The actual fuck dudes???

[afewbugs@social.coop]

The actual fuck dudes???

Voting intention poll carried out by More in Common found 25 per cent of gay and bisexual men would vote for Reform, with 33 per cent of straight men also pledging support to Farage’s party.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/12/reform-uk-poll-gay-bisexual-men-lgbtq

Reassuringly none of the gay or bi men I know would dream of this, who are these people?

#UKpol

[afewbugs@social.coop]

Okay it does look like it was 15 queer men out of 60 queer men surveyed, but I repeat, the actual fuck 15 dudes?

[raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social]

@afewbugs @Lazarou Sometimes the chicken vote for Colonel Sanders.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@raindrops_and_roses @afewbugs their inherent racism means more to them then their sexuality.

[raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social]

@Lazarou @afewbugs

Sadly it often is this way. If it's race vs anything else 9/10 times race wins. I mean the race privilege is the one people iwll tend to preserve above all else.

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@afewbugs I get ~300 guys looking here. However, I don't see who paid for it (I think that's the law?). Wonder if it's Tories and Labour being deeply unpopular.

https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/polling-tables/march-2026-polling-tables/

[hamishb@mstdn.ca]

Sadly, some queer men are also racist and misogynist, and completely lack empathy. A classic case of voting against one's own self interest, they will be "surprised" when Farage cancels their marriage and parade.

@afewbugs

[javensbukan@mstdn.ca]

@hamishb @afewbugs Can confirm! I've met a few. 😑

Some of them actually from the UK! 😜

[glaswolf@mastodon.scot]

@afewbugs I wish intersectionality had a catchier name, it's such an important concept.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@raindrops_and_roses @afewbugs it's a hard truth to learn about some (usually white) people but one that everyone must accept if we're to get out of this mess.

For some, it's Race above all else, even personal well being. For others it's about treating women like shit...

#Whiteness #WhiteNationalism #Politics

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@Lazarou @raindrops_and_roses @afewbugs

gay men who have been through the British private school system are quite likely to harbour misogynist and racist views (because of that system, not simply due to being gay)

I'm a survivor of one of these places myself and I've seen at first hand the kind of lads who end up there and their behaviour

[miblo@mas.to]

@afewbugs I mean, if these guys are not a subset of the people who'd intend to vote on the Conservative end – i.e. favouring power-concentration rather than -distribution – they've surely been duped into not understanding where this Reform UK Ltd party sits on the political spectrum.

[only_ohm@mas.to]

@afewbugs

Note that the fieldwork for this poll was done 4 months ago. Reform's support overall has dropped quite a bit since then.

(Working out why The Pink News feels it appropriate to write a headline describing it as a "new poll" is left as an exercise for the reader.)

[michaeltbacon@social.coop]

@afewbugs I know one through an online sports forum. He's also virulently anti-trans.

He's also older (I would guess 60s) and I think if he'd been given the option at a younger age, might have transitioned. But I really, really hesitate to diagnose that in anyone else, particularly someone I only know through little bits of text over a wire.

All I can figure is that some very hurt people sometimes internalize some awful shit.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@vfrmedia @raindrops_and_roses @afewbugs I was telling somebody outside of this island about the movie "If...." with an absurdly young Malcolm McDowell.

[jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk]

@afewbugs
The proportion of irritating edge lords I know seem to have a bias in the gay/bi community so it would well be that they're doing it just to piss people off.

[jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk]

@afewbugs
It's probably proportional to the amount of times I have to say "Nick, you're fifty fucking six, not fourteen - stop being a bellend".

[tcmuffin@toot.wales]

@afewbugs

WTAF 🤬🤬🤬

This is as mad as Wales apparently voting Leave in the brexshit referendum...except at least Wales had an excuse...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/22/english-people-wales-brexit-research

[black_flag@beige.party]

@TCMuffin @afewbugs

Do do forget that, at least at first, several prominent officers of the actual historical Nazis were gay men.

Prominent assholes like Peter Thiel are also gay.

[geoffl@mastodon.me.uk]

@TCMuffin @afewbugs

That sounds like 'if you weren't born in Wales you can't be Welsh' and is very much like Reform.