Author: Miles Donavan

Tice said Reform hadn’t pledged to cut council tax, but several local election leaflets prove otherwise Reform’s deputy leader got caught out on Times Radio after denying that his party had pledged to cut people’s council tax bills. On Times Radio, Richard Tice said that a Times headline which said that Reform promised to bring council tax down is “simply untrue” and “has to be corrected”. The article headline stated: “Reform councils to raise tax for 2m households despite pledging cuts.” “We said we would save money, I’ll be giving a press conference in two weeks’ time about that, but…

“This open antisemitism is part of Reform’s wider far right and racist politics that must be called out.” Reform UK has been blasted for sharing an antisemitic AI-generated image of Green Party leader Zack Polanski. The image, created using AI and shared by Reform UK’s Brighton and Hove branch last Friday for Halloween, distorted Polanski’s features using the same antisemitic stereotypes once pushed by Nazi propaganda. Polanski’s ancestors fled pogroms in Latvia for Ukraine, before being forced to flee again to Poland, where they faced the Nazis. They eventually sought refuge in England, where they faced more antisemitism. Campaign group…

“They were shamelessly trying to turn tragedy into yet another excuse to whip up fear and sew division.” An MP used an intervention in Parliament to hit out at the Reform politicians and ‘hard right’ figures for using the Huntingdon train attack for ‘political gain’ and to ‘whip up fear’. Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson told MPs that the right-wing politicians’ speculation over the race and ethnicity of the perpetrator had incited racist comments. Wilkinson added that they used the knife attack which took place at Huntingdon, on the Doncaster-London LNER service, to “shamelessly [try] to turn tragedy…

So much for Farage being a ‘man of the people’. Reform UK clearly holds younger people in contempt after party leader Nigel Farage suggested that that the minimum wage may be “too high” for younger workers, as he laid out his party’s plans for the economy in a major speech yesterday. Alongside u-turning on his party’s promise to cut taxes, Farage also laid out a return to austerity as he vowed to bring public spending under control. He also refused to commit to the triple lock on pensions. Asked whether he thought the minimum wage was too high, Farage said:…

Musk pushed more falsehoods about Britain Tech billionaire Elon Musk has once more turned his attention to the UK, spreading more lies about the country and has been accused of inciting violence, leading to calls for him to be investigated by the police. Musk, recently drew criticism from the government in recent months after his appearance at a rally organised by far-right thug Tommy Robinson, at which violent disorder occurred with police officers attacked. He told the rally via video link to “fight back” or “die”. Now, in a bizarre rant he has compared the UK to JRR Tolkien’s Lord…

Farage also ruled out protecting the state pension triple lock Nigel Farage has been condemned for hinting at cutting public sector workers’ pensions. In an interview earlier this morning, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice suggested public sector pensions would be at risk under a Reform government.  Tice told Politico journalist Dan Bloom:  “You’re not asking about the much, much bigger issue, right – which is, how long can we carry on offering defined benefit pensions to all public sector workers?”. Speaking from Banking Hall in the City of London, Farage was asked by ITV News journalist Joel Hills whether he…

Farage also ruled out protecting the state pension triple lock Nigel Farage has been condemned for hinting at cutting public sector workers’ pensions. In an interview earlier this morning, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice suggested public sector pensions would be at risk under a Reform government.  Tice told Politico journalist Dan Bloom:  “You’re not asking about the much, much bigger issue, right – which is, how long can we carry on offering defined benefit pensions to all public sector workers?”. Speaking from Banking Hall in the City of London, Farage was asked by ITV News journalist Joel Hills whether he…

Maybe they should’ve printed the cost of exiting the EU on the side of the red bus too. The right-wing press is having a meltdown as the sheer scale and cost of Brexit becomes ever clearer, with post-Brexit payments to the EU set to surpass £50billion. Data from the ONS shows that the UK gave £3.25billion to Brussels last year. That means that the total paid to the European Union since Britain officially left in 2020 to approximately £44billion, with an additional commitment to providing at least £8billion more as part of the exit deal. The eye watering sums of…

“I think it’s interesting that he concentrated on but didn’t give any detail on how they would cut back on public finances.” Unison general secretary Christina McAnea has slammed Reform UK’s claims it will get the economy “under control”. On Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Zia Yusuf said the Tories and Labour had “wrecked” the public finances. He claimed Reform would restore them. When asked how, Yusuf said Reform would cut foreign aid, which would save just £7-8 billion per year. He also said Reform would make savings by cutting “insane net zero policies” and Personal Independence Payments for people with…

The dangers of stamp duty are numerous and far reaching ‘Build, Baby, Build’ has become the core mantra of Labour’s growth agenda – an admirable and achievable one given the previous 14 years of failure to get Britain building again. But red hats, glossy comms, and repeated slogans can only go so far when one child in every classroom is in temporary accommodation, and new starts in cities are at an all-time low. Legislation, such as the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, will go some way to increase the viability of sites which are currently blocking the government’s 1.5 million homes…