Liars, loons and losers

And they're now in charge of the bins

When someone is being scammed, we feel a moral imperative to warn them.

When some poor sod gets a call telling them that there’s a pigeon in the bank vault and they need to transfer their savings to Nigeria - we don’t just stand by. We do our best to stop it in its tracks.

Well, today, Britain is being scammed.

Dishonest charlatans are lying to all of us, in a bid to steal our national identity, our social cohesion and our national wealth - for their own personal gain.

These scammers don’t care about our values, our country, you or me. They care about themselves, their prospects and - above all - their pockets.

These are the liars, loons and losers at the top of Reform UK.

They’ve got us on the phone, they are selling us the story. We’ve got to hang up before it’s too late.

The Liars

Nigel Farage, throughout his career, has made us just one promise.

Leave the EU, and immigration will fall.

There were no ifs, no caveats.

If we leave, he said, immigration will fall.

We left. And immigration shot up.

People began crossing the Channel in small boats, which they’d never done before. A surge of unskilled migrants entered Britain in unprecedented numbers. While EU migrants from France, Germany, Spain - net contributors to the British economy - all but stopped coming.

We lost control of the immigration system.

Nigel Farage got it completely wrong.

And some people will say, “the government didn’t deliver a proper Brexit.”

But Nigel Farage knew who the government was when he made that promise. And knowing that, he still said: vote to leave, and immigration will fall.

I could promise: “Slap yourself in the face, and I’ll give you a million quid.” If you slap yourself, I don’t think you’ll have much sympathy when I tell you I don’t have a million quid. Or when I try to blame the bank for not putting a million quid in my account.

And I really don’t think you’d believe me when I said “OK now do it again, and this time I really will give you the money.”

Nigel Farage is asking you to slap yourself in the face again. And - again - he won’t deliver on his promises.

The Loons

By the end of today, there will be thousands of new Reform UK councillors.

Many of them will believe that a secret cabal of lizards and Jews control the world. That COVID-19 was a hoax, orchestrated by big pharma to inject us with Bill Gates micro-chips.

These are not the people I want in charge of my bin collection.

After all - they are only ever one Facebook video away from thinking that ‘big bin’ is brainwashing us all, and cancelling black sack collections.

Reform’s supporters are not loons. They, like all of us, just want the country to work. The fact that Nigel Farage has recruited a band of incompetent idiots to run councils shows that he does not care whether things work. He cares about winning.

Britain is proudly not a racist country - and we have a long history as a tolerant nation. We stood up for Jewish people in WW2. We were the first global leader to abolish slavery. We’ve welcomed people fleeing persecution or seeking new opportunities throughout the entirety of our national history - from Hong Kong, to Ukraine, to the Windrush generation.

Our history is one of tolerance and respect for everyone. Even today, the vast majority of Britons believe in those values.

There’s nothing racist about wanting to control the rate of immigration, and certainly nothing racist about wanting to protect our borders.

But many of the Reform UK loons are just straight up racist - and they admit it, freely using slurs and calling themselves “proud” racists.

That doesn’t reflect the country I live in, and it’s doesn’t reflect the majority of us, decent, kind, tolerant people.

This is not poor vetting. This is a leadership that will leverage the loons to advance their personal gains. They do not care who controls your bins, or whether they get collected. They care about themselves.

The Losers

Above all, Reform UK is a party of losers. Frustrated failures with nowhere else to turn in their desperate bid to advance their own interests.

Tories who once backed Liz Truss’ project to kamikaze into the economy are now turning to Farage.

These are the Tories who blew up your mortgage so they could get a cabinet seat. That wasn’t enough, and now they want to do it again.

They knew Truss would wreck the economy, but getting a promotion or a peerage was more important to them, so they let her do it anyway.

I mean, are these the names of great patriots who care about Britain? Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Nadine bloody Dorries? No.

These are the names of chancers who care only about themselves. These are the rats that board a ship, gnaw on its hull, then leap onto the next one when it starts to sink.

People talk about ‘party before country’. Reform’s band of losers are themselves before anything.

They don’t care about Britain, they care about getting rich, or getting famous, or getting a book deal. If the country has to go to shit so they achieve it - well, that’s a price worth paying.

They’ve done it before with Truss, they’ll do it again with Farage. These losers cannot be trusted.

Hang Up

But the supporters of Reform UK are not liars, loons or losers. They are good people who want Britain to work.

We all want that.

And we’re all frustrated with a government that isn’t achieving things fast enough, by decades of decline, by an immigration system that is failing.

It is right and reasonable to be frustrated by these things - but Reform UK is exploiting that frustration. Exactly how a phone scammer plays on fear, tension and anxiety: they’re exploiting our emotion for their own personal gain.

And for what? To line their own pockets, to propel themselves forward. Oh - and to help our enemies. Russia, Iran and China are rubbing their hands together today as Reform takes councils. More division across the country and more incompetence at the heart of the British system.

The enemies of Britain want our country to rot from the inside, and they are funding, celebrating and abetting the rot in the form of Reform.

We’re being scammed by a gang of charlatans, led by a heavyweight liar and backed by our enemies. Farage has failed to deliver on the only promise he ever made, and now he’s recruited a gang of loons and losers to run our councils to the ground.

We have to stop them before it’s too late. We have to hang up the phone to this nasty scammer.