The Reform Thread

[sadoldgit]

On 24/10/2025 at 18:24, John B said:

Reform swaggered into Caerphilly, ready for a coronation. An unpleasant surprise lay in store thank god

They will do well elsewhere though judging by the amount of Union and St George’s flags that have appeared on street furniture and motorway bridges recently. Both Tory candidates in adjacent constituencies were kicked out at the last election for Labour but they would go to Reform now.

Fortunately there is still plenty of time left for people to realise what a mistake that would be and for Labour to reclaim some ground. The next Budget will be another vote loser but it looks like they are finally prepared to grasp the Brexit nettle and are talking about the financial hit to our economy the leaving of the EU has cost us. This is a cost that we all have to pay sadly, not just those who voted for it. At some point it must dawn of those that we were comprehensively lied to by Farage and Johnson. If they don’t want to vote Labour there are still half decent other parties to vote for or independents. Do we (by we I mean normal, decent people not the nuckledraggers who actually think that these people care about them) really want a poor man’s Trump here doing to us what he is doing to the US?

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Wade Garrett said:

Because between Starmer, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron and Brown they have done a terrible job running the country.  
 

Agreed on the above, but still no excuse for people to vote for this rabble of conspiracy theories, unfounded attack on the RNLI and all round dreadful behaviour https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/chaos-engulfs-reform-uk-in-northumberland/

Same for every council they control includes the astonishing proceedings video in Kent https://theconversation.com/kent-county-council-is-reforms-shop-window-its-leaked-zoom-call-implies-chaos-and-poor-leadership-267900

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7pe443lp5o

[Wade Garrett]

6 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Agreed on the above, but still no excuse for people to vote for this rabble of conspiracy theories, unfounded attack on the RNLI and all round dreadful behaviour https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/chaos-engulfs-reform-uk-in-northumberland/

Same for every council they control includes the astonishing proceedings video in Kent https://theconversation.com/kent-county-council-is-reforms-shop-window-its-leaked-zoom-call-implies-chaos-and-poor-leadership-267900

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7pe443lp5o

I agree.  I like their policies on illegal immigration but the rest doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

That said, I can understand why people are turning to them.