Nigel Farage says Reform support nearing electoral tipping point for Tories

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1. It’s hilarious that by pretending Brexit doesn’t exist everyone has given him a free pass to peddle even more snake oil and destroy the Tories

2. How will he have time to be an MP when he spends so much of it sucking up to Trump and Putin?

3. Is anyone surprised?
   Cheap labour has gutted this country in the last few decades. I remember reading something in I think the guardian when Austerity was announced by Osbourne, it claimed austerity was political about driving down the life expectations and wages until we met the rising middle class of India.

   A decade later and we are still stagnant or dropping, having had massive drops. Cheap labour imported has been a key factor to this, and communities have been terrorised by the drop in policing.l, especially in the North.Brexit was a protest vote against the status quo spearheaded by Farage.

   Here we are with Farage grabbing that protest vote again if the white working class that have been continually shit on, with drops in living standards and wages in order to make the country have maximum profitable for the aristocrats/elite.

   Surprised Pikachu face when Facism comes rearing it’s head as we then throw insular and often violent ethnic enclaves into that mix.

4. Yet to hear how they will combine the need for ever larger pension payments, with a low birth rate, low taxes and low immigration and flourishing NHS. It’s oxymoron masquerading as policy.

   My mind is open if they ever produce anything coherent, but until then, I can’t vote for more wish thinking.

5. Cameron must be delighted with how well offering a referendum to shut up hard right nutters and stop the tories being cannibalised by UKIP worked out.

6. I can see reform taking enough votes from the Tories to allow other parties to win

7. They have probably passed it already. Were 2 points behind prior to Sunak’s D-Day blunder. Very easy to see a swing greater than 2 points since.

8. I think its so normal and good that the media seems to spend every waking moment doing PR for farage; giving reform 100x the coverage the greens or LD get; even though those parties actually have councillors and MPS

9. People are voting for Reform because neither Labour nor the Tories will bring immigration numbers down. Net migration of 700k is a problem. It’s driving low wages and creating problems with housing. Also the bulk of immigration is from cultures with different values to typical liberal values here (more dogmatic, more homophobic etc.). People don’t like this but nobody with a voice in politics apart from reform is listening to people concerned about these issues. So they vote for someone who is listening, regardless of Reform’s manifesto. The same thing happened with Brexit.

10. No, Nigel. It’s because the Tories have made themselves as popular as a urine smoothie, not because you’re becoming popular.

    If your sole criteria for success is ‘less unpopular than Sunak’, you don’t really have anything to crow about.

11. I’m pretty sure people just want a solution, to immigration, cost of living and the housing situation. Probably in that order too. Because if they somehow managed to stop/slow mass immigration surely it’d be easier to grasp the other two items?

    Let me just say, I’ve no problem with immigration, I do however have a problem with mass immigration. Large groups of people coming over and not integrating to the host country culture then trying to force others into their culture is the major problem.

12. I wouldn’t vote for him, but Farage is keeping what should be a boring election interesting. I doubt he’ll get much upvotes on this sub though.

13. National Front… Sorry I meant Nigel Farage (always get those initials mixed up), also said he wasn’t standing in the elections, because he had more lucrative prospects in America.

    I guess they told him where to go.

14. The two Boomer parties are too busy headbutting each other, thus allowing the Worker party to jog nonchalantly to victory.

15. If this doesn’t show how fucking nuts this country is I don’t know what does. How is this clown anywhere near politics anymore.

16. Love him or loathe him, Farage is a stronger more charismatic leader than Starmer or Sunak

17. I wonder if he’s actually working for the tories. Stir up a frenzy and then quit at the last minute, instructing the flock that the tories are now listening to them.

18. Let’s smash the tories Nigel keep up the great work

19. A small part of me wants this charlatan to win and see how he wriggles out of having to deliver the undeliverable with no one else to blame

20. Nigel Fromage says <select bullshit of your choice from menu of the day>

    Reform – someone needs to reform his face, the chinless wonder/ Spitting Image puppet

21. It was at a tipping point in the European elections. Then a bunch of Reformers got in. I hope some get in I fucking hope Farage gets in. I just want someone to take the absolute piss out of everyone and annoy everyone and Reform will do that.

22. Put “Nigel Farage says” in front of any sentence and complete and utter bullshit will always follow.

23. Everyone who voted Leave should be given 18 months community service and tarred and feathered and made to apologise publicly wearing a dunce’s cap.