Nigel Farage’s Reform UK stormed into local government in May 2025, winning hundreds of seats across England and seizing control of county councils once thought impregnable. It was hailed as a political earthquake, a populist breakthrough that would reshape local democracy. We have already taken a close look at what happened in Kent where, as […]
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Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking Russian bribes
A former Brexit Party MEP, whose name features in messages between the convicted former Welsh Reform Party leader Nathan Gill and his Russian handler, has denied taking bribes David Coburn, the former UKIP Party leader in Scotland and later a Brexit Party MEP, was approached at his French chateau by the BBC and asked about […]
Day of reckoning for Reform UK’s Russian agent
Disgraced former Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill was today sentenced at the Old Bailey to ten and a half years years in prison, after admitting eight counts of bribery linked to a covert Russian influence operation inside the European Parliament. Once viewed as a rising figure on the British populist right, Gill pleaded guilty […]
Farage’s false claims risk stoking racist violence
Last year’s race riots became known as the Farage Riots for one simple reason – Nigel Farage went online and suggested that the truth was not being told about the Southport murders. It was untrue, but it immeasurably boosted far-right claims and stoked the racist fires. Now he’s doing it again. Yesterday, on GB News, […]
Reform UK – where the money comes from
Reform UK had stunning successes in last month’s council elections, out-polling the established parties, winning 10 councils outright and being in minority control of three more, confirming that its opinion poll lead over the major parties is no fluke. It has established itself as a serious electoral entity, and it is clear it can pose […]
The Resistible Rise of Reform UK
The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah Pochin won the Runcorn and Helsey by-election for Reform with 38.7% of the vote. In the local council elections, Reform’s share of the vote hit 31%, enabling it to gain 677 out of the 1,650 […]
Farage, Reform UK, and the Shadow of the Kremlin
As Reform UK rides a surprising wave of electoral support across parts of England, the party’s populist rhetoric and its leader’s controversial foreign policy stances deserve renewed scrutiny. Nigel Farage, the face of Reform and the prime political figure synonymous with Brexit, has long portrayed himself as a crusader against establishment politics. But his pronouncements […]
Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that often relies on dog-whistle racism and xenophobia will now try to control large swathes of England. These results make grim reading for anti-fascists and are an indictment of both Tory opportunism and Labour cowardice. Indulging […]
Birmingham rally makes clear the challenge of Nigel Farage and Reform
Nigel Farage arrived on the stage of the Reform UK rally in the Arena Birmingham on a JCB accompanied by a live band, dry ice and to a rapturous standing ovation. A jubilant Farage claimed that 10,000 people were in attendance (Friday 28 March 2025). Sitting in the auditorium that night his claim was not […]
Tice sliced and diced as Farage and Yusuf tighten grip on Reform UK
Stung by repeated accusations – not least from former deputy leader Ben Habib, and indeed Searchlight – that Reform UK was not in any normal sense a political party, despotic leader Nigel Farage eventually issued a promise to democratise the organisation and put power in the hands of its claimed 200,000 ‘members’ (not that it […]
Are Robinson and Farage ‘Russian assets’?
Remember we mentioned a couple of days ago that there was wild talk from the fringe about Tommy Robinson possibly being a Kremlin asset. You thought we were making it up, didn’t you? Well, it just became a bit less wild or fringe – and it’s got Yaxley-Lennon twitching again. Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele […]
After the Southport killings – who is responsible for the racist riots?
Who is behind the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and, when all said and done, just plain racist riots that have spreading across the UK over the last couple of days? Fascist groups including Patriotic Alternative and Britain First, who have done their damnedest to incite such angry racism for years, are secretly whooping with delight at what […]
Short lived UKIP Leader promises to “tell all”…
Well, look at this. Short-lived UKIP Leader Lois Perry “is back”. And in the pink, it would appear. And now she’s promising to “tell all” on Talk TV on Thursday. She’s referring, of course, to her sudden resignation as Leader, announced in the early hours of the morning, just a few weeks after being elected […]
Newly elected UKIP Leader quits
Only a few weeks after being elected as Leader of UKIP, Lois Perry suddenly resigned yesterday, citing health issues. However, whilst her departure in the middle of the election campaign was remarkable, it is not itself altogether surprising. It was never clear when she ran successfully for the party leadership election only two months ago, […]