Reform. They’re doing well in the polls, and so far as we hear some residents of Tamworth are throwing the parties name at door to door canvassers of the political parties doing the rounds in Tamworth currently. It is being used as some kind of smug threat, like the people wielding it are in the know on a great secret and up yours to the two mainstream parties. It is basically history repeating itself, with UKIP having once been in favour turning into a racist mess of a party. Reform are now heading the same way, and incredibly they have the same leader as UKIP did when it started heading that way. The ‘acceptable’ know it all members and attention seeking party defectors have trotted off to reform and the racists are gradually following them.
Farage is now batting off press about his parties undesirables on a daily basis. Whilst no-one is happy about illegal immigration, even Ian Cooper is trying to make the situation on immigration sound worse than it is by stating publicly:
Our only purpose built hotel in the town centre has been requisitioned and is full of illegal economic migrants who freely roam the town with the resultant consequences.
Strange, as we thought that there was a hotel on the Jolly Sailor roundabout in very close proximity to the town centre that has been there much longer, not to mention the one on top of Lidl. Aren’t all hotels built with the purpose of being a hotel? The statement “freely roam the town with the resultant consequences” is very loaded and very much not representative of what has actually been going on with the majority of residents in the asylum hotel. What’s whipping up a bit of hatred for election purposes between everyone hey? It’s almost like the residents of Tamworth aren’t capable of heinous acts of their own and are shocked that these people come here and commit crimes the likes we’ve never seen round these parts.
Don’t get us wrong. The asylum hotel shouldn’t exist, the illegal immigrants should not have got here in the first place. The criminals are making money hand over fist sending people who think the UK is the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Packing them off in dinghies across the channel and leaving them to die in horrendous conditions.
Unfortunately Reform are bandying about their ‘Contract with the people‘ [PDF] manifesto as if they have come up with something refreshing and brand new we’ve never seen before. Cynical as we are, we do wonder if it was so easy to fulfill the items on this ‘contract’ why the other parties aren’t saying exactly the same things. Regardless of what we think of Labour or the Tories, it comes down to their experience of being parties of government that stops them from telling blatant outright porkies. They know what is possible and they know how far they can poke the civil service into action with their policies.
In short, Farage and co can say what they like right now, because they haven’t got a cat in hells chance of getting elected to government and they know it. What they will do, is work to make themselves ever more attractive as a party, get some MPs salaries in to bolster their campaign funds and start attracting more donors, and then start coming to grips with reality in future elections. What we will have then is a party full of egotistical Tories that weren’t paid enough attention, spouting the views of the very right of their former party. It will essentially be a split of faction of the Tories, which is hardly a fresh new alternative. We’ve mentioned our views on the two party system before and we still stand by them. No-one is really that different they can stand on their own (Lib Dems are, well, nevermind).
Our thoughts are that whilst Cooper may get a large amount of votes this time around, and might well cause an upset by coming into second place, long term they will go the way of UKIP. Especially if they can’t keep the rather undesirable but sadly integral element of their party under control.
