Why all the angst over Reform UK’s growing popularity? - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Peter Auty, Great Hatfield.
Why all the angst concerning The Reform party and the defections from the Conservative party. Maybe the Conservative party will get its act together over the next two to three years and become resurgent, stranger things have happened in politics.
Nigel Farage seems to be a hate figure for mostly Labour supporters, they know that at the moment he is the biggest threat to all the other parties, he is making hay as this Labour government prove they are unable to run the country in any meaningful way, poorly thought through policies and U-turn after U-turn, they’re shooting themselves in the foot.
Farmers up in arms due to removal of subsidies and the alterations to inheritance tax, pensioners up in arms, removal then reinstating the Winter Fuel Allowance for some, pubs, hotels, music venues, eateries of all kinds up in arms due to higher taxes, business rates and NI contributions, car drivers, higher taxes and new rules, pay per mile etc, immigration out of control, not enough houses, not enough jobs, a life on benefits beckons for most of them, unsustainable benefits and welfare system out of control.
Enough has been said about solar farms on productive farmland, disastrous, the sun doesn't shine at night, battery storage a few hours at most, constraint payments etc.
Should our PM Keir Starmer do the unthinkable and take the UK back into the EU it will be the last straw for the majority of right thinking people in the UK.
Keir Starmer being in China and Japan to do trade deals, it seems unlikely he is about to renege on the Labour party manifesto not to rejoin the customs union, lets hope he keeps to that.