1) increase in state pension 2) the increase in the minimum wage 3) the employment rights bill 4) the rent reform act 5) the increase in pay for public servants.
6) They have said in public they want to introduce an insurance based healthcare system 7) remove our human rights 8) take control of the police and judiciary, 9) remove 'red tape' from business.
10) They have stated repeatedly they want a small state economy, and getting rid of unnecessary spending in wasteful areas like welfare and mental health support is an absolute priority for them.
11) They want concentration camps for people they don't like, and have plans to rewrite history lessons for our school children.
12) Free market capitalists with links to no end of like ninded people and press barons all wanting to pay less tax in support of neo liberal policies, and a few pictures of farage standing in a pub with a pint and fag in hand is enough to convince many he's 'one of us'.
I despair.
You strike me as someone that doesn’t actually listen to Reform beyond the surface and then make up your own reasons for why they have such policy.
And before I get into this, I am on record as saying their costed manifesto is pie in the sky stuff and Farage is dodgy Re his finances and is only in politics for his own gain. I also think his relationship with Trump should rule him out on its own.
However I want to add the actual real context to your points you’ve listed for people that won’t listen to what they’ve got to say.
1) They say we can’t afford to increase it right now and want to reduce the deficit.
2) With the jobs market on its arse, a further increase will make matters worse at this moment in time.
3) Same as point 2, people are taking the piss with long term sick pay leave and Reform view it as a further way employees can game the system, this won’t get the economy moving and Germany are rolling back their legislation too for the same reason. Germany are doing it to get their economy moving and that’s Reform’s view.
4) They see it as penalising landlords and just want return to what it has been previously, hardly extreme, it was the same and Reform want to do, for the last few decades.
5) Reform believe public servants get a better deal than the private sector already and we can’t afford it - see the deficit point above.
6) Not to replace the NHS, to allow high earning professionals to use the private healthcare service more to alleviate pressure.
7) They want to reform the human rights act and withdraw from the European Convention so illegal migrants that commit crimes can be deported, and at the moment we have literal rapists not being deported because they make false claims of persecution in their native countries by claiming they’ve converted to Christianity or that they’re LGBT, or that they have mental health problems, it’s nonsense.
8) They view the police and judiciary of being infected by left-wing ideology and want to change it back to a neutral state where the law is the only thing that matters.
9) To get the economy going, this doesn’t include allowing companies to poison the environment as you stated. Yusuf has said the environment will be protected.
10) To save money as the deficit is too high, a small state economy is also NOT fascism as you’ve pointed out.
11) 90% of first world countries, including most of our European neighbours, which includes Germany and France, have detention centres for illegals immigrants. They aren’t concentration camps and that choice of language is hysterical.
12) Again, free market capitalism isn’t fascism, it’s an opposing ideology.
This is merely the context behind their policies, based on what I’ve heard them say and why they’re doing it. It’s not an endorsement. There’s several of those points I don’t agree with.
