5 Reform UK disasters this week
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
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Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage
Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures
Nigel Farage defends Senedd candidate’s Nazi salute
The Reform leader has also defended a homophobic joke that the Scottish Reform leader made
Reform councillor on Staffordshire County Council exposed for posting racist remarks
It’s not the first time that the Reform-led council has been embroiled in a racism scandal.
BBC Question Time: Reform member Thomas Skinner called out for ‘hypocrisy’ over social media comments
Skinner said he doesn’t like how social media is about ‘dividing people’, yet has made divisive comments online
Nigel Farage brutally mocked after trying to explain why Reform MPs walked out of PMQs
“Petulant hissy fit man having highlighted the very reason why he is unfit for office then plays on it to the crowd of paying gullibles.”
Reform’s growing list of policy U-turns
Reform has dropped its pledge to part-nationalise water and energy companies in its latest U-turn
Reform’s year in power in local government: A year of tax rises, cuts and defections
Nothing but broken promises, council tax rises and infighting among its councillors.
Latest poverty figures show vital benefits that lifting two-child limit will have, TUC says
The TUC has slammed the record numbers of people living in poverty as ‘a record of the failures of the Conservative government’
Nigel Farage says council tax ‘has to go up’, after his party previously promised to cut taxes
That has always been the problem with populism, offer simplistic solutions to complex problem which begin to fall apart when they collide with reality.