Reform party seems to be ahead in my area.

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Any of you voting Reform?
My area was always labour..( I've never voted labour).. but according to what I'm reading.. it's surprisingly gone the other way.
Will have to wait and see.
Did him being in I'm a Celebrity make him more popular..or is the extreme right the way to go?

They have no serious policies and their candidates are extremely low calibre. Genuinely what do you think they can bring to the nation?

Don’t you find it offensive that Farage rates Andrew Tate?

I don’t know anyone voting Reform but I don’t know any racists or anti women

@Noddedoffagain In a nutshell, more of their ideas appeal to me than any of the other parties. At the end of last week it was Tory, or a spoiled vote, which I am loath to do. So Reform it is.

I haven't read anything about Andrew Tate yet so will have a look.

Me and DH have just been talking about last nights Question Time and we got onto the subject of Reform. He said that he has chatted with a lot of people at his workplace and a hell of a lot of them are going to be voting for them.

He talks to anyone and everyone 😀so I believe him on the 'hell of a lot of people' part.

His workplace attracts many industries and people who work there commute from all over the UK and are from all ethnicities and educational backgrounds. So pretty a pretty broad representation of the UK working population.

Many of the people I know who are saying they will vote reform are the type of people who talk the talk but on polling day they don’t actually bother to go and vote so it will be interesting to see what the turnout is.
A lot in my area are saying they will vote reform. I think that labour have made a mistake with the candidate here, there was a local candidate with experience, relationships in the community and a good track record of actually achieving things but they weren’t selected. Instead they selected someone not from the area and nobody had heard of them before now.

Really surprised to speak to my son (22 year old graduate) a few days ago, to find he was planning to vote Reform. Throughout Uni he was very "left" leaning, but seems to have done an about turn now that he's been in the World of work for nearly a year, working alongside lots of other young "trendies" in a modern, highly educated workplace.

Even us, as close to 60 year olds who are floating voters wouldn't go as far to vote Reform. We're voting Libdems as we want neither of the different cheeks of the same arse to be in power for too long. After the inevitable collapse of the Tory party in two weeks time with 4/5 years of Labour in power, I think the LibDems could be well placed to make a pretty good go to become the opposition party (or even win a majority) in the next GE in 2028/9. So we're basically voting in 2024 with a hope that LibDems can be a more major force for the following GE.

People thought the same about Brexit - i.e. didn't expect quite so many to actually go out and vote for Brexit!! I do fear Reform could do a lot better than people think as lots of people are really fed up of the Tory/Labour see-saw and want something different.

Here you go. It has been widely reported.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-andrew-tate-reform-uk-influencer-romania-misogynist-b1165902.html

And his Panorama interview where he blames the West for provoking Putin into invading Ukraine. Easily found on the BBC News website.

I was just reading Rupert Lowe’s post on FB, on this exact subject, he has massive support.

I believe he admires Enoch Powell.

I am likely not voting for Reform, although I can’t find any genuine enthusiasm for any of the parties but…

The West DID provoke Russia. Nothing is ever purely black and white and believing it is is naive and simplistic. Russia was wrong in invading Ukraine imo, but I think most in depth analysis would point to Russia being backed into a corner somewhat and if you poke a Bear enough he’ll bite. Ukraine has borne the brunt of the West’s hubris very sadly, and I think we should fully back them now though!

Sounds well informed and sensible.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-reform-candidate-hitler-neutrality-nazi-b2559954.html

Ian Gribbin (Reform), who is standing in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/reform-candidate-rants-that-islam-and-nazis-are-the-same-thing/

Reform candidate rants that ‘Islam and Nazis are the same thing’ in unearthed footage

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/reform-uk-candidates-facebook-friends-fascist-leader-gary-raikes-b1163853.html

Gary Raikes is a fascist who thinks we should live in a dictatorship.

Anyone voting for Reform really is a turkey voting for Christmas.

No they didn't. Russia are paranoid. If they were not so aggressive with their neighbours (e.g. "annexing" Crimea) their neighbours wouldn't want to join Nato.

OK, ok, forgive me. Geopolitics is actually 😉entirely simplistic and should be accurately covered by twitter/x sound bites. Go you.

I'm just not a fan of apologism for Russia. In no way were they justified in invading Ukraine.

If you want Luz truss economics and a Putin sympathiser vote Reform.

Farage is a very effective dissident but he has no practical answers to problems. He's the right wing Corbyn.

https://hyphenonline.com/2024/06/20/farages-party-defends-reform-uk-candidate-who-describes-himself-as-proud-islamophobe-charles-bunker-hitchin-uk-election/

That won't put Reform voters off.

Farage tonight on BBC says he’s had “an awful lot of candidates being stitched up in the most extraordinary way with quotes being taken out of context”.

He's just like his squirming, hard done by friend Trump isn't he.

Here's what some of theReform candidates said - one called immigrants “a plague”, another who said Muslims should be removed from the UK, and a third that claimed Africans “have a low IQ”

The danger is young people want change and Starmer isn't offering a lot (he is being practical and realistic which is needed though).

Farage/Reform would just be more of the same but with more Braverman type rhetoric on immigration. Easy to make all kinds of promises when you won't have to deliver them.

In some cases it might even encourage them I suppose.

It may very well do I'm afraid.