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Are you now more likely to vote for REFORM (the party)

932 replies

Decisiondecisions · 18/02/2026 14:49

NC for this and apologies if Q already asked. My quick search yielded no result.

Reform plan to undo the reversal of 2 child cap benefit. Are you now likely (or more likely) to vote for them? There have been endless threads about the welfare bill.

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Decisiondecisions · 18/02/2026 16:40

Locutus2000 · 18/02/2026 15:12

This thread thus far is restoring my faith in humanity.

I'm sure it won't last.

It should last. It’s always fascinating to see MN people’s varied views on proposed policy change!

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GivingUpFinally · 18/02/2026 16:40

I'd rather chew my right arm off than vote for those racists.

I'll be backing labour again or the lib dems if they can get their shit together

MsRosewater · 18/02/2026 16:42

There are not enough nos to express how very much no not now, not fucking ever

CryingAtTheDiscotheque · 18/02/2026 16:45

No way. Why would I vote for a combination of Russian-financed traitors plus failed Tories...Farage has damaged this country enough.

TheCriticalThinker · 18/02/2026 16:46

Labour - totally incompetent and embarrassing

Tories - quite like Kemi but can't forgive for the past

Reform - don't like Nigel or the Tory defectors

Green / Lib Dems / SNP / Plaid / Your Party - They all say that men can become women

I'm politically homeless and kind of hate all the parties these days

Vigorouslysnuggled · 18/02/2026 16:48

Will never ever vote Reform.

Lauralou19 · 18/02/2026 16:50

TheCriticalThinker · 18/02/2026 16:46

Labour - totally incompetent and embarrassing

Tories - quite like Kemi but can't forgive for the past

Reform - don't like Nigel or the Tory defectors

Green / Lib Dems / SNP / Plaid / Your Party - They all say that men can become women

I'm politically homeless and kind of hate all the parties these days

Summed up perfectly.

Hoping Kemi continues with everything she is doing.

LakieLady · 18/02/2026 16:52

neverbeenskiing · 18/02/2026 15:44

I would rather lick piss off a stinging nettle than vote for Reform.

I'd rather do that AND eat my own vomit than vote for Reform. Ditto Restore and Advance UK.

If they were the only parties on the ballot paper, I'd have to spoil it by adding a new box with "None of the above" in it, and putting an X by that.

GoldenGeishaGirl · 18/02/2026 16:53

No. Absolutely not. Never.

They’re fucking awful.

TooBigForMyBoots · 18/02/2026 16:53

ThingsAreNotWhatTheyWere · 18/02/2026 16:15

And those of us with poor health/disabilities will be stuck as it will be prohibitively expensive, if even possible, to get health insurance abroad...

You, along with every other British person living with illness, disability or poverty. And most other working and middle class people. The reality is moving elsewhere costs money. Whether you move a mile up the road or to Dubai.🤷‍♀️.

The idea that most people in the UK have the means to up sticks and migrate Somewhere cheap? is for the birds.🙄

SilentMajority1 · 18/02/2026 16:54

Was going to vote Reform, but now we have Restore Britain, so actively monitoring how this new party is developing. Love the manifesto and they seem to be gaining traction 🙏

CurlewKate · 18/02/2026 16:54

There are no circumstances in which I would vote Reform.

ChaToilLeam · 18/02/2026 16:56

Not before, not now and not ever. Bunch of grifting wankers.

GeneralPeter · 18/02/2026 16:57

Decisiondecisions · 18/02/2026 16:38

Thank you for your time.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

How do you think Jenrick’s other policies will play, beyond the benefits cap?

How did it compare to what you expected from them?

It was less populist than I expected, which is good.

I still doubt they can deliver competent government. I dislike a lot of their social stuff.

But at least they have an economic policy that, if implemented, has a chance of reviving growth and lightening the fiscal burden we are bequeathing future generations.

MrsTerryPratchett · 18/02/2026 16:57

Going from minus 100000000000 likelihood to minus 999999999999 isn't significant.

Thedogscollar · 18/02/2026 17:00

Hell will freeze over first.

BotterMon · 18/02/2026 17:00

Fuck no.

CurlewKate · 18/02/2026 17:05

SilentMajority1 · 18/02/2026 16:54

Was going to vote Reform, but now we have Restore Britain, so actively monitoring how this new party is developing. Love the manifesto and they seem to be gaining traction 🙏

What do you particularly like in their manifesto?

GreenCherries · 18/02/2026 17:07

MandingoAteMyBaby · 18/02/2026 16:38

I would rather shove fistfuls of wasps up my arse.

Reform is a party of millionaires representing billionaires, which seeks to further entrench inequality and rip off everyone for their own benefit.

This sums it up nicely for me.

ScholesPanda · 18/02/2026 17:07

No

Onlyontuesday · 18/02/2026 17:17

No. Nigel will say whatever the highest bidder wants him to. That should be obvious enough with his links to Russia and the levels of Russian interference in the Brexit vote.

Treasonous little bastard wants to rob us all.

CaptainMyCaptain · 18/02/2026 17:21

When Hell freezes over.

Judellie · 18/02/2026 17:31

No way would I be daft enough to vote Reform!

Dragonscaledaisy · 18/02/2026 17:34

I agree with reinstating the cap but it would have no bearing on how I vote.

Nosejobnelly · 18/02/2026 17:35

Never

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