Viktor Orbán’s crushing defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary election, with Peter Magyar’s Tisza party taking over 53 per cent of the vote to Fidesz’s 38 per cent, with results pointing to Tisza winning a crucial two-thirds majority with 135 seats in the 199-member parliament, is more than the end of a 16-year autocracy. It is a […]
Reform UK
Reform humiliated by Greens in Kent council by election
Reform UK has suffered a serious defeat in a Kent County Council by-election in what had been a safe Reform seat less than a year ago. The contest, in Cliftonville, Margate, was triggered by the jailing of Daniel Taylor, who had won the division for Reform last May as part of the party’s landslide at […]
Crypto billionaire quits Hong Kong to bankroll Reform UK
A billionaire cryptocurrency entrepreneur is relocating from Hong Kong to Britain with the explicit aim of funnelling millions of pounds into Reform UK . Ben Delo, co-founder of the BitMEX trading platform, donated £4 million to Reform earlier this year before the Government introduced a £100,000 cap on political donations from British citizens living overseas. […]
The fraudster who is Farage’s right-hand man
George Cottrell is unusual, to say the least, in British political life: a man with a serious American felony conviction who has nevertheless embedded himself as a trusted figure within Nigel Farage’s inner circle, helping fund his foreign travel and advising Reform UK with apparent impunity. Born into considerable privilege, Cottrell’s background reads like a […]
UKIP’s only local councillor quits party after 6 months
Amid all the excitement around the walkout at County Hall in Maidstone last Thursday,it was barely noticed that among those exiting the chamber was a councillor belonging to a new party with the eccentric name of “Better Way Of“. This was none other than Cllr Amelia Randall, the wacko psychic / life-coach who is one of the […]
Kent’s Reform council defies election law with migrant emergency motion
Reform UK’s Kent County councillors have declared an “illegal migration emergency” in the county despite warnings that to do so might breach electoral law. Opposition councillors staged a mass walkout in protest at what they condemned as a cynical electoral stunt timed to influence an upcoming by-election. Migrant frontier A motion at Thursday’s council meeting, […]