r/europe • u/AlfredsChild England • 2d ago

News Reform takes shock 15-point lead over Labour as Farage dreams of winning power

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/reform-shock-15-point-lead-labour-farage-power-3887857
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u/UniquePariah United Kingdom 2d ago

Did you read my first sentence?

Let me explain as you seem to have skipped it. Reform are a populist party who are pretending to listen to the British public. They, under the name of UKIP, pushed for Brexit which has absolutely been devastating to the British economy. Farage made a shit ton of money out of this. Many if not all of the policies that Reform stand for are BS. A few years ago the party pushed for a flat tax system in regards to income tax, when pressed on this Farage said that the poorest would have a system where they wouldn't pay for the first £10,000 or so.

Except, that's what the UK has now. It's called a progressive tax system. As Farage is in finance he should know this. Which leads to three options. 1. Farage is incompetent. 2. Farage is Evil. 3. Farage is both incompetent and evil.

Again TL;DR, whatever anyone might think of Labour and Conservatives, Reform are worse.

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u/-Radiation 2d ago

It was not specifically for you, but for the voters that somehow vote dissatisfaction for the system by voting for a system guy. They seem to selectively forget for some reason.

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u/UniquePariah United Kingdom 2d ago

Oh I absolutely agree.

I am actually going to alter my main comment, I should put what I wrote to your reply in the main body. I do not want the UK to have our version of a Trump government.

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u/cyberdork North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) 2d ago

Why no mention of the main issue with Reform, that they are just a bunch of racists?

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u/UniquePariah United Kingdom 2d ago

There has been a serious problem over the last decade or more of people flinging that word around, even when it's utter nonsense.

As a result, boy who cried wolf is in full effect right now. You say racist and a lot of people roll their eyes and ignore you or worse still many will agree and say "so what?"

Which when you're dealing with Reform, where calling them racist ignores all the other bigotry they have, is quite an issue.

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 2d ago

Because this fact sadly doesn't move as many people.