REFORM’S VIEW ON WELFARE/ BENEFITS

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  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 5,944 Championing

    Robert Jenrick attended St John's College Cambridge and is a qualified solicitor.

    He is not a fool.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,366 Championing

    I agree he's definitely not a fool.

    I don't understand why some people feel the need to resort to petty insults in such a derogatory manner.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 5,944 Championing
    edited May 18

    Do you have a link to support this statement.

    We seem to be going back to the mind set of if you are part of or vote for Reform you do not know what you are doing.

    It was the same with Brexit those that voted leave did not know what they were voting for.

    It is a blinked view in my opinion.

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,389 Championing

    There seems to be some major double standards going on.

    We can't be complaining about name calling or disabled people all being tarred with the same brush in one thread and then doing exactly the same to other people in another.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,366 Championing

    You also insult others on a regular basis in an offensive manner, based on their employment status ie benefits advisors with unessacery derogatory comments and how you perceive some politicians physical appearance.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 5,366 Championing

    That is no excuse to insult them with petty name calling or to insult some politicians with disgusting slurs based on how you perceive their physical appearance.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing
    edited May 18
  • Stellar
    Stellar Community Member Posts: 584 Trailblazing

    You can be educated and still a fool. Jenrick - a former Tory and minister in Rishi Sunak's cabinet - is a classic example of that.

    All this is correct. As for why Reform supporters keep criticising peopel who oppose them, it's because right wingers in general are more vocally against anyone calling out their party.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing

    As Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick ordered murals of cartoon characters to be painted over at a reception centre in Kent, as he claimed it was too welcoming. I know what that makes him, but I will keep that to myself.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 5,944 Championing
    edited May 19

    Just to make one thing clear I do not support nor have I ever voted for Reform.

    I just do not like all the name calling which I have never done and the nastiness that is directed on one party that has never been in power. I think it should be a more balanced discussion.

    Just as others are allowed their opinion I am allowed mine.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing

    He was a remainer and quite a centrist Conservative, right up until he fancied leading the party. He lost to Kemi Badenoch, and a good thing too in my opinion.

    I try to accept( don't always succeed) someone holding an opposing view, but to volte-face in the way he did, I can't and won't accept.

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