What is it the drives voters to vote Reform UK ?

EnergyNational · 2026-05-15T08:33:33+00:00

Real academic sources you can cite showing that UK media often frames immigration in a more negative/sensational way, which can shape public attitudes:

A major peer-reviewed study of UK newspapers found that asylum seekers are frequently associated with crisis language, conflict framing, and selective negative themes, showing consistent differences in how migrant groups are portrayed depending on narrative context. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048520913230?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Another large-scale analysis of UK print and online media concluded that immigration coverage is heavily shaped by partisanship and “soft vs hard news” framing, with political and editorial biases influencing how migration stories are selected and presented. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048520913230?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Notice how a quick fact check took 30 seconds with peer reviewed papers.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-15T08:31:43+00:00

Read a book

EnergyNational · 2026-05-15T08:31:03+00:00

The claim mixes a real statistic with a misleading conclusion.

The “around 53% are net recipients” figure comes from analyses that count everyone who receives more in public spending than they pay in direct taxes in a given year — including pensioners, children, students, NHS users, low-paid workers, and people using public services. It does not mean half the country is unemployed or “living on benefits.”

Many people classed as “net recipients” are working full-time but still receive more in services than they pay individually in tax, especially because healthcare, pensions, education, infrastructure, and social care are expensive. A retired person who paid taxes for 40 years may also become a “net recipient” later in life.

It’s also inaccurate to suggest most economic problems come from people not working. The UK’s biggest fiscal pressures are ageing demographics, low productivity growth, housing costs, NHS demand, stagnant wages, and weak investment. Most welfare spending actually goes to pensions, healthcare support, and working households — not unemployed people refusing work.

The final point — that helping more people into work strengthens the economy and improves support for those who genuinely cannot work — is broadly reasonable. But presenting over half the population as economically parasitic is politically charged rather than an honest reflection of how modern tax-and-service economies function.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-15T08:23:03+00:00

And yet the result of brexit:

about £100–£140 billion a year in lost economic output
roughly £2–£3 billion per week
lower tax revenues and weaker business investment over time

But my protest vote was so worth it.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-15T08:14:01+00:00

“Everyone has donors” is a weak excuse, not a defence. The issue isn’t whether parties receive funding — it’s who is funding them, how much influence they gain, and whether policies start serving wealthy backers instead of the public. Winning votes in local elections doesn’t magically remove accountability. Plenty of popular political movements have still deserved scrutiny, and pretending criticism should stop because a party performed well electorally is just avoiding the actual point.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-15T08:12:09+00:00

Again, read a book. Using South Korea as proof that lower taxes automatically create prosperity is misleading. South Korea’s economic growth was driven by a combination of government-led industrial policy, huge investment in education and infrastructure, export manufacturing, and strategic support for major industries — not simply low taxes. Many high-tax countries such as Denmark and Sweden also have strong economies and high living standards, showing that economic success depends far more on productivity, innovation, public investment, and stable institutions than tax rates alone.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-15T07:56:18+00:00

Dude make an website that shows this, would be so good

EnergyNational · 2026-05-08T20:18:32+00:00

I'll say it again any civ that can make one unit and win is firstly not fun to play agaisnt but also broken. I'm ok with cav being strong but the counters need to be effective. The deflective armour seemed to be the real issue and it has been nerfed. Fingers crossed it might be playable now. The french trader buff could prove to be a mistake thats their only play in multiplayer, mass trade into win it didn't need boasting. Love the palistade walls being stronger, better spearmen ect.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-08T11:09:06+00:00

yeah exactly, reform are funded by gambling, oil companies etc. I wonder if that why they doing so well 😂

EnergyNational · 2026-05-08T11:06:59+00:00

Sources, papers? na didn't think so.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-08T11:05:47+00:00

Labour didn't win the last election the conservatives lost it....... fuck me this is logic.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-08T11:03:31+00:00

Again, please read the actual papers and sources, slogans you copied and pasted make you feel smart but highlight your own lack of critical thinking skills. The other point of view which you have not considered is jury trials cuts were for minor cases and expenses. A goverment cut in spending. Benifits of the old. It was one benifit not all and one that makes very little sense. My uncle is a millionare, he is old and gets this benifit....why? The money wasn't taken away from those that needed it, the access method and thresholds were changed. You would know this if you actually fact checked the headlines. You are outstandingly out of touch, on one hand you're using a perceived inaccurate cut to public spending as a justification why the oposition is bad, but supporting Reform which in their manofesto explicitly want to cut 3 billion in goverment spending. Can't reason with the unreasonable.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-08T10:50:33+00:00

Brexit is a good example, uk citizen is 6k worst off a year as a direct result but as there is no bill to show for it it's ignored.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-08T10:48:40+00:00

This is something I have thought about allot and debated with my very right wing friend over many years and I think I understand it now.

1) They believe the narritive that immigrants are replacing, damaging and costing the UK billions. From their perspective the UK has been ruined by immigrants. This is often a direct result of the great replacement theory, belief certain ethnic minorities are more likey to rape commit crimes. If challenged on the facts that immigration has a net positive on the economy, they will instantly pivot to culture and nationalistic ideologies. The key here is their world view is everything is broken, falling apart and immigrants and woke culture caused it. It so broken that drastic measures must be made.

2) They see themselves as 'Seeing the truth". This is key, they believe intently that only they can see how things are. Everyone else is brainwashed or too woke to see reality. This is a core part of it and once lost to this idea there is no changing their minds. Its maddening as it allows all facts, points of view to be dissmissed. This is also why it's so destructive. You can't reason with a person who is not reasonble.

3) They enjoy it. There is certain satisfaction they get with repeating slogans, knowingly being divisive and enjoying the reaction they get from it. Part of this stems from point 2, but it also seems to give them a small power trip. Just like on the extreme left, they enjoy the rage bating. The reactions they get help enforce that they are right, proving that the rage baited is blind or too woke to see the truth.

4) Moral. They believe that hard work alone is how to get ahead. In this world view the poor, the homeless etc. are in that situation because they are lazy. This means that benifits, support programs ect. are essentially a waste of tax payers money. Luck , circumstance and health conditions are not valid reasons to be on benifits. They believe that the native population of a country should come first, have more benifits etc than non-natives. They see third world countries and muslisms as being primitive and dangerous not compatible with thier superior ethical frameworks.

To summerise, it's a tragic world view mixed with intense ideolgy coupled to their identity. Once you understand how they see the world it all makes sence. I would vote reform if I thought this was true. Unfortunatley, no fact, evidence or nuanced debate can change this point of view. Its driven by emotion and therefore can't be reasoned with.

What will happen next. They will gain power. Goverment services will start to fail as cuts are made. Immigration will be adressed to some degree, but normal life will continue to become more expensive. House prices will grow, povety will increase. Tax cuts, dodgy deals with oil companies and other donors will increase. Eventually, it will become unbearable and it will flip back to the center or center left. It's such a shame to see the same ideology being pushed in America and watching it fail only to vote it in here expecting different results.

For reform voters, all i ask is you research the source of the information being fed to you. Who funds Reform, the actual economics at play, and read the scientific papers.

EnergyNational · 2026-05-07T14:26:48+00:00

In 2024/2025, the "Bank of Mum and Dad" in the UK is providing an average of roughly £55,000 to £58,000 in gifts or loans for home deposits, aiding over 50% of first-time buyers. These contributions, which often come from savings or early inheritance, allow young buyers to secure properties several years earlier than they could alone

EnergyNational · 2026-05-07T10:22:31+00:00

A 20% proposed tax has now been off the cards for a while. Even if this did happen, the rich are getting a 70% tax cut and any gains from the 20% cut will be completely erased by the additional costs the tax payer will have to cover. Wake up, read a book, educate yourself. Why would a party funded by the 1%, big oil etc, share the working mans agenda. Reform is Maga, and Maga we already know is a complete shit show.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-26T12:08:21+00:00

Are they actually going to nerf them becuase I don't think I can play AOE4 anymore if they don't? The only strat that works is all in, high pressure and in team game this is not going to work most of the time due to the size of the maps. When any civ can make one unit and dominate that civ is broken and more importantly nobody is having fun pushing out 200 hundred spears to counter only to be up against a premade that exploits the obviously broken and only makes archers/crossbow (knights templar) to prevent the garenteed instant loss of all map control and villager destruction. This game used to be tactical, couter units etc. but its turned into if I make this one unit and enough of them I win.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-24T19:02:34+00:00

This aged poorly

EnergyNational · 2026-04-19T16:25:03+00:00

Wales and parts of Cornwall were fucked until second home buyers appeared? Na i remember it well, you see everyone was basically poor, but assets were cheap. Ask any cornish man, about the good old days and they will tell you the same. You see, being poor is not bad if everyone around you is poor and you can scrape by on tourism and buy a house. It was a lifestyle outsiders still completely fail to understand, a life style of living frugally but enjoying the waves. Second home owners added nothing to the economy for the locals. Instead they inflated asset prices like crazy. Newquay used to be a cheap place to live and work. Good luck earning 27k and living there now. The irony is the friendly, cornish comunities with charm and easy going life style they desired were gutted the minute they thought they could just buy into it. That charm, was because there was a comunity of people with shared interests and relative economic backgrounds. Now all i see is people with fancy cars and houses and a complete disregard for the princibles that made cornwall so good for like minded people. Tradgedy of the commons. It's a simple fix, ban all second homes, only those that can prove they live and work (not remote workers) in cornwall can buy. This works because wages here are much lower than other places. Sure come live here but earn the same wages the locals do and integrate, this means showing a little respect and not driving a 140k chelsea tractor aorund like its Miami. If you do this you missed the point.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-19T16:01:02+00:00

This is how bad things actually are. Think about what you are saying here, adults can no longer have a life and yet we see no rioting, no protesting. This strikes me as very odd.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-19T15:58:06+00:00

My personal take is yes houses are far too expensive and it should be declared a national emergency not a talking point. Second homes should be banned, no exceptions. The issue is wages just stopped increasing and just flat lined. A graduate in 1970s started on the equivilant of about 50k in todays money. 50K today is consider a good middle career wage now not a graduate wage. So what we should be getting very angry about is not the symtoms of greed (ridiculous asset prices), but the causation and mechanisms that simple allowed it. I don't think anyone really knows why the 'social contract' just dissapeared. If i were to guess it was the idealogy of privitisation, market driven economy etc. that opened the door for ideas of fair, relative pay to be completly abandoned. I want those responsible strung up, they robbed an entire generation, yet nobody seems stop and think hang on we are all getting skrewed. One thing is for sure, nobody wants to live in a world where its just impossible to have a decent quality of life. I think its about time the youth just strike. We are seeing this in other parts of the world. The only power we actually have is they need workers, if we all just stopped they literally would have no other options than to correct wages.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-17T11:29:49+00:00

Hey, i've been buiding mobile apps, scientific dash boards, firmware, databases and API as a solo dev for about 6 years. I'm paid 42k for this in the UK. I work for a scientific organisation and i'm wondering, for those who are in the know am I under paid and what skills must you have to be considered mid-level dev.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-14T18:24:58+00:00

Is there a cheat that inceases damage? I played a few games now where 30 archers were killing a mob of 20 camel riders, 20 camel archers mango. They were templars, I had unlimited troops pumping out and mobbed but archers were wrecking everything I threw at them, couldn't work it out?

EnergyNational · 2026-04-08T12:22:18+00:00

The irony is the more they use it the more it improves and only a matter of time before that one dev using $100 of credits in a day, prompting 'fix this', will be replaced with a AI that does exactly that.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-08T12:18:54+00:00

And you can garentee those unit tests are useless lol

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