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.

And some of you don't even know it's going on. Unbelievable.

I’m not but i think some of the societies that the migrants come from view dishonesty and corruption as the norm and if they are not paying tax on their income or VAT on some of the products such as tobacco then it is not good

I can assure you plenty of British feel exactly the same as that and always have.

You mean like politicians taking 5 mil as a gift ?

And Prime ministers taking free season tickets for the footie.

Yes absolutely but why add to it

I absolutely wouldn't. An unemployable goatherder from Afghanistan, not so much.

Are you gatekeeping goatkeeping?

Indeed they can’t but farage has backtracked on this anyway as it is unaffordable and was only ever aspirational apparently

Ironically, agricultural workers are hard to find in the UK at the moment….

@harrassedmum

I remember that Farage said the £90 billion of tax cuts would not be possible, but did not rule out all tax cuts.

I would increase the personal allowance first as it has been £12570 since April 2021. With inflation, that’s about £15500 in 2026.

It would help those on low wages the most and prevent the UK state pension exceeding the threshold.

@CurlewKate

If there is a shortage of a particular skill in a country, visas can be issued for expats to enter. I have done this in many countries around since late 80s.

There were mutterings, but they were very much low and background.

The far-right media, who feed on the very chaos they create, hadn't started to demonise immigrants at that point, and the shallow grifters who now head parties like Reform hadn't yet realised how easy it was to manipulate the working classes by simply blaming immigrants for societal degredation.

Of course, protesting against immigration when you are from a country whose history, culture, and people are the result of two thousand years of invasions and settlement from foreign nations, and which spent the last five centuries busy colonising the rest of the world, is beyond ironic.

Indeed; the corruption at the head - and heart - of 'parties' like Reform is clear and unequivocal. But the duplicitous grifters in charge are well aware that they only need to screech "small boats" and the majority of the working classes they are manipulating will break out their Chinese-manufactured Union Flags and be obediently misdirected.

@AuntieFah

Immigration being out of control was talked about long before the word Brexit appeared. Look up Enoch Powell’s rivers of blood speech in 1968.

Tony Blair is credited with starting the high levels during his time in government and Conservatives are credited with accelerating what was started by Labour.

If people choose to vote for Reform, that’s their democratic choice.

@AuntieFah You may want to believe it is only the uneducated working class voting Reform but that is not true. Many wealthy educated people voted Reform in the recent elections.
I think this is partly because people have valid concerns about immigration. Some areas of the UK have experienced extremely large increases in the population but without an increase in public services like doctors surgeries, hospitals etc. People are finding it difficult to get a doctor's appointment and get a place for their children at the local school. They have to wait longer in A&E and there are less jobs available for young adults entering the job market. Understandably they want immigration to be controlled.
Discussing what happened hundreds of years ago re: colonisation is irrelevant to people living in the UK right now. Most people's ancestors in the UK back then were peasants and had nothing to do with colonisation.

Understandably they want immigration to be controlled

Controlled being the key word.

The dire state of public services is a result of 14 years of Tory slash and burn. In areas with very multi cultural populations like east London schools are being closed because of the fall in birth rate. But let’s scapegoat immigrants, they’re an easy target.

Wealthy people may be voting Reform, I doubt they’re well educated somehow. Charlie Mullins is a prime example.

@Blossomtoes Lucky you to live in an area whee there isn't a problem with school places. Not all areas of the UK are London and many areas outside of London are also multicultural.
I just want to point out that many immigrants believe immigration should be controlled themselves.
Many older people have voted Reform. They may not have degrees but I would say they are well educated on politics. Many young people have degrees but they also don't know that much about politics. I also am not convinced that the degree means you are that well educated these days. The difficult of a degree is probably about the same as O-levels when older people did them. Many older people certainly seems to be able to write better English.

He’s definitely backtracked on raising the personal allowance, I agree it would be helpful but the cost to the country would be the equivalent of losing 4 major government departments, so would be unaffordable. A lot of reform voters don’t seem to realise Farage has u turned on quite a few things they want to vote for

It is something you would have to ask Rupert. If you go on their website, there is an email address and you can contact them.

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I think quite a few of them are quite well educated but are fed up with how the UK has become in the last few years’

The difficult of a degree is probably about the same as O-levels when older people did them.

I agree. That I can help my son (42 years younger) with his engineering degree mathematics tells me standards have dropped.

My daughter graduated in 2017 with 2:1 in business and languages, but sells used watches and works in a market every Sunday for extra cash. Both of those activities can be done by someone who left school at 16. She has about £100K of student debt.

Tony Blair devalued degrees when he decided that 50% of the population should have a degree. Simple supply and demand economics dictates that if there is an oversupply, value will drop. It was done to artificially lower the unemployment figures as those in full time education aren’t counted as unemployed.

A lot of reform voters don’t seem to realise Farage has u turned on quite a few things they want to vote for

Until Farage becomes prime minister, he can’t implement any of his ideas.

The current prime minister, Starmer, stood on a manifesto of:

Smash trafficking gangs. Hasn’t happened

No taxes increases. Has happened in two consecutive budgets.

UK will not join the customs union or single market and return to free movement. Now we have Wetting Street who wants to be PM and wants UK to rejoin the EU.

Little wonder Labour did badly in the recent local elections.

Lastly, and most importantly I would say:

The only requirement to be entitled to vote is to be age 18.

People can vote for whoever they choose.

So vote for something worse than the Tories who caused it. It makes perfect sense.

So vote for something worse than the Tories who caused it. It makes perfect sense.

I would say that the increased support for both the Green and Reform parties is due to the people being fed up with both Conservatives and Labour.

That’s certainly the received wisdom. I don’t see that there’s been time to get fed up with this government.