Reform voters, which policies do you support beyond immigration?

[Sheepydoggo]

If you voted for Reform, what policies do you like aside from immigration reform?

Locally the green policies. But without the nutty add ons from the actual Greens. They won locally and that was the only thing they campaigned on.

individual landlords to claim mortgage interest as a business expense as it used to be before Labour attacked

The Conservatives removed the mortgage interest relief, not Labour.

Ok it should have stayed government attacked. It doesn't affect me because my properties are in ltd company. I know it has affected many landlords and made them sell up.

It might get work in London because you have the tubes. Birmingham doesn't have tubes and only 2 trams.

I don’t vote Reform and never will. But I’m in favour of their plans to change the NHS funding model. Financing it 100% from general taxation, taxes on farmers and student loan interest is quite frankly a shit show. It is unsustainable, delivers terrible results in maternity and cancer league tables, and needs overhauling.

I don’t understand how they will fund all the tax cuts

Re foreign aid, when I see the poverty in this country (in my own town), I believe we should address that as a priority. There should not be charities providing beds for children to sleep on in the UK. I'd be in favour of a short-term reduction until we get our house back in order and then ensure that every penny we give is going to the people who need it most.

Re Net Zero again, I would pause or significantly push it back. It does make me cringe when Richard Tice says net stupid zero and does not do the party any good in my opinion, as someone who wants them in for change and change alone.

I am hoping that a win will bring better people who are disenfranchised like me out of the woodwork when they think change is possible.

No interest on student loans might mean students like them too. At my local Reform branch there are lots of under 25's. They like that people listen to their views. 1 young person stood for local council and got lots of support from older members with leafletting. He won his seat now he's been given the social media brief which I'm sure he'll be very good at.

100% of Reforms current MPs have been members of the Conservative Party. 62.5% were originally elected as Conservatives. They're rebranded tories. They're also overwhelmingly privately educated. Ironic seeing as Reform often pitch themselves as a working class, anti-establishment movement. It's so fucking clear they don't represent us. I'm baffled why people are taken in.

Is it not a good thing if landlords sell up?

More housing stock on the market might help cool prices down.

Yup, I am one of them. I'm not complaining, I never set out to be a landlord, and I had a good run. I should also have put them into a limited company, but wasn't expecting to have them so long.

The main reason now is that tenants hold all the power, and landlords carry all the risk, and I can't afford the risk.

Yes, for owners. For those renting though, the prices go through the roof more than they have in recent years. It will be nigh on impossible to rent very shortly.

It's a pity the whole UK can't vote for the SNP.

No student loans needed.

Be good if Reform done that policy.

But for what benefit. What benefits do you forsee?

This is why I don't get it. And their front bench is comprised of ex tories, who are entirely responsible for the explosion in immigration numbers. It's nonsensical to anyone who's thought it through. Which sadly I don't think any of their voters have, beyond "... There are too many brown people and I don't like them"!

Absolutely. The other thing I can't fathom is buying in to "reductions in this tax, or that tax" with no plan of how those reductions are to be funded.

Whilst I realise that any government can promise the Earth, and deliver a pebble, there is an element here of Reform being so far away from a majority, they can promise the moon on a stick, and have very little chance of ever being made to deliver it. I could run for office with a policy of removing all tax, which I'm sure would be very popular. You can say what you like from the sidelines.

In the unlikely event that Reform do get in, and they have to do something, Farage has history of being a disruptor only (watch how quickly he disappeared after Brexshit). I would fully expect him to resign if he ever did become PM. Just look at how many Reform councillors have resigned since being elected only two weeks ago. It's almost one per day.

Oh, and for the avoidance of doubt, I know that it is not impossible for Reform to get elected at the next general election, but it is staggeringly unlikely that they would be able to field and win 318 new MPs. If it ended up a coalition, it would be very interesting to see how quickly Kemi would want to do a deal.

A third player in the mix. I've seen boom and bust in public services for 30+ years. Labour getting in is good for a bit as they invest more, but then they go crazy, and it's bonkers. Conservatives get in the start to cut back, it's good for a bit, then cut it to the bone, and it's crazy again. The cycle continues.

I really don't see how giving someone else a chance to have a go can be any worse, and if they make a complete shit show of it them I can vote one of the other two back in in four years knowing that they are the least worst option.

I hope that it may inspire someone else to come up with something new. App-based live government, I don't know, just something.

I thought they scrapped the £20k threshold because it would bankrupt the country.

I like their scrapping of net zero and not banning ice cars. I like their £20k before you pay tax policy.

I sincerely doubt they have the skills or balls to totally gut the civil service which needs to happen but at least their hearts are in the right place. Labour, tories and lib dems have ruined this country

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Would you actually pay the extra import and export costs for your family and friends?
I can't send presents to the EU any more without having to pay huge import/export duty. I stopped, but I would restart if I have a brexit friend who would pay the costs.

@Vivienne1000

Or the Reform voters, who you seem intent on goading, are simply not on MN

It’s been like that 23 June 2016. The remain supporters seem to think if they, cry, hurl insults and whine, Brexit will be cancelled, Farage will be executed and the EU will say:

“Of course we will forget what has happened since 23 June 2016 and UK will be an EU member as before”

Net migration at lowest levels this century. Seems labour policies are working.

Net migration to UK plummets - but public still thinks it's going up | News Politics | Metro News

@HappiestSleeping

Farage was such a proponent of Brexshit which made immigration worse.

As long as the number of people entering the EU via the Eastern European border and the Mediterranean Sea increases there will be greater numbers arriving in Calais.

Is the UK responsible for the EU failure to control their borders?

No they are not.

BTW. Use of the word Brexshit will not make you more employable.

Ex military already have priority for social housing. I work in housing allocation and it’s one of the top criteria here, even over and above families being made homeless.