Anyone else here voting Reform UK?

[Rsfk35]

I am, Tories can’t be trusted and got us into the mess we are in now and we all know that lib/lab/snp and green will do to women’s rights.

i don’t expect reform to win much but I read to say that amongst young males labour and Reform are both polling at 35% Among young women though Reform are polling very badly and Labour are polling exceptionally high. I guess if women are happy to vote their rights away that is their choice but I won’t.

Reform have fake local candidates, they’ve made the names up on flyers 😂 you can’t be serious

As an aside, the reform candidate for my area has some very strange views on Covid vaccines, and claims climate change doesn’t exist, so not sure his scientific knowledge is quite up to scratch even if he does know what a woman is.

Not transphobic.

They did. I think it was this thread, or certainly another one with some very vocal reform voters. They said they didn't mind... 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Neurodiversitydoctor I suspect a lot of people are rather pissed off with the main parties and have logged a protest vote. I hope they take note and start to make some positive changes. I didn't vote Reform, but wasn't very impressed with the other parties.

I also noticed that the turnouts were around 53%, as I understand it, this is lower than the national average for the last 100 years. I wonder if that will also be a running theme?

I'm not sure he did that though to be honest, wasn't it taken out of context. He was pointing out that young men are disillusioned in some way, and for what ever reason, look up to Andrew Tate.

@Rsfk35 @Runsyd @mumofoneand2dogs

Here's another example of Reform candidates' racism (sub-Saharan Africans "diluting" the IQ in the UK):

A Reform UK candidate tweeted derogatory comments about the IQ of ethnic minorities, it has emerged.

Edward Oakenfull, Reform UK's candidate for Derbyshire Dales, made the offensive posts on X last year, referring to the IQ of sub-Saharan Africans.

[...]

He tweeted the comments about sub-Saharan Africans "diluting" the UK's IQ in July last year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxxjzn738go

When the north east red wall turned blue and the huge support for Brexit, I really tried to understand why people voted the way they did. In actual fact I defended them on the numerous posts about the NE voting patterns.

This time, I just think there are a lot of stupid people who think they are "sticking it to the man" by voting Reform.

Is it truly a coincidence that these candidates who have made their

misogynistic (women are the "sponging gender")

antisemitic ("Jews run banks")

racist (sub-Saharan Africans "dilute" UK IQ) views known are all Reform candidates?

Let's not forget the WWII history revisionism and refusal to denounce Hitler (it would have been "far better" for the country if it had "taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality).

Would women who chose to support Reform in this election still believe the criticism this party receives is unfounded?

Transphobic. Lol. Everything is apparently transphobic so that accusation has ceased to mean anything.

Labour will put men in women's prisons and hospital wards. If you care about vulnerable women you'll see the problem with that.

I'll definitely compare the two in terms of having ideas which, if put into practice, could harm women. Neither party comes out well.

Amen. I'm no fan of Reform, but Labour is actually willing to lie about physical reality ie. that women have penises.

The risk of transgender people being in women only spaces is in my opinion real, but it has been blown out of proportion, because it is novel, and because it has been given so much attention in the media.

I would rather vote for a party who focuses on solving problems which have the biggest impact on our health and safety, rather than a single issue, that the media, political manipulation, and a fear response has led me to focus on.

We have bigger issues to solve.

I think you have misunderstood the rationale behind the abolition of the equality act.
The Reform Party and many on the Right believe that we have effective laws that protect against inequality and that we are ceding parliamentary powers to unelected bureaucratic committees.
Government can become exploited for example hate crime legislation that Starmer is going to bring in is exploited by trans activists, green legislation had the effect of deterring steel production in the UK (and makes steel production move to India and be produced with lower environmental standards and then shipped at cost to he UK).