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

We've had the change. 👍 Get used to it

The NHS will be no more.
The FCA who guarantee financial institutions and the £85,000 will go.
A lot of benefits will be wiped.
They are curiously a bit silent on pensions. The Australian variety apparently but don’t explain how you move from a contributory to their version. And are means tested. If you have too many assets/money you don’t get so much/anything.
They want to recruit ex army personnel into police roles. Confusing the two.

The country will be very altered.

You're "utterly terrified" that reform might win the election (at least not "literally" I suppose) but by the time we get an election there'll be more of the current Tories in reform than there will be left in the conservatives. They will sideline Farage and a senior Tory will end up running the show. Back to square one.

But hey, thugs would be having a field day beating up anyone a shade too brown, with an accent or looking a little too camp. It would be nasty and brutish.

Many vote Reform I suspect because they are frightened for Britain becoming brown.
Many vote Reform because they see opportunities in contracts, to make money as old institutions are closed off and new organisations needed to fill the gap. Private medicine, more care homes, less regulation. An unregulated financial world. And want a piece of the pie. This group could not care a jot about immigration at all.

Not brown, Islamic.

Oh look it's another one post and done op.

How on earth you interpreted my post as some sort cheerleading for Reform I have no idea.

The latter group is called pirates: those who plunder for their own gains. Disgusting.

You misunderstood my tone! I was echoing your sentiment and going a little further with it...

Strange that. Not.

This. We’ve had poor governance for years, including this one. None are terrifying. Exaggerated hyperbole.

The OP is a regular poster. Perhaps she's busy.

Scrapped the wasteful Rwanda scheme and launched a Border Security Command to smash the criminal smuggling gangs and improve the UK's border security.
Have any criminal smuggling gangs been smashed?

Announced a new deal for farmers, which will go further to support farmers
Are farmers happy with this?

Sadly the uk electorate are beyond moronic.

people are seeing the mess Brexit has made, the mess in USA and STILL stupid enough to think it’s a good idea.

im terrified

Farage and his lot won't get in here In Scotland i'm more terrified of the SNP being in power for another term 😱

I agree and think this is what will happen. Well….hoping that’s what happens anyway

Well, I've just watched a room full of journalists fall about laughing at one of Farage's crap jokes. They give him far too much airtime and don't hold him to account, especially about the amount of corruption and incompetence in his party.

I’m a soft lefty centrist but despair of the way Labour are forced into so many u turns by backbenchers. I feel politically homeless but would never ever vote for reform. Braverman and Jenrick are not popular at all and totally linked with the failures of the last government. Both Labour and Tories can benefit from that.

For Labour these defections could make people feel that voting for reform is becoming no different to voting for the old Tory government. They may protect against some leaching from their base.

Conservatives should claim a new dawn and make it clear they are glad to have lost these particular MPs (and should encourage any of the old guard who want to go). They could then come off looking more centrist and reasonable and maintain more of their base than expected. Labour could therefore scrape another win - I’m not actually sure how I feel about that, despite being a Labour voter.

Farage is now talking about negotiating Labour defections whilst sitting next to Braverman. This could create very uneasy bedfellows for the electorate.

Reform win....which county would be the UK Minneapolis?

I live in an area that’s always been Labour. I know a lot of Labour councillors and they’re expecting to lose their seats and the council to be Reform this year. My hope is Reform take control of a number of councils and do such a shit job over the next couple of years that the party either implodes or their performance will scare off voters at the next GE. Unfortunately, those of us living in areas with a Reform council are going to have a tough few years.

I intend to vote tactically for whoever is likely to defeat Reform in my area- probably our current Labour MP, even though Labour would not be my first choice. I suspect many will do this.

Liverpool

As a Tory I am delighted that all the shites and malcontents have taken themselves off to Reform. I was particularly pleased to see that the ghastly Braverman went today!
Don't be too worried folks, The Times runs a 'popularity of the leaders' thing on their website, Farage is not exactly popular at -17, six points lower than Kemi and lower still than the Green bloke and that Lib dem clown.

We have greater checks & balances in this country than in the USA. There is no equivalent (good) of thier Presidential/Executive orders .. we have The Commons, The Lords, an independent Judiciary etc. This is why our Prime Minister can’t just say “we are doing that” and it happens. People seem to forget this, when slating Keir.
Reform are unlikely to get a majority big enough to just sweep whatever they want through… I’m much more concerned about his much money they will siphon off