Dame Andrea Jenkyns has accused Labour of "putting the Muslim and Pakistani vote over everybody else" as Reform UK has seen a surge in female supporters.Support for Nigel Farage's party has doubled among women aged 45 to 60 since the general election, making it the most popular choice for many Gen X voters.FULL STORY HERE.
00:03Support for Nigel Farage's party has doubled among women aged 45 to 60 since the general election,
00:10making it the most popular choice for many of the Gen X voters.
00:14So what's behind that shift? And is this a turning point in British politics?
00:19Joining me now is the mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Dame Andrea Jenkins.
00:24Reform and a woman, you're qualified to talk about this one, Andrea.
00:27Thank you so much for joining me.
00:29Andrea, what's going on here? Why? Why is reform appealing to women so much?
00:35I think it's several factors. Number one, I think the two main parties have let down people full stop.
00:42We've seen the state, the economy. We've seen how Rachel Reeves is handling the economy,
00:47that they're not happy with the way what conservatives did.
00:51They're not happy with what Labour are doing.
00:54And also, I think as a woman, we don't feel safe on the street anymore.
00:58And I don't know what you feel like, Don. I don't feel safe when I come down to London going on the tube.
01:03And it's it's not a good place to be in.
01:06And I really feel that reform are the only party who's truly standing up for between right and wrong,
01:13not a two tier policing system, calling out the real issues that affect everyday men and women across Britain.
01:20Andrea, I'm glad you brought that up, actually, because the one image that was we were covering it live on the breakfast show here on GB News.
01:27And it was the latest boat coming across the channel.
01:30And it was it was packed with 71.
01:33And they were all young, fit, fighting age, fighting age men.
01:39And as a woman, I looked at that and I admit I felt concerned.
01:44And we had Baroness Casey's recent report saying that asylum seekers and foreign nationals were a significant proportion of sexual assaults going on.
01:54So it's maybe that part of reforms appeal. Women are genuinely frightened for their safety on our streets.
02:00I completely agree with you, Don. And I mean, look, when I was an MP, I remember asking a question in the Commons and saying,
02:10I would like to be published the crimes per nationality.
02:14So you could see if we are importing criminals, because, you know, how can you tackle a problem if you don't know, you know,
02:21which group in society is creating these problems?
02:26And I got booed by the Labour Party and the Lib Dems, the SNP.
02:32And I think what that demonstrates is that Westminster is so out of touch with working men and women on the streets of Britain.
02:40And I don't feel safe. I'm sure you feel the same, Don.
02:46I mean, I'll give a prime example. I used to be a councillor in, sorry, I see my little one in the back here.
02:51I know.
02:52In Boston, Lincolnshire, going back to 2013.
02:57I recently visited Boston and I bumped into some of my old constituents from who I served 13 years ago.
03:04And, you know, as an elderly couple and they said to me that they do not feel safe going into the town of Boston anymore.
03:12They used to, you know, go for lunch together in their retirement.
03:16They don't do any of that now.
03:17And isn't that a terrible place in society to be in when British people don't feel safe on their own streets?
03:24So I do seriously think it's things like this because reform, every one of us in reform, we are calling this out, actually.
03:30I think certainly, obviously, Labour, you know, not having a national inquiry into the grooming gangs or the rape gangs, whatever phrase you want to use on that one.
03:39A lot of women are thinking enough is enough.
03:42Do you think, Andrea, that the government are currently putting the woke view and the migration issue before the safety of women and girls?
03:52A hundred percent they are.
03:54And they're also where the grooming gangs are concerned.
03:56And they put in Muslim voters, Pakistani voters ahead of, you know, the rest of the people and those white British girls who got groomed and raped by these people because these are the demographic groups that are voting for Labour.
04:14So they're not biting the hand that feeds them.
04:16I know that might sound blunt, but that's a fact of it.
04:18And that's so sad because, to me, it should be true equality under the rule of law.
04:24Whoever you are, you know, if you've done wrong, you should be going down for crimes like this.
04:30Andrea, I'm sorry, your little one's getting hurt.
04:32That's really sweet.
04:33Andrea, just quickly and finally, because you have got something in the background there wanting your attention.
04:37Yeah.
04:38Just quickly and finally, how have we got to the stage after what, sort of like, you know, the 40 years of women's liberation, supposedly, where it does feel like the clock is being turned back for women and girls and in particular our safety?
04:55Completely.
04:55And look at the whole trend stuff as well and safety in changing rooms, you know, toilets for both men and women, where they can go in either now.
05:06It's wrong.
05:07And we have gone back 50 years in my view, Don, and that's why we've got to keep fighting.
05:18I know you're passionate.
05:20It's great having you as a presenter with Common Sense and actually to protect women, to protect our next generation, like my little boy as well.
05:27Yeah, exactly.
05:28Andrea, we are losing your signal, unfortunately.
05:30I'll let you get to your little boy you've got in the back there.
05:33Yeah, he's eight years old, Clifford.
05:35Oh, brilliant.
05:35Excellent.
05:36Say hello to him.
05:37Thank you so much for being patient with mummy.
