"Abolish the Home Office?!": Reform UK's 'policies' put to test | LBC debate

Ahead of their expected manifesto launch on Monday, Matt Frei was joined by Reform UK's deputy leader, Ben Habib.
According to one poll, Nigel Farage's Reform Party has overtaken the Conservatives for the first time, with Reform sitting at 19 per cent, ahead of the Conservatives at 18 per cent.
The Telegraph reported that senior Conservative Party figures have warned that Labour could win a huge majority if Reform is to take votes away from the Tories and split the right-wing vote.
Scarlett Maguire, director of polling company JL Partners, spoke to Matt as well about Reform's progress in the polls and if it is now a 'race for opposition' in the general election.
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[@saghirahmed5802]

Mr Nigel Farage on X: "Today was the best Conservative budget since 1986" (in response to the Lizz Truss budget)

[@SlowhandGreg]

Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy.

[@mentalmook206]

the chaos that caused is still hurting everyone today

[@janicebirch7522]

Yes and the WEF and IMF conglomerate of international greedy bankers soon sqashed ' little woman ' Truss'. Same greedy bankers who imposed AUSTERITY on UK people after the credit crisis they caused but bailed out of by the UK Govt. Same greedy bankers using the COST of Covid and the war in Ukraine and reduced energy supply from Putin as opportunist greed to put up interest rates. Why not ask why are we buying oil from India to their profit when India is buying it from Putin? But Putin is supposed to have sanctions

[@deco2132]

@@mentalmook206 The question you should truly ask is why was chaos caused?? If you actually look into it and do an analysis on where we would be now with Truss budget compared to the now - we would have been way better off. The whole Lizz Truss fiasco really did reveal who truly runs the country and none of them are elected. We live in a fake democracy.

[@MrCarhoo]

​@@mentalmook206clueless

[@darrelwestcott4986]

“The manifesto is fully costed by … Nigel Farage. The same person who fully costed the ‘benefits’ when campaigning for a No vote in the EU referendum.”

[@oldplucker1]

And now the UK is the 4th biggest exporter in the World. Benefits already from Brexit despite all the sabotage.

[@Cigarbawz]

⁠@@oldplucker14th biggest exporter yet two million job losses across the UK and the average British person being down an average of £2000 per year. Brexshit has also cost the uk economy £140 billion which will rise to around 300 billion by 2035. But yeah keep believing that we’re better off from it 😂

[@oldplucker1]

@@Cigarbawz That is the way Globalists Work and stop getting your facts from the Globalist media and the back of cornflake packets!

[@mmcc5846]

​@@oldplucker1the UK biggest thieves of export from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales more like

[@BrianMartin-ph7pt]

"Meanwhile, labour spend the non existent "windfall tax" for the 47th time on a LGBTQ Unicorn farm"..

[@gretareinarsson7461]

I don’t understand why being a businessman is supposed to be anything special in politics.

[@jeffsimon9594]

I bet you don't

[@tamhunter5025]

​@@jeffsimon9594I bet you don't either

[@RJD2838]

a country is effectively a business we need to make money to improve services due to decades of mismanagement the nation debt is over 3 trillion, it current rights by over £5,700.00 per second. one cost we could put if the life long salary the pm gets after they get replace this is £115,000.00 a year for Jon Major, Tony Blair, Gordan Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and soon to be Sunak. also when MPs Stand down or get replaced they get full pay for a further 3 years. Did i mention that our contribution to there pension is over 30% a year, solving this one thing is a minute in the grand scheme but just think how much more waste there is in our government.

[@seanbowe5529]

@@RJD2838a country is not a business and I don’t think any sane person thinks you should run a nation as one

[@ConnorMcGregor-ip7zb]

It's buinsness in politics that has broken the country, giving contracts to mates who can't even do the job. Politics should be a people driven service only.

[@MrAkabane1]

Isn't it interesting that the Tories are currently getting walloped due to Brexit and the fact that it is now universally agreed that becoming the first country to impose sanctions on itself was a bad move, but Farage is somehow escaping that flack himself? The man who pushed for it the loudest and then ran away.

[@tomazou2010]

The Tories were the ones who called the referendum and the ones who negotiated the deal to leave. Quite rightly they get the flak.

[@TheKarsino]

The immigrant whose party forever criticises immigrants.

[@LukeofSmeg]

*A party led by a brown faced man with a French last name and German wife and kids that speak German.

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

Depends what type of immigrants, ones that integrate and are an asset or the ones that don't.

[@oneoflokis]

💯

[@oneoflokis]

​@@LukeofSmeg💯

[@janicebirch7522]

Because he or his family came into the country legally and celebrates his British passport

[@DrJefflang]

A chicken voting for KFC.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Cows voting for McDonald's

[@pizzamad3334]

voting reform :)

[@Sardarji-bq6oj]

Me too. If LBC viewers don’t like them, then I know they are the party for me.

[@jphenry3404]

​@@Sardarji-bq6oj So you're one of those chickens I take it. Like whoever you want, but voting for a bunch of lying grifters to "own the left" or whatever is simply madness

[@anonomous8719]

If you vote Tory or labour

[@themasqueradingcow91]

One way to keep doctors might be to just pay for their exams! A friend has just paid £700 for an exam so that they can be a better doctor. That's ridiculous

[@garymiller7218]

Your friend will probably get a pay rise for being better qualified, but I do agree with you, you shouldn't have to pay for anything your employer wants you to do

[@psvhangoveral]

Get qualifications and you ensure your long term employability

[@whackeryounis]

@@garymiller7218not guaranteed. 1. You could fail and will have to pay every time you take it (but that's not the common scenario⬇️) 2. You can pass an exam but there are limited specialty job posts so it's very common for Drs to pass exams but not progress. One thing I've noticed regarding the media and public perception of Dr progression is you all paint it as being guaranteed year on year. It's not. The only thing that's guaranteed is foundation training (2 years post medical school). After that you pick a specialty to train in. Every single speciality has a competition ratio above 1 and it's increased drastically over the past decade. I'd say the average is about 4 to 1. Also important to note that the majority of speciality programs have multiple exams throughout to progress of which, again, there will be more people who pass than posts available. So when the topic of pay comes up, media/public assumes that all Drs will earn a consultant wage which is impossible as not every doctor can become a consultant. I'd argue limited specialty posts is a bigger issue than pay. When asked why this isn't done, NHS England says there's no money yet there has been dramatic funding to train and hire physician associates who are objectively, not comprehensively trained as a Dr, have less responsibility, require supervision from Drs yet out earn them early on in their careers. The physician associate is the only job in the NHS that doesn't do something that can't be done by a Dr. Nurses, physios, occupational therapists, paramedics, social services etc. There is some overlap in knowledge for sure but no one can straight swap to one of those new roles. Physician associate is the only role that doesn't do anything unique so the question is why fund them and not use the money to create more specialty posts for Drs? I'll leave with this: This year, there were 1000 GP jobs for 4000 qualified GPs. So that means there are 3000 GPs without a GP post. At the same time, NHS England has offered to reimburse the costs of hospitals and GPs to employ physician associates. So when the media/politicians say there aren't enough Drs, remember there are many Drs who are stuck at a level due to bottlenecks.

[@uzoma112]

The NHS keeps spending money to train doctors who will then leave the country and complain they are not paid well. A fully qualified consultant costs the NHS about £400k to train and then they leave to Australia and the Middle East to earn a lot of money.

[@whackeryounis]

@@uzoma112 Another trope you seem to not know much about. The number of Drs that leave the NHS is minor and that amount has barely increased and the majority of that minority are not consultants. You highlight the cost to train a consultant as a criticism if they leave. You don't seem to consider that a) they take out student loans which they pay back with interest b) pay high rates of taxes. Seeing as how it takes 10-15 years MINIMUM to become a consultant, if once they hit 40s and 50s they choose to want to work in another country, why shouldn't they? Have their taxes not paid to train the next generation of drs? Or the interest on the student loan they've paid back?

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

Reform in NOT a party. It is a Limited Company. That says it all.

[@elkpaz560]

If it maintains their integrity from infiltration, I'm all for it.

[@oneoflokis]

💯

[@oneoflokis]

@@elkpaz560 🙄

[@MrBigSeanno]

@@elkpaz560 integrity 🤣

[@ohnoslomo]

I mean aren't most police forces in England a limited company? People need to start waking up to the fact ALL politicians want to play you for a fool and milk you dry. They legalized bribes just for themselves ffs

[@btj-oo8xc]

Fartage can promise what ever he wants knowing full well he will never have to deliver. Just waiting for him to promise to give everyone in the UK £1m

[@drcommonsense1]

Exactly this. NHS struggles under Labour, and it won't be long before Farage pipes up and tells everyone, "I told you so." Journalists need to properly grill him on his policies, but they go so soft on him.

[@0w784g]

I prefer Sir Keir's approach of promising nothing and probably still not managing to deliver it 🤣

[@markoconnell2458]

​@@0w784g I want them to LOOK again to Re- Nationalise the NHS

[@muirislandjim453]

Britain is cooked

[@shaun906]

labour did it before and they can do it again. imagine trying to encourage growth, which is taken away by rate rises? that's a microcosm of tory policy. the left hand does one thing then the right does the total opposite. you know it yourself, all tories talk about is balancing the books, spreading a ever decreasing budget thinner and thinner. we need GROWTH not fiddling at the edges while Rome burns.

[@williamgould2855]

not through global warming ?

[@michaelc3051]

Cooked with a capital F.

[@AndrewDavies-e3f]

Then give Reform UK your Vote. First Check out their Policies, Common Sense 🤔🙂

[@plejady]

Bisons are cooked as well

[@chrisspencer6502]

lol libertarian economics and government. Abolish he home office, ok who’s going to issue birth certificates death certificates and passports?

[@susansantapola]

Just the usual gaslighting bs from Farage.

[@LLG47]

Hmmm What has a better track record for economic growth libertarian economics or socialist economics?

[@alantyndall85]

@@LLG47 Every time libertarians have gotten in power briefly, they break everything and add huge amounts to national debt. Libertarians are the 21st Century communists. Try to give us an argument which doesn't make you sound like a tankie.

[@davas5938]

@@LLG47say what you want about socialist economics (including that it historically leads to authoritarianism) but saying that it doesn’t cause growth is just historically wrong. Communism turned the Soviet Union from a peasant economy into a superpower industrially ready for WW2

[@hubadabubbada]

The Home Office does a whole whole whole lot more than just that as well.

[@americo7965]

This guy is as mad as a box of frogs

[@Pocketpatriot]

All you have is a lame insult,he has more intelligence in his little finger than you will ever have

[@LoneSheWolf09]

I was just about to say same thing americo

[@patriotuk407]

If your talking about Matt Frei I agree.

[@FRANKIECULLEN-r3g]

@@Pocketpatriot ok gammon.

[@alan_davis]

​@@Pocketpatriotreally? "Abolish the home office" Replace it with what? Laughs. Guy is a grifter, just like Farage and Tice. They'll have their sticky fingers in the till on day 1.

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

They'll abolish state pension and the welfare system.

[@tombo1984]

Well that's a lie.

[@TheWebstaff]

​@@tombo1984we will see Monday

[@lbert1347]

Based

[@tonyh1515]

No Labour will do that !!

[@pizzamad3334]

@@TheWebstaff cant wait to see what they come out with on monday. cant wait to vote reform

[@danmayberry1185]

The Home Office question left him clenching with nervous laughter. Admit it, Cruella was a poster girl over at Reform.

[@SunofYork]

He is laughing long enough to think of an answer... and fails

[@chatham43]

@dan What have you got against Suella I wonder?😊

[@stephenblanchard8973]

....you have a serious problem if you take Habib seriously....?

[@PaulStargasm]

Reform solution Reduce waiting lists in nhs - abolish the nhs and push everyone into private healthcare.

[@shaun906]

then there is no nhs waiting list lol

[@pizzamad3334]

my grandad couldnt get his hips done on the NHS, he had to go private. worked all his life.

[@jamiekelly7280]

Let's print more money!

[@Nexus804]

@@jamiekelly7280 interestingly, that is probably the only answer!

[@RuMixesButBetter]

You can’t run a country like a business. Businesses are profit driven, which means as lower cost as possible. It’s all pie in the sky thinking

[@jeffsimon9594]

To an economically illiterate Red maybe

[@seanbowe5529]

@@jeffsimon9594name one country that has ever actually been run to make profit for shareholders? Seriously name it

[@Me0wish]

@@seanbowe5529 the Torys tried to do it the last 14 years. Hence the failing nation

[@RuMixesButBetter]

@@jeffsimon9594 if you put the cost of services over the wellbeing of citizens, it increases poverty & anarchy.

[@johnrussell3961]

When only little profit can be made , the private sector won’t bother to provide a service.

[@Tee12343]

I wouldn't let Reform run the local raffle!

[@wft15]

But you’re about to vote for a party that has currently bankrupted 3 cities!

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Farage promised we would have an extra £350 million a week post Brexit for the NHS. Where did that go to Nige?

[@christinehill8611]

It was probably used to line the pockets of the conservatives during covid, when they emptied all the money trees.

[@anthonyduncalf-uk]

Osbourne said house prices would crash if we voted leave.

[@kathryngoddard739]

Hes straight out of Trumps playbook

[@benjamincjholmes]

By acting in the interest of the nation they represent?

[@sanjd6882]

"We didn't get Brexit". Aka "its always someone else's fault".

[@pastyman001]

Farage deserves no special debates. He's never off TV compared to more successful parties, 37 BBC premier political programme QT, including the other day, despite 7 failed attempts for parliament, the last beaten by a man in a dolphin suit. Only one pollster put Reform on 19% others are around 13%. They won just 2 council seats & their predecessor parties won just 2 seats ever in parliament, sitting Tory MP incumbents. He's not normal. He went to private schools, Dulwich college and worked as a commodities broker in the city of London. IN the EU Parliament in 20 years he did no representative work and rarely voted or debated but took the money and misspent funds.

[@El_Paracleto]

I agree, he's being ENABLED...

[@jeffsimon9594]

Get it all off your chest, that's it

[@tiptoptiptop7389]

Wokeys crying😅😂😅😂😅😂

[@gangsta891]

Bless you 🤡 😂😂😂

[@Bertrum123]

James off lbc radio when he interviewed farage wiped that smirk off farages face .he reminds me of aswald mossly .just whips people up .

[@keeklawless9248]

Who shut the storage facilities? Tories. Who outsourced everything to other countries & private sector? Tories. Ben Habibs former associates. Anyone who thinks that reform would do anything more than enrich themselves further, in the same way as the Tories have, needs to have a serious think & check their bank balance. If you’ve less than a few mil, reform dont care about you. They just want your vote. They’re a LTD company

[@neilchapman4037]

So the red tories are going to save us? Right, you are an absolute genius. I claim my £5

[@LukeofSmeg]

​@@neilchapman4037 Or how about no Tories, be it Red, Blue or a slightly lighter shade of Blue?

[@oneoflokis]

Exactly! 💯👍

[@oneoflokis]

​@@LukeofSmeg💯

[@DavidJohnson-yg8qm]

Under the guise of the Tory party, but they are charlatans, they never went ahead with any of their manifesto plans apart from a useless attempt to apply Brexit. The Tories are going to lose anyway so why even give them something you cherish. TOUR SUPPORT. Vote Reform or don't bother voting for the same again.... Labour or Tory

[@AndrewLord]

Reform A Warning From History ….

[@treescape]

Exactly reform for change

[@elkpaz560]

Reform An opportunity in the present to make a better future.

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

Sir Ian Kershaw already has the book and TV rights, Andrew it's plain to see

[@AndrewLord]

@@SimonSmith-yd6tt Yes - here’s a edited copy of a quote . All authority flowed from the Fartage . The Reform was founded on Faratage’s "charismatic leadership", and long after the charisma had faded and the British people had realised the country was being led to catastrophe

[@Brendon-e3o]

@@SimonSmith-yd6ttReform’s hubris will be followed by its nemesis.

[@KevinMurphy0403]

“It does add up…it does add up… it does add up. It does add up…. No it doesn’t. This is a primary example of the far right repeating and repeating a lie until it finally sticks. Straight out of The Donald’s instruction manual.

[@MurphyOCP-001]

Reform policies never hold up to the scrutiny of reality

[@Dagr8soldjer]

They do if you suspend your disbelief and actually run the numbers

[@chad0x]

They have no policies to get the things done which they are talking about getting done! ​@@Dagr8soldjer

[@michaelbarton7615]

And the rest do?

[@wcfields547]

@@michaelbarton7615😂 he’s not on about the rest though is he ? Why whataboutism is the easy question from someone who is either politically illiterate dishonest or deliberately snakey for not wanting to discuss the question…..do you understand?

[@anonnemo2504]

They do and far more than what Reform UK are committing themselves to in their contract with the electorate would be possible with the scrapping of our ludicrous "net Zero" programme.

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

He's never spoken to doctors, has he? Doctors aren't concerned with the tax burden, they are leaving because of the work burden...

[@TelfordO]

Fully funded.... they have no idea on costs Ideas cost they are not free, even to scrap stuff has a cost and knock on effects. Cloud coco land.

[@TheEntertainmentOfficer]

Sounds just like Brexit.

[@toriesout8692]

They want to scrap Home Office because Border Force will do all that, yet haven’t thought about how much redundancy would need to be paid out along with costs to centralise that arm.

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

@@toriesout8692 couple of months ago they released a 6 pledges leaflet. No 6 Pick up and take back to France! Isn't that out and out people trafficking?

[@James_Blonde]

People in glass houses TelfordO 😂

[@teelo523]

They have mentioned a few ways to improve spending and how they will make money in other areas. I guess we will see more about it on monday

[@petercassidy0628]

Could never understand stand how people think farage and tice are the answer to solve the problems the Tories inflected on the country the last 14 years. But really it started with thatcher who sold most of the assets we had maybe the biggest mistake was the housing stock sold off and never replaced. Then Cameron with Brexit then may then Johnson COVID and truss mini budget and sunak all of them hopeless .

[@wft15]

What about the millions of immigrants Blair brought in who hate British values???

[@alexritchie4586]

Abolish the government agency that manages the police?

[@suelindz]

Yes its corrupt

[@andrewlong6438]

It’s a department not an agency

[@Leigh-ry3yb]

The home office is the problem, it's corrupt.

[@tobyalan8874]

What happened to us all being better off after voting for Brexit? Reform are Jam tomorrow.

[@aleccap5946]

First of all. Explain what the Home Office is, how much is the cost to taxpayers and then begin

[@michealridgway7607]

Reform say excately what some people want to hear.just like Boris Johnson did

[@tonyb9735]

Just like Boris Johnson, yes. The problem is these people *want* to believe. So they do.

[@31Blaize]

Because they'll never ever have to put it to the test or be held accountable for it.

[@triffid68]

@@tonyb9735 They are obviously advocates of Trussonomics

[@sonofsomerset1695]

Nope Johnson pushed the same net zero scam as Labour are, Labour have more in common with the tories than Reform do.

[@Tsunamiash80]

They call it populism. It is a weapon used by powerful elites to convince the common man that they are allies with the common man against the poweful elites.

[@funnythat9956]

there are unemployed medical doctors in the UK; the doctors are there; there is no money to employ them

[@ricardosmythe2548]

The money is there but its spent on middle management. The NHS leaks money like a sieve

[@Pocketpatriot]

Nonsense

[@ricardosmythe2548]

LBC deleting Britain's conversation

[@Pocketpatriot]

@@ricardosmythe2548 spot on

[@gadgetmeister8503]

The money is there, the Tories are wasting it elsewhere.

[@NSW-ye3xw]

As a working person, I would be happy paying £5 extra for national insurance. If all people like me were charged that, that would sort out the NHS.

[@IMBlakeley]

I'd be shocked if Fatrage's party soon to be renamed Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei gets more than a seat or two.

[@kevinsmarts9953]

I believe they are sending some men around to make sure you vote correctly, you will recongise them by the colour of their shirts.

[@eddiecalderone]

Keep up your scaremongering… it doesn’t stick anymore

[@tomtative]

​@eddiecalderone the entire manifesto is rife with villainization of minorities and fearmongering to fuel a culture war... how ironic!

[@johnbekoe2973]

This habib guy is a joker and should not be taken seriously

[@LukeofSmeg]

"I think I should stop burdening the NHS and leave the country immediately!!!😡🤬😤"

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The fact he is like I'm a businessman, I'll run it like a business yet his plans are too reduce the income of the business for no reason at all, not readjust the burden to bring in more and then make promises they'll buy up utilities which we know they won't do as they are a right wing party.

[@psrpippy]

How did that work out for Donald trump? He failed miserably too.

[@paulmcgreevy3011]

@@psrpippymore like you failed to notice reality

[@psrpippy]

@@paulmcgreevy3011 🤣🤣🤣I’m pretty sure I can guess your kind of reality. Nice one🤣🤣🤣

[@JM-xm6hd]

How’s he reducing income? It’s called repurposing funds as the government does all the time. Whether you spend on railways or the nhs, compared to something else. Everything that’s spent comes back to the government as a percentage. If they pay for staff wages it’s employers NI, tax, pension contribution, VAT on purchases. Then the staff get to spend the money and pay again. It never ends, it’s recirculating money which you may realise is an economy.

[@Danny-is5if]

@@psrpippy It worked very well. What did he fail on? Do tell.

[@Polar_Bear_Ron]

“How are you going to afford any of it?” Don’t you remember these are the same people that said we’d gain £360 million for the NHS when we left the EU? “We’re missing front line staff” Because all of the Europeans were forced to leave after Brexit.

[@IsSalty]

Farage has also been constantly telling everyone that the UK healthcare system costs the same as the French system but with worse results. He uses this to justify privatising further to an insurance based mixed system. He conveniently forgets to tell everyone when adjusting both the NHS and French system for PPP we spend 20% LESS on healthcare. In real terms a £60bn black hole in farages numbers.

[@johnrussell3961]

The official opposition has to have the second most number of MP’s, not the second most number of votes! The fight to be the official opposition is between the Tories and the Lib Dems.

[@mwd331]

This is something the reform lot fail to grasp.

[@TrFjAcOr]

All this coverage and bravado for 1 seat. Why are they getting any airtime?

[@CHUTNEX]

@@mwd331 It's a VERY long list!

[@El_Paracleto]

@@TrFjAcOr True, i wonder who in power would support and enable far-right CONservatives???

[@joesheridan9451]

And do you not think that is a problem with our crooked outdated system? Surely in a democracy the party with the second most votes should be the 2nd party… I guess it’s fine as long as it’s convenient for your side but if the roles were flipped you’d be crying about the injustice of it

[@paulhodgers]

Nationalise utility companies? If that was labour they'd call it socialism 😂

[@LukeofSmeg]

That's because you missed the bit where they said they'd fund it by cutting taxes. 😂 They aren't even at a primary school level of maths bless them. 🥹🥲

[@petefl1818]

Promises, promises, promises from a new Party with no experience of government, but one which claims it can solve all the problems.

[@alan_davis]

Populism in a nutshell. See also: _grifting shysters_.

[@1erkyrob2]

The economics of the mad house. The most ridiculous manifesto since Screaming Lord Sutch, or Liz Truss.

[@SISU889]

Or labour 😂

[@The1Green4Man]

Oh and net zero policy and hotels for endless illegal immigrants isn’t?

[@kevinsmarts9953]

@@The1Green4Man The hotels are for asylum seekers waiting to be processed. If they were full of illegals then it'd be super easy to deport them, the problem is that illegal immigrants tend not to let the authorities know they are in the country and certainly don't stay in government funded accommodation. As for why they are in hotels? They have not been processed, the government has failed to keep up and lost control over the situation. So just like everything else that is broken about Britain today you should blame the Tories and not the victims they tell you to blame.

[@wft15]

@@kevinsmarts9953why do you think they throw their passports and documents away? Because they no they have no right to be in this country and so what to make it difficult to deport them. They’re not victims they’re freeriders.

[@kevinsmarts9953]

@@wft15 Except this has never been proven or recorded to have happened. As to what ti would achieve, it is most likely to result in a failed application for asylum. Also, there are checks in place to ensure people really are from where they claim and it only takes a translator who can speak the national language from their claimed origin country 99% of the time. Other than this and all the other evidence that proves your claims wrong, you are correct.

[@NeilBlaiberg]

Shocking interview. Allowed to spout nonsense and not properly challenged again

[@caval141]

Ben Habib a Pakistani immigrant promoting Farage's/Reforms anti immigrant policies etc. You couldn't make this s_it up!

[@bonniesumo1004]

Maybe because he actually left Pakistan to escape its culture and evil laws, and instead, the people who support it followed him and clearly want it here.

[@localreviewking134]

Yeah, what irony of they deported him?

[@anonnemo2504]

Clearly, you can make up that to which you refer. I didn't know that Mr. Frei had taken his sneering from Channel 4 to LBC. I do hope he is now on a lower salary.

[@ExplorewithSarahlouise]

People who don’t want illegal immigrants coming in not checked are not all against all immigrants they just want people to come in with a proper process, background check and because those people actually want to live and work in the Uk and can contribute to the country.

[@rice4550]

@@ExplorewithSarahlouiseif that was true then they would never bring up immigration being a problem because immigrants do take up jobs and pay tax and makes sure this countries age demographic doesn’t collapse so you can enjoy a pension

[@andyt2k]

Before I start watching, his answer to most things is going to be "immigrants"

[@Georg3Nada]

And he’d be right.

[@TheKarsino]

Which is ironic as he is one.

[@aleksandarsmiljanic571]

Why

[@blazzz13]

@@TheKarsino In fairness, the same applies to Trump

[@stuplant6693]

Really, ​@@Georg3Nada

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Removing tax from doctors and nurses, is not going to do much seem as they get payed double in Australia and more in the USA. Let alone that oh I don't know if you owned a multi million pound GP's surgery, I can imagine that their tax will be zero as well. Which is the entire point of the policy to make people who own parts of the NHS pay less tax.

[@david1731048]

Not to mention that aside from fairness, our tax system is complicated enough. Going down the road of creating different tax bands for different jobs is a mental idea.

[@paulgibbon5991]

Farage embodies the saying that for every complex problem, there's a solution that's simple, obvious, and wrong.

[@mochan8447]

Completely wasted interview giving these gaslighters so much airtime. You had two tasks to achieve: grill him on the devastating failure of Brexit and ask why one should ever trust people who caused an even bigger catastrophe than Liz Truss, and secondly grill him more on their pigs-will-fly promises like NHS 0 waiting lists and net 0 migration etcetera which are all to be achieved by a group of new MPs with no administrative experience and an understanding of basic accounting and finance that would make Kwasi Kwarteng look like a Nobel Prize candidate for Economic theory on how to crash an economy!

[@Steve-s8k]

Two of the biggest gaslighters are Starmer and Sunak and Sunak is the one you should ask about Brexit

[@mochan8447]

@@Steve-s8k They may be but what has that got anything to do with this interview or must you cram in your whataboutisms into everything?

[@Steve-s8k]

@@mochan8447 It probably has nothing to do with the interview but your comment isn't either and therefore I was only responding to your comment. Brexit is a process to be achieved, not just something that once it is put in place it runs itself, which is why I said to ask Sunak. Your comment is based on nothing, especially when their 'contract' has been costed by others and it all tallies up to what they say.

[@thomaschapman8312]

If you reduce tax from NHS staff do you ignore the police, fire brigade, teachers, bin men, bus drivers …etc

[@terryloftus3207]

Reform slagging off the TORIES,yet would team up with the TORIES in a heartbeat because THEY are TORIES but more EXTREME.

[@shaun906]

tory in refuk clothing

[@wft15]

They’re not even extreme. They’re centre right. The tories aren’t even remotely right wing anymore.

[@JmeHayGreenz]

This man is shameless.

[@jeffsimon9594]

Yes Matt Frei is a typical condescending legacy media dinosaur

[@jackdubz4247]

@@jeffsimon9594 No, Ben Habib.

[@olgapavlova585]

I blame voters, as even though he resigned from UKIP as soon as people voted to leave, to leave us out the EU with Tories in power, who only work for the rich and want our economy closely linked with USA banks so people live in greed and debt where their credit rating is the most important thing, and he's now selling his get rich quick schemes based on stock market gambling, but some people still think he cares about Britain and British people.

[@anonnemo2504]

Mr Frei? I agree. I didn't know he had taken his sneering from Channel 4 to LBC. I do hope he is now on a lower salary. I notice that he concluded the interview with a swipe at Brexit. How surprising. Mr. Frei and LBC deserve each other.

[@matthewfoley3929]

​@@anonnemo2504brexit was a shitshow. If you voted for it, thanks for taking away my right travel and trade freely with Europe.

[@danh945]

How are you going to get NHS waiting lists to zero? Well, we'll cut the income tax on doctors to incentivise them to come back. Great, let's move on. -- like what?? That alone isn't going to abolish the waiting lists. Why didn't you press him more on the matter instead of just moving on?

[@flyingdutchman3483]

Using Boris Johnson's Battle-Bus propaganda. Remember what was promised for the NHS if we left the EU and what did we get? Leaving the EU has cost thousands of lives in Britain for a failed ideology and yet there are some lemmings that are going to vote for more of the same, so the best thing to hope for is that you are never ill.

[@localreviewking134]

In other words, if you are rich now you will be even richer under REFORM. Even LIz Truss wonders where they have got their finance figures from.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

Instead of Labours plan of making everyone poor.

[@traceyrhoden9808]

Talking bull 💩

[@edwardmitchell9048]

Yep. There are the haves and the have-mores, as George 'Dubya' Bush once said.

[@colinross-gu4rq]

So raising the income tax threshold to £20k wouldnt help people who are not already rich?

[@janicebirch7522]

There is nothing wrong with wealth creators. The problem is the unfair and regressive taxes and the non dom oligharchs, the GREEDY bankers and the multi - billionaire, wealth HOARDERS!

[@Biffo1262]

Zero tax so you get more doctors but then you have to pay for them by increasing the tax burden on others. Well that's not very logical.

[@user-ce8rm9tb6v]

'So we're going to take £50m from here and place it here, remove this policy, introduce this policy. We've done the numbers they add up, they definitely add up, hahahaha, the numbers definitely add up as the policies have been costed, and will fully work haha'

[@andybrown4284]

Abolishing the home office is like taking a bugatti converting it into a flintstones car and expecting the same performance around the nurbergring.

[@alexd7029]

Reform the Home Office. Absolutely necessary for the country to progress. They are not fit for purpose.

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

Isn't Habib the guy who said that he doesn't care if people drown in the channel (I think it's on video)

[@suzy7726]

Why come here when they pass many safe countries they are not fleeing war they are coming here for the benefits ect they are putting their own lives at risk coming

[@ADYDRURY1234]

He is not the only one who thinks like that, no one is forcing them to get on the boats. Play silly games win silly prizes.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

If somebody killed themselves trying to break in to your house, would you care about them?

[@ilokivi]

@@suzy7726That’s not how international laws work. Read UNCLOS and the 1951 Vienna Convention on the treatment and processing of refugees seeking asylum. Both are in the public domain.

[@pizzamad3334]

@@ilokivi cant wait to come away from the BS international laws you lot hide behind.

[@colinmelling6369]

Let’s not change anything at all then and carry on being trillions of pounds in dept. We need radical policies to clear up the mess. The lazy home office is a great place to start. If you can find them.

[@deanlowdon8381]

Reform don’t need to explain their policies because they know they’re never going to ever actually have to try to implement them.

[@pareshpatel7100]

Just like Brexit winning was never going to happen. The economy going down the toilet didn't come in the heads of people who vote for them.

[@millicentgranger6035]

Definitely right ....certain folks going to be seething, the whole country ain't idiots

[@deanlowdon8381]

@@xonerate371 What part of that statement is wrong?

[@alan_davis]

​@@deanlowdon8381none of it, he's just thick or a bot.

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

​​@@xonerate371they won't win a single seat...for themselves

[@mateuszziembla1677]

This guy literally believes that UK is currently spending 50bn quid on net zero per year 6:11 😂😂😂

[@stormyweathers9887]

""Raise the VAT! Reduce Corporation Tax!" In other words, subsidise the big business at the expense of the little guy. I wonder how many builders, who pay the VAT, would vote for this policy, and dig their own graves! What's even more baffling is that the LBC guy says everybody wants that!

[@marvellis6762]

The Con Artist Party. Not remotely worthy of listening to

[@mikemadasafish]

Close the Home Office. So no Border controls, no prisons, unlimited immigration...

[@action1976]

We don't have any border control as it is. And we have unlimited immigrants crossing the channel as it is. What is Labour's way of stopping illegal immigration.

[@yorewhyworry7217]

Ask about their policies...and all you get is laughter...says it all.

[@garshanon]

Why give this crown oxygen. Absolute rocket.!

[@proskipper1]

Love it if Farage got a seat so him and his party come under parliamentary scrutiny including finance for Brexit from Russia.

[@Ben6164]

They wouldn't come under any scrutiny. Anyone not on the frontbench does the scrutinising; Farage won't be on any frontbench.

[@Ben6164]

Also as an appendix to my comment there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any collusion between the Leave campaign and Russia.

[@tonyb9735]

There was no parliamentary scrutiny of finance for Brexit from Russia. In fact, the Tories very carefully didn't find any evidence.

[@keithlevoir608]

🤣

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@tonyb9735 The security services were ordered not to look

[@jordoncampbell5118]

North sea gas & oil gets sold in the open market how does that help UK.

[@shuggiemcg1]

Reform said last week "Any companies that makes £30 Billion in profits, we will charge them, (wait for it) £35 Billion in taxes!" hashahahahaha

[@davidcheetham4386]

made up nonsense. please try harder.

[@teelo523]

No one said that

[@Ben6164]

You literally just made that up, which is not a normal thing to do

[@shuggiemcg1]

@@Ben6164 I literally did not! it was on A different Bias youtube video i am not searching it out go fact check yourself

[@nihaz2060]

@@shuggiemcg1 Weird guy

[@michaelmather7352]

Can't they use the invisible £ 360 million a week from brexshit 😂

[@michaelc3051]

They don’t want to talk about that now.

[@pizzamad3334]

@@michaelc3051 cope more.

[@alistairkittow3648]

so his response to why they want to abolish the Home office was just to laugh !!!!

[@Aatish2k8]

How about nationalising our railway system. THAT'S a total disaster right now.

[@kevinsmarts9953]

That is in the Labour manifesto

[@snafufubar]

Already mostly been nationalised. Network Rail government run, almost every TOC now a management contract.

[@alan_davis]

Labour policy.

[@mahfuzurchowdhury2765]

What's crazy is - this guy is probably the most "sane" senior person of the Reform Party.

[@simonjohn9525]

The first thing he wants to do is to decrease staff tax (These people are obsessed with tax cuts!) to retain them. How about paying them more?

[@alan_davis]

It ridiculous isn't it. Just adds changes (make more complicated) to the tax system, requirement to pay IT contractors (like Fujitsu...) to modify HMRC systems, requirements to pay more HMRC staff to sort out returns. If people are underpaid for the job they do for society the answer is simple: pay them more.

[@jananders1351]

When you represent a far-right fringe party there is no way that your policies have to be in any sense realistic or capable of implementation. Promise anything you like you'll never have to do it.

[@Leon-lt5gv]

Farage isn't as patriotic as people think ' if we were invaded ' he would show his true colours ' & run to the nearest neutral country 🏃‍♂️💨👋🇬🇧🤣

[@Chriswizz]

We are being invaded. Just give it another 8 years and the fun will really start

[@wft15]

The country is currently being invaded!

[@worcestersorcerer]

Reform always end up looking woolly when pushed for the numbers and detail.

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

Where’s all the reform bots gone??

[@alan_davis]

Hopefully they ran out of marketing money

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

Abolish House of lords and Home Office

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

"And thats how I won the Iron Cross...."

[@bernardmcguinness4394]

Habibs sums add up like this , one for you and one for me , one for you and ten for me , none for you and all for me

[@robertbransby]

Waiting lists down to zero 😂😂 what a joker

[@bitandbob1167]

Let’s fact check - 15,000 to 20,000 doctors don’t leave the NHS every year. That range is an estimate of the volume that left between Sept 2022 and Sept 2023 but that is likely due to Covid burnout. Prior to the pandemic rates of departure were far lower. If departures were at this rate over the long term the number if doctors would have fallen but it has increased from 97,000 to around 125,000 between 2011 and present day. Not enough given population increase combined with increased health needs. But a different story to Habib’s claim.

[@Maccaxxx]

Or they made that much money out of Covid that they retired early.

[@Joe-rr2vf]

hahaha. BUT MUH CONTEKS MUH CONTEKS, "let's unpack this akshully" redditor hahahahaah

[@martinmcdonald4207]

Your story is factual, Habib story is fictional.

[@aleph8888]

Covid burnout? What other country had GPs go on holiday during the biggest pandemic in 100 years?

[@bitandbob1167]

Yes there were so many going on their hols when we were locked down and unable to travel 🙄

[@steveo44]

I'm assuming there are a lot of assumptions on their costings here. They are in a position to offer the world on a plate when they will never have to do it. That's why Labour are being more cautious.

[@TheMatthooks]

"Why not?" ... "Because pigs don't fly". Beautiful!

[@AA-hg5fk]

Investing in renewables will help make the UK more energy independent!

[@ronniejoyeux6753]

Reform are so Deluded

[@sonofsomerset1695]

Is it reform that cant say what a woman is? Oh wait, that was Kier Starmer, and you think Reform are the deluded ones!? Wow.

[@StopTheRot]

@@sonofsomerset1695be careful parroting culture war arguments. As someone that is married to someone that works in the civil service, as part of a PR team, you are literally focusing on the things the right wing want you to focus on, so that you don’t notice when they make your lives much more difficult. They want to help the rich but hide it from the poor. Culture wars are the method.

[@pizzamad3334]

well, im still voting reform

[@alan_davis]

​@@pizzamad3334it's a free country*, you do you. * until we vote in a right wing semi authoritarian government. At which point you'll be put to work in meat grinding factories for a handful of beans a week.

[@kashansamad197]

As a migrant citizen, I despise the narrative from Reform but love those policies. I'm torn!

[@chriswitheford1352]

sounds like Screaming Lord Sutch has written Farages manifesto

[@LukeofSmeg]

To be fair at least the Loony's usually hide a halfway decent policy in there 4 da lolz. 😂

[@GaryDilnot]

& Screaming Lord Sutch was a much more creditable, agreeable person.

[@anonnemo2504]

It seems that someone far less educated in grammar and the use of the apostrophe has written your comment. I didn't know that Mr. Frei had taken his sneering from Channel 4 to LBC. I do hope he is now on a lower salary.

[@GaryDilnot]

@@anonnemo2504 Oh dear, is that all you can say? Just checked, & despite a misplaced apostrophe, the world is still turning. Hope you find something more useful to do with your Saturday.

[@anonnemo2504]

@@GaryDilnot It wasn't misplaced. Anyway, thank you for the research and the reassurance. Perhaps, one day, I too will be able to find something as useful to do on a wet Saturday afternoon.

[@ianstewart5297]

Lets see what happens when we vote. Reform🇬🇧👍👍👍

[@darrylsimpson4744]

The same thing that happened in 2016.

[@Irishpolitics23]

What struck me was he said "We left 1.8 million people behind". Yet he doesnt seem to grasp that a majority of those "1.8 million" peoole voted remain as did a majority in Scotland. My point is that separate referendums should be held in all 4 countries and if some vote remain, they remain while the ones that vote leave, leave. Or if they didn't want to separate, well then it should have been void. Instead, it was went about the wrong way. As for Brexit, he got what he campaigned for. And it wasn't all rosy as he (Ben Habib) and some others thought it would be. It has instead fractured the trust of many people across the 4 countries and imposed unnecessary economic sanctions and difficulties upon them.

[@maco3716]

I doubt that a mere tax cut will retain doctors

[@rb1062]

A tax cut is worth something something, though. It could well be an incentive.

[@Silver-st2zq]

​​@@rb1062Lots of Ex Tories in Reform UK who are obsessed with not paying too much tax and seem to think that's the be-all and end-all for everyone else.

[@thomasrobinson3453]

Why is he laughing at his own manifesto pledges.... he sounds deranged.

[@charlierob4377]

By shutting the home office I guess Reform want to stop paying the state pension, bold move to save a lot of money

[@brianoriordan7281]

So ditching net zero eill resolve all the NHS,s problems, then provide thousands of Coppers, solve the migration issues and so on. Has it not dawned on them it can only be spent once?

[@V4Now]

I assume they found that money tree.

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

no, Net Zero is affecting all European nations, and needs to be scrapped

[@dawnwilliams6061]

Little bit like the non doms money.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

They never said it would solve all problems, but it will fund the attempt to sort it out, instead of burning the money for nothing on the net zero scam.

[@Dilbert-o5k]

It will save a small fortune and make the cost of living cheaper by giving more options. That will leave more money available for other things.

[@uyi2g4eva]

He thinks our serious issues are for laughs. The fool is laughing at us.

[@johnriley9742]

Always beware of someone laughing at a serious question. SNAKE OIL SALESMAN ALARM

[@hockeyfanice7371]

Former NHS staff wont necessarily come back to work for the NHS just because they wouldnt pay tax. ben habib saying we need to stop immigration is a bit rich coming from someone who was an immigrant himself from Pakistan.

[@CraigBuckton-o3q]

What has happened to the reporting class in this country. Such sub standard questions.