Peter Hitchens: Why you should NOT vote Reform 

Peters is afraid that voting Reform will draw votes away from the Tories. I believe voting for the Tories will draw away votes from Reform.

I'm sorry, but you don't get to bang on about how the Tory's need to be destroyed for years and then get upset when people actually try to do it. Also, Hitchen's in his usual condescension doesn't take any responsibility for this. He has influenced and inspired a lot of young people, who are now heading towards Reform and are trying to act out what he has been advocating for.

I'm not british but from what I've seen all these years with a tory government the UK still have the pride flags on police cars, the diversity quotas, getting rid of white men in the RAF, immigration is the highest it's ever been and so on... How were they any different from a labor government?

The Tories must be replaced by a patriotic party.

Me, my 93 year old Mum and her 100 year old friend have just voted REFORM via our postal votes!! We had no choice as no alternative trustworthy parties in Scotland! Convid opened my eyes as an ex SNP member!! #complicit 👵🏻👊👵🏻👊👵🏻👊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A child would go on and on and on interminably, incessantly , ad nauseam about wanting to destroy the Tory Party and then when the opportunity to do so came along would then go 'I've changed my mind now'. That's what a child would do. An attention seeking child.

People who woted tories shuold just vote Reform. Tory-party is finished. Period.

There's no party worth voting for except Reform. What's he on about? Tories and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse.

people are done with the Tories.

Definitely REFORM for me now.

Reform may very well get the non-voters back to the ballot box. Plus take the Tory votes

The Tories are finished. If they had any decency they would stand down and allow Reform to prevent a Liebour landslide.

Vote Reform. A vote for Tories OR Labour will keep us heading towards disaster.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein. Vote Reform 🇬🇧

Zero seats for the elites!

I find it impossible to take Peter seriously. I haven't forgotten how he made a big deal about not getting the jab... then got the jab. 🙄

Don't agree with Hitchens. Need to take the short term pain and vote Reform

We can't just keep voting for the same two parties over and over. Nothing will ever change.

We’re short circuiting the BS Pete and voting in Reform … deal with it

Not a single argument against voting Reform.

Don’t waste your vote on the Tories!

Voting Conservative is a vote for Labour

Vote Reform. Build a counter- revolutionary movement. Take the country back.

He's determined to be a contrarian, whatever it takes.

Didn't he write a book about the need for the Tory party to die?

I'm voting Reform UK 🇬🇧

Voting for anyone but the Tories is the only way Tories will win zero seats

I will be voting Reform, we have nothing to lose

Everyone else in the country is wrong, Peter is right 😂

Still voting REFORM! You will not dissuade us from voting for them, try as hard as you like!!

unfortunately the Tories are indistinguishable from Labour and would not even be a meaningful opposition

Respect his view but he's very wrong. Vote reform. Tories stand down.

Let all tories stand down and let Reform win.

I disagree....Reform all the way!

Vote Reform they have told us what they are going to do

please save us and vote Reform !

Hes losing it

VOTE REFORM

Vote Reform if only to irritate the insufferably vain Hitchens.

Reform 🇬🇧

Vote reform, not the parties that are loyal to the WEF

There is no other alternative for ordinary working class people.

VOTE REFORM FOR A REVOLUTION. THE TIME IS NOW.

TORYS ARE FINISHED, WE KNOW IT HE KNOWS IT. VOTE REFORM.100%.!!

Zero seats

Thank you Peter, so Reform it is 👍 ..... and now I know im a 68 year old child, so be it!

I usually agree with Hitchens, but he's like my dad. He'd rather a problem remain than be solved because of all the joy he gets from whinging about it.

I just don't understand Peter. Does he really want another 5 years of Tory just to keep Labour out? And then in 5 years Labour win anyway? They are terrible. Labour are terrible. Aaarrrggghh, What a mess! Reform deserve a chance. I will vote for them.

I'm voting Reform 🇬🇧 🚀 💥 💪🏾

Please don’t listen to him, vote Reform!

Sometimes things need to get worse before they get better. Tories delunda est

Vote REFORM 🇬🇧

Theres nowhere else to go. I like their policies, I don't agree with Labour or the Tories to vote for either.

Funny it's called Unheard because no one is listening to Hitchens and his forever ranting !

14 years of declining living standards under the Tories but somehow its a labour government we should be afraid of?

Vote Reform. Labour or Tory will screw the country.

Vote REFORM.

A Labour government every so often is a good thing as it serves to remind people how s**t they are.

Hitchens could argue that changing circumstances mean a changed approach but he seems to think that if the Tories win and keep Labour out of office that this isn´t merely kicking the can down the road. If the Tories were re-elected, they would continue the Blair project admittedly at a slower rate than Labour, but Labour would eventually come to power and any alternative conservative voice, which Reform represent, although not perfect, would be finished. He also contradicts himself saying vote for who you think best, but vote tactically. Finally, and this is the one where I think he needs taking to task on, for the last 5 years he has been saying he no longer tries to shape events but merely records them as an obituarist: if this is so, butt out!

tories and labour are two cheeks of the same arse.

"Voting is not civic duty" 1.26..... Nice one Peter. Keep status quo, or better yet let hot heads on left and right vote while rest of us should shrug shoulders and keep on saying oh well.

He has all the answers!!!Another greatest Prime Minister never had!!He will never have to make a decision

Vote Reform. Some seats hopefully this time but importantly building vote share for next. This guy ain't his brother.

Hang on a minute. Why do they keep saying that a vote for reform is a vote for Labour? The fact is, a vote for Labour is a vote for Labour. The answer is not vote Tory, the answer is not don’t vote reform, the answer is simple - don’t vote Labour!

Peter your argument is don’t vote labour, not to vote for Tory. Too late, we want change.

What the UK needs is a massive change if it is not to go under badly, as it continues to do under the Tories and will do even quicker under Labour. If Reform stand any chance of bringing that change about, that's where you have to vote, and every single vote for them increases the chance of the desperately needed change.

Michael Moore did a similar thing at the 2016 election. He spent years of his career talking about corrupt politicians like the Clintons, but when it was time to vote who did he endorse?

If Labour are truly going to walk it then the Conservatives need to be told at the voting booth that it is the right side of their party they have lost, not the innaffective Labour-lite. Hold your nose, vote Reform and hope for a credible right wing party in 5 years.

Don't matter one iota which group of puppets is in office they don't make the decisions.

Almost no Labour member thinks Starmer is more left wing than Corbyn and many hate him for it. Hitchins is wrong.

The government treats me like a child. They constantly tell me what to say, how to think and how to behave. I will therefore be voting like a child.

Is this the guy that had a infantile meltdown on Alex O'Connor?

Vote Reform this country is in a mess.

I agree that we most certainly do NOT want Labour in government, but we also have to make our opposition to the status quo very clear. We do not want either Labour or Tory's in power and there are two ways to do this, don't vote at all or vote Reform.

FORGET VICTOR MELDREWS CRYSTAL BALL VOTE REFORM!

Bore off Pete. Reform Reform Reform 🇬🇧

Absolute tripe. If I take his advice and don't vote for Reform, I just deprive Reform of a vote they would have otherwise had. How does that stop Labour???

For years Hitchens has been saying Britain is going to the dogs. Problem is, he doesn't have a constructive suggestion(s) to stop it. Farage may not be perfect, nobody is, but at least he might make the so-called Conservative Party remember its roots.

I’m voting Reform. This lady’s not for turning 💪

Anyone who votes Tories may aswell not vote or.... vote reform

Get them both gone Vote Reform uk

We were never asked nor voted for what has been done to our once wonderful country. Our Politicians whose side are they on? Reform is the answer even the young are working that out

Vote Reform! I would but unfortunately no-one is standing in my area.

Sorry Peter. You make perfectly valid points but I've had a belly full of the Liblabcon establishment. We really don't have anything left to lose.

Rod Liddle wouldn't look out of place in a swamp in the princess bride

no matter what lies you spread I'm still voting reform

Peter your eloquence has resulted in an almost 100% support for Reform in the comments.

If they told you what they were gonna do you would never vote for them. Never a truer word. 👍

Delighted to see the right fighting itself for a change. Cheers fellas.

Vote reform stop thinking short term yes we will have to suffer labour for 5 years but come 2029 reform will be ready

I voted reform party yesterday, via my postal vote.

Insult people by calling them children and foolish. Getting worried Peter?

His argument is more around not voting for Labour, i dont hear a reason not to vote reform,

Well Peter, this man is voting REFORM.

Where did the full video of the debate go? "Alternative Election Hustings"

Hitchens will no doubt be looking for a "nice little earner" from Channel 4?

This election isn’t just about voting for reform, it’s about putting a clear message across to any incumbent government. If you wantonly and recklessly ignore the will of the people who elected you, the public can and in some cases will destroy you. This is, I believe, the purest form of democracy.

Peter's track record :- 1990s and 2000s, writing in his column for the Mail on Sunday about how bad the Maastricht and the Lisbon treaty were for the UK, and complaining about German expansionism in the EU. Does a documentary for BBC 4 called "This Sceptred Isle" detailing Britain's relationship with the EU. Then come Brexit referendum decides to abstain. Then after the result calls for "the Norway option". One of the few mainstream journalists to oppose the harmful lockdowns, and debates both Mike Graham and Dan Hodges on Talk Radio about them. Rightly said that during the 1967 Hong Kong Flu outbreak that no lockdown was used. Then takes a highly experimental "treatment" to "be able to travel to see family members", and says "people should just accept these types of restrictions from now on". I'll add as well that he was a foreign correspondent in the former Soviet Union and wrote specifically about the nature of tyranny under that regime, and yet he couldn't see it coming worldwide when the C situation came to the fore. Voiced his opinion many times during the 2000s that the Tories have to be destroyed in order for something to replace them and actually embrace conservative values in numerous columns and media appearances he made. Then come this election, when there's a real chance of that actually happening - says that we must support them otherwise Labour will be much worse. Anyone else starting to get a picture of Hitchens' real character or perhaps his role in the mainstream media landscape now?

Well we'll well how clever of Mr Hitchen we the people who are awake already know this, and, voting the Tories back on office would achieve what exactly .. nothing ... but with Labour in office the revolution will arrive a lot sooner. As for policies and laws that can't be reversed! This is what will drive a revolution laws the people refuse to obey, dictatorial leaders who must be removed by force. Being nice no longer helps anyone.

What Hitchens is saying is don't vote Labour which is logical. Saying don't vote Reform because you will get Labour is completely illogical and some of his rhetoric here on the 1997 Blair victory and consequences as if he was the only one who could see what was coming is a bit too much. A silly little speech more about him than adding anything to the debate. I suppose in years to come he'll say "i told you so!" Yeah roght thanks Peter. Vote Refprm!