If you support Farage, would you be able to explain why please.

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I know there have probably been other threads asking this, but really .... why?

Why would you say he is a "man of the people?"'(Public school educated stockbroker / multi millionaire)

Genuinely, what appeals about him?

If you voted Brexit, have you forgotten that he resigned from public office that day after his Leave campaign won?

It's an anonymous forum, so please be honest.

Anyone who can't see what a dodgy grifter Farage is must be a bit thick, no?

Is this a genuine query OP or are you just trying to be controversial ?

I cannot stand him. I'm just pointing out that people are sick of being called 'thick' for having opposing views and so are likely to vote for him just to piss of the people calling them thick. Maybe if you just stop calling people thick for having opposing views this wouldn't be an issue. It always seems to be the 'be kind' people that are calling other people 'thick' so maybe you are not as kind as you think you are.

You being all the 'be kinder' people.

They only vote Reform to annoy people who think they're thick for voting Reform? 🤔

Anyone voting Reform should be disgusted with themselves, as they are voting for the legislation of stalking, harassment, drink spiking, and posting intimate images of women online without their consent.

Any woman, man, parents of girls or boys should hang their head in shame for supporting such a vile party. It's just communicating to their daughter, "it's perfectly okay if a man spikes your drink". It's saying to your son "you have every right to upskirt girls". It's saying that as a woman you don't care if this happens to you or other women. It's saying that as a man you think you should have a right to do those heinous things.

Regardless of any of their other policies, this should be reason enough to not even consider voting for them.

Oh dear. Perhaps look at my sarcastic 'be kind' comment in context.

Feel free to look at all my past comments.

Doesn't show a lot of intelligence does it.

There is a current epidemic of violence against women and girls, rapists and murderers are being let out of prison in a few weeks, well before their time is served and men with hundreds of thousands of child abuse images are routinely given zero time behind bars.

All under Labour and the Tories.

They are all a shitshow. The whole fucking lot of them. Reform are just another iteration of the same.

But this doesn't make sense. What's different about him that you believe he will stop the boats? Why do you believe he's different to Labour and the Conservatives?

Do you realise you aren't making sense or backing up your beliefs with anything?
I mean, I could

tell you im going to wake up a size 10 tomorrow. And I could say I will. But one look at me and you'd know that's a load of shit.
Farage saying he'll stop the boats is a load of shit too. Because there's no policy, nothing to explain how.

Just because he says something doesn't make it true...exactly like me.

If you need all your past comments to be put forward as evidence before someone takes your words and responds, then maybe you need to temper your posts?

As if anyone is going to research someone's past comments before posting a response to one. Give over.

Yes I understand that, but they take it one further by voting against legislation designed to tackle violence against women and girls, because they don't see it as a problem. Prisons are overrun so to them these crimes don't matter. These crimes aren't serious enough to them to be punishable by fines, prison time, etc.

That's what they're voting for. People who think violence against women and girls isn't big enough of an issue to even make illegal. It doesn't affect men, so it isn't a problem. Vote Reform!

Put it this way: anyone who votes for an actual political candidate, who if elected will have real power that will affect real people’s lives, just to ‘piss people off’, is not somebody who is making the best use of the intelligence they have.

And maybe you need to stop telling other posters what they can post on MN.

I'm a bit fed up of the 'head girls' on MN thinking they rule the roost.

No he won't be able to stop the boats but he says they will 'just turn them back to France ' which we can't do as that would be illegal. He is the only one who pretends it isn't. People believe that.

Andy Burnham today made a speech about supporting Palestine. Where did that come from? The Muslim vote? Who told him to make that speech? What the fuck has it got to do with his remit or the Labour manifesto?

Shit like that is why people will vote Reform.
Burnham has got off to a terrible start, he’s not even PM and he’s trying to appease the far left.

But who else are they going to vote for? No one else says the things they want to hear so they might as well vote for him.

Also if it wasn't for him then Labour wouldn't even try to stop the boats would they?

And THIS is the kind of thing I am talking about. Snide, thinly-veiled attacks and mocking, and piss-taking. And that's before any Farage fans have said anything.

And you wonder why people who support Reform/Farage don't want to come onto threads like this and speak up? 🙄

(As I said, I am NOT a fan of Reform/Farage myself!)

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This!!! And no one will convince me otherwise!

Stopping the benefits would be illegal so no he won't do that.

It is about the boat people, who is saying it isn't? They are hoping that by voting Reform that either they will get in or that the other parties will go more right wing.

I do understand why some people feel they want change and someone in power to improve their lives. Farage is not that person though.

Correct!

God this is getting depressing.

Where are you getting your information from? What makes you think labour aren't trying to stop the boats?

@Izzyink · Today 19:56

I doubt Reform voters are that bright. It's all about the 'boat' people to Reform voters.

And there's another one. 'Reform voters, are not that bright' aka - 'they're thick.'

So tedious and predictable. 😴

I quite want to know too - sometimes I watch him on whatever he’s on - he’s not bad on GB News as an interviewer; he actually listens to his interviewees and lets them talk and finish their points, which is not something we see nearly enough of from others.

His politics are not my politics and I can’t think of any specific policies that Reform have that I want to adopt and while I won’t be voting Labour again for probably decades, I genuinely can’t see myself going as far to the right as Reform. Some things he says are utterly insane. But “the left” don’t really want to know why. But they should ask and listen to the answer because it would make the GE campaign easier if you can appeal to those voters next time instead of wagging your finger saying how superior you are.

The Tories get my next vote personally.