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CurlewKate · 2026-05-08T11:23:30+00:00

Just that really. I am a Labour voter, and I know what Labour policies I support. I think I know what Conservative and Lib Dem policies their supporters like. I don't know about Reform.

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Gealach · 09/05/2026 08:53

if Scotland had less renewables they’d probably have been higher bills. The reason bills are higher are again really complicated and not down to one factor. They pay a higher standing charge for one.

There is some university in New Zealand running a test farm growing crops in the same fields as solar panels which sounds interesting. I understand the concerns around solar panels on land but I just don’t think that Reform, who want to scrap renewables and look to oil, gas and a return to coal mines, are the answer here.

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I can’t find the link anymore unfortunately, but it was something like Scotland produced 150% + of the electricity they actually use as a country via the wind and hydro they have but as it’s owned by the large companies it’s then sent back in to the grid and they essentially buy it back… I would have solar on my roof I’m not against it at all. But unfortunately I’m in an area where the plans are to cover the majority of our fields with solar and the fear is we will end up paying more in electricity anyway, lose all that is good about small village life and also have increased food costs. Reform are the only party to say they wouldn’t do this :(

If they find a way to have both that would be fab, I understand China has been trying to develop solar paint, hopefully something comes along that is workable for all.

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:01

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ChunkyMonkey36 · 09/05/2026 16:20

@PhilMitchell82

Can you just elaborate on “stop all benefits to illegals?”

Mainly because illegal immigrants can’t access benefits, and actually most visas say “no recourse to public funds” anyway. So also no benefits.

I would reply to the rest of the rubbish, but honestly there’s just too much of it.

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:27

ChunkyMonkey36 · 09/05/2026 16:20

@PhilMitchell82

Can you just elaborate on “stop all benefits to illegals?”

Mainly because illegal immigrants can’t access benefits, and actually most visas say “no recourse to public funds” anyway. So also no benefits.

I would reply to the rest of the rubbish, but honestly there’s just too much of it.

Well when they come here where do you think they stay ? Whose paying for their healthcare ? Whose paying for their dentist ? Whose paying for their spending money ? Whose paying for their accommodation ? Whose daughters, wives and mums are getting hounded ? Would you live next door to them ? What would you do if they hounded your daughter ? Still stick up for them ?

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 09/05/2026 16:29

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Ya do know, Phil, that Great Britain is built on a rich tapestry of multiculturalism / immigration so if all illegals were deported there would be no one left.
Every single word you have written makes me hope that Reform never, ever see the inside of number 10.

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:30

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 09/05/2026 16:29

Ya do know, Phil, that Great Britain is built on a rich tapestry of multiculturalism / immigration so if all illegals were deported there would be no one left.
Every single word you have written makes me hope that Reform never, ever see the inside of number 10.

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Absolutely incorrect.

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 09/05/2026 16:31

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:30

Absolutely incorrect.

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I think it's time for you to sit down with a history book, mate.

ChunkyMonkey36 · 09/05/2026 16:32

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:27

Well when they come here where do you think they stay ? Whose paying for their healthcare ? Whose paying for their dentist ? Whose paying for their spending money ? Whose paying for their accommodation ? Whose daughters, wives and mums are getting hounded ? Would you live next door to them ? What would you do if they hounded your daughter ? Still stick up for them ?

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That, Phillip, is not what I asked.

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:33

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 09/05/2026 16:31

I think it's time for you to sit down with a history book, mate.

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Everyone wouldn’t be deported that is absolutely absurd your suggestion.

Theuntold · 09/05/2026 16:40

Why bother engaging with @PhilMitchell82

Ignore or ridicule

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:41

ChunkyMonkey36 · 09/05/2026 16:32

That, Phillip, is not what I asked.

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I guess in your world that free healthcare, free dentist, free accommodation, free spending money are not benefit. Also you seem happy to have your children or family member hounded by the illegals. Some people need to house them or live next door to them and only then will they see the light.

Your letting in lots of unvetted mostly fighting age males with no documentation. Foreign culture. Don’t share our values. Then you people start crying when your daughters, wives, family members get hounded and start wondering why but can’t figure it out. They unfortunately are brought up in a culture where they see women as subservient to men especially non muslim women and will always see you as practise or easy because that what they been taught. In their culture, women dress modestly.

Why do you think gays are so many in Pakistan or Afghanistan ? They ain’t allowed to look at women so they have to look at men instead to get their thing.

Why do you think bacha bacha abuse of little boys happens in Afghanistan because they like little boys over there. Why do you think the legal age of marriage in Iraq is 9 ? That is same age as when Mohammed consummated with Aisha so is fine for them to marry a nine year old. It isn’t hard to realise letting in lots of unvetted and undocumented people we know nothing about isn’t good for the country.

Reform aren’t perfect by any means but the best we got and have the toughest stance on immigration.

ChunkyMonkey36 · 09/05/2026 16:46

PhilMitchell82 · 09/05/2026 16:41

I guess in your world that free healthcare, free dentist, free accommodation, free spending money are not benefit. Also you seem happy to have your children or family member hounded by the illegals. Some people need to house them or live next door to them and only then will they see the light.

Your letting in lots of unvetted mostly fighting age males with no documentation. Foreign culture. Don’t share our values. Then you people start crying when your daughters, wives, family members get hounded and start wondering why but can’t figure it out. They unfortunately are brought up in a culture where they see women as subservient to men especially non muslim women and will always see you as practise or easy because that what they been taught. In their culture, women dress modestly.

Why do you think gays are so many in Pakistan or Afghanistan ? They ain’t allowed to look at women so they have to look at men instead to get their thing.

Why do you think bacha bacha abuse of little boys happens in Afghanistan because they like little boys over there. Why do you think the legal age of marriage in Iraq is 9 ? That is same age as when Mohammed consummated with Aisha so is fine for them to marry a nine year old. It isn’t hard to realise letting in lots of unvetted and undocumented people we know nothing about isn’t good for the country.

Reform aren’t perfect by any means but the best we got and have the toughest stance on immigration.

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I’m letting in lots of unvetted men?

I don’t think I am sir, I work in education recruitment, I’m not the Home Office. Think you must be confused.

I don’t know what “our” values are, because I certainly don’t think we share any, based on your word salad so far.

What a load of waffle 😂

RedTagAlan · 09/05/2026 16:46

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Quote : " If they won’t take them back then death penalty or we make a little power station on remote island where illegals have to cycle to generate electricity."

Can you tell us more about these pedal power stations. Has it been costed ?

I have not seen this before, but I can do some ciggie packet sums.

Human sustained aerobic output is between 75 and 100W. And people need to be fed to sustain this. So 100 W hours would need a minimum of 86K cal food per hour at 100 % efficiency, But the Human body is only about 20-25% efficient at converting food energy into muscle effort. so with peddling, lets be generous and say 10% of the food energy goes into the pedals. And bikes are about 98% efficient fair enough, but then generators, transformers, transmission losses......

Get the gist ?

Solar however, 100W/m2 from the sun. So solar will be cheaper then pedal islands.

Just quick sums sorry, and far from complete. But be great to see a costed proposal if you have one.

Theuntold · 09/05/2026 16:49

🙄 don’t give him air time

ChunkyMonkey36 · 09/05/2026 16:50

Theuntold · 09/05/2026 16:49

🙄 don’t give him air time

Oh come on, he’s left the Queen Vic unattended to deliver this nonsense, the least we could do is laugh at it.

DreamyScroller · 09/05/2026 17:20

WildGarden · 08/05/2026 22:21

The OP was interested and asked why people have chosen to vote Reform.
I was here to try to understand that better too.

This is a great opportunity for "intelligent, educated, and well-informed people" to explain why they voted how they did today.

Given how many people who voted Reform today you would think we'd be inundated with posters saying why they voted, what policies appealed to them, why they think Reform can follow through on their proposals.

Also, these are local elections. People weren't voting about securing borders. They were voting about bin rounds, street lighting and library opening hours.

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"Given how many people who voted Reform today you would think we'd be inundated with posters saying why they voted."

Can you think of any reason why someone who did vote Reform might be uncomfortable discussing it?

People are sick of being told they are racist and stupid. It's fighting a losing battle with those who couldn't care less about their concerns.

Findingithardnow · 09/05/2026 17:42

I'm not a Labout voter, but too be fair, they have stopped the family reunion visa, meaning an asylum seeker cannot automatically bring their partner and children over while they are claiming benefits.
Which certainly has been draining the system from what I am aware of.

Now they have to be working and have someone to actually have their parter etc live.

Moii · 09/05/2026 17:49

All illegals and foreign criminals deported as would happen to me if I turned up without a visa in any other country.

MsJinks · 09/05/2026 17:52

EEexpat · 09/05/2026 15:15

@WildGarden

My point was that I am interested and would love to know if people want to explain

People don’t have to explain how or why they voted. This is just another anti Brexit/Farage thread in disguise.

Watch the BBC question time special last night which was meant to discuss the local elections, but almost immediately focussed on the gift of £5 million to Nigel Farage.

The £5m is important - what’s Nige gonna do for it? Considering he’ll say anything at all for less than £150 on those charming cameos. The reason it’s brought up is because he’s ducking and diving about answering - unsurprisingly of course.

The £5m is telling us more about Reform U.K. than the local elections did.

MsJinks · 09/05/2026 17:55

Moii · 09/05/2026 17:49

All illegals and foreign criminals deported as would happen to me if I turned up without a visa in any other country.

Not if you claimed asylum at port it wouldn’t.

Myli1 · 09/05/2026 17:59

hairbearbunches · 08/05/2026 15:23

There is a very good 2 part documentary that was on BBC2, so probably still on iplayer and it categorically shows that resistance to immigration started gaining serious ground as soon as Eastern Europe had the freedom to move and work here. We were told 40k max a year would be making the journey, we were getting 300k and more. It's not sensationalist, it's not hyperbolic, it just follows the trajectory of the immigration debate. People wanting fewer immigrants predates Brexit by more than a decade but it absolutely shows that Brexit was nailed on and the dickheads who were pushing for remain and using economics as their reasons were always going to lose. This country has wanted less inward migration for a very long time and in that time we have added 20 million people.

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Utter nonsense. We haven’t even added 20 million to the UK population since 1950.

hairbearbunches · 09/05/2026 18:18

@Myli1 oh god, not a member of the ‘utter nonsense’ brigade, How very superior of you. I think the supermarkets and water companies have a better handle on population numbers than government do, based on consumption. They’ve been disputing official numbers for nearly 2 decades. 8.6 million EU migrants applied for settled status after Brexit. We’re likely approaching 80million and even that might be conservative.

Bringemout · 09/05/2026 18:20

PortSalutPlease · 09/05/2026 08:35

Given that 85% of rapes and assaults on women in the UK are carried out by British men, the vast majority of them white, 90% are carried out by someone known to the victim and over 50% are carried out by a partner or ex-partner with one in 3 taking place in the vitctim’s home, with the statistics even higher for children, can you articulate why you think it’s important to focus on the tiny fraction committed by immigrants and not on the huge male violence towards women issue that is currently endemic in the UK?

Also, can you please explain how you think a party led by a man who is friends with known rapists like Trump and Andrew Tate, and who are happy to put forward reform candidates who celebrate rape on social media, are convicted paedophiles, and celebrate the crimes of rapists like Jimmy Saville are the party to reduce rape offences towards women and children?

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https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/foreign-nationals-quarter-sexual-assault-convictions-rpXpd_2/

This says a quarter of sexual assualst on women were carried out by foreign nationals last year. Where is your 15% figure from?

Foreign nationals accounted for a quarter of sexual assault convictions on women last year, figures reveal | LBC

A quarter of offenders convicted for sexual assaults on women in the UK last year were foreign nationals, figures have revealed.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/foreign-nationals-quarter-sexual-assault-convictions-rpXpd_2/

Sometimessmiling · 09/05/2026 18:20

Itchthescratch · 08/05/2026 14:52

I would respond to your points that:

A) the majority of the British population has been against high levels of immigration since polling on the issue started. Whether they mean refugees or economic migrants, ultimately studies have consistently shown that certain groups are disproportionately impacted by the disadvantages of immigration whilst other groups have disproportionately from large scale immigration. We supposedly live in a democracy. Why is it wrong for people to want a party that seem more dedicated towards bringing immigration down? Will their policies be completely workable? Probably not, but neither have Labour or Tory policies been on this issue.

B) Labour had an astonishing lack of coherent policies in the last election. Other than putting VAT on school fees, everything else was unclear and has often been seriously diluted. They have of course managed to implement ideological policies they said they wouldn't though like lifting the two child benefit cap. Implementing change is difficult, look at Labour and the Assisted Dying Bill. It won't be easy for Reform either but people obviously prefer their direction of travel.

C) Labour's policies have never stacked up financially either. Why doesn't this bother you? Do you think raising taxes on businesses has been good for the economy or anyone? All Labour know how to do is tax and spend and people have had enough. The irony that you accuse Reform of so much that Labour have already proven they are guilty of too.

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As long as you are happy that they make money on the back of you, don't pay tax and squirrel it away offshore. That's before we start on Women's rights, NHS.......