To reckon that Reform will win the next election, and to be utterly terrified about it? 😪

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

i am a leftie

I think they’ll win

If don’t, they’ll have the majority in a hung parliament and govern as a minority party before joining with the Tories.

i’m going to tighten my belt re running my home and prepare for onslaught as the country becomes unrecognisable

Even if they did win. They won't last more than 6 months.

My experience of Reform down here are that they are a bunch of self serving cretins, they had overall control but then all left to be Independents and handed it over to the LibDems

When did they have overall control? I remember reading that Reform won 28 seats in the May elections - they were the largest party but needed 44 seats for overall control. The other parties refused to work with Reform so they couldn't form an administration.

The new ex Tory Reform supporters and MPs were continually blocked by the one nation group (who are basically Lib Dem’s or Labour) from achieving anything and most have joined Reform as they believe it’s the only way to get policies in place to save our country. They didn’t mess anything up. The ex greens and Labour supporters may have had other concerns with their parties.
Savings have been extensively documented by Reform. Please refer to their websites.
Would be honoured to work for Reform but sadly haven’t been offered a job and to be honest I don’t 100% support all their policies but believe overall they are our country’s last and only hope.
I had hoped to have a robust debate on policies as it’s a good way to self scrutinise and test Reforms policies but it’s difficult if your response is to call people self serving cretins or a bunch of idiots. Do you really think that because people have different views to you that they are cretins or a bunch of idiots?

Reform had the chance of a coalition but turned it down (they didn't really want power) then too many resigned to become independents, so even that option went south, that is cretinous behavior & mis representation.
They stood as Reform, promised Reform things, realised it was all too hard, then resigned....

Difficult to have an sort of grown up debate when you are clearly enthralled by Reform...its almost "Cult" worship.... would even be honoured to work for them.... i'll happily criticise Labour.

So what policies don't you support then?

The Reform Councillor who represents my area, is a liar too, he claimed to have put our area onto a priority gritting list, so issues we had recently wont happen again, this is totally untrue, there is no such list, all that can be done is that the area will be looked at again next Autumn (as it is every winter) yet he claimed credit for something that wont happen.... Idiotic behavior as in a few months, he'll be found out.

So Cretinous and Idiotic, not for their policies but their behavior.

@BeAmberZebra believing what you read on a Reform website regarding savings is really misguided.

They are liars. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/07/reform-run-kent-council-accused-of-fabricating-40m-net-zero-savings

No it’s not.

I know a little about company car/van fleets, so they say a saving of 7.5m by not going EV by 2030... fair enough, so what will they replace their current fossil fuel vehicles with?
By 2030, fossil fuel vehicles will be increasingly expensive and higher fuelling costs

Or if they don't replace, they'll have higher mtce and running costs & less reliability, if they lease, they'll have to pay higher lease amounts.

Same with not improving housing insulation standards... what is the alternative? how badly insulated etc are these properties?

With so little detail, its hard to find any proof future savings can be realised.

@BeAmberZebra do you think £75000 on flags is a good use of public money?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz68d284dvyo

Another Reform leader realising its harder than it looks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98qpy0rd1ro