Another win for Reform with the biggest two Unions who once supported labour now backing Reform as they see the working men and woman have been let down with labours headline garabber working under labour and Farage has a bigger poll over Starmer and is more popular than Starmer.

9 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

Another win for Reform with the biggest two Unions who once supported labour now backing Reform as they see the working men and woman have been let down with labours headline garabber working under labour and Farage has a bigger poll over Starmer and is more popular than Starmer.

Any link to that as I find it rather improbable that any unions are backing Reform.

Edited June 1Jun 1 by Bannoi

If Reform don't win Makerfield at least it will lead to the end of Starmer, but what's next could be worse

48 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

Another win for Reform with the biggest two Unions who once supported labour now backing Reform as they see the working men and woman have been let down with labours headline garabber working under labour and Farage has a bigger poll over Starmer and is more popular than Starmer.

As usual no link to back up the claim.

There is no way Unions are en masse moving their bloc support from Labour to Reform. Reform are anti-union, anti-workers rights. It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Reform will abolish the minimum wage, allow fire and rehire and zero hour contracts. They will also abolish WFH, and have restrictions on sick pay and maternity leave.

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/04/10/reform-uk-are-no-friend-of-the-workers-heres-why/

Edited June 1Jun 1 by josephbloggs

25 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

As usual no link to back up the claim.

There is no way Unions are en masse moving their bloc support from Labour to Reform. Reform are anti-union, anti-workers rights. It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Reform will abolish the minimum wage, allow fire and rehire and zero hour contracts. They will also abolish WFH, and have restrictions on sick pay and maternity leave.

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/04/10/reform-uk-are-no-friend-of-the-workers-heres-why/

I agree the two biggest unions in the UK are Unison and Unite. I'm a member of Unite (retired section) and I'm sure I would have heard something in fact the opposite of Unite supporting the Reform party is true.

"Unite is actively opposed to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party. The union views the party's policies—particularly those regarding immigration, deregulation, and workers' rights—as damaging to the working class and the trade union movement"

They are however supportive of Political Reform such as electoral or constitutional reform not Farages Reform Party.

Edited June 1Jun 1 by Bannoi

24 minutes ago, Bannoi said:

I agree the two biggest unions in the UK are Unison and Unite. I'm a member of Unite (retired section) and I'm sure I would have heard something in fact the opposite of Unite supporting the Reform party is true.

"Unite is actively opposed to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party. The union views the party's policies—particularly those regarding immigration, deregulation, and workers' rights—as damaging to the working class and the trade union movement"

They are however supportive of Political Reform such as electoral or constitutional reform not Farages Reform Party.

Thank you for sharing that, interesting inside knowledge, and as expected.

Edited June 1Jun 1 by josephbloggs
Typo

3 hours ago, BarraMarra said:

Another win for Reform with the biggest two Unions who once supported labour now backing Reform as they see the working men and woman have been let down with labours headline garabber working under labour and Farage has a bigger poll over Starmer and is more popular than Starmer.

Desperate. Why post such nonsense? This Forum is becoming more like X every day.

1 hour ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Desperate. Why post such nonsense? This Forum is becoming more like X every day.

The British riclag.

I'm not wasting time and effort answering joebloggs he will ignore or refuse any links from me. They are there just google who unions are supporting.

Edited June 1Jun 1 by BarraMarra

Not quite the same as the claims made in the OP but maybe BarraMarra's referring to this -

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2211815/union-members-labour-reform-nigel-farage?utm_source=app

I remember the 1970's when

Trade Unions ruled the UK!

3 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

I remember the 1970's when

Trade Unions ruled the UK!

When a working man could buy a home, raise a family and afford a holiday on a single wage.

4 hours ago, MartinL said:

Not quite the same as the claims made in the OP but maybe BarraMarra's referring to this -

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2211815/union-members-labour-reform-nigel-farage?utm_source=app

Yeah, I found that too as Barra won't provide links to his claims.

Maybe he just didn't read down to this bit:

Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB, said: “Reform are no friends of workers. They want to cancel hugely important union rights and are targeting the pensions of the low paid.

“But Labour has to show working-class people it can be on their side – as it did with last week’s essential help for our ceramics industry."

15 hours ago, BarraMarra said:

I'm not wasting time and effort answering joebloggs he will ignore or refuse any links from me. They are there just google who unions are supporting.

All I can find are some newspaper articles suggesting some union members support Reform. One article suggests "as many union members support Reform as they do Labour".

A link to any article suggesting "the two biggest unions are backing Reform" would be interesting to read. Please provide.

Edited June 2Jun 2 by youreavinalaff

I will answer when i first saw this i thought it was major unions such as Unite, GMB, i was wrong and i hold up my hands and say i should have looked more into it, but I will stay with the fact unions are leaning more towards Reform and as labour starts imploding Reform will be seen as the future leaders to run the Country.

Edited June 2Jun 2 by BarraMarra

59 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

I will answer when i first saw this i thought it was major unions such as Unite, GMB, i was wrong and i hold up my hands and say i should have looked more into it, but I will stay with the fact unions are leaning more towards Reform and as labour starts imploding Reform will be seen as the future leaders to run the Country.

Lesson learned. Nice post (apart from the final sentiment, obviously!).

Everyone is entitled to there opinion Brewster, if i get something wrong i will put my hands up and say yes i got it wrong.

"Reform" is the name of a political party - with my boring English teacher head on - a proper noun.

Reform is also an activity - with my boring English teacher head on - a verb, or a process, intention or ambition - with my boring English teacher head on - a noun.

It is entirely possible for an organisation (or an individual such as myself) to favour the verb or noun without having any truck with Farage or his gang. I am in favour of some fundemental reforms in British politics, and would like to see them carried out. I am not particularly struck or impressed by Farage, his team and there sometimes bizarre and certainly regressive ideas.

6 hours ago, BarraMarra said:

Everyone is entitled to there opinion Brewster, if i get something wrong i will put my hands up and say yes i got it wrong.

There's a first time for everything. Well done.

Well wait and see if Reform do as they have promissed. Theres no point what there doing now but for the doubters remember who swept up in the local elections and turfed out some labour held councils that have been solid for over 25 years.