Author: Miles Donavan

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…

“The worst pro-Brexit book ever written.” Publishing a book entitled 75 Brexit Benefits is bold, if not outright deluded, especially now that even the government has admitted Brexit’s failure. At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Keir Starmer condemned the “self-appointed representatives of the people” who “sold the lie of Brexit and walked away.” It marked a historic moment, the first time a sitting PM openly acknowledged that Brexit was not the patriotic triumph it was promised to be, but a national mistake. Enter ‘Gully Foyle,’ a pseudonym lifted from an American 1956 sci-fi novel, who has now published 75…

Reducing keffiyeh wearers to “coffee shop socialists” sporting a “fashionable cause,” ignores the real and diverse communities that stand in solidarity with Palestine. “Trump’s Gaza deal is the ultimate humiliation for the West’s woke Left,” headlined the Telegraph. According to columnist Sherelle Jacobs, this is not only a diplomatic triumph for Donald Trump but also a damning indictment of progressive politics, particularly in Britain and Europe. Jacobs praises Trump’s “robustness” as a peacemaker, contrasting it with what she sees as the moral and strategic failures of Keir Starmer and other European leaders like Emmanuel Macron. “This Gaza ceasefire deal is a prodigious…

84 percent of regular GB News viewers believe net migration has increased when it’s really falling. “Migrant crisis to hit grisly milestone ‘by tomorrow’.” “Migrants will be forced to learn English to A Level standard if they want to move to Britain.” “’Don’t buy it for a second!’ Top Tory delivers blistering takedown of Labour’s immigration vow.” These are just three of the migrant-bashing headlines published on GB News this week alone. So here’s a headline that won’t surprise Right-Wing Media Watch readers. A new study has found that people who regularly watch GB News are more likely to hold misconceptions about immigration, specifically, the belief that net migration to…