Farage's cataclysmic wins

Wibbles
Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,464 Championing
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Anyone else concerned about Farage's wins in local elections - and what it may mean for the next general elections in 3 years time ?

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  • onmylonesome
    onmylonesome Community Member Posts: 874 Pioneering

    Nope!

  • ColonelBlink
    ColonelBlink Community Member Posts: 659 Pioneering

    Anything can happen in the next 3 years, I won't lose any sleep over it.

  • Meg24
    Meg24 Community Member Posts: 398 Trailblazing

    Yes absolutely of course, anyone with half a brain cell would be. I'm trying to take comfort in the knowledge that there's enough time between now and then for people to see what a pig's breakfast they make of running councils to get them to realise they've been conned. The online brainwashing has been very damaging.

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Community Member Posts: 1,433 Championing

    We had no elections here. Council tax up 9%

  • ColonelBlink
    ColonelBlink Community Member Posts: 659 Pioneering

    "Yes absolutely of course, anyone with half a brain cell would be."

    That's me safe then @Meg24! 😁

  • Mr_Shoes_Tied
    Mr_Shoes_Tied Community Member Posts: 33 Contributor

    Felt sick seeing the results this morning, it's got me side-eyeing a lot of people as I don't know how they voted this way.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 1,620 Connected

    No elections yesterday in Rotherham MBC, eh?!

    If Reform ever gets in as the government, shoot me! As a disabled 50 year old on benefits I'm pretty much doomed under them, as is every other disabled adult on benefits.

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,468 Championing

    3 years no not worried, I very much doubt I'll be here and I can't see there being a christmas this year.

  • ColonelBlink
    ColonelBlink Community Member Posts: 659 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1124241#Comment_1124241

    No Christmas 2026, how come?

  • bookrabbit
    bookrabbit Community Member Posts: 278 Pioneering

    I feel really unsettled by this. So many people's lives will be ruined if he gets his way:(

    I'm not a Labour voter but I think they should have been given more of a chance to undo the mess the Tories made of the country before they were so badly condemned.

    Reform is the worst of the Tories plus worse than the Tories. The mess they made before will be multiplied if this keeps up:(

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,064 Championing

    He doesn’t like attending parliament, so there’s no worries there.

  • Meg24
    Meg24 Community Member Posts: 398 Trailblazing

    They just took my council. Bye bye household support fund, I await my fate on council tax support, hopefully they can't scrap it till next year

  • Meg24
    Meg24 Community Member Posts: 398 Trailblazing
    edited May 9

    Oh and my library has been hanging by a thread already so that's gone, also we were one of the only areas to keep our Children's centre so that's gone aswell. What are people doing? They've loat their damn minds. [Removed by moderator] funded by billionaires who don't even deign to live here make anything better for the ordinary people?? It's utter insanity.

  • Becker
    Becker Community Member Posts: 30 Connected
    edited May 9

    people are so stupid unfortunately and if reform also get in at the general election they will soon realise it

    FAFO

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 5,966 Championing

    The reality is that Reform physically can't deliver what people actually want in their local Councils. 3 years of that should be enough proof not to vote for them in the General Election…

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 2,927 Trailblazing

    We live in a democracy, which means people can vote how they like.

    This does not make them stupid.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Posts: 1,128 Championing

    I guess most people don't care about the NHS then. 🤷

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 1,620 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/146138/farages-cataclysmic-wins

    If he gets in in 2029 I'm done with this racist Country.

  • Meg24
    Meg24 Community Member Posts: 398 Trailblazing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1124313#Comment_1124313

    It does if they choose not to find out what they're actually voting for. There's no secret about what they plan to do, they've literally spoken openly about it. The latest one was Farage saying "we'll cut disability benefits so hard there'll be riots" which is a stupid thing to vote for if you're disabled.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 2,927 Trailblazing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1124344#Comment_1124344

    Do you know they did not find out what they were voting for?

    This assumption that if people vote a certain way they must not know what they are doing demeans the whole concept of democracy.

    They are entitled to their opinion and just because it is not the same as yours does not make them stupid.

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