Reform voters, which policies do you support beyond immigration?

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

Did @HappiestSleeping say they were unemployed?

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

No they are not, I agree, however there was also more the UK could have done without leaving the EU. Leaving the EU reduced the amount of assistance the French gave, and made the problem worse. Couple that with Boris, and you have a government that encouraged people to come, and reduced and help preventing it. Total own goal.

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

Depends on who you speak to.

If governments weren’t burning money pointlessly, they would be able to increase the personal allowance threshold to at least align with inflation. About £15500 compared to the current £12570. That would cost the UK about £7 billion.

HS2 initial budget was £40 billion. Final cost is expected to exceed £100 billion.

Train drivers pay rise cost £9 billion without any increase in performance needed.

Housing immigrants costs about £120 per person per day. That could be reduced to £20 per day if people used the rent a room scheme. A saving to the government of approximately £2 billion per year.

Lockdowns during COVID cost between £300 and £400 billion. I was flying in and out of the EU each week and never had an issue. Tested weekly and always wore a mask and bottle of antibacterial liquid in my pocket.

Genuinely Yes!

We are a close family and have a tight friendship group. We pick each other up from the airport, babysit each other's children, and I have in the past lent money (a small amount of savings) to help them out. (We're not well off)

So if they could not afford to send presents to family members. We would help them. Not all support needs to come from the state.

It's not good for people looking to rent. Fewer houses to rent means higher rent.

Some are living on the streets opposite the immigrants in hotel accommodation. It's been in papers.

More houses on the market all at once is good news for first time buyers.

Obviously that’s your choice to make but I just can’t understand how a bunch of millionaire backed ex tories can be the change you are looking for

Jesus 🙄

The savings come from not paying immigrants benefits of any kind until they have paid into the system for 5-10 years.

The figures don’t stack up, however much you might want them to.

It's not just cost either. With fewer properties available for rent, the landlords can be a lot more "picky" as to who they rent to, meaning much bigger problems for those on benefits, or with pets, or who can't manage stairs, etc as there are even fewer properties available for them, even if they could afford the higher rents.

I mean they’re not going to be collected off the street. If they want the help, there are endless charities to assist ex military people.

But if they are on the housing list, they have priority. Unlike the “immigrants” (presume you mean asylum seekers) in hotels who have no recourse to public assistance.

Many of them have no recourse to public funds anyway

Agree.

@JenniElection the idea that “anything else is better” is baffling. Kim Jong Un wouldn’t be better, Vladimir Putin wouldn’t be better, Isaias Afwerki wouldn’t be better.

But they don't do this now unless they're entitled to it, so where would this extra money come from?

I go to branch meetings every month and I have never once heard anyone mention brown people. Some members are brown people.

Official statistics show between £10-12 billion each year is paid by UC to a household with an immigrant in. That's 16.5 percent of all UC paid. That would be the saving to the UK.

Increasing the personal allowance to the mythical £20k would cost a lot more than £10billion.

There are already many houses on market for first time buyers to buy.

And more will mean the price drops. Market forces, dontcha know? It’s already a buyers’ market.

Other savings £12k on proceeding cost for every asylum application. Iro £4 billion each year. ATM the government pays an average of £53k -£106k depending on how long to process claim for every individual asylum seeker.

Sounds like Rwanda to me. £700 million down the Swanee and not a single asylum seeker gone.

None of your business dear. Such an obvious shill.

I think more people just won't move or sell.