Reform UK's chronicles

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Presumably, Nigel or one of Reform's luminaries told you that!

Right now, it's immigration that taxes the fickle British opinion. But, as the Labour years wear on, Reform needs to provide assurance well ahead of the next GE so that they remain at the head of the polls. And it is the economy that matters really. So it should be possible for Reform UK to maintain these twin threads and they need to keep it credible.

Reform is anti-growth and wants to increase red tape with our largest market. They want to throw Ukraine under the bus. And their policies on the NHS which they once wanted to privatise are somewhat vague! No wonder they want to talk about immigration!

(But where they stand on the big issue of the day - getting rid of linear TV channels - remains a big unknown! )

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

No wonder they want to talk about immigration!

British people like fairness, and more importantly don’t like people taking the piss.

The economic migrants (some aren’t even that they’re basically tourists), let’s call them what they are. They’re not refugees.

They’re jumping the queue against people trying enter the right way.

Being housed, fed, paid, culturally at odds with the U.K. costing us billions, when our economy is in the toilet, heating costs up, cost of living going up, and Labour doing absolutely sweet FA about it.

Reform are tapping into all of it.

I voted Reform at the last election and I’ll be voting for them at the next, for the very simple reason that they are not Tory, Labour or LibDem…..that’s all the reason I need.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Reform is anti-growth and wants to increase red tape with our largest market. They want to throw Ukraine under the bus. And their policies on the NHS which they once wanted to privatise are somewhat vague! No wonder they want to talk about immigration!

(But where they stand on the big issue of the day - getting rid of linear TV channels - remains a big unknown! )

Reform is anti-growth and wants to increase red tape with our largest market.

You presumably mean Reform/Farage's stance on Brexit. He needs to be careful here and base all his decisions around growth. But this is a difficult one. Let's say that Starmer's arrangements with the EU work out well in economic terms by GE time; then Farage needs to have answer to the ensuant awkward questions.

They want to throw Ukraine under the bus.

Another really difficult one. Europe (and Starmer) is all mouth; constantly appalled at Russia but doing nothing decisive about Russia's aggression. It means that Russia will win in the long run by means of attrition. Nor can Trump be relied upon to take decisive action. If that's the case, Ukraine is lost and the proverbial bus is arriving. Can you see a doable different solution?

And their policies on the NHS which they once wanted to privatise are somewhat vague!

Better to be vague at this stage than saying stupid things. On present heading of the economy, it's the unsayable that looms for the NHS. The only thing they can say is that the extra 6 figure number of asylum seekers is an unsustainable burden which leads to:

No wonder they want to talk about immigration!

Indeed.