Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK
mjr@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoProceeds to list zero policies 😀
I listed three. You might like to pretend they’re not policies or something, but Reform put them in their manifesto.
We’re using gas for the next 50 years whether it’s Reform or the Greens. That curries more favour with the US or Qatar than it does Russia. You’re reaching for that to be a “Putin policy”
Really? Are you seriously claiming that Putin doesn’t want the UK buying gas for longer? As that’s the difference between Reform and the others: Reform would build more new gas power stations, prolonging the dependency mistake, while most of the other parties will phase it out more or less quickly.
Scrapping the licence fee…
Not only, but also scrapping the BBC because they believe on-demand TV has replaced it. That’s what they wrote.
And I notice you don’t disagree that Putin would want the UK out of the European Defence Fund.
What would Putin oppose? Let’s see… the top three from Reform’s site:
- stopping the boats (I know, I know)
- defend our borders
- deport illegal migrants
Don’t make me laugh! Why would Putin oppose those? Putin would love all of them, along with anything else that makes the UK more isolated and causes squabbles with its neighbours or diverts funds from NATO-level defence to petty little border patrols. That’s why he’s paid Reform politicians like Nathan Gill so much.
makingrain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which three? Which three are Putin policies? I’m not addressing the rest of your response until you name which three Reform policies are Putin policies which got us to where we are.
mjr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
You’re just showboating because we’ve had nine Putin-friendly Reform UK policies so far:
makingrain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
Btw… Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
As I already said, it’s the licence fee, not the BBC. The licence fee is unfit for 2026 and it should be scrapped.
How is that a “putin policy”? Russia are the ones behind it - look at Baltic/Russian borders for illegal crossings facilitated by Russia and Belarus. Not a Russia friendly policy at all. You’re wrong.
Listen to yourself. Which country in the world doesn’t defend their borders? Wrong
How tiresome. Is that Russia friendly? No. Wrong again!
makingrain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll save you replying to my requests for linkage. You were likely referencing their 2024 manifesto. I still disagree that those are “Puitin policies”, we clearly have different viewpoints and won’t persuade one another.