Reform voters, which policies do you support beyond immigration?

[Sheepydoggo]

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

The status quo is changing, reform are the disrupter. Questioning how they managed that isn’t beyond the pale, surely? Equally, you don’t have to reply 🤷‍♀️

@Sheepydoggo

The status quo is changing, reform are the disrupter. Questioning how they managed that isn’t beyond the pale, surely

If people vote Reform that’s their choice and entitlement. Attempts to smear them seem to be having the opposite effect to what those who are doing the smearing want.

@RedTagAlan

However, the politicians who make the promises they then don't deliver... seems to me they are fair game for quizzing.

The party in power is responsible for delivering their manifesto promises. Parties who are not in power can’t deliver their manifesto promises because they are not in power.

Even if they won a referendum ?

I don't recall that being a condition on that referendum. That if you vote yes the things we promised can only be delivered is a certain party if also elected to government.

@RedTagAlan
I think a big issue is that the parties in power are only thinking about the short-term. The interest on our budget deficit is roughly the same as our education budget yet Labour don't seem to want to reduce it but instead spend more. Alan Milburn said yesterday in his NEET review yesterday that the government spends 25 times more on benefits for NEETs than helping them get into work. We are also overspending on the triple lock as the cost of pensions has risen significantly faster than average wages. Government has to make unpopular decisions sometimes in a country's long-term interests but they don't. Reform's tax and spending plans are not robust but they do have some policies, which are needed for the long-term benefit of the country.

@RedTagAlan

The outcome of the 2016 referendum was set aside by the Gina Miller case that established the governing couldn’t trigger article 50 by themselves on the back of a referendum. It had to be done, or not done, by an act of Parliament.

Parliament voted on 29 March 2017. The outcome was 498 voted to leave the EU and a 113 voted to remain.

Remember that Starmer stood on a manifesto in 2019 for a second referendum with an option to remain. If that doesn’t demonstrate that he does not want Brexit, what does.