Reform UK does not have members. They are subscribers to the limited company of a politician who supports the decriminalisation of drugs. 60 per cent of Reform MPs, a higher percentage than Labour, voted in favour of assisted suicide. Of 176 local by-elections since the General Election, real votes cast by the people who never missed an opportunity to vote, Reform has won seven. If it were any threat to anything, then it would not be on the BBC. And Labour had more members than the Conservatives under Jeremy Corbyn, who is not Prime Minister.
Still, Reform's figures have been augmented by the fact that a subscription costs only £10 per year for those aged under 25. If there is one thing that the Western cultural and political Establishment cannot tolerate, then it is anything with a young male following. Again, ask Corbyn. But this does provide some context to the apparent revival of the idea of lowering the voting age to 16. Some people should be given what they wished for. And that is before the ill will that will be created by digital ID, targeting trade unionists and peace activists at least as much as anyone else. We need a national network of establishments that would never ask for it, and we should boycott any that did.
“Reform UK does not have members. They are subscribers to the limited company of a politician”
ReplyDeleteFar from being a limited company, Farage famously gave up his majority shares and Reform UK is the only party that is genuinely member-owned. Drug decriminalisation is the policy unofficially pursued by Labour ever since the 1970’s (as outlined in Peter Hitchens The War We Never Fought) but it is not Reform’s policy and thus wasn’t in its manifesto. Assisted suicide only passed because Labour has a huge majority and 60% of its MPs backed it while 80% of Tories opposed it.
As anyone who knows anything about politics will tell you, local by-elections tell you nothing about national popularity (unlike polls or General Elections) because they’re local and hardly anyone votes in them. In the only poll that matters, (the General Election) Reform was the third largest party in Britain has by vote share and it already overtaken the government in the polls since.
“If it were any threat to anything, then it would not be on the BBC.”
The most ludicrous sentence I’ve ever read. The BBC despises Reform and as everyone knows it never gives a fair hearing to conservative ideas but as a publicly funded broadcaster (required to at least pretend to be impartial) it can’t ignore Britain’s third biggest party by vote share!
But down the sherry, it's Boxing Day now.
DeleteWhile Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage argue amongst themselves, the Labour Party is steaming ahead with their destruction of the British economy. Neither of them are the real opposition—just two cheeks of the same backside.
ReplyDeleteFarage's excitable supporters thought that he was going to be Prime Minister this year, he himself probably expected 50 or 60 seats, and even the exit poll said 13. Five was so humiliating that there were riots.
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