Reform lost 6 by elections this week 🎉

[TheRealSmurfette]

Some good news to start the week!
The mainstream media might be quiet about it, but the numbers don’t lie: Reform UK just lost SIX by-elections in a single week.

Their momentum is officially hitting a wall. On Thursday, they failed to win across the UK and even lost the incumbent seats they were supposed to defend:

• Amble Ward (Northumberland) — LOST (Gained by Labour)
• Hirst Ward (Northumberland) — LOST (Reclaimed by Labour)
• Claremont Ward (Blackpool) — LOST (Held by Labour)
• Long Whatton & Diseworth Ward (NW Leicestershire) — LOST (Held by Conservatives)
• Wick & East Caithness Ward (Highland) — LOST (Stormed by Lib Dems)
• Forth & Endrick Ward (Stirling) — LOST (Held by Conservatives) about:blank 1, 2]

The right-wing vote is splitting down the middle, squeezing them out in low-turnout battles. Proof that real, local communities are seeing through the rhetoric.

Keep it up lads! 🙌

This 100 %

Do you like freedom of movement?
In essence, yes.

Do you want ever closer union with the ultimate goal being political union with the EU (and therefore the euro)?
I don’t see union and collaboration as a bad thing. Not fussed on what currency I buy bread in.

Do you prefer your laws to be all made in Parliament and Parliamnet has supremacy or are you happy that our laws are made in Europe?
I had absolutely no issue with oversight - if Nigel Farage was in power for example, I’d be begging for someone to have “supremacy” over his decision making.

Do you want to pay large sums in membership fees in order to support poorer members
Within reason, yes. The same could apply to us if we needed support, I’d value having it available.

Come on. Even the most blinded people con see that the right wing government has failed to improve the lives for the majority, the country and only the wealthy came out of the years of tory rule (much) better off.

It amazes me that people don't look at the media more and think, I wonder why the majority of media is run by very wealthy people who want to keep the right wing in? Could it be because I think the right wing government is likely to improve the lives of ordinary people, or is it because that will make them and their associates much richer?

Thank you for completing the quiz. I can announce the the result of the quiz for you is you should vote "Rejoin".

The "right wing government " since Blair has been more Blairism not conservatism. Im really hoping Kemi is going back to proper conservatism.

If proper Conservatism is a government like Major’s I couldn’t agree more. Sadly the signs aren’t promising.

No. There was no interference in the ballot.

Theres no reason for AB to resurrect this issue.

Nobody’s said there was interference in the ballot.

This is a straw man argument.

No one said there was interference in the ballot.

That's not the point, not what is being discussed.

Its like groundhog day this thread! 🤣

Other countries always try and influence a vote. Look at thosd Labour party members that went over to the US to try and influence the election there. What MI6 said was that there was no evidence the Brexit vote was influenced. So why is AB raising the issue? To cast doubt on tne outcome. Incorrectly. Which is why he and his cabinet members have now had to "clarify" his position. Again.

@blossomtoes

That’s what you’ve inferred, it doesn’t mean it’s correct. It’s perfectly obvious that we need closer links with the EU, the damage to the UK economy is undeniable.

What damage? UK has grown more than, France, Germany and Italy since COVID. Immigration is lower than, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. US tariffs on the UK are lower than the EU.

The UK services sector, which is over 80% of UK employment and GDP. has grown since Brexit (Source ONS)

Watch the BBC Queston Time episode 24 September 2026. The panelists, Andrew Niel (Journalist), Ash Sakar, remain voter and Jonathon Reynolds, Labour and remain voter, all explained why the UK should not rejoin the EU.

If immigration is lower, that just makes the constant debate around it even sillier IMO.

I actually don’t believe we should rejoin. I think the result was wrong, and we shouldn’t have left, but we live in a democracy and that vote meant we had to leave and IMO stay out.

I don’t believe we should get into the habit of undoing things that were democratically decided, even if I don’t agree with the outcome.

The economic damage that just about every economist agrees on.

@BIossomtoes

The economic damage that just about every economist agrees on.

Measured data, or estimated based on theoretical, and often flawed, models?

Don't forget how wrong the so-called economic experts were in the run up to the 2016 referendum. The 500,000 to 800,000 job losses never appeared. In fact, unemployment declined from 2015 to 2024 until Labour increased the cost to employ people. The emergency budget never happened,

More significantly, UK had grown faster than the major EU countries since Brexit. So, if Brexit has damaged the UK, why are, France, Germany and Italy not doing better?

What is the World event that has affected, France, Germany and Italy, but not the UK which has prevented them from not growing faster than the UK?

Oh we’re back to who needs experts now. This discussion is pointless.

@BIossomtoes

Oh we’re back to who needs experts now. This discussion is pointless.

Based on the experts' failure in 2016, what makes people think they can be trusted now?

Stop tagging me. I’m not engaging any more. I have better uses for my time.

Stop tagging me. I’m not engaging any more. I have better uses for my time.

Okay. That the question was not answered is noted

Remember the immediate recession George Osborne promised if we voted Leave. That seemed to turn out to be a lie...

You know that's completely different as it was overt campaigning.

Covert interference is not the same thing.

Your points are faux naive.

EXACTLY!!!
pesky Andy Burnham....

Have you actually looked at what the findings of tbe secret services were? They determined Russian interference had no material effect on the Brexit vote.

But what the Russians did affect was the Scottish independence campaign. Although they were on the side of the SNP so it didnt work.

Have you actually looked at what the findings of tbe secret services were? They determined Russian interference had no material effect on the Brexit vote.

With attitudes like that, it's a wonder that attempted murder is even a thing.

@JuliaMaesa

With attitudes like that, it's a wonder that attempted murder is even a thing.

Poor comparison. A definition of attempted murder is

Attempted murder is said to have occurred when a person does an act which is ‘more than merely preparatory’ to the commission of the offence of murder and where that person has the intent to kill the complainant. In other words, attempted murder refers to a situation where an individual does an act, intending to kill the complainant, but either fails to do so or where the act is aborted part way.

Burnham has said there is no evidence the results of the referendum was impacted. ie no harm taken.