It will be a cold day in hell before I vote for the Reform party. The term I have heard is Snake Oil Salesman. The phrase has its roots in 19th-century America, when traveling salesmen would sell "snake oil" as a cure for all sorts of ailments. These "snake oil salesmen" were often portrayed as charlatans who would use flashy presentations and testimonials to sell their bogus products.
The reason it has surrounded The Reform party is that all the news headlines are about telling the nation they can change things they can't. Like immigration/asylum seekers. There is nothing The Reform party can do to stop this. The only way that the party can carry out that plan is to withdraw from the Geneva convention on refugees. Even Russia and China are signatories. Is that who we want to be?
The logical way to deal with the asylum seekers is to improve the the situations in which they have come. There has been a massive civil war in Syria for the last 15 years and what wasn't in civil war was being destroyed by extremists. Then we have Gaza.
It is very simple - if you want to get rid of asylum improve their situations so that they don't need to be refugees.
The Reform party are an archetypal populist party. They have found a few ideas that garner support but no one seems to have noticed that if you scratch the surface you find a party of self interest for the wealthy and big business it is no friend to the working population.
It is of concern to me that the people who support Reform fervently are basing it on a single issue whose importance is only in their mind. There are many issues that need to be addressed in this country from the economy to national defense and Asylum seekers are actually quite a small issue.
There are 100,000 current asylum seekers. In a population of 70 million they reperesent less than 0.15% of the current population of this country. A man who was spouting at me last week was claiming it cost us the taxpayer £6 million pounds a day. It might do but that is small beer when you consider that the NHS burns that in wages in 15 minutes. Never mind the armed forces, the police, courts and criminal justice system. The list goes on.
This country has bigger fish to fry. But my compatriots have focused on what is economically a small problem for this country. A physically small fraction of our population, certainly not at the heart of a crime wave. But based on this they are happy to pass the reins of power to a right wing party who want to see their own constituents rights eroded and empower our wealthy and entitled classes.
More concerning to me is that this is being exposed now on some social media posts. It is becoming common place that the media highlight the party's hypocrisy but it is falling on deaf ears
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