I didn’t see this. Interesting.
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Astonishing. Will they ban them from breathing the rancid air, from drinking the toxic water, and eating the plastics? Ban them being born, do them a favour you morons
Can’t help thinking it will lead to illegal sales and criminal gangs like what’s happened in Australia.
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Why is it astonishing?
Is it just part of a broader war on nicotine.
Because as long as a substance is legal and saleable, and people have free choice in their lives, banning a certain group from a behaviour available to all other groups is astonishing. They can’t buy it until a certain age, that’s kind of how it works. No booze either? No Maccas? No driving? No using AI?
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Bloody hell.
It is still way under the Trump promises (percentage-wise) and I suspect law may operate a bit more, well, according to law in the UK.
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UK under Reform will look a bit like some scenes from Children of Men methinks
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Maaaaaybe.
The big problem that the Uk has is that there’s no single written constitution, so it’s all much more blurry and reliant on convention than the US or even us. And as Trump has very clearly demonstrated, convention only restrains governments who understand it, respect it, and choose to be constrained.
This is kind of magnified by the fact that the House of Lords is (after recent Starmer reforms excluding hereditary peers) largely appointed. The CONVENTION is that appointments be roughly balanced by party allegience, but in practise this is a bit flaky and wildly corrupt, and I don’t think that there’s much stopping a future Reform government simply stacking the thing with their people. Traditionally the House of Lords has been a relatively conservative force restraining change (for better or worse), but in the hands of a PM with no regard for convention or tradition, and now the hereditary peers have gone, it could quite conceivably be quickly converted into a rubber stamp for the government of the day.
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Is that … real?
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The Trump/Musk era with the help of Fox, Rogan, Kirk et al has ushered in this new confidence that “we can finally say it out loud”. See Palantir manifesto. And it works. We’re going in such a bad, comic villain but with horrendous consequences in the real world, direction
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yes.
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Yoicks! I was waiting for a pisstake alert due to it being so far fetched as to be beyond belief, but this is seriously deluded thinking on a scale that would make Putin smile.
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Vote for us or we’ll deliberately make your area rubbish.
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Nah, it’s more than that.
It’s ‘we’re building our concentration camps right next door to you, we can more easily shove you and the people we care about into them’.
This isn’t a pisstake or some sort of bullshite 0wNing teh liBz online gotcha, though I’m sure they’ll claim it is later on if pressed and if the polling on it looks bad. It’s intimidation, and a notice of intent to brutalise domestic opposition.
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I thought I had been in a daydream seeing this but OMG.
Detention centres ok, but this is beyond ridiculous, vote green or we’ll make your town a hellhole.
Even the biggest reform supporters will agree that this is overstepping the line.
■■■■ me, the state of this country is a joke
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Starmer makes it no better he caused all this division in the first place with his fraudulent governing.
He is breaking the left and allowing people like Farage, Yusef and Tice to scapegoat left wingers in general no matter who they are red or green we are being triggered
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… Farages Reform mob wins the most council seats, but notably even the self destructed Tories managed to match the fiasco that is Labour under Starmer.
Vote shares
Reform 27, Labour 17, Tory 17, LibDems 16, Greens 18
The writing is on the wall… Farage is the man knocking on the door of Number 10.
One of my cousins won a seat in an Essex council running for Reform. Didn’t even know he was interested in politics.
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One clip I saw last night was of an elected councillor who could not speak english !!!
I suppose it doesnt matter if the majority of that council region also speak that language, the residents get the representation they need/want.
But that fact is giving fuel to the movement on which Reform is based.
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