especially women work. Healthcare has no place on the free market.

"right of centre government" Reform?? Nearly choked on my lentils then!

That’s not terribly helpful. I completely understand where this comes from.

The truth about Reform is that the right of the Tory party and the majority of the grassroots has always been Farage-ist. Which is a generally unappealing look.

That’s why the sensible big hitters in the Tory party have always shunned Farage, Lee and the like.

In that way Farage is to the Tories as Corbyn is to Labour. Tory grassroots have always been very right-wing. Labour’s grassroots have always been bonkers left-wing.

The big real-world difference is that Farage is more in-tune with and sellable to UK voters than is a weirdo like Corbyn.