🔴‘I Asked Nigel Farage’s Supporters What They Really Want and the Answers Were Alarming’ My time spent mingling with Reform supporters revealed a lot about where the UK could be heading next, argues David Goff bylinetimes.com/2025/02/20/r... - ThreadSky

bylinetimes.bsky.social • 1 day ago

🔴‘I Asked Nigel Farage’s Supporters What They Really Want and the Answers Were Alarming’

My time spent mingling with Reform supporters revealed a lot about where the UK could be heading next, argues David Goff

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/20/reform-poll-immigration-labour/

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choosearandomname.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really fucking hate that man

charlie859.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fascism.
Farage supporters want fascism.

elainewyatt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Until most (there will always be some that like it) experience fascism personally. Then it will be too late.

debmacc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep...like what is happening in america now

iebathrugby.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's lack of learning, being swayed by easy fixes by people who might look like them having a pint & a fag, waving a flag, being white & of a certain age. Hitler used sthese tactics by picking up on common themes of the disenfranchised & blaming elements of the population to fit the brief/narrative

londoner007.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ew..

k1rsty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great read. Both amusing & terrifying. My ex- best friend is Reform - well off, educated, but brain washed & now a bigot…

andy-whee.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the danger exists because it would be possible under the First-Past-The-Post election system. While it still has the chance, Labour needs to change Westminster elections to a Proportional Representation system. Even that is not guaranteed, but it makes so so much harder for extremists.

dogtorapproximate.bsky.social•1 day ago

We need education . Not just anti reform propoganda. But education about our politics and impacts in different policies . I no longer have tv but still pay a tv licence because I feel strongly that bbc SHOULD be education not looking for money in attics and flipping houses

hedleyharrison.bsky.social•1 day ago

Depressing but not surprising. This anti immigrant/foreign narrative is deeply ingrained. It’s the question of how widespread it is that will determine where we end up. Starmer and co have the next 4 years to make a tangible difference.

neilpbowen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Brexit hasn’t worked for these people as they were promised. So they think the next step is to ‘take back control’ by installing an authoritarian government

debby64.bsky.social•1 day ago

Eventually, they will all turn on each other.
I do believe our education system is in tatters.
They haven't cottoned that the millionaires well educated are taking the piss.

melissahbuckner.bsky.social•1 day ago

When far right narratives appeal to lower quadrants of a country’s educated and billionaires and politicians leverage their angst…you get President Musk.

tempus-fukit.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’re lapping up the same poisoned gruel as their American counterparts, but they’re only just finishing breakfast. Their conspiracies are still lukewarm, lacking the full-blooded delirium of the US strain – except when stirred by wholly imaginary war memories, at which point the fever sets in

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