Reform has more members than Tories for first time
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/26/reform-uk-overtakes-conservatives-as-membership-swells/
by No_Breadfruit_4901
Reform has more members than Tories for first time
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/26/reform-uk-overtakes-conservatives-as-membership-swells/
by No_Breadfruit_4901
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All of them well versed in the art of politics and diplomacy I’m sure.
This is just depressing, even as someone who’s not the biggest fan of the Tories, the last thing I want is for the right to be pushed even further right.
We went out for Xmas day dinner and somehow the conversation turned to politics and suddenly had 4 tables of strangers all around us agreeing with my parents that reform is the way to go. Merry bloody Christmas haha
Why don’t the govt just start doing what the people actually want and deal with migration and asylum seekers
Why of course is to heavily reduce both.
So much to unpick here.
1. Members? Or registered donors with no voting or membership rights?
2. Reform U.K. are not beyond fabricating such numbers.
3. Conservative Party don’t publish membership numbers. The figure quoted is the number eligible to vote in the last Conservative leadership election. How does that compare with the number of Reform ‘members’ eligible to vote in a leadership election?
Reform is a limited company, isn’t it?
They don’t have members, they have people who have given money to a company.
I used a VPN to try signing up from “abroad”. You don’t have to be a British citizen to be a member. This raises some serious questions.
To be fair, the winter does usually see a significant decrease in Tory members
Lot of folk here suggesting it’s politicians not listening that has driven voters to the right… And not the mainstream media being a constant right wing trumpet for the last decade or more.
“According to an annual poll of 45,000 UK consumers by the market research company Savanta, in 2022 GB News was the nation’s third ‘most loved’ news brand, behind The Guardian and Metro. In the May 2023 survey, it was ranked as the UK’s most-loved news brand, ahead of The Guardian and The Sun. Savanta explained that the channel’s high ranking was a result of its “Marmite” appeal, whereby its dedicated viewers are obsessively positive about the channel. Savanta explained that GB News “taps into a certain demographic’s belief that mainstream media cannot be trusted”.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_News#:~:text=According%20to%20an,cannot%20be%20trusted%22
Imagine Nigel fartage not being able to sleep at night because the country is in ruins
All due to Brexshite
Reform doesn’t have members as it’s not a party, but a company.
How can a PRIVATE COMPANY have members?
Do you mean many people have been conned into handing over £25, just to have NO voting rights?!
How many of these people actually exist and this isn’t just a narrative being pushed?
Not surprising. It’s because Labour are completely stupid and believe they will be in power for a decade.
In reality we are looking at a combined Conservative-Reform party with a supermajority in the next election.
Every story about asylum seekers in hotels brings us one step closer to a real far-right pro-Russia government.
What with our electoral system, one side of the political spectrum being fractured amongst different parties will, with absolute certainty, lead to their failure to gain power.
There’s a reason labour won such a landslide despite getting less votes than when Corbyn was in charge. The right split their vote.
Reforms success isn’t the death knell to progressivism people here seem to think it is.
To be clear though our electoral system is dogshit and undemocratic. It does keep things painfully stable though.
Farage gave a speech about it while being part of a boxing day hunt .
Proper working class man he is …. No idea why the actual working class are falling for the toff
Not a surprise, right wingers will ride whatever train gives them the loudest voice
Not suspicious at all. That someone with the backing of a massive overseas social media company has more on line £10 sign up members than other parties.
Great. When this cunt inevitably gets in and fucks over his base (as we can all see coming) you’d hope the people voting for him won’t immediately go back to the Tories and instead realise that the one party that cares about their livelihoods is doings its best in a terrible situation to help them (labor).
But I doubt it. They will double down or just go back to being CON and getting lied to in the same way but with tenure.
In the same boat as you, as a legal migrant to this country. Now also a citizen, hold a British passport, pay all my taxes etc.
Where the veil dropped for me was talking to a work colleague at a previous job, for reference I am white Australian, but when discussing the migrant issue, I pointed out, I am a migrant, so asked if I’m the issue and therefore unwelcome in the country based on his assessment. His response appalled me, as he then claimed I was the ‘right’ kind of migrant.
The migrant discussion here is more about xenophobia, and in some cases blatant fascism. Not about people’s care for the welfare system. Because if it was really about improving living conditions, reform would back tax rises for the rich to fund welfare programs, but Farage’s new puppet master Musk isn’t going to allow that to happen if they ever get into power.
The UK needs a party that is left/centre left economically – at least until the state is fixed, and right socially. The last thing the UK needs is a party that is economically right – The country, and the people need investment and this just won’t come from private investors who only seek massive profits.
So paying into Farage’s limited company profits and no doubt he is paying his dividends into his pension funds (tax free earnings) whilst drawing his EU pension and his MP salary. Farages cuntiness is directly proportional to his supporter credulousness.
Nigel Farage and co really piss me off. What I want to see, over the next few years, is big money on the left leveraging the online space dominated by the right.
Farage exists today because of social media and funds from bastards. It’s easy for anyone to see. It needs a spotlight on it, in the public eye. Not an ever expanding echo chamber .
glad i am leaving for denmark soon. I don’t wanna live in a country where nigel “big chungus” farage is prime minister
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