I am aware of some of the shortcomings of this party, I am also aware that at the end of the day, they are politicians and will at some point, break their promises.Reform UK is a registered private company in which 100% of shares are held by only a handful of people, the controlling share, 53% held by director Nigel Farage.
30% of shares are held by the multi-millionaire Reform chairman Richard Tice (Brexit) who bankrolls the party.
There is no membership, no internal political structures, and Farage promoted himself to the leader's position when Tice resigned. 115,00 paying supporters have no voting power and can not influence policy in any way.
Farage himself has indicated Reform will “democratise over time”.
But not in time for this democratic election, though, right?
Polls indicate disillusioned Tory voters will vote Reform and although Reform vote share has now dropped from its peak it is still a sizeable 18%, which is the difference between an 80/90 seat majority for Labour and a 130/140 seat majority.
A vote for Reform is a vote for Starmer and Labour.
I live in a safe Labour seat so it doesn't really matter if or who I vote for. I was actually going to vote this morning on my way home from work but there was a queue. But to whom should I lend my precious vote to? I certainly wouldn't vote Conservative. The Greens? you're 'aving a laugh. Liberals? Ed Davey is enough to put me off them. The independent chap? I have no idea who he is. When I drag myself out of bed later I'll probably vote Reform.
It woul be interesting to find out who you voted for in the end.
Knowing that all spoiled ballot papers get read by the candidates, I was going to scrawl on my paper something like protect women's spaces! But I ended up just putting an X in the box next to the Reform candidate. As expected, Labour got back in with an increased majority. Reform came second.
Good for you.
Yet more sneery attacks on the other thread, and then one second later totally contradicts himself on this one.
Bizarrely, followed by -
Followed up on a pro Reform thread with childish insults about Farage.
Petty (emotive) bullshit indeed.
Clearly, Farage has never “accomplished” anything at all, right?
Except for Brexit, the greatest political/economic upheaval certainly since the introduction of Thatcherism (neoliberalism on speed), and a seismic shock that at one point threatened the existence of the world's largest trading bloc.
Followed by a Johnson majority in the 2019 election when Farage pulled 317 Brexit Party candidates from running in the election in Tory seats. To avoid splitting the vote in Tory seats and when pro Brexit Boris then won a sizeable majority. Compared to only two years earlier and when Corbyn came so close to victory running on a Brexit platform but later changed to Remain in 2019 and hence Farages decision two years later.
Who won 5 seats this election and split the Tory vote in 90+ seats, handing Starmer an even larger majority on a lower count than Corbyn achieved in both 2017 and 2019.
Half a million more votes than the Lib Dems but 67 seats less due to FPTP and 14% Reform versus 12% Lib Dems
I am no fan of Farage, or the far right, but the sausages like this one, who believes that he is some sort of political guru (just like Fred), doesn't help matters underestimating Farage and the populist right, and it is just pure ignorance.
I'm reminded of The People's Front of Judea and The Judean People's Front. 
