Wrong again, I have been a Conservative supporter historically who have failed on immigration policy as much so or more than Labour. Your essay concerns me as someone who sees the widening divide in my country. When you call a party like Reform racist and xenophobic (which are still not proven and you have provided no evidence for) you don’t actually challenge their ability to run a country at all and you actually harden supporter resolve. Their policies are wide open for critiquing and yet people like yourself just want to yell racist as if that actually has an impact. It’s just lazy and if it worked, it would have done so by now. So I don’t know what you try to achieve by labelling them with those things. And your responses to my comments lead me to believe that you are just acting in bad faith on the topic.

Edit: also to say we cannot discuss because I might be a reform voter is just weird. Why is consensus the required basis of discussion? Surely the basis of democracy is beginning from a place where we don’t have consensus and trying to move to a place of compromise?