Farage has published Reform's "manifesto" in the Daily Mail.
It doesn't matter that it's madder than a mad thing if it gets Reform elected.
All they really want to do is wreck the system, and winning GE2029 would accomplish that.
(Once they're in power, they don't have to stick to anything!)
It doesn't matter that it's madder than a mad thing if it gets Reform elected.
All they really want to do is wreck the system, and winning GE2029 would accomplish that.
(Once they're in power, they don't have to stick to anything!)
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Labour have opened the door VERY wide for Reform to march straight in.
(But of course I'm conscious that's impossible unless you make vast changes further up the income scale. I just love the implicit simplicity of it.)
My not-terribly-serious suggestion accomplishes that for everyone earning "enough".
These are all Project 2025/Resolution 1850 stuff. Point 1 might simply become tax cuts for the rich. #StopFascism.
My point was different: they don't need to be good for them to work for Reform, because the full scrutiny needed to unpack how bad they are will only come after the election, when it's too late.
(Oh, what joy it is to be an English pedant!).
Wouldn't especially want to hang around in any country with a far right government.
He has to get reelected first.
He is the right(wing)(dis)honourable member of parliament for Mar A Lago.
A mixture of the eternally dense, and people happy to burn their house down so long as their neighbours house burns down too
Reform, as I mentioned earlier, are likely to bounce all criticism by firing back "Well what would YOU do?" or "Well what's YOUR plan?", thus implying that it's a matchup between two competing ideas/worldviews, rather than between empty nothings (Reform) and reality (everyone else).
Only fools follow skeletor
Sad that UK is in the same boat as Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/06/canada-australia-elections-donald-trump-slump-factor-slump
What is said of Australia is definitely true of UK:
“What people care about most is cost of living.
“What they don’t want to see is one side of politics banging on about pretty trivial culture war issues.”
The sooner Labour stop banging the immigration drum, the better.
Fast forward to now and Labour have a huge majority yet haven’t bothered to bring forward votes at 16 or any kind of electoral law reform
At this rate they’ll be polling in the single digits by the next GE
Starmer’s confused “I didn’t see this coming” face when he loses will be infuriating
1) Promise the impossible.
2) Promise mutually impossible things.
3) Don't worry about how. You'll never have to implement it!
The Tories and Labour can't act the same way because they're expected to govern (even though they may well both be out).
Thus over-flattering Reform's ludicrous position.
But against a decade of relentless hard sell by the establishment media of the farage brand?
Still, as the UK is a bunch of SEZ there isn't much UK left to govern/wreck. All thanks to Brexit.
Wake up, people!