It doesn’t help that Labour seem determined to fuck things up. They have such a big majority that they could do so much to actually speak to the problems that regular people are experiencing that drives people to vote Reform.
I live in a pretty shitty area that has a high proportion of Reform voters. Our MP is Labour, but on the track we’re on, we might have a Reform MP next time. Some of the Reform voters round here are racist arseholes, but most of them just feel so demoralised and unrepresented by the mainstream political parties that they are desperate for something — anything different.
Some of them actively acknowledge that if Reform won enough seats that Farage became MP, that they would almost certainly fuck up the country significantly, but they don’t care anymore. They’re so desperate for change that the idea of burning the established order down feels appealing, because even if things will get very shit, very fast, that feels like the only path where there’s the possibility of hope for something good springing from the ashes.
It’s simultaneously an irrational and entirely reasonable thing to crave. I can’t say I don’t sympathise.
What an insane position for them to take. It isn’t the US there was more than two parties. Hell they can see that because they’re talking about reform.
Just tell them to vote Green. Or maybe Labour if they get their act together over the next few years. There’s always the possibility that Burnham will be in charge by that point.
It doesn’t help that Labour seem determined to fuck things up. They have such a big majority that they could do so much to actually speak to the problems that regular people are experiencing that drives people to vote Reform.
I live in a pretty shitty area that has a high proportion of Reform voters. Our MP is Labour, but on the track we’re on, we might have a Reform MP next time. Some of the Reform voters round here are racist arseholes, but most of them just feel so demoralised and unrepresented by the mainstream political parties that they are desperate for something — anything different.
Some of them actively acknowledge that if Reform won enough seats that Farage became MP, that they would almost certainly fuck up the country significantly, but they don’t care anymore. They’re so desperate for change that the idea of burning the established order down feels appealing, because even if things will get very shit, very fast, that feels like the only path where there’s the possibility of hope for something good springing from the ashes.
It’s simultaneously an irrational and entirely reasonable thing to crave. I can’t say I don’t sympathise.
What an insane position for them to take. It isn’t the US there was more than two parties. Hell they can see that because they’re talking about reform.
Just tell them to vote Green. Or maybe Labour if they get their act together over the next few years. There’s always the possibility that Burnham will be in charge by that point.