For the last couple of years, I have been a fierce critic of the UK government.

I am right-wing from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. Whilst I agree with the many disillusioned Conservative voters in the UK – I cannot stress enough that whilst it all seems fun and games getting caught up in the Nigel Farage wave – you will regret voting for Reform come polling day.

‘A vote for reform is a vote for Labour!’ It is a tired saying, but nonetheless a true one. Splitting the right-wing vote will get us many more Labour MPs than if people just voted Conservative.

With that in mind – when you put a tick next to the Reform Party box, what are you really getting?

A super-majority government that won’t say what a woman is. One that will implement nutty green policies such as ULEZ that robs the working class. One that has no plans to tackle immigration and whose MPs have routinely labelled Conservative immigration policy as racist and xenophobic.

To be frank, dear Reform voter, Labour MPs hate you. They think you are racist, bigoted, and uneducated. They despise people like you and I. Yet you are effectively voting for them. Why would you do that? Why would you vote for an MP that hates you, your views, and your principles just to protest?

Let’s be honest. The calibre of Reform Party candidates isn’t exactly great. Most of them as political nobodies with no political experience. Sure they may have Farage and Tice, but the rest of them aren’t ready for five years on the back benches of the Commons. This is serious business.

MPs should be like the Paul Bristows of the world. Constituency first. Always there, helping people with local issues, standing up for their constituency, living local, and being fantastic back-bench MPs. Farage will not do that. A lot of potential Reform MPs, if they get elected (unlikely), will not know how to do that. What communities need are a solid constituency MPs – not a man who will seek to represent them from the Trump tour.

A Labour supermajority government backed by Reform – or in the unlikely event that Reform do get some MPs – a bunch of randoms picked off the street, will be a disaster for us all.

Whilst you may with best intentions hope to see the Conservative Party rebuild over the next five years – five years is a painfully long time for a disastrous, left-wing government and it will take us far far longer than that to undo the damage they will do to our country – just remember what happened last time…

Is that a price you want to pay? Is your vote for Farage, a man who didn’t even care about the UK elections a couple of weeks ago really worth it?

Think about it. Voting Reform may sound like the trendy way to protest – but it’ll leave us all far worse off in the long run.