Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
Only time I ever agreed with David Cameron who understood the threat from Farage and Co and dismissed their followers as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists". Spot on Dave.
It is exactly that arrogance from our two main FAILED parties that is fuelling the rise in support for Reform. Substitute angry for Cameron?s list and you may be getting nearer the truth. Brexit succeeded because all the politicians/bankers/luvvies we didn?t like kept telling us how wonderful the EU was. In plain fact the EU made a disastrous expansion into Eastern Europe that in part provoked Russia to invade Ukraine and has with its freedom of movement and porous borders left us prey to criminal gangs and hordes of migrants. A great number of voters in France, Germany and elsewhere have come to the inescapable conclusion that the EU is being run by charlatans. I doubt whether any of those who are switching their political allegiance are so gullible to believe that any crop of politicians will necessarily herald a new dawn. What they are saying is they are fed up with being treated as second class citizens in their own country. Pensioners stripped of their winter fuel, farming communities threatened and the services (education,health, utilities) in crisis just for starters.