What can be done ....

[TheOstrich]

.... to halt the seemingly inexorable rise of Reform UK at the ballot box, and the subsequent imposition of a MAGA-style Government from 2029?

I wonder if we will start to see electoral pacts between the Tories and the LibDems in some constituencies.
Or is our best hope going to be a hung Parliament, which seems awfully like leaving it all to chance to me .....

[Workingman]

Oh my, you have to love these predictions from the pollsters...!

Reform UK Ltd are apparently going to go from 15% of the vote to 31% of the votes, but get this; they are going to go from 5 MPs to 362 MPs. As if!!!

In other predictions: I am going to win the Postcode Lottery even though I do not buy a ticket.

It's all a fantasy, but one worth watching.

[cruiser2]

Local elections are not a true picture of what will happen at a general Election.

Also we will have to wait till Starmer decides he has done enough damage and can retire on a nice pension.

All he seems to do is wander round factories and building sites and attend meetings overseas.

[Kaz]

I'm with Frank on this, but it does sadden me rather that the media give Reform so much credence

[medsec222]

I am watching Reform with interest. It is not set up like the other political Parties apparently, which they will need to do something about if they want to be taken seriously. I like Ben Habib for his straight talking on matters which concern a large proportion of the working class voters, including myself. The fact that he has fallen out with Nigal Farage regarding the set-up of the Reform Party and has now left the Party does concern me. I am fed up with both the Tories and Labour. At the moment I would not want to vote for either of them.

[cromwell]

Oh, don't worry.
In Romania the guy who was favourite to be elected President was barred from standing.
In Germany once the Afd hit the front in the polls they were declared an extremist organisation by the German security services.
In France Marine Le Pen was barred from politics for paying staff with EU funding; which many French politicians do but only she has been prosecuted for.
So I'm sure that before the next election something will be found to protect our precious democracy from errr, democracy.

[TheOstrich]

I must say, I'm not sure whether to admire or be horrified by some of the more sanguine replies in this thread.

I would have thought that the events of 2016 might have concentrated minds more - but there again, we don't tend to learn from history, do we?

Y'all seem to have much more faith than I do in the British people's ability not to shoot themselves in the foot. Time will tell, and as Crommers notes, you can always change the rules if you want to .......

If not, though, Farage awaits - and the clock is now officially ticking.

[Workingman]

OK, I'll admit to being sanguine... in this way.

Reform UK Party Limited and its CEO, St Nigel of Clacton (always absent), will not form the next government, nor will they be in a coalition with any serious party.

This far out they can promise everyone a gold ingot, free beer and free electricity, but come the GE they will need a fully costed manifesto of policies that can be delivered, and those will be scrutinised to the nth.

I'll be stocking up on popcorn - toffee, white chocolate, maple and pecan, and mixed citrus icing sugar.

[victor]

Getting rid of Reform would be easyjet have to get rid of that lying toerag in Downing St first.

Sent from my SM-A156B using Tapatalk