Farage receives second £36m donation in two days for Reform

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Farage receives second £36m donation in two days.

Reform’s biggest donor Christopher Harborne matched record donation given on Friday by fellow cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo

Right, so to stick with your point, it’s not that Reform voters are motivated by Reform policies then, but anger at other parties?

Yes, but what % of the population are they, and have they missed their meds for ten years? A caring EU would see that they could buy their drugs, it is that simple IMO.

People getting into a huff about that need to step away from the key board tbh

Listen, you want a binary answer - there isnt one.
Let’s say a combination.

I would suggest many voted for Labour in 24 at protest vs the Tories. MN is full of such posters, so perhaps that should inform you.

Or maybe they are motivated by mass immigration and people using boats to come here illegally being allowed to get completely out of control?

Give your head a wobble! You don’t seriously think a Reform govt. will be interested in doing anything useful for the ordinary British person?

Personally, I don't think any government since Tony Blair has done a good job for the UK. But your view of a good job probably depends on whether you pay tax or receive benefits. I am 70 and I pay tax on everything over £12570, which is half my son's NMW apprenticeship wage, and we still need to subsidise his accommodation every month.

All this verbal masturbating.

Ultimately, Labour lost one leader, and their current unelected incumbent is already looking dire. Their economic policies will see a bond market blow out, a run on sterling or some other calamity.

This obsession with Reform amply demonstrates Labour’s remaining supporters are rattled.

Enjoy the headlines and the data - oh, and buckle up - it really is going to get bumpy.

Someone will be on momentarily to assert there is no mass immigration etc.

Yes, and that vote switches to Reform at the next GE

ABL - Anyone but Labour.

TB started the housing bubble we have now, the push to get BTL loans out there started under him, a Reform government with less people in the country pushes down housing costs.

It’s so overused and as said typically by Labour.

Who cares? Not me - if people are so fragile they need to step away from this forum.

Exactly, Labour were the tool to rid us of the Tories, no one really thinks KS could have been elected otherwise do they!

@KeepPumping ... I think you need a name change. You are not going to make property prices more rational. People will pay for the property they want.
I like an apartment in a Midland city right now. It ticks all my boxes. But until we have a buyer for our house there's no movement.

Absolutely not.

Labour won just 33.7% of the vote.

Step away if you want.

I'm alright thanks, not at all bothered by overused phrases... it's others on here getting their knickers in a twist...

I hoped SKS Labour government would be better than the Tory government they replaced. They have not been better, IMO. Where next? I struggle with the answer, so I shall probably vote Conservative.

I'm not obsessed with Reform, but I'm very interested and do follow their antics. As a Labour voter I'd like to see Reform achieve a sweet spot, of not enough support for a majority (which isnt really on the cards) but just enough to keep them chugging away, spiltting the right wing vote.
I'd be very rattled indeed if I thought there was a genuine threat they'd form an administration. Because my concerns go beyond their ideology to their fitness to govern. They have shown themselves disproportionately idle, corrupt and incompetent by comparison with any other party, and those traits can only make our situation worse. And that was before learning that it wouldn't even be those chosen by the electorate who would actually be in charge, but the two billionaires who have bought them.
Anyone who wasnt rattled at the thought of such a threat to our democracy would be foolish.

That makes a lot of sense?

You don’t want the UK to take care of asylum seekers but you want the EU to take care of British citizens?

If you want it why don"t you just buy it?

Well you can"t fake the conditions you describe by throwing your documentation into the sea, and the EU doesn"t need to take care of anyone, just drop the red tape dummy spit over Brexit that is stalling supplies of certain medications as you claim. Where are people getting the medication from over the last ten years?

I don’t ‘want’ any particular answer. I’m interested in what you think because you initially said

‘Can’t you otherwise just accept that people vote for Reform because of their stated policies?’

which is fairly binary. You said I diminished the electorate by thinking they mostly don’t pay attention to policy. And now you say many vote for Reform in protest. I happen to agree on that, as it happens. People are not voting for Reform because they think they are any good. But protest votes only go so far, they’re a bit student politics and can have unintended consequences. I definitely wouldn’t applaud people for doing that.