r/reformuk

We knew it was coming. The polls were clear. They've voted like this now and will likely do so at the next election. This is what people want and yet there is this kind of head scratching going on. Threads and comments appearing with sentiment like:

"why on earth would they do this?"

"don't they know they're being brainwashed by the right wing media?"

"don't they know Farage is a grifter?"

"don't they know they will lose the NHS?"

"why won't the working class vote the way I think they should?"

At the same time we have a thread asking "Why is Birmingham most likely going to elect a man who was jailed for five years in 1999 for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen?"

So maybe, a lot of people in the country don't like the way the country is going and they want change and they don't think Tory's (in for the last 14 years) or labour (currently in) are going to do it. Hell they gave them both a chance.

Is it really so hard to accept that people might want to vote for a candidate who is finally promising to give them want they want, even if they know he's a bit dodgy?

I can’t believe it took me this long to realise this. I am so sick and tired of my own country being invaded by immigrants. The city near me feels like a third world country. It doesn’t feel British at all. In many areas I can barely see any British people and it makes me feel so sad and displaced.

A lot of the immigrants I see don’t appear to assimilate or embrace British culture which makes me feel like a stranger in my own country.

There is simply too much immigration and with my own eyes I can see that it is so obviously out of control. But when I come on Reddit it’s treated as if the problem isn’t merely as bad, and that people who share my views are somehow in the wrong.

Almost every British person I know agrees with me on this in real life, but when I come on Reddit this is seen super controversial. Reddit seems so out of touch with reality that I find it baffling.

I thought this was the "no borders", mass migration party, but they seem incensed with the idea of having to actually house migrants in their own communities.

YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING

I'm a part of one of the groups that reform doesn't seem to like very much (African descent), but I was born in Canada, and many of the issues you guys are having, we have here too. I'm quite young and not yet old enough to vote, but the rise of immigration from a certain group has completely destabilised our job market and made it impossible for any young people to get jobs. Most Canadians on either side of the political spectrum are sick and tired of having more people come when we just do not have the infrastructure to accommodate them all. Life has been made unaffordable and frankly unlivable. In much more southern Ontario, there is no such thing as multiculturalism anymore; it's all just one group, and they are disrupting everything.

On youth unemployment specifically, we have a food chain here called Tim Hortons that used to be the place all us teens could get a job, but they no longer higher canadians, only Indians. The quality has taken a nosedive because of that. When it comes to jobs in general, the Government has decided that outsourcing workers is a much better idea than hiring actual Canadians (born or naturalised). My father works for the government and is an overseer of both the judicial system and IT, and he has had difficulties with foreign workers not doing their work properly or just not being able to do it at all. We live in a bilingual country (French and English) and, in my case, specifically live in the capital, therefore speaking both or at least just a little bit of French is a must. They can't do either and seem not to want to learn. It's made smoothness in the workplace nearly impossible because some people may only speak French, and when the person on the other end doesn't speak either, everything is slower. The people in Quebec have it the worst because it's a fully French province, and there's been a wave of immigrants who refuse to learn, adjust, and integrate.

On religion as a Christian, the erasure and demonization of my beautiful religion has been nothing short of disheartening. Saying Merry Christmas is no longer acceptable, it's now Happy Holidays... Islamic holidays have been prioritised and normalised in a way that is simply not normal for a country that should be based on Christian values. I honestly don't even believe that religion should be mixed with politics if we want politics to be completely fair, but it's just so unfair that one religion is regarded as okay when one isn't.

Outside of some of the bigotry that has been shown from the Reform Party, I agree with many of your points and wish that Canada would take such a stance on immigration and substandard behaviour from others. Sorry for the rant, but I have no one to talk about this with😭