{"id":96651,"date":"2025-05-13T00:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96651\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T00:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:17:14","slug":"why-this-centrist-dad-is-probably-voting-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96651\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this centrist dad is (probably) voting Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a liberal, centrist dad Remainer. I desperately wish we could rejoin the European Union. I really don\u2019t like Donald Trump. I could go on. But if a general election were held tomorrow, I would seriously consider voting Reform. In fact, Nigel Farage\u2019s party is increasingly likely to get my support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reform\u2019s success in last week\u2019s elections was no fluke: the latest YouGov survey puts\u00a0the party\u00a0on 29 per cent<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That I\u2019m flirting with voting Reform might surprise you, but I\u2019m not alone. Reform\u2019s success in last week\u2019s elections was no fluke: the latest YouGov survey puts\u00a0the party\u00a0on 29 per cent. The reason why is simple: the other parties are offering more of the same when Britain is badly in need of change.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with Labour. Despite being a Remainer, I am basically centre-right in political outlook. I support capitalism, free markets and free trade (which is why I don\u2019t like Brexit, but I digress).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am a liberal, centrist dad Remainer. I desperately wish we could rejoin the European Union. I really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-96651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114497653680014443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}