What I would like to ask Reform supporters what are the specific Reform policies they support?

[CurlewKate]

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.

I think people have been talking about immigration since the 90s, it was fine before then but not now

Farage is on broadcast record saying he is in favour of an insurance-based model. He would probably destroy the NHS and if you couldn't afford good quality health insurance or didn't work for a big firm that provided it as a perk you could expect a very basic level of care - or to go bankrupt like millions of people do in the US. But as other people have said Farage has hypnotised the nation with wild claims about stopping migrants and now they think it's the solution to all their woes and don't hear anything else.

You can try but in my experience they won’t answer, just call you names. Most can’t see beyond ‘boat people’ and have no idea what a total shit show Reform are and how they want to decimate the NHS, treat women as if we’re in Gilead and trash human and workers’ rights.

Paid for how, exactly? I looked at the key points from their manifesto the other day, and they were basically just a load of uncosted, unfunded, pie-in-the-sky spending promises. As far as I can see, the only way they would have a remote chance of funding them would be to privatise the NHS. Oh, wait a minute...

See my other comment - if they don’t privatise or in some other way defund the NHS, how on earth are they going to fund all the spending promises in their manifesto? It is one big spend, spend, spend and no details on how they are going to fund it.

Reform are a one trick pony. Let’s get rid of all the foreigners. They will pull us out of the UCHR. But people forget the UCHR is there to protect everybody not just foreigners. It holds governments accountable for draconian laws that affect the liberty of the people. We will replace it with a bill of British rights. But who do you think will write those rights? He will force private health insurance on everybody. Get rid of the minimum wage get rid of workers rights and also get rid of women’s rights. He is a millionaire grifter A Temu Trump. He just wants to get richer and he will do it off your backs. He has nothing in common with us. In fact, just like Trump, he loves stupid people.

Yes he probably is

why aren’t the main parties listening to the people is the problem and why has it had to come to this

and I won’t vote reform because of this uncertainty

The country is crying for housing principally because of high immigration. Population growth without it would be negligible. I'm a massive supporter of new housing but often the local lib dems, who on a national level support immigration, are the biggest objectors to any new housing to the point of overriding planning officer recommendations. At least with Reform you don't as yet see that hypocrisy- their policies on oil, NHS reform make sense unfortunately. The generation above us has been living off future generations for too long and we cant afford the current level of social spending including pensions in a hjgh interest rate environment - they were going to scrap triple lock but realised better to get the votes and leave pension reform to later.

I’m what you insultingly call “one of those brown or black people”. I voted reform. You’d be surprised how many of us “brown or black people” do 🙄

The 25% figure is from DOJ though, maybe a different year?

@Skates
I am not a reform voter. However, I understand why people are voting for them. Unemployment has increased under Labour with the rise in national insurance and the increasing minimum wage so that businesses are employing fewer people. Young people can't get jobs partially due to this and immigration being too high. People are angry about not being able to access services e.g. GP appointments due to the population rising too fast. This is why they are concerned about immigration. British people are known for tolerance but their tolerance has reached a tipping point. For example, the Greens and the far left's support of Palestine and by association extremist Islamic views, which could affect women's rights in the UK. The increase in anti-semitism in the UK, which doesn't make sense when British Jews have nothing to do with a war happening in another country. The UK government cannot change what happens in the middle-East and we need to focus on peace and creating a cohesive society in the UK. The pro-palestine marches are causing more divisions in society when we need to focus on integration and cohesion in the UK.
I think the ECHR needs to be amended to allow us to control our borders. The EU and Starmer are already discussing how it can be amended. Many EU nations including Denmark believe it needs to be modernised. The conservatives also think we need to come out of the ECHR. While I am concerned that Reform may not be pro women's rights, I am also concerned about the greens, labour and lib dem's views support of mixed sex toilets/changing rooms that do not protect women's safety.

They even mention in their post it's based on real life experiences. Maybe leave your keyboard and get a train into any large town sometime or anywhere near a migrant hotel. I used to walk across parts of London by myself completely pissed late at night - I would never do that now - knife crime almost doubled in London 2015 to 2025. Now we also have massively increased anti-semetic attacks - the Hatzolah ambulances were allegedly burnt down by Rehan Khan and Hamza Iqbal - the worrying thing is they may be second or third generation immigrants but have failed to integrate and under Labour the existence of parallel communities with no incentive to integrate will continue - they're too scared of losing vote share to push the issue.

Probably be rolling out a double decker bus with "we can save 350 million/week" in a couple of weeks time that people will believe and won't look any further down the road.

You must be joking, are you not aware of the damage that R Reeves inflicted on businesses and Milliband with his zero net policy when other European countries have abandoned it

Actually Labour had a very clear claim on their manifesto-that they wouldn’t put up taxes, surely you’ve seen that clip with Riski where he says that without doubt Labour will put up taxes and is says they won’t.

hmm. Didn’t quite go as planned, did it?

Two Polital Parties having crap policies doesnt make one better than the other. Reform are a Racist party with no other policies as far as I can make out. Their leader is devious and supports Trump. Labour actually bad policies but I dont agree with them.
We are in a difficult situation. Maybe give the Lib Dems a chance. They actualky have a maninfesto

What exactly have Labour done which shows that they have a clue?

Yes UK has long relied on immigration rightly or wrongly (as ultimately bringing in more people rather than increasing productivity per capita is a ponzi scheme which fails when the system cant take anymore) but the numbers in the 50s and 60s were not comparable- I can't get numbers before 1964 but 1964 to 1978 net migration was negative. It only got above 100k in 1998. Compare that to 2023 when it was nearly a million. Also we were better at integrating people and getting different cultures to adopt 'British' secular values. That has gone and resulted in our current multi-cultural but divided society. I think Reform will be just as corrupt as conservatives, but at least they're talking about the right issues.

Reform play to people's worst fears and instincts. I have lived in London all my life. I don't live in the best area. I walk home late at night and nothing bad happens to me, most violence is drug-gang related or domestic. Immigration needs to be controlled but bigotry should not be encouraged. Labour has made mistakes I know but some things are beyond their control. AI has taken away a lot of entry-level graduate jobs. The economy was starting to improve before Trump started his stupid war. We have also been subject to his tariff war. I live in an area with a large Afro-Caribbean population. Many of them work in social care, social services and hospitals. When my son had an asthma attack many years ago the young Muslim doctor - in a hijab (shock horror) - gave us the best advice of any doctor we had previously seen in the hospital. It is actually very expensive to become a British citizen as you have to pay thousands in fees so many don't bother with that route as they can't afford it. It is disgusting that Reform (and Labour) want to make people keep paying thousands when they have Indefinite Leave to Remain status and are making valuable contributions to society - and paying taxes.

Nah. No high level maths there re energy from your bike power station. Basic mechanics/ physics. Secondary school level. The sort of stuff a car mechanic would know. Did you not do stuff like this in your city and guilds/ONC ? I did.

But thanks for admitting you are intentionally baiting in order to provoke accusations of daft ideas. You are the second person to admit to that on this thread.

That is the reform game plan after all. Don't talk policy, deflect the conversation to accusations and insults. Post way out daft stuff that people point out is way out and daft, so you can come back claiming they are calling you daft.

Really ?

So a car mechanic knows nothing about energy conversion or basic costing ?

How do they mange to work on cars and cost jobs if they don't know basic mechanics and how to do sums ?

Thank goodness @PhilMitchell82 flounced and hasn’t returned

I am seeing the reasons, reason really for some (not all), people may vote Reform in a GE - is this solely why they won in councils? It’s a shame really it has to be so as I used to vote locally less on political lines and more on the individual- saying that I drew the line at extreme parties - and yes I would have included Reform in that.

Just to throw in, I may have done before, and have elsewhere. I do live bang opposite one of these hotels and I recognise nothing of what is said here. I see more potential hassle with the white drug dealers/users also close by in the summer particularly. Though if I don’t bother them they’re surely not bothering me - maybe folk could try this approach.

I think integration could be better - but that is also heavily on us cutting funding for such as ESOL and threatening to burn folk alive really imo.

I realised lately that actually I feel more in danger in 2 heavily right wing areas in my city than any other. I don’t even like driving through them tbh and I’m pretty fine (lax lol) with my personal safety. It’s the anger that vibrates and makes me nervous - bit early to tell but not sure it’s going to improve as they got a Reform councillor in their ward - tbh they’re still angry winning.

I also went on the last Tommy March (as the counter protest side) - disappointed to be so heavily outnumbered for sure, but not wishing to stamp all over anyone - the biggest side were scarily angry instead of just happy about their numbers. I genuinely fear this level of anger and think Reform just pumps its up.