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We are in a period of the average person being worse off (relatively) than they were 20 years ago. People worried about what kind of future their children will have.
The likes of Trump and Farage offer easy explanations to people - it's the fault of the deep state, immigrants, the left... We're here to help you, we're on the side of the average Joe...
It's an easy sell to people looking for easy answers. Labour's comms since they came into power have been piss poor. Some of their actions and decisions have been even worse. Who do they think they are targeting for support?
Meanwhile, Farage promises easy solutions to complex problems. It doesn't matter that there's no substance to it, enough people will hear it and want to believe it. He has managed to project himself as a man of the people but he wouldn't give you the steam off of his piss. And, let's be honest, there are lots of people who are privately racist and prejudiced and will just be voting for Reform in the privacy of the voting booth.
I think we're in for a rough ride politically over the next few years
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A reverse takeover of the Tory Party looks very likely at this point in time. They'll ride the wave of Trumpism, blaming minorities for structural economic problems which of course will be exacerbated should they get their way - kick out the doctors, nurses, engineers and low-paid staff who are keeping the country on life support and hand even more power and wealth to the people who are causing the destruction.
Voting for Farage is insane. The man behind a catastrophically stupid collective decision to make the UK weaker, poorer and more vulnerable needs to be given more power?
How patriotic.
Am sick to death of being told we have to listen to people who are too stupid to understand they are being played, or just don't care. Why should the rest of us have to suffer because they don't have critical thinking skills and/or empathy?
And I know the other options are bad, but you don't align with fascists. Previous Message
in Runcorn saying that he voted for Reform because he doesn't want any immigrants "around here". Whilst he was talking to the reporter a passerby called him a "Reform Nazi". He said it was the third time today that he'd been called a Nazi.
I wouldn't mind having a word with him at the match tomorrow.
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