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UKIP still exists, it’s now a fringe group of nutters and various other dregs. It has recently applied to register a new logo that looks suspiciously like an Iron Cross. Reform is a continuity Brexit Party.
On Farage and the BBC, this is a direct quote about Trump’s comments on NATO forces:
Badenoch, Sir Ed Davey and Nigel Farage were among the Westminster leaders to call out the US president for his comments
Farage was nowhere near as scathing in his comments on it. He was about as mildly critical as it’s possible to be yet he’s lumped in with other party leaders as if his comments were the same. Just a small example of how the BBC reports on him. And as Glad noted, the story about him declaring multiple outside sources of income late was not prominently featured. We’d have heard far more about it if it was Labour and frankly even a Tory.
That is not to say the BBC’s reporting on others is fair, both can be bad in different ways.
If Reform win the next general election Farage will set up the equivalent of ICE to harrass and possibly shoot (as in the USA) immigrants. Do we really want to become an evil country like the USA?
We need immigrants especially in the care sector, so if we kick them all out we will be in dead trouble. If the current polls are right we are sleepwalking into complete disaster.
The people who bankroll Reform want the NHS dismantled so that it can be sold off. So they will be happy to persecute the many “immigrants” (and the many British citizens born in the UK but who aren’t white) who work in the health sector.
The irony is that the numbskulls who vote Reform complain about NHS waiting lists now… wait and see what it’s like if Farage forms the next government.
People in this country can see the result of Trumps hardline approach to illegal immigrants. And yet they will be calling for a future government to do the same, naively thinking that it won’t affect them. What I don’t understand is that some of the most vocal ( especially MP’s) are second generation immigrants.
Greatest nation on Earth. And imbeciles like Farage, and his supporters, want to copy it.
The right wing in this country have destroyed education deliberately so the majority do not have the capacity to think. They therefore succumb to the rubbish thrown at them by advert after advert financed by the super rich.
It is very sad. These people are setting out to destroy the UK and they will succeed unless those with a brain can stop them.
The problem is that you cannot teach those who don’t want to learn or think they already know everything.
Braverman defects to Reform, saying that the country is “broken” and that “public services are on their knees”.
Remind me… who was in government when things went tits-up, Suella?
It’s beyond parody.
The Establishment takeover of Reform continues apace. That should ensure it does nothing, even in the diminishing likelihood of it winning.
I have long believed that any MP who changes their party allegiance in mid term should face a by-election.
I realise constituents technically vote for the candidate rather than the party but the voters of Fareham and Waterlooville did not vote for a Reform candidate. They voted for a Conservative.
It is sheer arrogance of Braverman and MPs like her to think they can just do whatever they want. It is time this was stopped.
If they stand down, fight a by-election for their new party and win, then fair enough.
“The right wing in this country have destroyed education deliberately so the majority do not have the capacity to think.”
That suits all the political establishment, not just the right. The last thing they all want is an educated, well read, well informed populace which understands what the Westminster cesspit is doing.
The SNP has destroyed one of the best education systems in the world.
Can’t agree with that. My daughter was a teacher when there was a Labour government and loved her job but left the profession after several years of the Conservative government starving the education system of funds.
Ed Davey will be Leader of the Opposition soon.
I have long believed that any MP who changes their party allegiance in mid term should face a by-election.
Absolutely agreed for the reasons you state.
The Tories should kick out the rest of the headbanging loons, give up the Diet Coke Reform act and pivot back to something like the so-called ‘One Nation’ version. At least they were vaguely palatable when compared to this lot which I admit isn’t saying much.
Only issue with kicking out the headbanging loons is that there may not be many left and they wouldn’t have a leader.
“I have long believed that any MP who changes their party allegiance in mid term should face a by-election.”
Farage had a rant about this when Christian Wakeford defected from the Conservatives to Labour in 2022, calling it an outrage that defections didn’t trigger by-elections.
Funny how he hasn’t said a word on the subject recently.
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