Is the country ready for a Farage government?

🙌

Hopefully Sir Starmer, Ms.Badenoch and Sir Davey will sit up and take notice.

They all need better comms teams, they need to brush up on their interpersonal skills.

The government needs to push what it has and is accomplishing.

The government needs to start supporting SME’s and our High Streets.

The Government needs to have approval from its back benchers before making announcements then having to back track.

Lastly but by no means least, they need to start questioning Reform’s credibility and accountability.

There are no policies and even if there were there will be no costings.
Is easy to tell some people what they want to hear, I could get a megaphone now and do it, but once in government the wheels will rapidly come off the bus.

Maybe, Whitewavemark2, the country is ready for a total shake up. Like re-inventing itself?
I'm not a fan of Reform, but we've tried everything else, so Farage is appealing to people's disenchantment. The name is a good one at least, the policies are less far reaching.

Elless

🙌

Well you would expect that age group to support Farage.

A Reform UK government would be a complete disaster, they have no policies, just soundbites. Richard Tice was terrible on Question Time, he just interrupted anyone else who was speaking.

Nooooooo!!!! What a nightmare! The Conservatives and Labour have only themselves to blame for being so frightened of Farage that they try to copy his policies, instead of distancing themselves from him. Farage has only 8 seats if you count Danny Kruger - by the way, did anybody hear Kruger on Political Thinking yesterday, Radio 4? The LibDems have about 70. Farage thrives on publicity - it's all he's got. The other parties need to stand up to him.

And I never even knew about that online poll. How many people answered?

There’s plenty of time for them to polish up some policies.
It will happen if Labour don’t get their act together very soon.
Labour also have to stop rubbishing Reform as I think that will drive even more into their arms, and start listening to concerns of ordinary people.

Heaven help us if it does happen. You can't run a country on soundbites. Look at the post Brexit mess.That should. be a lesson. Farage is all mouth, lots of words but no definite planning.

Babs03

There are no policies and even if there were there will be no costings.
Is easy to tell some people what they want to hear, I could get a megaphone now and do it, but once in government the wheels will rapidly come off the bus.

Sounds a bit like Labour doesn't it? So easy when in opposition and so many promises made before the election

Listening to the concerns of ordinary people is very much one thing but simply playing to the lowest denominator and preying on people’s fears and prejudices is very much another.
Ordinary people have concerns about education, homelessness, the cost of living crisis, a lack of public services, a demolished health service, and climate change etc.
You can’t address all that simply by sending small boats back.
Farage is a one trick pony.

NO ! Some may think it’s a good idea but they can’t be more wrong. Farage may be more articulate than his best friend Trump, but they are of similar minds, which is a worrying prospect for the future.

And btw he won’t be able to send the small boats back either.

My old dad used to say parties in opposition can promise jam every day.

Some of those problems arise from too much immigration.
Of course Reform would need other policies.

Starmer is now finding that the glory days of entering number 10 are well and truly over, and yes, opposition is quite a different thing to being in power.

I am very happy to see that my consituency still regards Reform as beneath contempt.

Get the spreadsheet data here.

www.moreincommon.org.uk/latest-insights/more-in-common-s-september-mrp/

Starmer could always call a snap election. Then we would see how Reform would crash the economy and paralyse the country in less time than it takes a lettuce to wilt.

We now have teenagers as head of councils. Do we want really want 18 year old Cabinet ministers? And speaking of juvenile, which ministry would Lee Anderson be given? Heaven help us.

The House of Commons might not be able to stop their fascist policies but the House of Lords, where there are no Reform peers could. Reform would have a fight getting nominees past the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

lordsappointments.independent.gov.uk/commissionerbiographies

GrannyGravy13

Hopefully Sir Starmer, Ms.Badenoch and Sir Davey will sit up and take notice.

They all need better comms teams, they need to brush up on their interpersonal skills.

The government needs to push what it has and is accomplishing.

The government needs to start supporting SME’s and our High Streets.

The Government needs to have approval from its back benchers before making announcements then having to back track.

Lastly but by no means least, they need to start questioning Reform’s credibility and accountability.

Maybe part of the problem is that I agree with every word, but I doubt if you and I have ever voted for the same party.

If Reform wins the next GE, it's highly unlikely it will have a total majority, but the opposition will be divided. Of course, that's not unusual in the UK, but it's not so much of a problem when the winning party is centrist. It's a huge problem if the winning party is extreme because it won't even pretend to represent the average.

MollyNew

A Reform UK government would be a complete disaster, they have no policies, just soundbites. Richard Tice was terrible on Question Time, he just interrupted anyone else who was speaking.

Hopefully, increased exposure will show them up for the charlatans they are.

Every time I see something like this, it just reminds me how utterly stupid, ignorant and absolutely clueless so many of the population are. If that day should ever come, I hope to god that by then, Scotland is an independent country.

Oreo

Some of those problems arise from too much immigration.
Of course Reform would need other policies.

Which problems?

I can't imagine why people wouldn't want to be part of a group who calls them clueless, it is an absolute mystery.

Galaxy

I can't imagine why people wouldn't want to be part of a group who calls them clueless, it is an absolute mystery.

Well, put it this way, if I said what I really thought of Reform and anyone planning to vote for them, I'd be banned from here!