Author: Miles Donavan

Rather than welcoming Addy, Reform supporters and accounts supportive of Reform claimed that he ‘shouldn’t be eligible to stand for election in Britain’, while others called for his deportation. A Reform UK councillor has had to defend one of his party’s candidates after supporters from his own party hurled racist abuse at him. In yet another incident of Reform supporters posting hateful and bigoted remarks, the leader of Portsmouth’s Reform group, Cllr George Madgwick, shared a post on X about a new campaigner for the party, Addy Mo Asaduzzaman. In a post on X on Monday, Madgwick wrote: “INTRODUCING Campaigners…

The sheer hypocrisy. A video has resurfaced online of Reform’s current Deputy Chair, Richard Tice, complaining about foreign based donors giving funds to political parties, after Nigel Farage’s outfit accepted a £9 million donation from a Thai-based crypto billionaire, leading to charges of hypocrisy. Publication of the Electoral Commission’s latest register of donors reveals that Reform were given a £9,000,000 donation by Christopher Harborne, their largest single donation ever, and the largest donation ever from a living donor. Harborne, the Thai-based crypto billionaire, is believed to have made the biggest donation given to a party by a living person, leading…

The EU Commission has fined X over its “deceptive” blue-check badge system The European Commission has insisted Elon Musk’s X will have to pay a €120 (£105) million fine for violating EU transparency rules. The Commission has called Musk’s blue-check badge system ‘deceptive’ and noted that paid verification makes users more vulnerable to counterfeits and fraud. The Commission issued the penalty for breaches of transparency and deceptive design obligations under the EU’s Digital Services Act on Friday. X was also fined for a lack of transparency around its advertising practices. Under the Act, platforms must have a public and searchable…

City of Doncaster councillor Nicola Brown has now quit twice in two weeks Reform is a party in chaos, whether its councillors quitting, others being exposed for sharing bigoted and hateful views or its former leader in Wales taking bribes from Russia, Farage’s outfit clearly aren’t fit to govern. In the latest incident, a Reform councillor has quit the party for a second time in just two weeks. City of Doncaster councillor Nicola Brown, resigned over the decision by Reform UK to vote to borrow £57m to re-open Doncaster Sheffield Airport. She has instead joined Advance UK, another far-right political…

At least eight former UKIP or Brexit Party MEPs are reported to have been targeted by the ex-Reform leader in Wales Three more British MEPs from Nigel Farage’s bloc in the European Parliament allegedly followed Russian asset Nathan Gill’s script. Gill was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison last month for accepting up to £40,000 in bribes to make pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament and the media. According to The Guardian, the Crown Prosecution Service has named former UKIP and Brexit Party MEPs Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe among those who followed talking points…

“Your hissing snake oil Putinist fifth column politics will be rejected.” A Labour MP has slapped down Nigel Farage, saying Glasgow will reject his “hissing snake oil” politics.  Farage posted a video on X last week where he criticised the fact that nearly one in three schoolchildren “only” speak English as their second language. The Reform leader described it as the “cultural smashing of Glasgow” and said that “it’s turning it into a completely different city in every way”. Farage continued: “My question is, who voted for this? Who told anybody in Sc​​otland that this was actually happening? Who stood…

“Introducing a clear cap on political donations is one of the most effective steps we could take to rebuild trust.” After Reform UK were given a £9,000,000 donation by Christopher Harborne, their largest single donation ever, and the largest donation ever from a living donor, the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has raised the alarm about the harmful effects of political parties being used as personal vehicles for the interests of the super-rich. Harborne, the Thai-based crypto billionaire, is believed to have made the biggest donation given to a party by a living person, leading to concern among democracy campaigners about…

‘Are you saying today that you actually failed in gathering data, […] and that you did leave stones unturned when you were in government?’ Kemi Badenoch was quizzed over the previous Tory government’s record on grooming gangs at a press conference today. This morning, Badenoch laid out proposals for a new “alternative grooming gang inquiry”, including draft terms of reference focusing on the ethnicity and religion of perpetrators. In her speech, the Tory leader said that the government’s national inquiry should leave “no stone unturned”. But Sky News journalist Jason Farrell pointed out that the Tories had made the same…

The incident will once more lead to accusations that Reform is incompetent and cause embarrassment for Farage. Reform are once more facing embarrassing headlines and charges of incompetence after a business belonging to one of its councillors was slapped with a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK. Nigel Farage’s party, which has pledged to tackle illegal immigration, has now hit the headlines because Michael Andrew Harrison, who represents Seaham on Durham county council, is accused of hiring an illegal worker. He is appealing the levy against…

During the budget speech last month, Chancellor Rachel Reeves thanked Tom Hayhoe for his work in helping to chase down ‘nearly £400m from dodgy pandemic spending and contracts’. So much for being the party of law and order and sound finances. It’s been revealed that Covid fraud under the last Tory government cost the taxpayer almost £11 billion, enough to provide a daily free school meal for the UK’s 2.7 eligible million children for eight years. The Mirror reports that a report set to be published on Tuesday by the government’s Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner Tom Hayhoe will show that…