It's election day in the UK once again

It’s elections day today in the UK. A variety of local government , Scottish Parliament, Senedd Cymru and mayoral elections are taking place. The outcome is likely to be rather dramatic, and potentially devastating for the traditional main parties of the UK - in particular Labour is destined to lose a huge number of seats.

I beg and implore anyone out there minded to issue some kind of protest vote to go with the Green party over Reform. There are so many reasons why.

Not least those to be found on Hope Not Hate’s gigantic “60 Reasons (and Counting) to Not Vote Reform on May 7th”. The 60 point list is simply a list of 60 Reform candidates and some of the more outrageous things they’ve said or done. Most of them are the tedious racism, paranoia and conspiracy theorism of the modern populist right. The occasional one sticks out as something novel though.

On Steven Lewis, a candidate in Wakefield.

Lewis is waging one-man campaign against the celebration of Christmas, Easter and New Year’s Eve, all of which he appears to believe are “demonic” and/or pagan. Referring to himself as the Lion of Judah, Lewis I will bring holy fire down on anyone who gets in my way […] I AM AN ANGEL OF THE MOST HIGH AND HE SPEAKS THROUGH ME LET GLORY BE TO GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT AMEN

Very normal.

If you haven’t got time to read 60 horror stories, there’s always the New World’s “The 40 worst Reform candidates on May 7”

Some of these reasons must already be hitting home, with several previous Reform voters considering the Greens, as unintuitive as that is at first sight.

Reform’s record in councils so far is…not good. Tons of resignations, expulsions, lies and broken promises aplenty, incompetence, incoherent chaos and the general inability to make any kind of real change other than increase the number of flags flown at taxpayers expense a bit, the jobs destroyed, the closures of essential services. The list goes on.

They tried. They failed. They didn’t do what they promised. They made life in our country worse. They failed their constituents. So even even if you feel some affinity with some of their polices, let’s not see their constant harmful failures repeated in a ton more places. After all, Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results.