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Look I don’t know how to tell you this but just because you live in a bubble doesn’t mean everybody else does.

That is not “a big shift in the UK towards reform”, don’t be daft. They only have 4 MPs only two of which ever bothered turning up, they are about as politically relevant as my underwear.

Also Reform absolutely are far right they are basically Nazis, albeit brainless lazy incompetent ones. You need to go outside and interact with normal members of the human race rather than whoever it is you’re talking to on the “I’m not racist but…” Facebook group

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14% of the vote from a brand new party, with signs that’s increasing. It not insignificant

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You’re taking data out of context. You can make it say anything when you do that.

Labour won with fewer votes than they got in the last election which they lost. That tells me that this was mostly a protest vote people weren’t voting for any particular party that were voting for not to the conservatives.

But in the 2025 election the conservatives won’t be in power and so there won’t be a protest vote against them. If reform do well in those elections that would be evidence of a shift until then the balance of probability is simply that they were the obvious processed vote for the right-wing inclined that did not want to vote for the conservatives.

You cannot draw any conclusions from the results of such a politically unstable period.

Additionally I’m not letting you off the hook for in any way trying to suggest that the reform party are in any way shape or form anything but a bunch of bigoted misogynists. How dare you suggest that they are simply a right-wing political party that the other parties are trying to lambast in an attempt to discredit them. They are far right extremists, stop trying to defend them.

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The average person wants lower immigration plain and simple.

That’s what reform is largely winning votes on. Something that historically has been a left view.

They are no where near as bad as everyone makes out. People are trying to paint them as Nazis.

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