Why Reform UK Got So Many Votes
The Left Is Completely Blind To Why People Support Right-wing Parties
For those unaware, last night was the UK General election. As expected, Labour won by a huge landslide of 416 seats in parliament.
What seemed to shock so many, however, was that the Reform UK party, who ran primarily on reducing the amount of immigration into the UK, received 14% of the overall vote; making them technically the 3rd most popular party in the UK.
Those on the left can’t believe it.
And the same old, predicable responses have rolled in on Twitter.
Without a second thought, the left-wing jump to the same old conclusion: They must all be racists.
All Reform UK voters are immediately compartmentalised and labeled the “enemy”. They’re just a load of stupid racists. And that’s the only reason the left can imagine as to why so much of the country voted for Reform.
And just like Trump, just like Brexit and just like Marine La Pen, absolutely no effort has been made to try and understand why people vote this way.
After all, why bother trying to understand the right. The left wing are the good guys, the right wing are the bad guys(and racist), and there’s no need to understand anything further than that, right?
Yet in fact, there are a number of genuinely understandable reasons why so many chose to vote for Reform UK.
If you’re willing to keep an open mind, let me explain to you why so many voted for Reform UK.
1. Immigration To The UK Is Insanely High
If you spend your time hanging around left-wing bubbles online, you’re probably not aware just how high immigration to the UK has become over the last few years.
In 2022, we saw a record breaking net-migration of 745,000 people. The following year in 2023, the number stayed high at 685,000 people.
To put things really simply, in 2022 the population of the UK increased by 745,000 people. That’s a lot of extra people for a country with a population of just 67 million people!
In fact, 2022 was the highest year on record for UK immigration.
There are more people living in the UK than ever before in human history. And the overall population of the UK continues to increase and increase.
But who cares? You might say. I like having more people here! I like having a variety of cultures living here!
But you’re not considering the very real problems caused by such a large increase in population.
2. Too much immigration causes a lot of problems
Increased housing/rent prices: It’s basic economics. If there’s more people looking for housing, the price of housing will increase. If the population of the country increases faster than houses can be built, this means an increase in prices for everyone.
Yes, there are other factors that cause our housing crises, but there’s no denying that high immigration increases house and rent prices.
Talking about how immigration contributes to the housing crisis is absolutely forbidden in left-wing circles.
Reduced wages for low-skilled jobs: Immigrants are often willing to work for lower wages. This shifts the job market and reduces the wages for everyone working low-skilled jobs.
Immigration is fantastic for businesses because it gives them an endless supply of cheap labour. But it’s terrible for low-skilled employees who now have to compete with millions more workers for jobs.
Many left-wingers from the middle and upper classes couldn’t give a damn about things like this because it doesn’t affect them personally. But for those in the lower classes, this wage decrease hits them hard.
Increased traffic on the roads: If you’re living in the UK right now, you may have noticed that the roads have become busier and busier. You spent more and more time gridlocked in traffic jams.
You can thank mass immigration for that.
Mass immigration means more people and more people means more cars on the road. I wonder how bad traffic will get if immigration numbers continue on the trend they’re currently on.
Traditional British Areas Have Become Unrecognisable: For many Brits, the place where they grew up has been completely transformed.
There are areas of London and Birmingham that have turned from being British working classes neighbourhoods, with classically British things like pubs and fish and chips shops, into areas filled with Muslim-run stores, mosques and women wearing hijabs.
Left-wingers who live in richer areas of the country don’t care about things like this because it doesn’t affect them.
They think it’s silly and racist to complain about your neighbourhood being transformed by immigrants. Yet if it was their neighborhood that transformed to become unrecognisable, you’d likely find that they start care a little more.
It’s easy to laugh at old white people who moan about their hometowns being “filled with bloody mosques”, but it’s a different story when it’s your hometown that’s transformed. And you likely can’t empathise with people in this situation until it happens to you.
Just because somebody is frustrated about their hometown being transformed into something they don’t recognise, that doesn’t make them a racist. It’s perfectly fair to want to preserve your own culture.
There were plenty of non-racist reasons to vote for Reform UK.
Reform didn’t get a total of 4,072,947 because all of those votes are racists. It’s because a lot of the voters wanted to reduce net migration to the UK for the reasons I have listed above.
You can want to reduce migration to your country and still not be racist.
There’s a tremendous illogic to the way the left thinks about immigration that they simply can’t see in themselves.
In 2023, net migration to the UK was 600,000.
Let’s imagine that the number was 1.5million, would you be ok with that?
What if the number was 2 million? What if it was 3 million? What about 10 million, would you be cool with that?
Even for left-wingers, eventually a line would be crossed whereby they would start to take an anti-immigration position.
By their own logic, they themselves would then become “racist” and they would also vote for the party willing to reduce the number.
It’s just a matter of how many extra people you’re willing to have in your country. For some that number is lower, for some it is higher, but everybody has a limit to the number of immigrants they will tolerate.
And if you think having a net migration figure of 745,000 people in a single year is too much, that doesn’t make you racist.
(Before you even go there, I voted for the Liberal Democrats).
