This migrant problem is going to let Reform in isn’t it?

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Honestly it’s such a bloody nightmare. Reform are making a total hash of local government from what I’ve read, putting teenagers in charge of whole departments with no relevant experience. What are they going to do if they are elected to run a country!!!! I’m honestly terrified. Labour need to be seen to be actively doing something to quell the far-right momentum that’s gaining traction from ordinary folk. I’m amazed at the average, usually pretty sensible people around me who are now telling me they are going to vote Reform.

there was an interview I saw yesterday where the minister said that thousands of people were being deported regularly. The interviewer asked why there were no videos of this and she said there could be. Well let’s see it! It would absolutely help.

My neighbour is a newly elected Reform councillor. There's huge piles of dog poo all over their garden regularly and I've seen signs of animal cruelty and neglect. They also smoke a lot of weed.

People have no idea who they're voting for when they only follow a single party.

Any Labour supporters want to comment on this? Smug Starmer with his toolmaker Dad? One rule for him and another for everyone else.

The man with so much integrity.

Does the evidence that the protests have been orchestrated by neo nazi groups not concern you?

What a ridiculous statement. While Labour's actions may be deeply unpopular, there is no waging a war on the citizens of the UK.

Don't forget privately educated too before ending up at Oxford, but yeh not highly privileged at all

I don't want to pay for more people who have and will never contribute.
I won't vote Reform though....

A large proportion of the British public is sick to the back teeth of Labour already.

Which party was in government in 2013?

I don’t believe they are orchestrated. These are organic protests from local community. You can go find loads of footage online of these protest. They are hours long and have lots of locals voicing their views.

I am in Wales and we now have our first Senedd Reform member (defected from Tories). She uses racist slurs and is generally a nasty piece of work.

Remember all the Reform candidates who had to stand down during the GE because Reform HQ failed to vet them properly?

Don't forget his grammar school was a state school before it became private (without Starmer's input)

@twistyizzy get your facts right ! He was neither privately educated nor went to oxford for 1st degree, went for his post grad

Many people are absolutely sick of the inaction and the relentless effect of boatload after boatload of young men being absorbed illegaly into this country, who may or may not have suspicious intentions, who we're having to pay for and house and support, when our housing, health services, schools, roads and general society is under severe strain. People are desperate and taking whatever course of action they can to try to stop this completely unsustainable influx.

Its not far right to expect our borders to be enforced.

He was 100% privately educated. He was educated at a private school. It turned from grammar to private while he was there and his fees were covered by LA ie taxpayer. So yeah, he went to a private school, irrespective of who paid his fees. Or do you think that pupils on bursaries who attend private schools aren't privately educated?

Having a post grad from Oxford literally means Oxford educated 🙄

Yes but it changed while he was there and in the tradition of Starmer, someone else paid for his fees (ie taxpayer)

@peanutbuttertoasty in what way? - give examples, because I don’t see that!

I don't see anything like this on my social media. It is still cats, jigsaws and books. I don't search for or look at any 'lawlessness' topics either on social media or via Google. If I did, I'm sure it would start appearing on my socials.

For a few reasons I don’t want Reform to win, but calling people far right/racist/bigots for being concerned about immigration and child rose gangs is a sure fire way to push ordinary people towards them. We saw exactly the same with Brexit - mainstream politicians need to learn the bloody lesson.

Just a few bad eggs 🤔

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epping-hotel-protests-migrants-neo-nazi-b2795022.html

The problem with this sort of thread title is that it makes it sound like a reform government is inevitable. Once that gets into the national psyche, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. So let's not do that!

Have Labour done a good job so far? Maybe in some areas, but it's not like we ever hear about them because good news doesn't interest many people. Have they made a hash of some bits? Yes, but governing a country is really hard and I'm inclined to believe that it's not for lack of effort or good intentions. Farage and his ilk of populist talking heads make governing sound easy but, as we see with the councils they run, it's a lot harder in practice.

The most troublesome part is people disengaging with the nuances of the challenges they see in the news and going for the "let's shake it up" solution. After all, how could Brexit/Trump/Johnson/Reform/Scottish independence possibly make life worse for people who have struggled to make ends meet for years, live in squalid converted office blocks, have no meaningful access to public services and have been fed a steady diet of bad news? These people, and I include myself in that group in some ways, need to see tangible improvements in their standard of living before they have the energy, will or confidence in democratic systems to talk about the hard decisions involved in government.

@twistyizzy that wasn’t his choice though - he didn’t choose to go to a private school - it became one of- I went to grammar - it became comprehensive in 1975 - I had no say-

Why are you worried, the next election is four years away! A lot can happen between now and then, pointless worrying about it.

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