Reform’s ability to poll this high in England and Wales, while not be on track for a single seat up here, is honestly astonishing

by mrjohnnymac18

32 comments

  1. Weird. It’s almost like we’re a different country.

  3. Many plebs on here downvoted me as I laughed when they said Reform would win 25% of the seats at the Holyrood Elections. Guff.

  5. A fair few of the nationalists have other options to split their vote in Scotland.

  6. What is this fetish with doing polls every other day? It’s constant – government less than a year old and within a month they were doing polls and acting if an election was happening next week.

    Maybe if the public weren’t so fu***** stupid and made to think long term, they would actually give time for decisions to play out – ditto the lazy media who Cba with analysing boring policy – much easier to slap up another poll.

  7. I doubt this plays out, tactical voting will completely change this map.

    Are voters really going to allow Nigel Farage to win in order to ‘punish’ Labour by voting green? They might tell a pollster they will 4 years before an election, but Labour will run a hard ‘It’s us or Farage’ campaign and stamp that out.

  8. There’s a fine history of fascist bashing in Scotland.

    That map is absolutely depressing though, what a fucking state of a country to be attached to.

  9. Uk-wide polling poorly predicts results in Scotland, at least whilst the SNP are a significant force.

  10. Don’t worry about it, one of the 🇬🇧 ‘better together’🇬🇧 mouthpieces on this Reddit will be along momentarily to tell us…… somehow this is a good thing.

  11. Imagine watching brexit play out in real time and thinking “my vote is going to farage, what could go wrong”

  12. There’s a viable alternative in Scotland.

    Labour are pouring out the same old Tory policies and ceasing to be an option while the media constantly promote Reform as a vehicle for change.

    It’s not hard math.

  13. Scotland is 95% Scottish. Anti-immigrant parties have little to no appeal here for now

  15. SNP already fills our nationalist needs. We don’t need another alternative to Labour/Tories up here.

  16. For my sins, I live in Larkhall and honestly, the amount of people here who are gonna be voting Reform is nuts. Don’t know how that mirrors other towns mind you

  17. Hey! Englishman here.

    I’m shocked too.

    I’m in the south of England but know and interact with people from all walks of life. Apart from one bloke – who’s a sandwich, quiche and cheap bottle of wine short of a disappointing picnic – I don’t know a single person who’s considered Reform outside of a protest vote in a local election.

    Plenty of people who have issues with both main parties, but no one I know of is holding up Nige as anything other than a grifter.

    These numbers are concerning and really don’t feel real! 😬

  18. That’s cause the further south you go the more they read Newspapers and watch BBC

  19. Don’t believe anything you see. Money has been well spent.

  20. Is it though? the vast majority of us laughed (myself included) at the thought of Trump running in the primarys, let alone winning his first election.

    How about we don’t repeat mistakes if our fellow humans and actually address the issues the people are having without descending immediately into “these ppl dumb, those ppl bad, they’re just ism this or phobic that” or any other useless derogatory term that’s gets confetti’d around these days.

  21. Im pretty sure atleast one of the three border seats will go reform over tory

  22. Polls mean nothing, they overturned a 16000 majority in the by-election.

    The Tories are done, and have never been liked in Scotland, the SNP/Greens are toxic and the lib Dems get protest votes.

    I think Reform will do well, Labour are full of anti British liars.

  23. Nobody wants the others and the opposition isn’t making it clear what abolishing the NHS will do, especially to pescriptions up here.

    That should be the hardline of discussion, not simply screaming racist and thinking that will do the job.

  24. This would not happen in terms of an actual General Election.

  25. the next general election is likely about 4 years away which, considering this sub was flooded with polls saying the snp was going to win 40+ seats up until about 2 months before the vote and they ended up winning 9, means posting this is about as useful as polls of what next week’s lottery numbers are gonna be

  26. I wouldn’t describe Reform UK not getting a seat in Scotland as “astonishing”.

    More – “predictable”.

  27. Reform just polled 20% in Scotland for the first time so let’s not get complacent.

    That said, everyone is getting overexcited about some local elections, that were carried out mainly in rural and semi rural areas, with an ultra low turnout of 30% ish.

  28. Every single time I see one of these polls, I get a bit depressed at the blue wall in the south. Makes me disgusted to be from down there.

  29. This has to be now one of the main reasons Scotland needs independence. Otherwise, Reform will be in charge and we will be very fkd.

  30. Will you accept southern farage haters if he gets in?! (Please?! ) 😭

  31. It’s quite simple the SNP and Scottish MPs have been able to look after the country:
    From our water being under public control therefore not having literal shit water that England has, Still having free prescriptions, Having a relatively good standard of living when compared to many parts of England such as the north of England, free university education and child hearing courts which directly helps children suffering which my mum was apart of. All of this has led to positive things in Scotland that’s why we have such a contrast compared to England now.

    This is why the race riots didn’t catch on here because as a whole people aren’t nearly as angry and have as much discontent with everything because, in the 70s/80s, there’s been an active choice by the government to help it’s not perfect and requires a lot of work but miles ahead of England hence why we are seeing the things we are seeing.

    [Akala talking about Scotland’s active choice on helping](https://youtu.be/QvS78MlAXAQ?si=pmINQGHVPPItQNZC)

  32. Petty grievance based English nationalism doesn’t play well north of the border.

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