What are Reform policies

[J_B]

Bizarrely, many people who would be most hit by Reform policies are voting for them. I fully get that the traditional parties of power have failed repeatedly in their eyes and they’re looking for something, anything different.
I’m pretty sure that they won’t get into power in Cardiff Bay but they are undoubtedly a serious contender for power in Westminster at the next election and Westminster is where the real power resides.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Left, right, far left, far right blah blah blah.

I never voted, but the mood of my part of the world, is we are struggling with cost of living, can't get a dentist or doctor appointment and god help you if you need the hospital for an emergency. An open invitation to the rest of the world is not going to make the above any better. So I understand the Reform protest vote because the UK has had enough of the usual status quo.

Reform won’t make any of that better. The sick and infirm will be their next big target. Hopefully there are enough decent people in Wales which prevents that happening.

 

[Michu78]

Reform won’t make any of that better. The sick and infirm will be their next big target. Hopefully there are enough decent people in Wales which prevents that happening.

I agree

 

[Pegojack]

WELL DONE, SCOTLAND!

A big "get tae f*ck" for the frog faced twat!

 

[LeonWasTheDogs]

Left, right, far left, far right blah blah blah.

I never voted, but the mood of my part of the world, is we are struggling with cost of living, can't get a dentist or doctor appointment and god help you if you need the hospital for an emergency. An open invitation to the rest of the world is not going to make the above any better. So I understand the Reform protest vote because the UK has had enough of the usual status quo.

You don't vote and you also don't appear to have any idea what's going on unfortunately. We don't have an open invitation to the rest of the world. Immigration has collapsed (hurting those areas of the economy that were internationally-facing, be that needing workers or relying on students). Our policies are also literally tearing families apart if one partner is British and the other a foreigner who doesn't meet the strict immigration rules. We are depriving children of both of their parents in the name of "tackling immigration". What more do you want to see?

 

[LeonWasTheDogs]

I would be in that position and undoubtedly pay less tax under Reform. I also see how disastrous a Reform government would be to social structures. education and personal freedoms. Thatcher destroyed an awful lot of social structure in the UK in the process of making an individual "I'm alright Jack" approach. Reform would be that on steroids.

It would be a good time to make sure you don't include any words like diversity or equality in any grant proposals! They may not go exactly as the US has but they have EDI firmly in their sights.

 

[Professor]

It would be a good time to make sure you don't include any words like diversity or equality in any grant proposals! They may not go exactly as the US has but they have EDI firmly in their sights.

That would be an enormous change as current UKRI funding specifically asks for your institution policy and your action to ensure these in applications.
I may be retired by any change!

 

[rockinj]

I’m trying to understand and rationalise the reform vote.

I think the best I can come up with is this. A deep anger with a left wing class that has prioritised identity politics and liberalism over working class interests.

So ie the reform vote kind of knows they’re voting largely against their own interests but they’re sacrificing this element to force the left into class politics with social conservatism.

I don’t think it’s just immigration it’s a feeling of a loss of traditional working class family values towards progressive liberalism.

I’m sort of finally starting to get it. So it’s incumbent on Labour to stop the nonsense completely (have got better) and focus solidly on a blue Labour approach.

 

[Smurph]

I’m trying to understand and rationalise the reform vote.

I think the best I can come up with is this. A deep anger with a left wing class that has prioritised identity politics and liberalism over working class interests.

So ie the reform vote kind of knows they’re voting largely against their own interests but they’re sacrificing this element to force the left into class politics with social conservatism.

I don’t think it’s just immigration it’s a feeling of a loss of traditional working class family values towards progressive liberalism.

I’m sort of finally starting to get it. So it’s incumbent on Labour to stop the nonsense completely (have got better) and focus solidly on a blue Labour approach.

Reform have been telling a certain demographic what they want to hear. That demographic is now going to find out they were fed a load of shit.

 

[LeonWasTheDogs]

That would be an enormous change as current UKRI funding specifically asks for your institution policy and your action to ensure these in applications.
I may be retired by any change!

Yes indeed. It all changed quite quickly in the US though and Reform could change the leadership and dictate funding areas. Hopefully there would be more pushback here. Now is probably a good time to get out anyway the way things are going (I did last year).

 

[Niigata Jack]

Starmer getting battered everywhere yet he's the man the country needs.

Sounds like we need you boy's Scottish friend to come back and take Keir back with him to whatever part of the world he's living in

Unfortunately I've not seen Jadon for a couple of years now, last time he came here, I spent an hour or more up in my fish house, he was fascinated with my Koi, he was asking my questions that I didn't have answer for cause they had never dawned on me he's a very intelligent lad and great lad to know.

 

[Niigata Jack]

Where do we go now PC have got 43 seats that's 6 short of the 49 needed for full control so who is he gonna call on, its Labour without a doubt, so whats gonna change ??

Its obvious that Labour voters pissed off with Labour have jumped onto Plaids carnival parade, but what happens next, ???

 

[rockinj]

Where do we go now PC have got 43 seats that's 6 short of the 49 needed for full control so who is he gonna call on, its Labour without a doubt, so whats gonna change ??

Its obvious that Labour voters pissed off with Labour have jumped onto Plaids carnival parade, but what happens next, ???

Plaid have to work as a minority Gov or be radical and do a deal with tories but no doubt they’ll do the usual thing which is same old as you say.

 

[Niigata Jack]

Feel a little sorry for Eluned Morgan, taking over after the dreadful Drakeford years, basically he give her an impossible job with his policies.

 

[Niigata Jack]

Plaid have to work as a minority Gov or be radical and do a deal with tories but no doubt they’ll do the usual thing which is same old as you say.

That's what I mean, what will change, I think given with Iorwerth's lack of experience he'll be influenced by Labour.