What is the best way to vote to stop Reform at next GE

[HedgeKnights]

As a more left leaning voter, I am happy to vote Labour, Lib Dem or Green. I am worried Reform will win the next GE and think Lib Dem might be the way to go, to keep them out. Not just as a tactical vote as I do like most of their policies.
Do people who don't want Reform in power need to to come together now behind one party, or is it more difficult than that
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A lot of people are like sheep -keep telling them they hate Starmer and all the media do tell them , then sure as hell they do - it woukd be the same for any Labour leader- for their ( most media) own reasons of sheer tax evasion and also sales they want Nigel - because he is as iffy as they are - let’s keep it like a club keep calling him Nigel etc , whereas Starmer is always Starmer ! People want miracles after 14 years of managed decline yet don’t want to pay more and we have a ton of people who no longer have any work ethic too - it’s been like that for years, may aswell do 2 days a week and claim etc - thing is I do understand many people want this retrograde idea of britain but the world has moved on -so thanks to the people who caused decline with Brexit looks like they will gift you Farage too - I don’t care as I’m applying for our nomad visas for freelancers at end of year and off to either Germany or. Netherlands - we did Copenhagen in 2020 for 2 years but sadly can’t go back there or Sweden as they dont offer nomad visas

I just cannot understand the Burnham support. Yes, he’s been an excellent mayor. But why do people think he’ll be able to hold the Labour Party together when he’s already been rejected as leader?

Unless we have PR I agree - I don’t think younger people get this and do they really want a party with no defence policy ?

PR generally leads to coalitions so how would that make a significant difference?

In a multiparty system that clings to FPTP your only real option is to vote tactically. It sucks, but there you go. Every other country with a multiparty system uses some form of PR but we had the option and rejected it.

Erm how is who you vote for irrelevant to who ends up in power?

I agree. I don’t think people are judging him by his historical performance, only by his more recent performance as mayor.

The surge towards the Greens among the young really doesn't match the narrative that they are more tolerant, at all. It seems they are happy to promote antisemitism and dismantled women's rights as a progressive marker of their tribal identity.

It is scary to think that Reform will win a National General election. If there is any way of waking the reform voters up I'd like to hear it. Bigotry and ignorance is likely in their DNA and hard to root out.

The Labour government have less than 3 years to turn it around and make peoples lives better. They have burned through 2 years and failed to convince anyone that they are able to do it. If they don't pull their fingers out we will all get burned. In fact they have hurt a lot of people and don't seem to recognise it.

They've hurt the people that traditionally vote for them and done nothing about taxing the super rich companies instead.

The only way this will happen is if Labour get a firm grip on uncontrolled immigration.

Honestly, that's the only way.

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I think it’ll be ok - 3 years to go. I imagine if there’s a risk of Labour losing they’ll put Andy Burnham as leader.

And if we already had PR there would be a lot more Reform representation in parliament already.

Remember the GE results??

I would have absolutely no issue with that. I would much prefer a parliament that is representative of everyone’s views than one where a majority government can get voted in on a minority of the vote share.

And has proven himself to be disloyal and opportunistic?

I will be voting tactically- which sadly will probably mean Tory in my area. I cannot imagine anything more disastrous than a Reform government. It would probably make Brexit pale into insignificance on the list of Bad Decisions the UK Had Made. We should have learnt from the two world wars that a fascist government is terrible.

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We had an interesting situation at County Council level - not this election. Reform got the most elected, LD second. None of the other parties would work with Reform so they could not govern. It is an LD council with the others together in charge.

Well, personally I would prefer a coalition government with members of the party that I voted for being able to effect change, rather than the system we have at the moment where the government is formed from a party that most people did not vote for.

No, teaching people to have the same views as you and then labelling it as ‘right or wrong’ is called indoctrination.

Absolutely encourage them to vote, present them neutrally with all sides of the argument, have them debate heartily with no bias and allow them to make their own minds up. Encourage free thinking young adults to emerge with their own thoughts and don't influence them with your own ‘teachings’. That would be human decency.

I hope you mean encourage them to vote, and not encourage them towards a particular party. Because that would be indoctrination.

I think we have the next 3 years to watch these Reform councillors perform really badly which will stop the bandwagon. Potentially their share of the vote may be split by people voting Restore as well 😱
I’m encouraged that their vote share was down yesterday compared to last year so perhaps their trajectory is descending.
The main stream media have played a huge role in the brainwashing of the reform voters.
Their policies don’t add up and voting them in locally will not stop the boats.

I'm not a fan of Burnham and his politics, but I can see the appeal. He might hold his party in contempt but he doesn't hold the electorate in contempt. Or, if he does, he has the good sense to hide it. He has a popularity rating at is almost 70 points higher than Starmer. At +20 l, he is liked more than any of the leaders we have but a country mile.

OP by the time we get to a General Election Starmer will have been replaced as Labour leader anymore and people who live in Reform controlled councils will have realised how useless they really are.

I live in Kent and we are already seeing dissatisfaction with council tax being raised (which they have claimed they woukd not do) and general mismanagement.

GE have bigger turnouts with more younger people voting too so the Farage lovers are a bit too optimistic at the moment.

This! Appalling to abuse the position of trusted adult to brainwash them to your way of thinking -the absolute opposite of what s teacher should want to do.