Reform are getting a shitload of voters

[HeBeaverandSheBeaver]

I have not voted
Reform and live in a safe tory seat But I voted
Lib dem tactical vote

I said ages Ago on here the reform would do really well and was shouted down.

Same as brexit, no one will admit voting for reform but
They still do it in droves it seems.

I'm Willing to bet they
Might win an election in four years at this rate!!

Scary
Times

I'm northern and agree with the sentiment that it's horrific they get votes
Hth

I think it shows a lot of anger at the main parties.

And it’s a serious issue for the future, which will most likely be ignored until it’s too late.

If Starmer doesn’t please the people who voted for him, they could easily vote Reform next time.

The hard right almost always rise due to the crapness of the main parties.

there are always spite voters and spite candidates to harvest them.

Maybe so, but these are seriously large numbers.

Why do so many of these Reform candidates look like they breed illegal fighting dogs?

😂

This may have been aimed at me. You'd have to been blind not to realise that inequality has increased massively in the last 20 years. Of course this has an effect on people's beliefs. ITt would also be disingenuous to suggest there wasn't a north/south divide in England with some deprived southern coastal communities being socially "Northern". See also Wales.

Because of the sneering, superior attitude of Labour supporters Reform will do even better next time if Labour win! This is exactly what happened with Brexit! Labour and its supporters have a tendency to brand anyone who doesn't agree with them as either thick or racist and 4 years of them in government is only going to intensify the disdain that non labour supporters have for them!

It's a huge worry. Labour will need to increase living standards for the worst off and reduce inequality if they want to head off far right populists.

Literally every single person i know apart from one has said they were going to vote reform, and its this kind of dismissive sneering that makes it more likely

None of the Scottish constituencies have declared yet.

Soz my
Geography not so great

No these areas voted reform because they don't want to vote tory or labour ( who are definitely no longer the working peoples party) and reform is the only one saying anything they agree with

Hilarious people on here think the exit poll will be wrong. Farage will be an MP, Reform will get 13 seats. The exit poll is historically very accurate and look at the vote share so far. The good news is it will pull the tories apart.

Attitudes like this are EXACTLY what pushes people towards reform 🙄

At last a sensible comment

I think they will get more than 13 seats and I think that if they can do that in a month of campaigning you'd have to be crazy to dismiss them in 2029. In fact they are in a great position as they don't even have to do anything other than make the right noises in parliament and call labour out on their upcoming failures (of which there will be many) and soak up all the future votes of the people who are going to be alienated by the inevitable labour policy of pissing off the many to please the few (of which there will be many). Go Nigel 💪🏿

Oooh it’s like Brexit all over again.

Popcorn 🍿 anyone.

A few weeks ago I was asked to compile a list in work of all our regional candidates to contact about issues in our sector and it was then I realised there was a Reform candidate in every one - where were these people coming from?

I thought they'd be a crank independent party here and there, but they have thoroughly mobilised.

Anyone watched years and years ? It was made in 2019 and it's all a bit scarily coming true 🙈

As a left of centre former Labour lifetime voter, I say with sadness that this isn’t a Labour landslide, a positive turn towards Labour. It’s a split in the right wing vote which has accidentally benefited Labour.

This doesn’t surprise me at all.

Why should anyone who wants smaller government, much lower taxes, action on uncontrolled mass immigration rather than more empty words, a crackdown on ‘wokery’ etc etc vote Tory when they have delivered the opposite?

If there’s no chance that you’ll end up in power you can say anything and promise people anything. You don’t have to cost plans or look at whether something is actually feasible. People don’t want to hear that there’s no easy fix, that the money isn’t there, that changes take time. They don’t want to hear that some of the things they want are in direct conflict with other things they want.

Populism is never saying the cost-benefit analysis showed that it wasn’t financially viable.

Yup. At the time it seemed just a little too close to reality to be comfortable and then it got closer!

First result? We haven't had it yet ffs