I’m not surprised. I spent a little time in north Wales and Wrexham last December.
I needed a fairly long cab ride from Wrexham and another later on in the week to Bangor. Both drivers were talking about immigration, Farage and Reform.
If enough cab drivers have been recruited to push this message to passengers that seem amenable to the message, it could turn out a lot worse than this.
Tories, an independent, and reform? What a wonderful selection to choose from
No Labour, Green or PC candidate though
Apathetic voters in these elections will keep giving Reform seats
Shirley thurley
How is that not the story
Here before the right wing astroturfing
Populations about 3000 give or take.
Not sure how useful Local Authorities are in Wales in terms of democracy.
If 9 in 10 people don’t vote it’s hardly a mandate is it?
If we scrapped the councillors and just kept the actual employees who deliver the services, you wouldn’t notice any difference on a day to day level.
We’re literally forking out to give a load of local busy bodies a power trip.
People go on about 30 extra Senedd members being a waste of money.
We’d pay for them several times over by dumping the councillors.
And don’t get me started on the Crime commissioner people wtaf they do is beyond me.
A lot of people are just tired of the status quo and voting for reform is their way to show their displeasure I guess. Doesn’t mean they’re stupid or victims of manipulation necessarily. Trend seems to be shifting towards the right lately, at some point it will swing left again. Nothing new under the sun, I wouldn’t worry about such things too much.
The only way to change this is to stand for election. Labour are struggling to field candidates here.
How did less than 400 people vote in Llandudno that’s crazy
Dire day indeed when any Welshman votes for an English Nationalist party. Reform will prey on deprived communities with their messages of division and blaming the ‘other’ the same way the far right have always exploited people. The only cure for it is investing in our communities, which successive English governments have failed to do, and remembering who we are. We keep a welcome in the hillsides, not pitchforks. If you are frustrated with Labour which I completely understand at the moment then Plaid Cymru is the protest vote, not the far right. Never the far right.
I won’t vote reform, but I’m glad something is happening to filter out the nonsense that have been stable in wales for past generations.
I’d rather bad ideas and groups come out if it means our actual MPs who get voted in actually do anything.
We’ve had the same labour MP for years here in my county, does nothing, gets his big pay check, and fucks off home (which isn’t where we live)
We need competition to thrive. Just pleased to see it finally happening slowly, hopefully it encourages new people to challenge and make wales a better place.
Not that I don’t love it anyway
I would be looking for election interference either via tech algorithms or not counting all the ballots.
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Another big turnout…
I’m not surprised. I spent a little time in north Wales and Wrexham last December.
I needed a fairly long cab ride from Wrexham and another later on in the week to Bangor. Both drivers were talking about immigration, Farage and Reform.
If enough cab drivers have been recruited to push this message to passengers that seem amenable to the message, it could turn out a lot worse than this.
Tories, an independent, and reform? What a wonderful selection to choose from
No Labour, Green or PC candidate though
Apathetic voters in these elections will keep giving Reform seats
Shirley thurley
How is that not the story
Here before the right wing astroturfing
Populations about 3000 give or take.
Not sure how useful Local Authorities are in Wales in terms of democracy.
If 9 in 10 people don’t vote it’s hardly a mandate is it?
If we scrapped the councillors and just kept the actual employees who deliver the services, you wouldn’t notice any difference on a day to day level.
We’re literally forking out to give a load of local busy bodies a power trip.
People go on about 30 extra Senedd members being a waste of money.
We’d pay for them several times over by dumping the councillors.
And don’t get me started on the Crime commissioner people wtaf they do is beyond me.
A lot of people are just tired of the status quo and voting for reform is their way to show their displeasure I guess. Doesn’t mean they’re stupid or victims of manipulation necessarily. Trend seems to be shifting towards the right lately, at some point it will swing left again. Nothing new under the sun, I wouldn’t worry about such things too much.
The only way to change this is to stand for election. Labour are struggling to field candidates here.
How did less than 400 people vote in Llandudno that’s crazy
Dire day indeed when any Welshman votes for an English Nationalist party. Reform will prey on deprived communities with their messages of division and blaming the ‘other’ the same way the far right have always exploited people. The only cure for it is investing in our communities, which successive English governments have failed to do, and remembering who we are. We keep a welcome in the hillsides, not pitchforks. If you are frustrated with Labour which I completely understand at the moment then Plaid Cymru is the protest vote, not the far right. Never the far right.
I won’t vote reform, but I’m glad something is happening to filter out the nonsense that have been stable in wales for past generations.
I’d rather bad ideas and groups come out if it means our actual MPs who get voted in actually do anything.
We’ve had the same labour MP for years here in my county, does nothing, gets his big pay check, and fucks off home (which isn’t where we live)
We need competition to thrive. Just pleased to see it finally happening slowly, hopefully it encourages new people to challenge and make wales a better place.
Not that I don’t love it anyway
I would be looking for election interference either via tech algorithms or not counting all the ballots.
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