Do you hold progressive political views? Don’t want to find yourself in a town where a lot of the residents get upset by pronouns? A constituency where they still shout ‘We want our country back!’, despite getting their precious Brexit and really mean they want their 1960’s white monoculture fantasy? A place where they are in false class solidarity with people like Nigel Farage and Richard Tice, rather than people arriving on small boats?
Well we have you covered. Avoid these towns and you’ll never have to say ‘Don’t make me go back to my liberal hometown with tales of bigotry from the heart of Essex’ Jay and Silent Bob style, to a red-faced blustering aging cockney when you ask for oat milk in a cafĂ©. Here are 25 towns where Reform got more than 25% of the vote in the 2024 General Election. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Rayleigh, Essex
Rayleigh and Wickford constituency – 25.3% vote share
Swansea, Wales
Neath and Swansea East constituency – 25.3% vote share
Grays, Essex
Thurrock Constituency – 25.5% vote share
Chester-le-street, County Durham
North Durham constituency – 25.7% vote share
Horncastle, Lincolnshire
Louth and Horncastle Constituency – 25.7% vote share
Tonyrefail, Wales
Rhondda and Ogmore constituency – 26.1% vote share
Atherton, Greater Manchester
Leigh and Atherton constituency – 26.9% vote share
Jarrow, Tyne and Wear
Jarrow and Gateshead East constituency – 26.9% vote share
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Sunderland Central constituency – 27.0% vote share
Llanelli, Wales
Llanelli Constituency – 27.6% vote share
Hornchurch, Greater London
Hornchurch and Upminster constituency – 28.4% vote share
Rawmarsh, South Yorkshire
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough constituency – 28.6% vote share
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes constituency – 28.8% vote share
Washington, Tyne and Wear
Washington and Gateshead South Constituency – 29.1% vote share
Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear
Houghton and Sunderland South constituency – 29.1% vote share
Pontefract, West Yorkshire
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley Constituency – 29.1% vote share
Normanton, West Yorkshire
Normanton and Hemsworth Constituency – 29.2% vote share
Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Rotherham Constituency – 30.3% vote share
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Hull East Constituency – 30.6% vote share
Stanford-le-Hope, Essex
South Basildon and East Thurrock Constituency – James McMurdock – Won with 30.8% vote share
Hindley, Greater Manchester
Makerfield Constituency – 31.8% vote share
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Great Yarmouth Constituency – Rupert Lowe – Won with 35.3% vote share
Skegness, Lincolnshire
Boston and Skegness Constituency
Won by Reform UK’s money man Richard Tice and co-director (along with Farage) of ‘Reform UK Party Limited’. A ‘for profit’ company the hard of thinking are pouring their pensions into, without any democratic say in how the party is run or how their subs are spent. Slow Clap. 38.4% of this Lincolnshire pit voted for this businessman who has now got to list his financial interests with parliament, which should make interesting reading. He’s a bit touchy about people describing Reform as ‘far-right’. They are (in our opinion alone, for legal reasons). Look at this National Front (NF) poster from 1974. Almost all the bullet points are now current Reform ‘contract’ items. Were the NF centre-right D*ck?
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Ashfield Constituency
Won by former Labour Councillor, Deputy Conservative Party chairman and alleged paid defector and populist ‘rat leaving a sinking ship’, Lee Anderson with 42.8% of the vote. Yes, this town overwhelmingly voted for 30p Lee, the man who ‘says it like it is’ if you are Islamophobic, xenophobic, born before 1964 and are showing the first signs of dementia or were dropped on your head as a kid. He also has a healthy following from the kind of naive young men who paid for Andrew Tate’s cult-like content. Jesus wept. We wager that he’ll spend more than 30p a meal on his parliamentary expenses!Clacton on sea, Essex
Clacton Constituency
Won by the special porkflake godhead and former commodities-trading multi-millionaire ‘man of the people’ (lol) Nigel Farage. 46.2% of this god forsaken hole voted for (in our opinion alone) the 21st century Oswald Mosley in a Golf club blazer. Sick of Youtubers on poverty safari in Jaywick, we think that the residents voted for Nige, because they thought it would put the town on the map for a different reason. It has. However, not in the way they expected. It will be in the same way Milwaukee is known for being the home of Jeffrey Dahmer. Well done Clactonians.
Sources: BBC Election 2024 and GBNews (yeah we had a sneaky peak over your pork wall!)