14 June (Part 1) - Reform UK on mute
When
Nigel Farage went on X (Twitter) yesterday to announce a Reform UK election
broadcast I contemplated asking a friend if I could watch it on his TV but I
think I may have felt rather silly when it turned out to be six words in silence for four minutes.
Whilst agreeing with the language after 13 years of Labour and 14 of Cameron et
al I still don’t know much about Farage’s limited company for which he begs donations.
I have a feeling he and I may have a few things in common politically but I don’t know
for sure. Has he issued a manifesto? If so I have missed it.
I tried to find out more about Reform UK policies by emailing the local candidate. Not the best of emails
perhaps but I couldn’t really be bothered perfecting the prose, the meaning was surely clear enough.
Hi,
I live within the Erith and Thamesmead constituency (Belvedere) and my vote
might go Conservative, Reform or abstain but I know nothing about any of the
candidates except the sitting MP with whom I am not impressed.
Is there going to be any information from you? I am not so pro Reform that I want to vote blind.
regards,
Deathly silence; just like his leader’s TV broadcast.
There is no way I will be voting for Michael Pastor if he is a total unknown,
at worst he may have been drawn from Reform’s less than honest fringe.
When we had the Mayoral election six weeks ago I knew no one at all who was
going to vote for Khan apart from a BBC employee for whom voting Khan may be an
employment condition. This time I know no one at all other than a few Councillors
who are going to vote Conservative. Maybe they should draw consolation from the
fact my circle cannot be entirely typical.
I don’t see how I can forgive the Tory antics of the last couple of years and cast my
vote in the Conservative box and ‘None of The Above’ looks increasingly
attractive - but I doubt I will do that.
Longer term, if Starmer succeeds in bamboozling the gullible, I see a huge
rebellion in the not too distant future. Maybe we saw signs of it last night in
Greenwich where its
failed Labour Council lost their New Eltham seat to the Conservatives who
took 47% of the vote.