#Reform Party

[starstruckbyacomet]

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Calling all Brits on this hellsite.

We all saw Elon Musk do the nazi salute at the Trump inauguration. We know that he is influencing and fanning the flames of right wing political parties.

And that very well may include ours.

Because Elon Musk has pledged to donate $100 million to the Reform party. He has since mentioned that it might be hard to give such a large sum now.

But I don’t think we should take our chances. And I think we can agree that letting billionaires influence our countries politics is a terrible idea.

If you also agree here’s a link to a Parliament petition.

It calls for the government to remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).

As it is a parliament petition the government are required to debate it in parliament. But for that to happen it needs to reach 100,000 signatures.

Non British folk I’m afraid you guys can’t sign but I encourage you guys to reblog so that more people can see this.

[tomorrowusa]

Britain, check your laws regarding big money in politics. You may need to strengthen them!

Elon is making nice with Nigel Farage of the far right "Reform Party" with an eye on insinuating himself into UK politics as he has done in the US.

With Labour's enormous majority in Parliament, the party should take steps to make it difficult for billionaires to manipulate national politics.

Elon Musk has met Nigel Farage and Nick Candy, Reform UK’s new treasurer, at Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, reviving speculation the tech billionaire could fund the hard-right party. After the meeting on Monday, Reform released photos of Musk sitting with Farage and Candy, and standing with them beneath a portrait of a young Trump at the US president-elect’s Florida home. The party released a statement by the Reform leader and Candy in which they said they had met Musk for an hour. “We learned a great deal about the Trump ground game and will have ongoing discussions on other areas,” it added. “We only have one more chance left to save the west and we can do great things together. Our thanks also to President Trump for allowing us to use Mar-a-Lago for this historic meeting. The special relationship is alive and well.”

Elon Putz isn't messing around with the hapless Conservatives. He wants to supercharge the hard right in Britain.

Musk, who has waged an increasingly personal campaign against Keir Starmer and the Labour party, earlier this month denied a report that he was planning to make a £78m donation to Reform. However, there will now be increased speculation that he could intervene in UK politics and help Reform’s prospects before next year’s local elections. Writing in the Telegraph on Tuesday night, Farage said: “There is little doubt that Musk’s contribution to the scale of the Trump victory is not to be underestimated. I have come home with copious notes of how they increased the turnout, voter registration and so much more, and all of this I intend to implement as part of the professionalisation of our party.”

I don't know exactly how constituents in the UK interact with their MPs. However it's done, this is a good time to contact yours and sound the alarm. Don't let Elon convert the prime minister's residence into Number 10-a-Lago.

[riotinyellow]

the government is more likely to call stop oil a terrorist organisation before they do the EDL

[nightmaretour]

How the fuck is anyone possibly skeptical that Elon Musk, the guy currently funding the legal fees for a neonazi from the Reform party, an ACTUAL SELF PROCLAIMED NEONAZI, was doing Nazi salutes? He's also fighting Nigel Farage for kicking said neonazi from the party for being openly so*. Musk doesn't even try to hide what he is.

*We all know it was all for show, there isn't any part of Nazi ideology that the party disagrees with and there have been many of them in the party.

[itsallpoliticsstupid]

Reform voters not understanding consequences of their choice

There are reports of Reform voters complaining that they didn't expect to end up with a Labour Government by voting Reform.

And all I can ask is, how?!

Having the right to participate in free and fair elections is one of the cornerstones of democracy and why I vehemently defend living in one. That being said, I also fear people have such low Political literacy that they can't really make an informed choice on the matter.

I believe that Politics should be mandatory in schools. Why are we teaching children about Philosophy, but not something that they will be participating in for their adult lives.

Maybe it's time to start considering bringing this subject in to schools.

(Just to note, I'm not having a go at people voting Reform. I've always had the view political literacy is low across all sides of the political spectrum and it should be taught in schools by teachers who do not have any political alignment. This whole deal just cements that fact for me.

[oldinmagroin-resurrected]

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ELONGATED MUSKRAT IS TRYING TO INTERFERE WITH UK GOVERNMENT, TELL THEM TO FUCK OFF!!

Extra links below, I have no clue if he will go through with it but we must show them we do not want this and that we won't stand for it!

[angelholme]

The former leader of Reform described this as "saying a daft thing"

And that suggestions that women are "spongers", that "women soldiers make him sick", that "women should be deprived of healthcare" and "men subsidise women to breath" were supposed to be funny.

This is apparently the safe alternative to the Tory party.

[feckcops]

What can the Left learn from Nigel Farage?

“Farage’s mercilessness is notable. Only once did he hold back from running against the Tories – in the 2019 election when Boris Johnson’s Brexit purism and the threat of a Jeremy Corbyn-led government persuaded him to stand down ... In 2015, he almost cost the party its slim majority ...

“Contrast this with the approach of the ‘green blob’ of centre-left climate NGOs ... Their strategy was also clear: ask nicely and get what you can, not what’s needed to avert the climate crisis. Don’t take risks or rock the boat ... This focus on soft power alone – the inside game of cajoling and persuasion, being in the room and having the ear of a potentially sympathetic minister – is extremely limited ...

“The election of five pro-Palestinian independents – including Corbyn – along with four Green MPs has changed Starmer’s electoral calculation. Assumptions about the viability of independent and third party candidates have been swept away. The Greens came in second in 39 constituencies (most with a suspiciously Corbynite demographic), and some pollsters have suggested the collapse in Labour’s Muslim vote isn’t a momentary response to the party’s blunders on Gaza, but part of a longer-term trend.

“The left would do well to look to Farage for instruction. With a club in one hand and an olive branch in the other, he torments the Tories from the outside while organising sympathetic MPs within. He wages war on the party, while openly flirting with the idea of swooping in and rescuing it from the carnage he helped create ...

“If Farage was paying attention, he’d laugh at the never-ending argument on the left about whether to stay in Labour or leave ... Farage has always cultivated links with ideologically aligned MPs within the Conservative party. He’s left open the idea that he may one day join. Every vote he takes from them strengthens the hand of hard right Tory MPs. And the more viable Reform becomes, the more leverage his Tory allies have, as they can always go elsewhere ...

“The relative silence of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs wasn’t due to a moral failing, but their status as Labour MPs being in the gift of a hostile leadership. They fairly assumed that running as independents was electoral suicide ...

“Now, emboldened by the success of independent and Green candidates, these Labour MPs can be strident in their criticism of Starmer and leverage the public’s indifference towards him. They can form a leftwing caucus across party lines, exposing the prime minister’s politics by forcing him into deals with the Lib Dems. They can identify their own small boats issue, and use their platform to court controversy. And they can do all of this safely in the knowledge that they can cross the floor to the Greens or run as independents and have a decent chance of success.”

[python-nebula]

As anxious as I am about Reform potentially winning, it's hilarious to watch the Labour rep completely obliterate the Reform rep

[head-post]

UK Farage fires campaign members for racist remarks

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage sacked members of his campaign team on Thursday after they were caught on video making racist and homophobic comments.

Farage, a former EU MP who has tried and failed seven times to run for the UK parliament, is seeking a seat in next month’s general election, called by the UK’s embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

An undercover investigation broadcast on Channel 4 filmed campaigners from his Reform UK party making racist and homophobic comments in Farage’s constituency of Clacton-on-Sea in south-east England last week.

One campaigner, Andrew Parker, labelled Islam “the most disgusting cult” and called for Muslims to be kicked “out of mosques” which should be turned into pubs. Speaking to the electorate, Parker also called for army recruits to carry out “target practice” by shooting migrants trying to cross the Channel illegally by boat.

Channel 4 also filmed George Jones, Reform UK’s campaign organiser, explaining why the party is focusing on Clacton:

“Look around you. The real England. You know what I mean? Not like London when you’re a foreigner in your own country.”

He later made homophobic remarks, including calling the LGBT flag “degenerate.”

Farage was “appalled”

In a statement to Channel 4, Farage said he was “appalled” by the comments from “a handful of people associated with my local campaign” and announced they would no longer be involved. Farage also added:

“The appalling sentiments expressed by some in these exchanges bear no relation to my own views, those of the vast majority of our supporters or Reform UK policy.” 

In a separate statement, Parker said that “neither Nigel Farage personally nor the Reform Party is aware of my personal views on immigration”.

According to anti-racism organisation Hope Not Hate, Reform UK has had to withdraw 166 candidates since the start of the year, most of whom have made racist or offensive remarks.

Farage’s party is third in the polls behind the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party.

Read more HERE

[medjoul]

On Nigel Farage:

Chloe Deakin, an English teacher at Dulwich college, wrote in 1981: “You will recall that at the recent, and lengthy, meeting about the selection of prefects, the remark by a colleague that Farage was ‘a fascist but that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect’ invoked considerable reaction from members of the common room.

“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views, and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson.”

One Jewish pupil claimed Farage would sidle up to him and say: “Hitler was right,” or “Gas ‘em.” Another claimed Farage had a preoccupation with his initials, NF, as they were the same as those of the National Front. [x]

[tomorrowusa]

The New Statesman produced a video endorsing Labour in the July 4th general election.

In some ways this shouldn't surprise anybody. But in 2019 they did remain neutral. Labour back then was under the leadership of neo-Trotskyite Jeremy Corbyn and the Lib Dems were still recovering from their disastrous 2010-2015 coalition with the Conservatives.

In addition to the Labour endorsement, The New Statesman urged viewers and readers to vote tactically for maximum effect. In this election, tactical voting prioritizes defeating as many Tories as possible even if that means choosing not to vote for your personal first choice but instead for the candidate most likely to defeat a Conservative in one's constituency.

Here are a couple of tactical voting sites.

+ GetVoting.org

+ Tactical voting list for every constituency | General Election 2024 | tactical.vote

Although it's dated June 22nd, this projection of number of seats in Parliament by Electoral Calculus was published online just yesterday. While it shows Labour still firmly in the lead, the distribution of seats for some of the other parties shows almost startling movement.

The Conservatives are down to 61 seats while the Lib Dems have risen to 70. If such a result happens next week, the Lib Dems would replace the Tories as the official opposition.

HOWEVER, the far right Reform Party led by Brexiteer Nigel Farage has a predicted 19 seats. There had been some talk about Farage being invited into the Conservative Party to lead it after Rishi Sunak's likely political demise. With these numbers, if Reform and the Tories united then they would have 80 seats – 10 more than the Lib Dems. As head of this faction, Farage would become the official leader of the opposition and would use his high profile, including time at Prime Minister's Questions, to promote his far right agenda.

A recent incident reminded everybody just how extremist the Reform Party really is.

Reform UK activist filmed using racial slur to describe Rishi Sunak while campaigning for Nigel Farage

So any tactical voting plan should include efforts to minimize Reform Party gains and boost the number of seats which the Lib Dems pick up.

The UK electorate has an excellent opportunity to strike a blow against the international far right in this election.

[riotinyellow]

lol, do it again

[nightmaretour]

You know, the Claims Adjuster could easily become a national hero here in the UK too without even leaving the country. Just saying.

[bitter69uk]

The Reform candidate for the Mid-Bedfordshire by-election yesterday looks like he’s about to headbutt you outside a pub while his goth “biker mama” watches. (Labour won – phew!). Is it wrong that I do love his powder blue suit? (I would wear it with a ruffled shirt).

[anyoneknowwhatbrexitmeans]