And again you assume anyone with what you consider extreme views are thick.
I think this is there long term aim. Reform doesn’t have the infrastructure or knowledge to maintain a long term political party. They need agents to organise the local offices, write speeches, organise letter drops etc. I’ve been volunteering in my local labour office and it is a massive job to be successful at electioneering. They need volunteers who will go out canvassing etc not just sit on twitter amping up farage’s ego. If they are successful reform would have access to the conservative sponsors (if they don’t leave in protest) and siphon the money off into their own bank accounts. They need a political structure which reform don’t have and takes £££ and time to build so it would be quicker and easier to take over another party. The only question is would the conservatives let this happen? I don’t mean just the parliamentarians but also the grassroots who do all the volunteer and grunt work? Could totally destroy them. The nasty party rhetoric failed. Normally the Conservative party is great at pulling together in times of crisis for the party but since BJ it seems to have gone into terminal decline.
Applies to most career MPs to be honest. Bunch of bean counters shuffled between roles regardless of relevant experience. Plenty of lazy bastards across all parties.
What new ideas are Reform providing?
Ok maybe I shouldn’t have said the others are as ‘back of a fag packet’ as Reform, the point I was trying to make (badly) was that theirs might be more realistic due to more scrutiny, but that still doesn’t mean they are in anyway more achievable by those parties because as we’ve seen with other manifestos/promises over the years they all talk the talk, get into power and then don’t walk the walk.
The pledge to hold a referendum on our membership of the EU was in the 2015 Tory manifesto and to the country's detriment they kept to it.
A lot has come in since Farage said he was standing .. I saw figures of around £1m .. they won’t be showing in accounts yet, be interesting to see the accounts next year. I’m guessing a big old Dividend for the King of the Grift
This is probably why Cameron defied the odds and exit polls and won a majority. Because people wanted a referendum…. And they wanted out.
. This was back in 2020 just after Covid.
We're still waiting for the £350m extra per week for the NHS...
It's the foreigners' or the EU's fault we don't have it or summat.
And don't forget "remoaners" who want to disrupt brexit.
