Why Reform UK Is Unlike Any Other Party

We've heard a lot about Reform UK recently, especially as their polling is similar to that of the Liberal Democrats - at around 10%. But, where has Reform come from, and what do they even stand for?

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[dulio]

Well given the Tories have been engaged in a decade long process of self-mutilation by going through four PMs in a row while enjoying a majority, someone was bound to show up to pick up the disaffected voters on the fringes.

[frasersteen]

I think you missed out on their immigration focus. Although they aren't explicit about how they will achieve it immigration is clearly the hill they would die on and the main source of their support.

[JaiAcuneIdeeQuoiMettreIci]

Seems a little similar to what happened to Canada’s conservatives in the 1990s. They faced a MASSIVE (178 seats down to 2 seats) defeat in parliament. The Bloc Québécois formed official opposition and the « Reform Party of Canada » came in third .

[swan]

Reform are very strategic, as they know they don't expect to win the upcoming GE, instead expect Labour to win inturn permanently ending the Conserative party and taking their votes.

Btw good on TLDR for actually visually showing their policies directly from their site and not making it some ambiguous biased description.

[infosuge]

To be fair. Labour haven’t explained how they will go about their pledges either, and diluted them to “mission statements”

[goodlookingcorpse]

Why is Reform UK unlike other parties? The other parties are parties.

[kimwit]

So they want to give a huge amount of money to healthcare (and a lot of it to private healthcare) while at the same time do a massive tax-cut. That promises to be a budget as epic as the one Truss the Lettuce came up with.

[KevinTalbotTV]

the uk is too broken and there's too many sheep voting the for the 2 party system that things are only going to get a lot worse so I voted with my feet and left. I'm not paying 70% tax for all this crime

[StephenFiorentini]

Last time around - Split the left

This time - Split the right

[rafaelmartinvannostrand]

Say what you will about Farage and I'm not exactly a fan to put it lately. But the guy knows how to read the political situation and take advantage of it. One of the things he has said recently is the Tories might be facing a 100-year kind of event where they might be completely teared up in pieces and Reform UK taking the place as the opposition to Labour

[richardbrown]

I would have thought that the main difference is that Reform UK is not a party. It's a private pressure group owned by Richard Tice. It has supporters, not members. That is to say, people who financially contribute to it without having any say in its policies or the way it is run.

[farright]

BREAKING.... Lee Andersok has joined Reform UK

[kyleid]

Ah yes, the mysterious "cut spending" that comes out of nowhere, it is just the tories all over again lol

[kingmasterfilip]

They will split tory vote so much its now probable that they (torys) if labour and LibDem vote tacticaly could be left with only 50 seats

[Alvio]

I would love you to do a short video like this on all of the parties. Especially with a general election looming

[jesseberg]

Me at the start of the video: _I thought it was just another vehicle for Nigel Farage's ambitions?_

Me midway through the video: _Oh, he's gone._

Me at the end of the video: _No he isn't._

[jacobhogan]

The problem with comparing Reform UK to Canadian Reform is that Canadian reform had a core regionalized base with a huge seat count (Western Canada), even after years they still failed to win many seats west of Manitoba. Reform Uk could cost the Tories many seats and even win a few constituencies.

But if their vote spread isn't concentrated enough, they could do well but still not win many seats. (As seen with UKIP in 2015.)

There are other factors. The LibDems are arguably in a stronger position then the NDP was in 1993-2000. The SNP isn't as strong as the Bloc was in 1993 either. But I could see an Ontario 1993-2000 situation where Labour sweeps England while the Tories and Reform win only some constituencies.

Scotland and Wales would be more complicated to determine, while Northern Ireland would practically be having their own separate election that could barely factor into parliament depending on how well SF does.

Eventually I think Reform falls apart in an election cycle or two as the Conservatives regroup and get away from government for long enough that people forget why they even voted for Reform in the first place.

[evanman]

Britain's new low: Millions of people willingly voting a registered corporation for government & its shareholder for prime minister 🤣

[rmccaw]

Got to be honest, I'm all over this party now. I didn't know what they were about, but if this really is their manifesto I can't see what's not to like.

[EddieOWright]

Love the image choice at 5:53… i wonder who in history had loads of images taken of him in a similar pose 😂