Reform Policies

[Ivor Windybottom]

Question for the few remaining Labour supporters...

When is utopia expected to arrive? I'm willing to wait for this fair, sharing and caring society - but when will it happen?

However, I don't remember 1979 or 2010 as being particularly good years, they were when Labour's previous terms reached their peak! But let's not let reality and actual experience get in the way.

 

[IT Minion]

However, I don't remember 1979 or 2010 as being particularly good years, they were when Labour's previous terms reached their peak!

How do you define that as their peak? That's the date those governments ended. That's the nadir, not the peak.

It's like listing 2022 and the rise of Liz Truss as peak Tory party. Which is probably both the peak and the nadir of the Tory party.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Whatever... it was the peak of labour's version of socialism, the time at which their vision of how society should be reached its conclusion before we ended it...

Perhaps we're impatient, it was just too soon, we keep sacking them before the country turned around and became a vision of beauty.

 

[IT Minion]

Whatever... it was the peak of labour's version of socialism, the time at which their vision of how society should be reached its conclusion before we ended it...

Perhaps we're impatient, it was just too soon, we keep sacking them before the country turned around and became a vision of beauty.

... It was after global financial crisis...

So was March 2020 the peak of the Boris Johnson government?

It just strikes me you're not being very honest here.

 

[motorbiking]

... It was after global financial crisis...

So was March 2020 the peak of the Boris Johnson government?

It just strikes me you're not being very honest here.

not quite the same as a global lockdown. What's labours excuse for 5M unemployed. Employee rights "reform" and the Jobs NI tax, has contributed.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

... It was after global financial crisis...

So was March 2022 the peak of the Boris Johnson government?

He he. That wind from the US that swept in from the Atlantic and blew all our money away. I believe this is the official Gordon Brown saving the world fairy story. Nothing at all to do with Northern Rock and the rest of the unregulated banks overlending, creating an artificial boom followed by the inevitable bust.

Boris Johnson was an incompetent imbecile. He got booted out, as did those who followed him. We got so desperate we actually voted labour in.

Now they've revealed their true selves, chucked aside their lies about not raising taxes so will be binned at the next opportunity.

Reform are all we have left to try. They're an unknown but are making noises that people like the sound of. Nobody expects perfection but they're going to get a chance. Mostly because Labour and the Tories are so utterly incompetent.

 

[IT Minion]

Northern Rock and the rest of the unregulated banks overlending, creating an artificial boom followed by the inevitable bust.

Yes, also knows as the global financial crisis or the sub prime crisis.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Yes, also knows as the global financial crisis or the sub prime crisis.

Bloody world eh? Perhaps labour policies would work better on a different planet?

 

[IT Minion]

Bloody world eh? Perhaps labour policies would work better on a different planet?

You have a point, we should consider Reform who will ensure that banks manage their risks appropriately.

Reform UK could strip FCA of power to regulate banking if elected

Nigel Farage reportedly plans to overhaul rules governing City of London that were introduced after 2008 financial crash

www.theguardian.com

When you say labour and the Tories didn't manage something well, let's try Reform it's like saying that treating an infection with the two first line antibiotics didn't work, perhaps we should try setting the patient on fire.

Just because they are different to the Tories or Labour does not mean they're better.

 

[IT Minion]

Remind me what their position is on Russia and corruption in government again?

Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches

Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset

www.theguardian.com

 

[carmanmemoranda]

And people say they are our only hope, and the best choice

 

[IT Minion]

Can you imagine Reform being in charge when COVID hit? They are the most anti-vax party there is. They would have banned foreign travellers straight away which would have been a good thing, but after that they'd have gone full US-republican and gotten the same terrible outcomes.

Financial crisis? They would have done the same as labour, but in the run up they'd have been loosening not tightening regulations.

Russia invasion of Ukraine? We'd probably have sent troops to help out so it's be all over by now and Greater Russia would have been at peace.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Can you imagine Reform being in charge when COVID hit? They are the most anti-vax party there is. They would have banned foreign travellers straight away which would have been a good thing, but after that they'd have gone full US-republican and gotten the same terrible outcomes.

Financial crisis? They would have done the same as labour, but in the run up they'd have been loosening not tightening regulations.

Russia invasion of Ukraine? We'd probably have sent troops to help out so it's be all over by now and Greater Russia would have been at peace.

100% made-up fantasy speculation.

Give them a chance, they'd really struggle to do worse than the current or previous lots.

Labour were talking about slackening bank regulations. But that may have been a reshuffle ago, not sure what they think now, other than panic.

 

[IT Minion]

Give them a chance, they'd really struggle to do worse than the current or previous lots.

I have faith in their ability to excel in this area. They are suffering with the same issues as the current Tory party: lack of talent with a proven history.

They've got a load of corrupt, racist arseholes that they haven't had time to filter out of the party or at least to polish up so they can pass for normal.

 

[Brigadier]

They've got a load of corrupt, racist arseholes that they haven't had time to filter out of the party

What makes you think they want to?


Hide them definitely, but boot them out?