What is attracting 24% of Britons to Reform UK?
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What is attracting 24% of Britons to Reform UK?
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51474-what-is-attracting-24-of-britons-to-reform-uk
Posted by JayR_97
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* General disillusionment in politics
* Main parties becoming very similar in policies and actions
* Current PM not doing anything meaningful or new in office
* Massive funding behind Reform to reach out to people
* Whether we like him or not, Farage is a good political communicator
It’s the closest to a referendum on unsustainable immigration anyone will get.
Which is sad because they might actually get into power off the back of it and they’re all idiots.
Immigration…or rather the inability of the Tories to manage it and the unwillingness of labour to even acknowledge it.
Hundreds of millions of pounds, the constant effort of thousands of propagandists and the obstinate refusal of the political class to admit that they are in any way responsible for the very real mound of shit that they have left in the country’s trousers.
Peter Oborne wrote in his fantastic book “The Triumph of the Political Class” that the end result of their genius would be them either being replaced by demagogues or by decent people. I still think the latter is more likely because, at the end of the day, the demagogues are exactly the same creatures as our current rulers – never had a proper job, say anything to get elected, speak in their own secret language and share the same love of the same two countries.
I just hope they don’t ruin things too much in the process.
Is it honestly 24%
To me, that sounds rather high, but idk I don’t pay too much attention to Reform UK.
The way the media are talking you’d think they were the only alternative to the main two parties
People in forgotten towns like Huddersfield and Rotherham have seen falling living standards, grooming gangs, and migrants subsidized to live in the best parts of London and given grants for their driving tests.
Sure, maybe migration is not the root of all their problems, but unless the issue of regional inequality and mass migration gets sorted populism is only going to be more popular. The metropolitan elite wouldn’t get it – they have never stepped into these towns
The Tories not being able to deliver on the promise to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands. Brexit empowered them to do it and they let their voters down.
Labour didn’t gain votes but the Tories dropped off a cliff. Those voters who left the Tories need a new home and Reform are resonating with them.
What is attracting people to the only political party promising to address an issue people have been voting to resolve for 20 years?
Truly a mystery
Lies mostly, easy to talk a big game when you will never have to back it up. They aren’t even a proper political party, just a limited company that doesn’t allow you to vote for their leader.
When people’s lives don’t ever seem to improve voting for the same parties over and over again, I guess when presented with an alternative that echoes their views they will flock there. Just my observation.
Because the two main parties are no longer serving the interests or wishes of the people, especially for immigration.
I dislike everything about Reform, but the truth is that most voters feel like a lot needs to change, and the only party that are actually talking about significant change is Reform. So people are going to be drawn to that.
Tories had 14 years of failure and now an identity crisis. Labour aren’t really offering to change much, really.
Would rather jump off a bridge than vote Farage and Co., but I can understand why others are drawn to it.
Labour need to deliver real improvements. Otherwise they are screwed in 2029.
Our economy has reached the point where the working classes are paid so little and charged so much in rents that British people cannot afford to live good lives with the wages we have.
In order to continue pushing wages ever lower in the face of this collapse, to paper over this problem and allow the system of high rents, high bills, and low wages to continue, capital colludes with government to engage in high immigration of exploitable migrant labour who will live in illegally cramped conditions and accept worse treatment as the money is worth a lot to them when sent home as remittances, or even that the worst conditions in the UK are still better than living somewhere war-torn or without basic amenities.
This is causing total, systemic collapse of our society.
Reform promises to get rid of migrants.
Yes, a lot of people feel racial hatred toward migrants. But this is mixed in with a genuine, meaningful and important critique of our economy.
Mostly crappy leadership by the mainstream parties, in combination with empty promises and propaganda from Reform.
Basically the Tories and Labour are just generally terrible (I’ll admit Labour haven’t really had the time to prove anything yet, but their initial policy choices have been pretty bad).
Couple that will the Reform party that’s trying to tell people what they want to hear, or rather than people think they want to hear, and you have the perfect storm.
IMMIGRATION! It’s no great secret. The country is being crushed by the weight of immigrants.
People have voted for less immigration for over 20 years, promised time and again this would happen only to have it increased time and again. This is pure desperation at this point.
The answers provided on here are exactly why people are voting reform
Folk are tired of people looking down on them and being called racist for having legitimate concerns around immigration especially by politicians
Immigration without doubt but I don’t think some on the pro immigration camp realise there’s a lot of us , typically left leaning , vote remain types who have serious issues with immigration in its current form
as well as the “I want ma cuntry back” folks.
The numbers are insane, unsustainable. I want more doctors, nurses etc but absolutely nobody else that brings nothing to the table.
This tiny island can’t add millions of new folks a year.
Not a single service can cope.
I wouldn’t vote reform as he’s a one trick pony but this rampant immigration can’t be ignored as a real danger to the country’s existence.
Maybe because we don’t have any political parties that are there for the white working class.
Before anyone says “but Jeremy Corbyn”. He was on stage at Glasto trying to win over the Tilly and Tarquins. He is basically a 60 year old student activist that hasn’t grown. He had as much in common with the average working man as the Tories and probably just as out of touch.
Along comes a bloke who sits in the pub with a beer and a fag cracking jokes.
Part of it is “funny man with beer and fags” and the other part of it is the fact it’s a protest vote because of disillusionment with the main parties.
It’s not really that hard to see. I wouldn’t be asking why 24% support reform. I’d be asking what the main parties (mainly labour) are going to do for the average worker? More policies that seem to appease the corporations and ultra rich or policy that puts money into the average person’s wallet?
N.b. I’m not saying this in support of Farage or reform. He’s a grifter taking advantage of the system but he is intelligent enough to know what people want to hear. The other parties need to do the same.
Basically the only party that might take a hard stance on the policies other parties have done nothing about for 25 years.
And yes I think Nigel is a dick.
At the end of the day, it seems to be the only party that might actually change something.
Desperation. Many were labour voters and were ignored about the impact of migration. They went or were always tory and got betrayed time and again. The voted brexit and yet again…total betrayal. So now they look around and see…well reform are the only show in town..
That’s the experience of people I that went reform.
Tbh many people I know that voted green went through a similar (sort of) journey and ended up with green cause the others had betrayed or ignored them.
The failure of the Lab/Con Uniparty and their complete Westminster bubble detachment from the working class over the last 30 years.
Oh and mass immigration.
A political reckoning is coming.
Clearly, everyone is fed up of immigration obfuscation. Politicians lying, not doing their jobs, doing second jobs. Anything that isn’t making the country run smoothly and fairly.
Uncontrolled immigration, stagnant wages, long wait times to see a doctor / dentist, over populated areas, increased crime…. I could go on
Poverty, capitalism failing them, fear, and a lack of education.
Immigration not being taken seriously. Just look at this thread. For every person saying they personally are bothered by immigration there’ll be someone in the comments saying they’re wrong and immigration isn’t a problem at all. They literally said that’s why they support Reform for goodness sake. It’s a credit to the people of this country that on a day when it’s announced we need to build two new cities the size of Birmingham every few years just to keep up with immigration that it’s only 24%
Right wing parties and neo liberalism gave us the immigration this sub hates. But surely if we go *even further* to the right that’ll fix everything. It’ll work this time, trust me bro.
Playing them like a fiddle.