Everyone excited about next week's Labour > Reform Defection?

warey4life · Friday at 8:21 PM

Ivor Windybottom said:
I didn't hear that, only a mention of someone from Labour. Do you have a link to this exclusive story?

I hope not, given that Green policies are insane and communist. They'd need a personality transplant to switch from one to the other.

Ivor Windybottom · Saturday at 11:59 AM

Thanks, only a Green councillor thankfully. Presumably they issued a grovelling apology for their previous actions and swore that they hadn't worked out they were all communists in disguise when they'd signed up.

warey4life · Saturday at 3:50 PM

Ivor Windybottom said:
Thanks, only a Green councillor thankfully. Presumably they issued a grovelling apology for their previous actions and swore that they hadn't worked out they were all communists in disguise when they'd signed up.

I suspect they had to promise to be corrupt and dishonest in the future in order to qualify to be a member of the Tory retirement home.

big-all · 2026-01-18T01:15:41+0000

Ivor Windybottom said:
...is what Farage promised yesterday. Don't know if a current or just a former MP yet though.

Not sure myself. I wouldn't welcome any of the current cabinet, they all seem to be utterly ridiculous people to me, like they've lost their brains to a weird religious cult. I'd hope that there are sensible voices within the labour party, presumably they're just being quiet at the moment so we don't notice them.

It would definitely be very very bad for Starmer.

reading the title off the thread it looks a bit inaccurate, i suspect the actual number will be sub 5% perhaps 1-3% as most people have no to zero perhaps even less interest in what people who do not represent them in day to day living do

morqthana · 2026-01-18T02:19:48+0000

Ivor Windybottom said:
Green policies are insane and communist.

Ivor Windybottom · 2026-01-18T12:12:35+0000

I know... funny aren't they?

The Watermelon party, green on the outside, red on the inside.

Every Green policy starts with an environmental problem and ends with government control and ownership. The intended solution is the motivation, not the claimed problem. Big government, dominating all. Bonkers hypno-tits ruling our lives.

motorbiking · 2026-01-18T12:53:09+0000

Greens would bankrupt the UK

Green Party leader Zack Polanski says: our message to Rachel Reeves is simple: cut bills, tax billionaires - Green Party

Green Party leader Zack Polanski said: “It is a political choice to keep children in poverty whilst billionaires and multimillionaires get richer, that’s just a fact, and any politician who says otherwise doesn’t have the public’s interests at heart. “Our country is and has been for a long...

greenparty.org.uk

warey4life · 2026-01-18T15:06:28+0000

Ivor Windybottom said:
I know... funny aren't they?

The Watermelon party, green on the outside, red on the inside.

Every Green policy starts with an environmental problem and ends with government control and ownership. The intended solution is the motivation, not the claimed problem. Big government, dominating all. Bonkers hypno-tits ruling our lives.

Reform's lefty policies like nationalising British steel, nationalisation 50% of the water industry, and scrapping the 2 child benefit cap must annoy you.

warey4life · 2026-01-18T15:07:26+0000

motorbiking said:
Greens would bankrupt the UK

Green Party leader Zack Polanski says: our message to Rachel Reeves is simple: cut bills, tax billionaires - Green Party

Green Party leader Zack Polanski said: “It is a political choice to keep children in poverty whilst billionaires and multimillionaires get richer, that’s just a fact, and any politician who says otherwise doesn’t have the public’s interests at heart. “Our country is and has been for a long...

greenparty.org.uk

So would Reform

Ivor Windybottom · 2026-01-18T15:16:01+0000

warey4life said:
Reform's lefty policies like nationalising British steel, nationalisation 50% of the water industry, and scrapping the 2 child benefit cap must annoy you.

Why?

You do know that others are cabable of having non-extreme opinions? Of course public ownership makes sense for monopoly utillities.

Steel is needed for national security, arguably it shouldn't have got where it is, that is due to the insane electricity price and eco and other restrictions. But, after successive governments have forced it into bankrupcy, it probably should be rescued and kept on life-support until the underlying issues are tackled, later privatising it would make sense.

warey4life · 2026-01-18T15:53:39+0000

Ivor Windybottom said:
Why?

You do know that others are cabable of having non-extreme opinions? Of course public ownership makes sense for monopoly utillities.

Unless it's the Green's idea.

Ivor Windybottom said:
Steel is needed for national security, arguably it shouldn't have got where it is, that is due to the insane electricity price and eco and other restrictions. But, after successive governments have forced it into bankrupcy, it probably should be rescued and kept on life-support until the underlying issues are tackled, later privatising it would make sense.

Farage is only saying he'll nationalise British steel because he thinks it's a vote winner, he probably won't follow through. Same with the 2 child benefit cap, he just wants votes.