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
2.2k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

12

u/melonowl Denmark 2d ago

Working class people voting for parties advocating for, and providing, better conditions for working class people is pretty sensible. Voting for parties that are good at hyping up problems and pretending that hugely complex issues have simple solutions that only that party can provide is not very sensible. Particularly when parties like that continue to demonstrate that their actual goals are to benefit an extreme minority of society at the cost of everyone else, and primarily at the cost of the working class people voting for them.

2

u/LeBlueBaloon 1d ago

True, but they're pointing out that people used to vote along class lines regardless of what their representatives did.

That's a recipe for corruption and power abuse.

This is about people voting while emotional and uninformed. Blindly voting for the farmers party because you are a farmer or the business party because you run a business is still a problem