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Reform voters may not be racist but they are at least dangerously naive

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ChocolateMagnum · 29/09/2025 08:00

AIBU to accept that some Reform voters may not actually be racist, but to be pretty certain that, if they're not, they are at the very least dangerously naive?

I thought we all got taught at school about how fascism took over in 1939s Germany? And there's so much out there at the moment showing why we are at a dangerous turning point in history again.

Why is it that the so-called non-racist Reform voters not see that they are aligning themselves with a covertly racist and fascist-leaning party and that their support risks tipping the balance towards a fascist dictatorship in the UK?

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Abracadabra12345 · 29/09/2025 18:13

Wyksister · 29/09/2025 10:22

The hotel near me was recently closed down, the police had to ask them repeatedly to not hang around my daughters primary school or sit in the park just outside the school

My partner has a migrant hotel near him…..there are often men sitting in the children’s playground. Women with children won’t use the park any more because the men stare and make them uncomfortable. My partner has asked the men to leave on more than one occasion. The playground is in the middle of a huge field that has benches dotted around the outside so they could sit there instead

So while I don’t like reform and certainly won’t be voting them in, I am very concerned about the level of illegal immigration that is happening and the fact that the vast majority of these men have very different ideas towards women and children

And this is the difference. Those who actually live alongside hotels accommodating asylum seekers and see and experience the reality, and the middle class leftist ones who don’t.

EasternStandard · 29/09/2025 18:15

Toastandbutterand · 29/09/2025 17:59

That's why they move here.

Who is the they in this sentence? Which group are you referring to

BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 18:20

Goldenbear · 29/09/2025 17:38

Of course it's relevant, it is wholly relevant, we are a Northern Western European country for a start, Turkey is not!

What are the key points that you think will prevent similar happening here?

Some Muslim groups have already expressed their intent. What will stop them?

Toastandbutterand · 29/09/2025 18:22

Abracadabra12345 · 29/09/2025 18:13

And this is the difference. Those who actually live alongside hotels accommodating asylum seekers and see and experience the reality, and the middle class leftist ones who don’t.

The same people you nebulously refer to. I don't have higher standards than you.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 29/09/2025 18:24

BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 16:18

Exactly. And speaking of undue influence, how many people were surprised to learn that first cousin marriage is not illegal in this country?

I only found out when a Bill was introduced to Parliament this year to ban it. I mean, what sane country wouldn’t want to ban a practice that causes 12% infant mortality (especially if compounded by generations of first cousin marriage) and a similar amount of serious congenital abnormalities?

Unfortunately, for *reasons , it was voted down and didn’t pass. Could the Muslim Council have had anything to do with it? First cousin marriage is practised widely in various parts of the Muslim community. People originating from Pakistan have up to 2/3 of marriages to first cousins.

When I brought this up in another thread, I was told to stop talking and stop being ‘anti Muslim’. Does anyone else think we should be allowed to talk about this and even criticise it as a harmful and unwanted practice in the UK?

Apart from the cruelty to the children themselves, we don’t have the spare bandwidth and money in the NHS to spend a lifetime treating so many severely disabled people. It’s nit going to help pay our pensions as a pp suggested is the purpose if immigration.

From the article below:

Children born of cousin marriages face an increased risk of genetic disorders and childhood mortality[2][3] and are thus prohibited in some countries.[4][5] One study estimated infant mortality at 12.7 percent for married double first cousins, 7.9 percent for first cousins, 9.2 percent for first cousins once removed/double second cousins, 6.9 percent for second cousins, and 5.1 percent among non-consanguineous progeny. Among double first cousin progeny, 41.2 percent of pre-reproductive deaths were associated with the expression of detrimental recessive genes, with equivalent values of 26.0, 14.9, and 8.1 percent for first cousins, first cousins once removed/double second cousins, and second cousins respectively.

wikiislam.net/wiki/Cousin_Marriage_in_Islamic_Law

That is worrying and a bad sign of things to come that it was voted against.
Also concerning but let’s face it not surprising that people tried to silence you.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 29/09/2025 18:24

Here's a question for Reform voters.

If what you and Farage are concerned about is illegal migrants living in migrants hostels, why do there need to be any policies at all about people who already have indefinite leave to remain, who are by definition people living in the UK legally?

Abracadabra12345 · 29/09/2025 18:24

BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 10:52

I think you are being dangerously naive if you don’t recognise that Reform is forcing the government to acknowledge a serious problem.

The government were ignoring people with concerns about immigration. Now they are not.

You trying to shut down the conversation by claiming ‘fascist’ is not helpful.

This is exactly my view too

AxMxPfan · 29/09/2025 18:26

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 29/09/2025 17:28

Oh I do understand what you wrote in that you didn’t appear to understand it happening here, just because we now have a different culture and history means nothing.
Just because we have to keep religion out of politics does not mean we will be able to if it is not addressed now.

This. 💯

The person you are quoting who is quoting me doesn’t seem to understand that Turkey (and the Middle East for that matter) used to be Christian about 2000 years ago. The oldest cities of Christendom were in the Middle East- Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem- and they were quickly conquered by Muslims who converted people by the sword and by seizing the women and selling them as slaves. So, before that, they had their own culture that was totally devoid of Islam.

Wha I loved about the UK was how blissfully unaware you could be about the horrors of Islam because this country was undeniably western and Christian, it had a strong identity… not anymore. British identity is in danger of being eroded.

If people think that what happened in backwards Islamic nations like Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan can’t happen here because their culture is somehow backwards, let me disavow you of that illusion, their culture is backwards because of Islam - a medieval religion that is 100% resistant to change because of blasphemy laws. What makes them think that by importing young men from such countries on an industrial scale is not going to shift the demographics permanently? Does breathing in British air and eating British food automatically make someone British?

On the other hand, I do see where she is coming from. That kind of sh!t won’t happen here…. yet. If we act now, we can slow it down and then stop it massively. We can become defenders of British and Western culture by never being complacent.

It’s getting to a stage where I don’t care what anyone says about i**ophobia because contrary to what people think, it’s lefties who are afraid. They are so afraid that they become cowards and let that religion and culture take over their own because of their fear of confrontation. The only people they feel brave enough to confront are the patriots.

People like us are supposedly playing a dangerous game by showing support for Reform but I would argue that the Far-Right are easier to defeat than Islamofascism.

Hearing about the grooming gangs has been so depressing and has brought back memories of all the wrongs that are done to women in Turkey on a daily basis. It is oddly familiar and it doesn’t surprise me at all that it has taken place but what is devastating in all of this is the way the authorities automatically sided with the perpetrators because of their religion. In other words, showing favouritism to a group that is supposedly vulnerable and therefore a protected group but who are in reality the aggressor.

snughugs · 29/09/2025 18:27

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BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 18:29

StandFirm · 29/09/2025 17:44

If they've already secured their status though, it's no longer a 'fresh start'! It's a settled life here and most of us will have ups and downs in our working lives. Should their residence here be considered a 'fresh start' until they die or leave? Do you realise what that means?

So what sort of timescales are you thinking are reputable? Should someone who comes here and has a job to fulfil the criteria but soon after is made redundant and can’t get another job. How long should we support that person before calling a halt and encourage them to look elsewhere? Or are we obliged to support them for the rest of their life despite only limited contributions to tax and NI?

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 29/09/2025 18:31

PandoraSocks · 29/09/2025 16:21

Yes, but there is no prospect of that happening in the UK. Can you explain why you disagree and how you envisage it happening?

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I would like to very much hope so, but it is not true to say that there is no prospect of that happening in the UK.
How will it happen.By stealth if not prevented.

snughugs · 29/09/2025 18:33

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 29/09/2025 18:24

Here's a question for Reform voters.

If what you and Farage are concerned about is illegal migrants living in migrants hostels, why do there need to be any policies at all about people who already have indefinite leave to remain, who are by definition people living in the UK legally?

They’ve made this clear. You have to be earning and not claiming benefits. Migrants should not have access to the benefit system.

BIossomtoes · 29/09/2025 18:34

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Please tell me this is parody.

Goldenbear · 29/09/2025 18:35

BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 18:20

What are the key points that you think will prevent similar happening here?

Some Muslim groups have already expressed their intent. What will stop them?

No, let's play a different game, you tell me why you believe this?

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 29/09/2025 18:36

snughugs · 29/09/2025 18:33

They’ve made this clear. You have to be earning and not claiming benefits. Migrants should not have access to the benefit system.

So they do intend to make legal immigrants illegal then.

You come over, you get a job, you pay into the system, get married to a British citizen, have British children, and then if you dare to get sick, or have a baby, or earn less than whatever the threshold is going to be tomorrow, you go home, right?

Goldenbear · 29/09/2025 18:36

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He was from the U.S. I thought the discussion is about Reform in the UK.

BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 18:38

Toastandbutterand · 29/09/2025 17:55

Reform wants to retrospectively remove peoples rights.

I think it's very important to reiterate this again and again

Reform have said they will remove people's rights who are already established. People who already live here, have families here, have made the UK their home. Law abiding assisted people. Reform have said they will change the law to make these people illegal.

If you vote reform you are voting to allow these people to become illegal. You are voting to let these be deported.

If you are concerned about illegal immigration then by all means campaign about that. But reform what to change what illegal immigration means.

If you vote reform you are voting for a racist policy

They are not rights, they are permission. Boris didn’t ask if we wanted an ‘amnesty’ on illegal immigrants.

Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. Whilst campaigning to become the United Kingdom’s next Prime Minister, he announced his support for the idea of an Amnesty for illegal migrants. Mr Johnson suggested that there are around 500,000 people in London alone who have lived there for a decade or more but who were never registered and “are not able to pay taxes”. He further stated that “I don’t think it’s commonsensical to think we can deport such a large number of people. We do need to think of how to regularise their status”. Mr Johnson has supported the idea of an Amnesty for those who have lived in the United Kingdom for 15 years or more, subject to them having “played by the rules”.

www.douglass-simon.com/boris-johnsons-amnesty/

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 29/09/2025 18:38

Toastandbutterand · 29/09/2025 16:27

They come here to live under an unislamuc government.

What part are you not getting?

And if they are Islamic they bring that with them and want to convert this country as well.Not all of them but the more moderate get dragged along with the radical.
What part are you not getting ?

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 29/09/2025 18:39

BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 18:38

They are not rights, they are permission. Boris didn’t ask if we wanted an ‘amnesty’ on illegal immigrants.

Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. Whilst campaigning to become the United Kingdom’s next Prime Minister, he announced his support for the idea of an Amnesty for illegal migrants. Mr Johnson suggested that there are around 500,000 people in London alone who have lived there for a decade or more but who were never registered and “are not able to pay taxes”. He further stated that “I don’t think it’s commonsensical to think we can deport such a large number of people. We do need to think of how to regularise their status”. Mr Johnson has supported the idea of an Amnesty for those who have lived in the United Kingdom for 15 years or more, subject to them having “played by the rules”.

www.douglass-simon.com/boris-johnsons-amnesty/

Can you answer the question in respect of legal immigrants please?

Eskarina1 · 29/09/2025 18:39

Midnightlove · 29/09/2025 17:49

They aren't remotely compatible! Have thepeople that don't see this as an issue never visited a Muslim country? If I wanted to live in a backwards society I would move to one

I think the important thing is how fundamentalist people are rather than their religion. I spent a lot of time with Muslim friends and their families growing up and never felt as disrespected as with my dad's fundamentalist Christian colleague and his family. Their 8 year old son attempted to order my mum around because the dads were out so he was in charge. His mum fully accepted it and did what he said. My mum... I imagine he learned a lesson that day.

Most religions are incompatible with the society we want in this country if carried to extremes.

Toastandbutterand · 29/09/2025 18:40

Some bloke has just dumped a kitten in a basket at my front door and ran off so I'm dealing with that now, sorry. Sorry if my last post was nonsense! I think I quoted the wrong post and shouted.

Mad, completely mad, who does that?!

luckylavender · 29/09/2025 18:40

HedwigEliza · 29/09/2025 08:09

No, they’re not all thick and uneducated. You’re not morally or intellectually superior OP. And they may have other historical reference points than the lazy comparisons to 1930’s Germany.

Why is it lazy? Because you say so?

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 29/09/2025 18:48

Petherbride · 29/09/2025 16:30

The head in the sand position they have clearly adopted just has to be ignored. They are so complacent that they can’t envisage that anything, ever, could threaten their supremacy.
They aren’t looking at the situation at all, they are clucking virtue signalling noises and busily believing other people are ‘thick’.

But these are the same people who claim others aren’t able to “critically think” and yet it is elementary, so I just don’t get their gullible stance.

luckylavender · 29/09/2025 18:58

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 29/09/2025 08:33

I wonder whether any Reform voters ever ask themselves why leaving the EU didn't actually fix anything.

Actually made it a lot worse.

BundleBoogie · 29/09/2025 19:03

Goldenbear · 29/09/2025 18:35

No, let's play a different game, you tell me why you believe this?

If you can’t answer just say.

Ok I’ll play your ‘game’. I have spent listening to a wide range of people. Some ex Muslim campaigners on X like Raja Miah and colleagues. He is mainly focused on the grooming gangs issue and explains a lot of things about the behaviour and culture that led to this horrendous mass rape, torture abuse of white girls.

I have also listened to pps like @AxMxPfan who give a real life account of things they have seen happen.

To be quite honest, I am actually searching for a compelling argument that demonstrates we are safe from the risk of Islamic dominance in our country as some groups have threatened. I first read a few things and started piecing them together and it worried me. This is all totally unrelated to Reform who I paid no attention to until these recent rows started raging.

So if you have this argument that proves me wrong, please share - I’d genuinely like to hear it. Unfortunately I’m not sure that you do. No one has said anything to allay my fears yet - I’ve just been told to shut up. That doesn’t really help.

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