05/02/2026
REFORM: PEOPLE’S PARTY? OR TURQUOISE TORIES?
Reform UK pretends to be an anti-elitist party, but if anything, it’s more elitist than any of them: Its handful of MPs vote against the few vaguely progressive policies the current Labour government offers, such as increasing workers’ rights and taxing private schools, while Reform-run councils push through cuts to social care and inflation-busting council tax increases, on the pretext of Musk-style ‘efficiency’.
Nigel Farage has dismissed allegations of racist and antisemitic bullying against him from his time at his posh private school as youthful indiscretions. But we oppose him and Reform, not because of what he did then, but what he’s doing now: scapegoating migrants for Britain’s problems, which were caused by wealthy people like him.
Reform UK, like UKIP before it, is his own vanity project, private business and personality cult, bankrolled by billionaires, who like him want to privatise public services. Farage is on record arguing for the replacement of the NHS with an ‘insurance-based’ model, much like the USA (whose current president Trump he adores), where people routinely go into debt if they become ill.
It’s stuffed full of ex-Tories: Nadhim Zahawi, Andrea Jenkyns, Nadine Dorries, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, all of whom were ministers in the last Conservative government. Farage insists Reform “isn’t a rescue charity for panicky Tory MPs”, but it isn’t the brand-new party it pretends to be.
Its politics are Conservatism on steroids: Tories with added fascism.
It isn’t just the familiar ugly mugs from the last Tory government -- other prominent Reform figures, such as the London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham and Runcorn MP Sarah Pochin, are ex-Tories too. Farage was himself a member of the Conservative Party throughout the Thatcher era, but there’s a widespread misconception that Reform UK represents a radical new alternative, because Farage talks a good game on Tik Tok or whatever.
Make no mistake. Farage is not your mate and Reform isn’t interested in helping working people. Its racist dog whistles and fascist rhetoric are aimed at dividing us, so their billionaire backers, like the one who paid for Farage to go to Davos to attend the WEF, can make more profits, off the back of people like you and me.
And let’s be clear: Reform isn’t ‘centre right’ like Farage says. It’s aligned with neo-nazi parties like Germany’s AfD and France’s National Rally, and it backs Trump and his murderous ICE thugs.
