Reform UK

  • Reform’s win is businesslike

    Reform UK stormed the polls overnight to win four seats in the English Parliament.

    As expected the response has been mixed.

    The television crews have responded in usual surprise that Reform are able to achieve anything at all.

    At a press conference early this afternoon, Nigel Farage was put down by pundits as hecklers interrupted over the course of minutes.

    However, their success is more businesslike than controversialist.

    Their three ‘big hitters’ – Richard Tice, Lee Anderson, and Nigel Farage himself – each won a seat as well as a fourth candidate, Rupert Lowe, in the Great Yarmouth constituency.

    Their wins are straightforward.

    They wanted their key members to win out in their first real chance at Parliamentary glory. In fact, they secured an historic ‘first’ within the party and got all three through the gate.

    The naysayers in the television studios were discrediting Farage – again – as a racist and far-right agitator but were caught out. This time it’s Reform’s day in the sun.

  • Reform UK casts off

    The breakout of Reform UK is one of the more notable stories of the last weeks or so.

    It definitely feels like it. A week is getting longer and longer in general election terms.

    Nigel Farage & co. have generated so much content for newspapers and media broadcasters it alone could fill a few more.

    It’s manifesto, Our Contract with You, is a brochure of “landing page” policies that appeal everywhere.

    It even has pretty pictures.

    The gloss however is always a distraction and its policy proposals still have to float to sail.

    It looks as though they do, in terms of what people have wanted for a long while.

    It appeals to anti-immigration sentiment but also respects a need for legal settling.

    It digs deeper into law and order (an axe to grind of most old time conservatives), and makes proposals in this area.

    It also takes aim at the economy, and costs measures that should lower taxes whilst also targeting its spending.

    In other words, Reform UK thinks it can do a lot better. As a proposal, it makes a lot of sense.