I think you misread Reform supporters. They like all those things when it suits them (usually because they hold a privileged position in society i.e. white, male, elderly, etc.) but get very upset when it doesn't (see the wholesale rejection of COVID restrictions, mask wearing, LTNs, etc.).
They are basically happy with the status quo being (varying degrees of) racist and misogynistic because that way the odds tend to favour them, even if actual legislation is fairly neutral. However, any attempt to address historic inequality is met with fire and fury.
The point being that they *like* inequality as long as they are on the right side of it. When they feel the tables turning, that's when they feel like the "elites" are out to get them and need to be replaced.
I can imagine scenario of Farage presenting data abt boat crossings going up/ down, linking w/ incidence of apparent violence on part of immigrant, encouraging unrest and, maybe w/ involvement of US (?), stating elections can realistically only go ahead once local authorities got grip on situation.
This govt, in partnership with local authorities, cancelled a raft of local elections that were meant to be happening this year, and the electorate (despite intense local party messaging from some quarters) batted barely an eyelid.
I wouldn't rate that anything beyond plausible. The biggest questions over any speculations of what a Reform government might do remain: [1] FPTP, which requires winning at constituency level; and [2] party management, because Farage has fallen out with every party he's led, leading to its collapse.
Y're right - even Russia/ Belarus go ahead w/ (theatrics, at least, of) elections. We'll see if Farage has managed to create sustainable party - if remains intact, p'hps due, in large part, to surge of public 'goodwill' it's attracting in light of Tories having purposefully foregrounded immigration.
I don't want to sound complacent. Even the mere fact your suggestion is *plausible* is deeply concerning but I do sense that a lot of the more fevered speculation is somewhat hyperbolic.
Probably; think we just need to be mindful that Johnson set groundwork and it only requires some apparently everyday parliamentary processing, over time, within 'trusted' parameters of Westminster, for our country to become (almost imperceptibly) very different indeed. www.kcl.ac.uk/is-the-gover...
The vast majority of Reform supporters observed COVID restrictions. (Reform's electorate & the online right are not the same thing). Those who didn't had to convince themselves that the regulations themselves were unlawful (a breach of "Magna Carta" or "Common Law").I made no claim about inequality.