Author: Miles Donavan

There’s a lot that the Reform candidate doesn’t seem to want voters to know about him Llŷr Powell is Reform UK’s candidate for the Senedd by-election in Caerphilly this Thursday (23 October). Why is there a by-election and what’s at stake? The by-election was triggered after the constituency’s Labour Senedd member Hefin David sadly died unexpectedly. Currently Reform has only one Senedd member, Laura Anne Jones, who recently defected from the Tories. Jones says Reform is “not ruling out” abolishing the Welsh Parliament (Senedd).  A recent Survation poll indicates it is neck and neck between Reform (42%) and Plaid (38%) in…

‘Cranks like Katie Lam don’t get to define what our culture should be or which of our friends and neighbours should be deported…’ Tory party MP Katie Lam has been condemned for using some of the most divisive language yet when it comes to immigration, after she claimed that large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. Not only are the comments utterly disgraceful, showing how far the Conservative Party has fallen but also demonstrate how the Tory party are far from being a part of law and order…

“If they can’t stop swearing and bullying then I’m afraid they’re not responsible enough to run Kent.” Pressure is mounting on Reform’s Kent County Council leader Linden Kemkaran to resign after a video showed her swearing at colleagues in a meeting. In a letter to Nigel Farage, Labour MPs said that Kemkaran is “clearly not up to the job”. This comes after a damning video was leaked to The Guardian over the weekend. The recording showed Reform council leader telling councillors who disagreed with her decisions to “f***ing suck it up”. Asked by BBC journalist Michael Keohan on Monday whether…

Reform could face fines as documents indicate it failed to register for VAT Reform UK may owe the HMRC thousands of pounds in VAT, interest and late payment charges after it failed to register for the tax at the end of last year. Political parties must pay VAT on certain income over £90,000 per year, including ticket and merchandise sales, but not on membership fees or donations. They must register for VAT within 30 days of taxable turnover exceeding £90,000 in a 12-month period. Sources told The Times that the threshold was exceeded last autumn due to ticket sales from…

The leaked recording will cause particular embarrassment for Farage given that Kent County Council is seen by the party as a test case of its ability to govern. Reform UK is clearly a party in turmoil, after it was left with no choice but to suspend four more councillors on Kent County Council after leaked footage of a meeting showed bitter infighting and divisions among its councillors. Rather than being focused on delivering for residents, a leaked video of a meeting shared with the Guardian, showed bitter infighting among fellow councillors as well as councillors complaining about “backbiting” and being…

James Orr is friends with JD Vance and said the US Capitol Riot in January 2021 was exaggerated by the “global left” Nigel Farage has appointed a friend of JD Vance and hardline anti-abortionist James Orr, as his senior adviser. Orr, an associate professor in Theology at the University of Cambridge, has been influential in Donald Trump’s administration. Orr opposes abortion at any stage of pregnancy, including in cases of rape.  He also referred to asylum seekers as “invaders”. In an interview with the European Conservative, he said: “No civilisation has invited invaders in, put them up in four-star hotels,…

James Orr is friends with JD Vance and said the US Capitol Riot in January 2021 was exaggerated by the “global left” Nigel Farage has appointed a friend of JD Vance and hardline anti-abortionist James Orr, as his senior advisor. Orr, an associate professor in Theology at the University of Cambridge, has been influential in Donald Trump’s administration. Orr opposes abortion at any stage of pregnancy, including in cases of rape.  He also referred to asylum seekers as “invaders”. In an interview with the European Conservative, he said: “No civilisation has invited invaders in, put them up in four-star hotels,…

Ferrari has rejected the accusations and said that the investigation is politically motivated Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s partner Laure Ferrari has hit the headlines amid allegations of fraud at a Eurosceptic group that she ran when the pair were both working in Brussels. Although there is no suggestion of wrongdoing on Farage’s part, the story will nonetheless cause him another headache as he tries to portray himself as a prime minister in-waiting. The Times reports that ‘Laure Ferrari served as executive director of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE), a think tank based in the Belgian capital,…

Linden Kemkaran now faces a possible vote of no confidence Reform leader of Kent County Council Linden Kemkaran was caught swearing, raising her voice and putting a colleague on mute during a chaotic meeting filled with bitter infighting. In a recording of the virtual meeting leaked to The Guardian yesterday, Kemkaran said to councillors who disagree with her decision on local government reorganisation (LGR): “You’re just going to have to f***ing suck it up, ok?”. Kemkaran said she is not a “dictator or an autocrat” and likes to hear councillors’ views. However, she then added: “Sometimes I will make a…

‘The answer is that for the foreseeable future it is negative.’ In yet more evidence of the harmful impact of Brexit, the head of the Bank of England has warned that the decision to leave the EU will damage the UK economy “for the foreseeable future”. In a speech in Washington on Saturday, Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey said “making an economy less open restricts growth over the long term”. He said: “For nearly a decade, I have been very careful to say that I take no position per se on Brexit, which was a decision by…