15-09-2025, 12:40
|
#796
|
|
Just a Geek
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 4,262
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by papa smurf
|
I got no idea who most politicians mentioned in any post online are anymore
__________________
Is your muffin buttered? Would you like me to assign someone to butter your muffin?
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 12:41
|
#797
|
|
Wisdom & truth
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: RG41
Services: RG41: 1Gig VOLT
Rutland: Gigaclear 400/400
Posts: 12,504
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
... as well as positioning for a Reform UK government post.
__________________
Seph.
My advice is at your risk.
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 13:03
|
#798
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15,306
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephiroth
... as well as positioning for a Reform UK government post.
|
Probably splitting the right-of-centre vote to let in a Labour-LibDem Coalition! 
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 13:25
|
#799
|
|
Wisdom & truth
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: RG41
Services: RG41: 1Gig VOLT
Rutland: Gigaclear 400/400
Posts: 12,504
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Probably splitting the right-of-centre vote to let in a Labour-LibDem Coalition! |
.... which would be worse than we have now.
__________________
Seph.
My advice is at your risk.
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 13:30
|
#800
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15,306
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephiroth
.... which would be worse than we have now.
|
Is that possible? 
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 13:41
|
#801
|
|
Wisdom & truth
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: RG41
Services: RG41: 1Gig VOLT
Rutland: Gigaclear 400/400
Posts: 12,504
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Is that possible? |
Yeah - think about it!
__________________
Seph.
My advice is at your risk.
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 14:13
|
#802
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Hiding . . from all the experts
Posts: 4,269
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
We'd probably be better off with a Govt. like France has
__________________
'The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it' ~ T. Pratchett
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 17:53
|
#803
|
|
The Dark Satanic Mills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: floating in the ether
Posts: 13,117
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
I think Reform needs to have a few seasoned MPs amongst its ranks. But i wouldn’t want mass defections from the Tories as I don’t want the Tories.
__________________
The wheel's still turning but the hamsters dead.
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 18:03
|
#804
|
|
Wisdom & truth
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: RG41
Services: RG41: 1Gig VOLT
Rutland: Gigaclear 400/400
Posts: 12,504
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
We could debate which Tory MPs we want to see defect to Reform UK in order to make the latter more effective. However, it's not an easy call because the front bench shower are, mainly, the shambles that were the last Tory government.
__________________
Seph.
My advice is at your risk.
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 18:13
|
#805
|
|
XIV
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Crawley
Age: 35
Services: Three Unlimited
Posts: 15,159
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Pretend (Priti Patel) it's (Iain Duncan Smith) us (Jacob Rees-Mogg). A corrosive seasoned fellow in rust, Rishi Sunak and while at it sodomy, Sadiq Khan.
I can't believe they were in power 
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 18:29
|
#806
|
|
Woke and proud !
Join Date: Jun 2004
Services: TV, Phone, BB, a wife
Posts: 9,885
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Isn't it weird how those out of power are always, popular, those in power are always unpopular?
Rinse and repeat, different parties and pms can't fix broken Britain. The public are fools expecting low taxes, high public spending, no migration, but somebody to do the crap jobs, whilst they don't work, but expect pensions/benefits/ a health service....
Politicians can't fix things, they are only ever interested in power, we all know that. Only the population can fix things. But they seem mostly interested in personalities, scandals, reality tv, and populists telling them what they want to hear.
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 19:02
|
#807
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15,306
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Yeah - think about it!
|
Good point. Two words. First one Liz.
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 19:12
|
#808
|
|
Wisdom & truth
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: RG41
Services: RG41: 1Gig VOLT
Rutland: Gigaclear 400/400
Posts: 12,504
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Good point. Two words. First one Liz. |
Not in the Lab-Lib sense because Truss was neither of those.
__________________
Seph.
My advice is at your risk.
|
|
|
|
|
15-09-2025, 20:12
|
#809
|
|
The Dark Satanic Mills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: floating in the ether
Posts: 13,117
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr K
Isn't it weird how those out of power are always, popular, those in power are always unpopular?
Rinse and repeat, different parties and pms can't fix broken Britain. The public are fools expecting low taxes, high public spending, no migration, but somebody to do the crap jobs, whilst they don't work, but expect pensions/benefits/ a health service....
Politicians can't fix things, they are only ever interested in power, we all know that. Only the population can fix things. But they seem mostly interested in personalities, scandals, reality tv, and populists telling them what they want to hear.
|
Labour weren’t “popular” out of power.
__________________
The wheel's still turning but the hamsters dead.
|
|
|
|
|
Today, 12:18
|
#810
|
|
Remoaner
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 32,796
|
Re: Reform UK's chronicles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c930xypxpqpo
Quote:
Reform UK has announced it would force all migrants holding permanent settled status in the UK to reapply for visas with tougher rules, if the party wins the next election.
Under the plans, Reform will abolish the right of migrants to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) - a permanent status which give migrants rights and access to benefits.
Reform will also unveil plans to bar anyone other than British citizens from accessing welfare. Taken together the party claims their plans would save £234bn over several decades, though this figure is contested.
|
This is more extreme than Trump; in the US, Green Card holders are still protected for the most part.
This isn't new migrants either, it's everyone. Anyone who's not a British citizen but is living here risks being kicked out if they're unsuccessful for a much stricter Visa. This can be former EU citizens who've been here for decades, paid taxes, had families, but just never applied for a passport (£1,700 btw) because why did they never need to do so?
I know someone from Europe who's lived here for 45 years, now retired, married to an English partner and is now receiving a pension after working the vast majority of their adult life here, paying taxes. They will be removed under this policy because they're no longer a skilled worker and they'll certainly get their pension taken away.
How is that fair? How is that what we want this country to be?
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 18:44.
|
Join CF
You are here: 
