Reform’s Andrea Jenkyns becomes Greater Lincolnshire’s first mayor | ITV News
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Reform’s Andrea Jenkyns becomes Greater Lincolnshire’s first mayor | ITV News
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All I can say is that in a democracy, you get the representation you deserve.
Absolutely bat shit crazy… but hopefully should tell the left that their strategy of “ignore your eyes and ears” isn’t working. People want change
Wasn’t this the same region that had the largest vote for Brexit? How is this a surprise, same people who helped put the UK into the state it’s in.
Bravo.
Good. Now Reform have to put their money (well… Tufton Street’s money) where their mouth is or they will bitterly disappoint their army of rabid fans. You’re not just shouting slogans in the background now, Reform, you’re front and center and we are all watching.
Edit: I get why people are upset but this is also a side effect of the ridiculous amount of amplification that Reform get from the media (it’s almost like all the insanely wealthy people who own the media want Reform to get in for… reasons… don’t question that though, why would you?)
For context this means that Reform have 5 MPs. FIVE. Labour have over 400, the Tory’s (somehow) still have around 120. So for all the “Reform are now the opposition” sloganising (like I said; they’re fucking great at shouting slogans in the background) the only party they currently have the clout to oppose is the Greens (who have 4 MPs).
[Remember; the facts are always more important than the soundbites.](https://members.parliament.uk/parties/commons)
Andrea Jenkyns a former Tory MP.
Farage is simply a Tory who has a mutual hatred with the progressive wing of the Conservative party, he’s been at war with them for the past 30 years. He despises Cameron in particular.
Certain parts of the country will always see themselves as hard done by and reach out to the party the spins the best yarn, sadly at the moment we have Reform as part of the political landscape and sadder still the Tories and Labour are a shower of shite
And the politicians won’t listen because stopping mass migration clearly isn’t something they’re actually allowed to do by the people pulling the strings, if reform actually *do* get in nothing will change I can promise you that
>She says that “inch-by-inch Reform will reset Britain to its glorious past”.
Oh look, it’s English MAGA. Just like MAGA, Reform will be filled with wealthy yet politically inexperienced populists who claim to care about the working class whilst implementing policies that screw them over.
Expect constant talk of ‘mass deportations’ and ‘going after the woke’ whilst the party calls for tax cuts for the rich, deregulation and the smashing of unions. Don’t forget the constant whining about the ‘biased mainstream media’ when they inevitably get called out for their ineptitude.
Voters have been screaming about immigration for decades now but none of the main parties have listened. Brexit should have been the big wake up call. Reform could become irrelevant overnight if mainstream politicians addressed the elephant in the room.
The only candidate you’d know about was the Dame that didn’t even live there.
The other candidates didn’t even bother with leaflets through the door.
I’m in Lincolnshire. We had reform, conservatives, labour, Lib Dem and independents. One of them (I want to say Labour?) was based in Cheshire. There was something “wrong” with the Lib Dem too.
My constituency voted the highest for Brexit. Last election Labour had a stupid candidate who didn’t reply to anyone who emailed. Lib Dem don’t do themselves any favours. The local council is now stocked by a group of independents.
Can someone please run a real non right wing candidate here please?!
I thought they wanted change, not a former member of the government.
Things from Britain’s “glorious past”: workhouses, no employment rights, sending children up chimneys, public hangings, cholera parties (and the like for other illnesses)
Jeez, she’s as dim as a 3 watt bulb. Good luck Lincolnshire
Remember when labour were in charge of some councils and the councils didn’t have enough money and so went bankrupt. And it was trying to explained that the government allocated money to the councils. But the right were having none of it.
Now that we have a few reform councils…. All labour need to do is not fund them very much, and the same people will attack reform right? Right?
I love how Lincolnshire has voted in a person who doesn’t even live in Lincolnshire, and doesn’t know our issues and problems.
Thank you all for helping Lincolnshire die out even more.
All available evidence suggest that Jenkyns couldn’t be trusted to run a bath but apparently the electorate of Greater Lincolnshire want her in charge.
May they get what they voted for.
That political newcomer and outsider Andrea Jenkyns, let’s be honest, It’s the ideal role for Reform, not a massive amount of work and responsibility, Banks said he’d dump the work off to someone else if he won, but it’s a platform and access to funds and a steady wage and if someone asks why stuff isn’t working and she’s not doing much except the media rounds and winding people up she’ll just talk about left wing plants and make noise etc.
The left get on when they make people feel optimistic and we’re failing to do that.
Uk public “fuck the tories”
Also the uk public “give me worse tories with a blue badge”
People don’t vote Reform because they like their non-existent policies or voting record in Parliament. What they like are Reform bait-y soundbites because that’s the only kind of media they can consume now. Too many people (voters and non voters) have the attention span of a gnat after years of getting their news only from social media. People only read headlines, so companies are in a race to the bottom for clickbait, desperate to get people to access the article, but all that does is create even more skewed headlines. More and more people lack the critical thinking skills to spot a bullshit artist. Huge parts of the population never fully recovered from austerity (which is now a generation ago), and so they’re angry, ill-informed, and feel like they have nowhere to turn. It’s a perfect storm for grifters like Reform.
Lincolnshire was one of the biggest brexit voting places wasn’t it?
You gotta hand it to Farage and Reform. They convinced people to support Brexit, which weakened our economy and caused years of political turmoil. Then they turned round and said “look isn’t the country crap now, let us fix it!”
They’re getting paid to break it, paid to “fix” it, I bet they’ll even get paid when they sell it for scrap.
lol she was an unmitigated disaster in my old stomping ground of Morley. I remember her Queen street offices getting vandalised over her anti-free school dinner stance (*of course* she was against it) expert her son ‘Clifford’ to be wheeled out as political capital at every opportunity ‘will no one think of the children’ etc
Once again, the comments are full of people who don’t live in Lincolnshire telling the people of Lincolnshire how they all got it wrong.
Lincolnshire is one of those areas with very few and very poorly paid jobs. Many young people wouldn’t want to stay there and there are lots of old people.
People are not necessarily not ‘nice’, but they can be very mis-informed or very prone to believe whatever that sounds convincing.
The Reform candidate was apparently very sophisticated with their marketing and had lots of funds to make their campaign happen.
They put leaflets long time before the election and put again just before the election. Those were made professionally, comparing to all other candidates.
This is what their promotional materials look like, you can see they are marketing hard on things the local cares about:
https://postimg.cc/Kkp5VR9c
https://postimg.cc/rK0fBNXB
https://postimg.cc/c6K7C19Y
https://postimg.cc/tYWhdSH4
Childcare, solar farm, transport, and they word in a way like ‘need national policies that recognise the unique challenges counties like OURS face’
Did they provide a real solution in those materials? But would an average voter think that far if their promotion already sounds very sophisticated?
Here we go, they’re going to win and most of reddit is going to be confused and upset because they don’t live in reality.
This whole issue is mostly built on the anger over the current asylum policy and the glaring abuse of it. Sort that out and parties like Reform will melt away.
Ignore it and they will get to power and wreck the country.
Fuckin’ _hell_.
This is 100% Labour’s fault for doing absolutely _nothing_ differently to the Tories.
Start the clock for the first controversy about their background…
This is the one who flipped off the electorate outside Downing Street, am I right?
Not surprised at all. I’m from Grimsby which has historically been a labour town. Disillusionment in modern politics, all major parties which at this point is just labour and conservative continuously show time snd time again that they are not to be trusted Starmer is a blue in red clothing. The greens and other independents never stand a chance unless they form a coalition of some sort.
It’s worrying but given the state of affairs in England and the general mistrust if not all out hatred of modern politics this isn’t surprising
FFS why do we have to have our elections decided by the same geniuses that thought Brexit would solve all our problems when it obviously wouldn’t and didn’t. Can’t they just accept that they don’t know what’s best for the country and abstain from inflicting their racist stupidity on the rest of us?
She’s literally a Conservative so good work there, you revolt against the Tories and end up with one anyway.
Of course she will own the success – as for failures, will be somebody else to blame.