Author: Miles Donavan

‘Don’t believe a word he says.’ The Mirror is one of the few newspapers being praised for taking on Nigel Farage’s divisive politics head on, and exposing the flaws contained in his policies. Earlier this week, Farage set out his plans to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants in five years if his party wins the next election. In order to do so, the Reform UK leader said anybody who arrived illegally would be immediately detained, including women and children, and that he would pull Britain out of the Human Rights Act as well as the European Convention on Human Rights. The…

You only need to think back to the Tories’ failed Rwanda scheme to see just how unworkable these proposals are The first and most crucial point to be made about the mass deportation plan Nigel Farage announced at the beginning of the week is that it is immoral. Ripping up human rights laws, and deporting people to countries where they could face imprisonment, torture or death is Trump-style authoritarianism.  Beyond that, the plan is unworkable. You only need to think back to the Tories’ failed inhumane Rwanda scheme, which cost the taxpayer £700 million and did not result in a…

Hundreds of homeless people face losing their accommodation in a town. A homeless charity has closed following a dispute with a Reform UK controlled council, meaning hundreds of homeless people face losing their accommodation in a town. In what has led to allegations of a lack of care and compassion on behalf of Reform UK, Northampton Association for Accommodation for Single Homeless (NAASH), which supported accommodation for about 200 people, has had to close after Reform run West Northamptonshire Council decided to hold up funding, meaning vulnerable people now have nowhere to go. NAASH said that council funding has been…

Whatever happened to the land of milk and honey promised by Brexiteers… A clear majority of the British public believe that the UK economy has got worse since Brexit, according to a new poll. After Britain cut itself off from its largest trading partner, many have seen the plight of the UK economy worsen. According to a new survey, carried out by More in Common for campaign group Best for Britain, 71% of voters think the UK economy has worsened since 2016, compared to just 12% who think it has improved. To make matters worse for Brexiteers, 77% say the…

Local Reform MP Lee Anderson has backed the boycott… Despite Nigel Farage’s party claiming it supports free speech, Reform in Nottinghamshire has banned its councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper. In an unprecedented move, the Reform leader at Nottingham County Council, Mick Barton, has said his four-month old administration will no longer deal with The Nottingham Post. Natalie Fahy, the editor of the newspaper called the move “a massive attack on local democracy”. She also warned that Reform’s ban on the newspaper is a sign of things to come should the party win the next election.  Barton was…

Priti Patel tried to attack the Lib Dem leader’s decision but it backfired spectacularly Ed Davey has said he will boycott a state banquet that will be hosted by King Charles for President Donald Trump next month. The Lib Dem leader has said he will not attend the banquet to protest against Trump and Keir Starmer’s failure to use their influence to end the war in Gaza. Davey said: “If Donald Trump tells Benjamin Netanyahu to stop this, it ends tomorrow. “If Donald Trump uses his influence over Qatar and other Gulf states that Hamas relies on, all the hostages…

Farage can’t be best pleased… The war of words between once former good friends Elon Musk and Nigel Farage is continuing, with tech billionaire Musk launching a scathing attack on the Reform UK leader, calling him ‘weak’. It comes after Farage set out his plan to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants in a bid to crackdown on small boat crossings, with proposals which include locking up women and children, scrapping the Human Rights Act and also giving money to despotic regimes in Iran and Afghanistan to secure migrant deportation deals. Posting on X, Musk wrote: “Farage is weak sauce…

Reform’s “special announcement” didn’t go quite to plan Nigel Farage looked delighted to announce Reform’s latest Tory defector is Scottish MSP Graham Simpson. The tone of his special announcement switched when it was pointed out that the Scottish politician had previously faced allegations of bullying a young female staff member in the past. At the press conference today, political correspondent at The Herald, Rebecca McCurdy, read out a stinging comment from a Tory source. “Graham Simpson is a pathetic nasty little man who won’t be missed,” the source said.  “Just last year, he had to apologise to a young female…

Victoria Derbyshire challenges Richard Tice over claim ECHR withdrawal won’t ‘unravel’ the Good Friday Agreement Victoria Derbyshire has grilled Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice over his claim that leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) wouldn’t affect the Good Friday Agreement. Tice made this claim despite the fact that the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is underpinned by UK membership of the ECHR, and even Nigel Farage has acknowledged that withdrawing from the Convention would require the GFA to be renegotiated. If elected in 2029, Reform wants to leave the ECHR in order to implement a mass deportation plan. The…

Sections of the right-wing press seem completely relaxed about Farage’s plans to strip away constraints on state power Yesterday Nigel Farage let loose, exposing his contempt for democratic institutions and legal constraints, as he pushed a hard-line message on refugees, immigration and asylum seekers, normalising rhetoric that previously would’ve been considered beyond the pale. He described irregular migration as an “invasion” and a “scourge”, referring to men who cross the Channel repeatedly as being of “fighting age”. As the Guardian summed up so succinctly in its editorial yesterday: “This is not a policy contest. It is an attack on democratic…