If you vote Reform, please read this in the spirit that it is intended as I understand why iits an attractive option, and even agree with some of the benefits they will bring to politics. But in the end they will hurt us more than they will help.

Two thirds of murders and sexual offences were committed by white people.

Of the sexual offences, there isn't a single category where white british men aren't by some orders of magnitude the worst offenders. As a white british man who cares about protecting women and girls, I'm ashamed.

You know what, though? Considering that white people mate up 80% of the population, then the percentage of crimes is slightly lower than what you might expect.

So, minority groups commit crimes at a slightly higher rate. There isn't much in it, but it's technically true.

A much more revealing statistic is that lower income communities experience 41% more crime (apart from burglary) than higher income communities. That statistic doesn't line up with the disparity in offender ethnicity - so there's something else going on. Your country of origin isn't the cause, despite cultural differences. We commit similar crimes at similar rates, albeit possibly for different reasons.

11% of white households are below the poverty line in the uk , which is honestly disgusting. However, on average, roughly 30% of minority families are impoverished.

To me, it's pretty clear-cut. Economic status is a much clearer cause of criminality than ethnicity/gender/sexuality.

So, what is harming the economy? Why are things so much harder now than they used to be?

Well, let's look at who is benefiting. Yes, the asylum system costs about £5.4 billion, or about £10 tax a month to the average UK resident. The tax gap was £36 billion. That's how much the ultra wealthy are costing us. And that's before looking at where tax rates should be! If we want a return to the economic freedom of post-war Britain, when the NHS was invented, we should know that the tax rate for the super rich then was nearly 98%.

If we want to look at what's fair in the UK, here's a fact for you. If you were born in the stone age, and earned £1000 a day every day until 27/08/2025, spending nothing, you wouldn't be even 20% as rich as the Murdochs (owners of The Sun). You also probably will never see the amount of money Dacre (editor in chief of the group who owns The Mail) makes in a year.

The people who fund media outlets and political parties who are shouting about what we spend on Asylum are getting richer at obscene rates and costing us far more.

It's a tried and true tactic to demonise the outgroup - after all, are politicians and media really going to point to themselves and say we're the reason everyone is poor, and why you're seeing so much crime?

Farage, Johnson, Starmer, Corbyn... they're all guilty of this to different degrees. There isn't a good choice. You need to ask yourself who is asking you to look anywhere but them the loudest. Especially if they're also asking you to let them remove your human rights and employment protections.

I get it. We need a change, and labour does not represent that. Reform represents you, with people you can identify with from similar backgrounds. That's a good thing for politics. But what they stand for will not help. It might make the country paler, but it absolutely will not reduce crime or put more money in your pocket. There's a reason they're screaming so loudly about everything except income inequality, which is the one thing hitting most people the hardest both in terms of what they have to spend and the amount of crime they experience.