Comments on: First mover https://radlettwire.co.uk/2024/12/first-mover/ For over ten years - since way before everything went weird - we've been droning on about Radlett and the Hertsmere Parliamentary constituency Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: admin https://radlettwire.co.uk/2024/12/first-mover/#comment-46041 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:00:45 +0000 https://radlettwire.co.uk/?p=2830#comment-46041 In reply to John.

Thanks for your comment, John. We’ve read the Contract for the People. It’s easily the most substantial document on the UKIP/Brexit/Reform timeline. And you’re right, of course, that the party’s policy is not to privatise the NHS but that change came under Richard Tice (along with most of the content of the ‘contract’ as far as we can tell) and he’s now been sidelined. The NHS remains a personal obsession for Farage – one that he raises at every opportunity. For me it’s the best diagnostic of Reform’s weakness. While the party thrashes around in the shallow water of Farage’s out-of-date, Powellite policy pool there’s likely to be a hard limit on their popularity.

]]> By: John https://radlettwire.co.uk/2024/12/first-mover/#comment-46018 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:27:41 +0000 https://radlettwire.co.uk/?p=2830#comment-46018 There are some points in the article that you may wish to reconsider. Do you know that a year ago, Reform UK’s national membership was around 15,000 but has recently topped 100,000?
With regard to Reform UK’s policy platform, one pledge in the 2024 General Election Contract With The People document was to bring public utilities into public ownership, based on 50% national ownership and the other 50% being owned by UK pension funds.
Reform UK policy is NOT to privatise the NHS. There is a clear need for urgent and significant reform of the NHS. Everyone knows this. Reform UK plans will achieve this while retaining national control.

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