Stop making excuses: the UK is filled with racists who’ll happily vote Reform

Make no mistake: Great Britain has always been a far-right, racist circus; currently, that circus is gathering in the shape of Reform’s sweeping victories in the local elections. After all, let’s remember that Nigel Farage has not just waved a magic wand and tricked loads of people into voting for him. Instead, he’s piped his merry little tune to get racist white people happily skipping along behind him. If there is going to be any chance of resisting Reform’s fascism and racism, the left must accept it as such.

Reform voters are just fucking racist

You’ll hear some left-wing voices pitifully whine that ‘oh, well – it’s not that these people are racist, they’re just disillusioned’. Or, people will argue that Nigel Farage has manipulated them – or that the Greens are too middle-class, or Zarah Sultana sabotaged Your Party, or the Canary did something or other, or something, something, something.

Blah, blah, blah.

As a side note, that narrative is incredibly condescending to working-class people; the implication being that they can’t possibly think for themselves.

But regardless, it’s none of that. Reform voters are just fucking racist.

It’s 2026. The majority of the population has access to social media and/or to broadcast or print news. Nearly all Reform voters will have seen Zia Yusuf’s Nazi-esque threat to the public to put refugee detention centres in Green-voting areas and deport 600,000 mostly Black and Brown people. They’ll know one of Reform’s councillors is a racist rape-celebrator. People knew all this, and still voted for the party in droves.

What does that tell us?

Again, it tells us that Reform voters are just fucking racist.

Britain has a colonial heart

However, this is much of the white British population across the board. There is a eugenicist, colonial, white supremacist complex embedded in our DNA. So, most people – when push comes to shove – will vote for far-right, rape-endorsing fascists while throwing Black and Brown people under the bus.

Because ultimately, white people will vote for racists if they think they’ll be financially or materially better off for it. Find us a Labour or Tory government, ever, that has not enacted colonialism on a Global Majority country. Yet, most of the population will have voted for them.

There’s also the feudal hangover that white British people cannot recover from. They love someone who is infinitely more stupid, yet rich and good at bullshitting, telling them what to do.

There are some exceptions to this, of course. The local elections will have seen mostly old, white, overly racist people come out and vote in areas where Reform won. Also, turnout has been low as per usual. Plus, Greens have made significant gains. However, none of this can detract from the enormity of what has happened.

Instead of voting for racist, right-wing Labour or the Tories, people have voted for the exceptionally racist and far-right Reform. Or, in the case of Norfolk, Reform wasn’t racist enough for people and they voted for the neo-Nazi Restore Britain party. All this a pattern that is likely to be repeated at the 2029 general election – unless something drastic happens.

So, what to do?

Well, there are two obvious options.

Can we change people’s minds?

One is to try and change racist people’s minds.

There’s nuance within the idea that Reform voters are racist. Some of them may not be the type you’ll see on a Unite the Kingdom march. They’re different – the kind of racists who make microaggressions at Black and Brown people day in, day out. They’ll 99.99999% tell you that ‘I’m not racist, but…’ and say ‘Reform’s policies are just sensible’. If you called them racist they’d shriek and collapse onto their Ikea fainting couches, clutching their Temu pearls. However, it is possible to change these people’s minds – but only by giving them something that they’ll think will benefit them.

The other option is to accept the fact that the UK is a white supremacist-dominated society and move accordingly. That doesn’t mean accepting a Reform victory in 2029. That means accepting that you won’t change the minds of their voters, and focusing on changing the minds of the millions of people who don’t vote, or the ones who currently vote for other parties.

This is going to be the Green Party’s biggest challenge.

Greens x Reform in 2029

Currently, Zack Polanski’s party has an electoral ceiling. It is highly unlikely to be able to form a majority government in 2029, as it stands now. This is because:

1. It has an image problem. Yes, the party has been swamped by new members. In the press and on socials, the Green Party looks young and woke as fuck. However, at local level too many members are still middle-class hippies or hipsters who would not dare step foot on a council estate, let alone knock doors on one. Moreover, parts of it are still ‘Tories on pushbikes’ – that is, bigoted in terms of minoritised people, and nimbies when it comes to their own areas.
2. First Past the Post will do it no favours.
3. Huge swathes of the population are still ride-or-die Labour or Tories.
4. It still has a racism problem.

The Green Party now needs to step up. It needs to properly integrate working class and minoritised people into every corner of it – top, down. It needs to stop the current witch hunt against anti-Zionists. The Green Party must focus on non-voters. And it must make sure that it does not give any ground to the corporate media and establishment.

Because overall, racism is not just a flashpoint for election season. It is in the hearts and minds of people who choose Reform; but, it is also in the hearts of minds of well-meaning people who choose to look away.

We see no changes

We cannot afford to keep looking away. Nor can we afford to let racism go unchallenged. Otherwise, we’ll be in exactly the same position in 2029, saying the exact same thing. We all have choices to make every single day between now and the next general election: will you quietly and willingly allow Nigel Farage’s party full of incompetent grifters and racists to run the country, or will you challenge their hatred and build an alternative to their white supremacist fever dream?

Featured image via the Canary