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What would an ideal far right country look right to those who would vote Reform?

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Whitewavemark2 Tue 08-Sept-26 08:02:13

I’m not sure.

I know how reforms policies are beginning to shape up, but not clear what a reform voter hopes for?

Peacelilydilly Tue 08-Sept-26 08:37:02

Well we know what a far left one looks like with Labour not very good in my opinion.

MawsRosie Tue 08-Sept-26 08:39:42

This image will stick in my mind, (and craw ) just hope it’s not the DH of anyone here

nanna8 Tue 08-Sept-26 08:44:22

I have no idea.

petra Tue 08-Sept-26 08:51:06

MawsRosie

This image will stick in my mind, (and craw ) just hope it’s not the DH of anyone here

Shave his head, put him in camouflage and you have a Trump ICE agent 🤬

eazybee Tue 08-Sept-26 08:54:50

Well said Peacelilydilly.

Fallingstar Tue 08-Sept-26 08:56:48

Peacelilydilly

Well we know what a far left one looks like with Labour not very good in my opinion.

I haven’t seen a far left government in the UK. Even Attlee et al were just socialists
You do realise that ‘far left’ means communism?
Are you saying that a Labour government are communists?

Fallingstar Tue 08-Sept-26 09:01:11

Whitewavemark2

I’m not sure.

I know how reforms policies are beginning to shape up, but not clear what a reform voter hopes for?

I would also be interested to know what Regorm voters think of their Party’s policies on education, housing, employment, defence, law and order, the NHS, and how to ease the cost of living crisis.

Fallingstar Tue 08-Sept-26 09:01:33

*reform

Ilovecheese Tue 08-Sept-26 09:02:15

I am guessing, something like a Miss Read novel?

westendgirl Tue 08-Sept-26 09:23:58

I seem to remember that Miss Read novels were full of kind , gentle souls who looked out for each other. I cannot see that they had any of the intolerance of the far right and I'm quite sure they would not hit people for speaking their mind, nor yank at their hair.

AGAA4 Tue 08-Sept-26 09:30:34

Perhaps Reform voters believe that if Farage stops the boats life will improve. It won't.
Life may get considerably harder for those who are receiving benefits and use the NHS.

Fallingstar Tue 08-Sept-26 09:43:30

AGAA4

Perhaps Reform voters believe that if Farage stops the boats life will improve. It won't.
Life may get considerably harder for those who are receiving benefits and use the NHS.

Indeed. In fact his most faithful voter base will find that once Farage is proved useless at stopping small boats, or that he is only stopping some small boats on the back of the previous government’s successes, he will be targeting them, the unemployed, the disabled, the elderly, the low paid workers.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 08-Sept-26 09:47:04

eazybee

Well said Peacelilydilly.

But that doesn’t get us any further does it.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 08-Sept-26 09:50:08

Ilovecheese

I am guessing, something like a Miss Read novel?

So once all immigration has been stopped (hoorah!)

Then we must begin to look at what it means for the rest of us.

So let’s start with the economy - the most important thing.

Anyone know what Reform’s economic policies will be?

Whitewavemark2 Tue 08-Sept-26 09:51:20

Sorry about the wrong quote. I think I was so taken aback that I tapped it by mistake😄😄

J52 Tue 08-Sept-26 09:58:17

MawsRosie

This image will stick in my mind, (and craw ) just hope it’s not the DH of anyone here

grabbing someone by the back of the neck is highly dangerous and carries severe medical and psychological risks. Even if the grab is meant to control, intimidate, or steer a person rather than explicitly compress their airway, the neck is an incredibly vulnerable structure containing arteries, nerves and spinal cord. Google
I agree with you, but more worrying to me is the hand grabbing the back of her neck.

J52 Tue 08-Sept-26 10:03:28

Fallingstar has probably summed it up. Ok for those who are wealthy enough to buy health services and other needs of daily life.
One reason I’m referring to other posts, is to avoid the ‘echo chamber’ effect that some people identify and object to.

Graphite Tue 08-Sept-26 10:09:51

Reform men have already decided what the role of Reform women should be:

A tweet from, Darren, one of the balaclava “patriots”, those morons who are doxxing RNLI volunteers.

Darren: If we have to mobalii (sic) on mass their (sic) is a job for everyone men on the front line women can always make sandwiches or bring water if we all their (sic) for long duration

Woman's reply: F* off and make your own sandwiches.

Peter Chappell’s book What If Reform Wins is a good read.

Gaby Hinsliff's Guardian review from April 2026:

a political thriller that bothis and isn’t fiction, sketching the imagined arc of a Reform government from triumph to disaster.

Without giving too much away, the fault lines it identifies within Reform – including the risk of infiltration by extremists, represented here by a strictly imaginary character who nonetheless strongly reminds me ofareal person hovering somewhere near its fringes – are realistic enough. As a “nonfiction thriller”, it’s convincing. As an analysis of Reform in power, my only worry is that Chappell may be too optimistic about the speed with which things fall apart. Let’s hope he’s a better forecaster than me.

Yesterday, watching the increasing unhinged Zia Yusuf nodding along like a puppet as Tommy Robinson’s former bodyguard, convicted criminal Danny Thomas, dictated terms to him, Chappell seems to have that part, at least, spot on.

Grantanow Tue 08-Sept-26 10:14:51

In answer to the OP, I shudder to think.