@matt You seem to entirely miss that the abysmal betrayals by Labour and Conservatives are the fuel which created the post-2024 surge for #ReformUK, and which propel their growth.

That is demonstrable by objective fact: the poll surge for ReformUK as Labour's poll ratings have collapsed.

Farage must be thrilled with people like you who support Farage's poster-child of establishment failure.

@david

Interesting podcast from Zack Polanski talking to investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr about big tech's links to far Right politics, Russian interference in our politics and why they are both still on Twitter...
#ZackPolanski #CaroleCadwalla #ReformUK #NathanGill

https://youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M?

Key figures in #ReformUK are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, despite the recent killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by #ICE in the USA.

#UKPol

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-plans-for-a-british-ice/

Key figures in #ReformUK are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, despite the recent killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by #ICE in the USA.

#UKPol

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-plans-for-a-british-ice/

And now Suella Braverman has defected to RefromUK Ltd, which is now becoming home to Tory MPs who have decided the Tory party os not right enough for them...

Of course, this will make Farage's claim that Reform is offering something new a little more difficult to make.

He will also find there is plenty in the past actions of some of the defectors that will offer useful material for Reform's critics.

#Tories #ReformUK #politics

And now Suella Braverman has defected to RefromUK Ltd, which is now becoming home to Tory MPs who have decided the Tory party os not right enough for them...

Of course, this will make Farage's claim that Reform is offering something new a little more difficult to make.

He will also find there is plenty in the past actions of some of the defectors that will offer useful material for Reform's critics.

#Tories #ReformUK #politics

The Tory party's talent pool dried up into stagnant slime when their candidate selection process devolved into finding incompetent but well-connected sociopaths who were good at sounding unhinged for the dwindling and bitter membership.

Now #ReformUK's candidate selection process seems to be poaching those incompetents who aren't even well-connected now after shitting the bed in various ways, but are more unhinged than ever.

So, the same arseholes who lost the last election to fuckin Starmer

The Tory party's talent pool dried up into stagnant slime when their candidate selection process devolved into finding incompetent but well-connected sociopaths who were good at sounding unhinged for the dwindling and bitter membership.

Now #ReformUK's candidate selection process seems to be poaching those incompetents who aren't even well-connected now after shitting the bed in various ways, but are more unhinged than ever.

So, the same arseholes who lost the last election to fuckin Starmer

Hopeful piece about
How Glasgow is squaring up to Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/the-response-is-a-beautiful-thing-how-glasgow-is-squaring-up-to-reform?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#glasgow #ReformUK

Hopeful piece about
How Glasgow is squaring up to Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/the-response-is-a-beautiful-thing-how-glasgow-is-squaring-up-to-reform?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#glasgow #ReformUK

Meanwhile ReformUK's fantasy budgetary promises for local councils have met the reality of deficits & over-spends.

It seems at lest four of the ten ReformUK led local authorities are aiming to raise council tax by the maximum allowed, despite pledging to reduce taxes.

The Q. is whether Reform voters care or they actually have other reasons for voting for the Far Right?

#politics #ReformUK

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/05/reform-uk-empty-rhetoric-plan-hike-council-tax-derbyshire

Meanwhile ReformUK's fantasy budgetary promises for local councils have met the reality of deficits & over-spends.

It seems at lest four of the ten ReformUK led local authorities are aiming to raise council tax by the maximum allowed, despite pledging to reduce taxes.

The Q. is whether Reform voters care or they actually have other reasons for voting for the Far Right?

#politics #ReformUK

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/05/reform-uk-empty-rhetoric-plan-hike-council-tax-derbyshire

I was curious about what was actually in the #ReformUK manifesto. Glad I looked:

✅ "Cancel our membership of the WHO"
✅ "Leave the European Convention on Human Rights"
✅ "The Equalities Act requires discrimination"
✅ "Stop Sharia law being used in the UK"
✅ "All job seekers must find employment within 4 months. Otherwise, benefits are withdrawn."
✅ "Legislate to stop left-wing bias"
✅ Scrap the TV license (68% of BBC funding)

And much more like this.

:pdf: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/253/attachments/original/1718625371/Reform_UK_Our_Contract_with_You.pdf

#ukpol

English reactionaries rather like racism, but hate cruelty to animals.

#NigelFarage learnt the hard way when he denounced #TheNewHuntingBan. His chums in #TheDailyMail gave Farage a slot to rage against the proposed ban on #trailhunts. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15415269/Farage-vows-fight-Keir-Starmers-stop-trail-hunting.html

Oops! Every top-voted comment in the #DailyMail backed the ban. Many say #ReformUK would lose their vote based on #Farage’s promise to overturn it.

Opinion polls say the same. #FoxHunting is hated.

Via https://thenewhuntingban.com/ #ukpol

Una lista di personaggi politici, partiti e centri studi con i quali Trump sta portando l'agenda politica della sua amministrazione in Europa e tentando di spostare l'asse politico del continente verso l'estrema destra.

Chissà cosa ne dice quel profeta che prima delle elezioni statunitensi sentenziava sicuro «a noi europei conviene Trump eh»?

https://www.valigiablu.it/trump-maga-estrema-destra-europa-uk/

#Trump #UE #AfD #ReformUK

Nationalism has spread to... Sex drugs?
#reformuk

Despite rumours that ReformUK might be willing to enter some sort of electoral pact with the Tories ahead of the next election, Nigel Farage rejected this idea, suggesting that only a 'reverse tax-over' of the Tories is of any interest to him.

Normally I wouldn't comment on Fararge's fantasy politics, but in this case it perhaps confirms what many suspect; that a badly weakened Tory party may be prey to a stronger populist right challenger.

Time & events will tell.

#politics #ReformUK
h/t FT

Meanwhile at The Nation.Cymru Nigel Farage Barrister friend has been trying to shut down a story with some legal threats... the response from N.C - just go away!

(oh yes & they also detailed why the threat had no legal basis).

Sometimes the way to deal with bullies is just to tell them to F*ck Off!

#ReformUK #Wales

https://www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nation-cymru-adam-richardson-farage-wales-lawyer

Despite rumours that ReformUK might be willing to enter some sort of electoral pact with the Tories ahead of the next election, Nigel Farage rejected this idea, suggesting that only a 'reverse tax-over' of the Tories is of any interest to him.

Normally I wouldn't comment on Fararge's fantasy politics, but in this case it perhaps confirms what many suspect; that a badly weakened Tory party may be prey to a stronger populist right challenger.

Time & events will tell.

#politics #ReformUK
h/t FT