Media request: has your political allegiance shifted to Reform?

[RhiannonEMumsnet]

Hi there,

We've received the following media request.

Thanks,
MNHQ

I'd like to speak to women from Mumsnet whose political allegiances have changed to Reform in recent times. Ideally they would be willing to be named and pictured (in a piece for the Telegraph). Please contact [email protected] if you are interested.

Mumsnet users are now more likely to back Reform than Labour. They just won’t admit it

I've read the article. I don't believe the headline is true as I think most people would have responded honestly to the anonymous Mumsnet survey.

I wasn't surprised to see that all of the women interviewed had voted Conservative at some point. What did surprise me was the belief that Reform would make the UK a safer place. I think Farage's modus operandi is to disrupt and create division.

Also, some of Reform's right-wing economic policies would give more power to corporations at the expense of employees and consumers. This is likely to increase income inequality, and countries with a high level of income inequality tend to have higher murder rates and a lower life expectancy.

Ive voted conservative at least once in the past. I will not be voting reform ever, unless they radically change.

I think you may well be right on the middle-aged (and educated) voters who have been conditioned to view the right to vote as sacred (as it is) and not to waste your vote (because of suffragists, etc).

It describes me. I can't fathom not voting or spoiling my vote, but if there was an election tomorrow, I would be completely stumped. Even voting strategically wouldn't work because WHO am I trying to keep out? All of them?

And that's why I suspect 'Shy Reformers' - not because they are necessarily aligned to Farage and his Cronies, but because they cannot in good conscience vote for Tories, Labour or Lib Dem - but feel they have to vote. I suspect Greens will benefit too but not on the scale of Reform as those who hold the right to vote as sacrosanct, see a Green vote as a wasted vote or would not vote Green for their views on self-id.

I have no idea what I am going to do come election day and keep hoping that some amazing 'new option' is going to appear (it won't).

And thats how we ended up with Brexit and the US with Trump. Give people a kicking in the pursuit of perfection.

And given Farage's fanboying of Trump, I cannot understand how anyone with any srnse of conscience could vote for his party/company.

It describes me. I can't fathom not voting or spoiling my vote, but if there was an election tomorrow, I would be completely stumped. Even voting strategically wouldn't work because WHO am I trying to keep out? All of them?

I never try to work it out until the election. There's no point.🤷‍♀️ Things could change in an instant and frequently do this decade.🫣

Being Politically Homeless is much less work and much more pragmatic.😁

Would that be the same Liberal Democrats whose 72 MPs ABSTAINED from the vote on the inquiry into the rape and grooming gangs?? What's the point of a political party that doesn't have an opinion on something so central to the absolute corruption and rot and cancer at the heart of British society?