Time for Reform

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is frantically trying to avoid the potential bad PR around the byelections by postponing them to 2026-27.

London: On Boxing Day the ReformUK Party membership (163,612 at the time of writing) overtook the membership of the Conservative Party (131,680 at the time of Leadership election). ReformUK‘s leader Nigel Farage claims this makes his party the real Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. Kemi Badenoch, Conservative leader, tried to deny Farage’s numbers accusing him of fixing his digital counter, an audit proved the counter correct, now Farage demands an apology and claims whisteblowers report to him that Conservative Campaign Headquarter’s ballots were manipulated and Conservative membership numbers are faked.

The Conservatives have 121MPs, ReformUK have 5MPs and Labour have 411Mps; the 1 May 2025 local elections will be a telling test for the Labour Government; already in 2024 ReformUK have realised 30+ local Council seats but the Tories have 1,380 seats to defend. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is frantically trying to avoid the potential bad PR around these byelections by postponing them to 2026-27, his deputy Angela Rayner has proposed dangerous devolution plans to introduce a number of new “Mayors” who will have the ability to introduce a “mayoral precept” (new tax), and the ability to oversee Labour’s new idea of mega-councils that will combine district and county councils (ergo more layers of control).

Following the unmitigated disaster of Labour’s October budget that according to The Telegraph will increase the tax burden by £8,000 a year on middle class families. Andrew Griffith, Shadow Business Secretary, says this is “one of the biggest transfers from the aspirant classes to the public sector that anyone has ever seen”.

Sir Keir Starmer was Chief Prosecutor, the chief giveaway to his modus operandi is in that title, prosecute the people with tax, added taxes and hidden taxes; restrict progress and divide the nation with diversity, equality and inclusion (with Sadiq Khan London Mayor acting as COO); decolonise the curriculum and eradicate Shakespeare out of the education system; arrest free speech; turbo charge net zero at the expense of UK jobs; flirt with China for trade and investment amidst covert Chinese influence; and there are frequent reports of a two tier justice system that favours criminals over free speech on social media.

Recent statistics have shown that 52% of people living in UK received more in benefits and state handouts than they paid in tax; as usual unemployment under Labour is up with 1.7million people looking for work.

Following Rachel Reeves’ budget blunders a desperate Starmer fears bureaucracy is putting off the investment in Britain he craves, on Christmas Eve Starmer wrote to several UK regulators seeking their proposals to boost economic growth; while hopes of a UK-India FTA remain a mirage.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy were keen to pick up and under geopolitical pressure to conclude the negotiations with the Chagos Islands. The deal was inconclusively concluded before the Mauritian elections; resulting in the amount reported, £800million a year plus reparations, that the UK will have to pay to secure the Diego Garcia Military base and undersea cables. Possibly oblivious to the implications for the Commonwealth Starmer and Co. will be keen to wrap it up before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

The Labour reality of high inflation, high interest rates and high borrowing reveals the hypocrisy of their election manifesto; the theme of ideological indoctrination runs insidiously through the Labour government. One could be forgiven for thinking that Labour was all about absolute control rather than economic growth, and not equipping the next generation with the skills and knowledge they need for the C21st. The stakes/mistakes for Britain could not higher.

Immigration is ReformUK’s trump card, with 450 arriving on Christmas day taking the figure of illegal immigrants since 2018 up to 150,000. This and the tax raiding of the Labour Government are driving folks towards ReformUK, these folks are from both progressive liberal backgrounds and from student communities. Labour think that lowering the voting age to 16 will secure them in No10 ad infinitum, but Labour and the Conservatives, are so out of touch with the countryside they might be surprised when many young turn to the right.

Typically the Left’s argument against ReformUK is that they know nothing beyond immigration statistics, however the amalgamated business and monetary experience of the top four Reform players, Farage, Richard Tice, Rupert Lowe and Nick Candy arguably outweighs the top four Labour or Tory MPs.

Rupert Lowe is reputed to be ReformUK’s most popular MP for his forthright views on deporting criminals and protecting UK’s borders, gender at birth, the plight of British farmers and agriculture since the reduction of Agricultural Property Relief, Labour’s plans for altering the national curriculum, the right of Israel to fight for survival, and advocating for a small state.
Labour’s campaign mantra was “change”, it has not happened how folks were expecting; it looks like ReformUK have seized momentum, and the polling would indicate people wanted “reform” and not “change”.