Reform UK have a grifting crisis!

Right, so Reform UK, frankly the biggest Reform we need in this country is rich white people away from politics, in which case Reform UK is the most hypocritical name for a party going, given their representative in parliament. This lot get an awful lot of press attention, both from the very same media that literally employs three of their MPs as well as the mainstream media who have consistently platformed the likes of Nigel Farage for years, through Brexit and beyond, economically calamitous decision as that was, the jobs and wealth here in the UK wiped off the books as a result, all in the name of sovereignty and taking back our borders and all the rest of that petty, small man, often racist schtick. But where they were platformed without much scrutiny before, much to our regret, now several of them are MPs, that scrutiny falls on them at last, pretty much the only good thing in my view and those coming under the microscope are being found rather wanting.
Where the likes of Nigel Farage and Richard Tice parade themselves as men of the people, true men of the people wouldn’t be in a position to treat the generous wage of an MP as little more than a side hustle and when you consider where much of their earnings comes from, their impartiality and the question of who owns them becomes relevant too. I attack Labour and Keir Starmer all the time for being beholden to the Israel Lobby, but Reform UK Ltd are no less under the influence of others than Starmer is, if where they make their money is anything to go by. Thy no more serve us than any other establishment politician who sold out, though selling out before you’ve even been elected? Well that’s special.
Right, so Reform UK, some people who watch this channel have got rather tetchy in the comments when I’ve put them under scrutiny previously, there’s plenty of right wing channels you can choose instead if you have an issue with them being held to account here, but all parties are fair game and if they’re doing something dodgy, there is every chance I’ll point it out and the mere fact that being an MP amounts to little more than a side hustle for most of the newly elected Reform UK MPs really should be a wake up call if you want impartial representation that will fix this country and going by this bunch, they absolutely are not it. They will keep the rich rich, they will keep you poor and they’ll tear up your human rights whilst they go about it, because all the evidence is there. We know they hate the human rights act, we know they’ll bin it for the sake of their culture war against people in small boats and whilst their fans jeer and boo and riot and blame people who just turned up this morning on the shores of this country to claim asylum, the truth is, it’s rich white boys like these Reform UK MPs, that are really hurting you. Tax avoidance, tax evasion, donating to political parties therefore buying their favour. Reform are no better on that score than the Tories or Starmer’s Labour are. Whilst you have to tighten your belt, whilst Rachel Reeves tells us there are cuts to come in her autumn budget, super yacht sales in this country over the past year have gone up 20%. £21.6bn worth of private jet sales have been completed, a new record high. The UK luxury car market has already reached a record high and is predicted to grow by another 10% by 2027, and we aren’t buying luxury cars are we?
Globally, there are now 2,781 billionaires with a combined wealth of some £11tn, 6% more of them popping up over the last year.
Here is the UK wealth inequality is why you and I are so poor and yet we are still apparently the 6th richest economy on the planet. Who has all the wealth? And when Rachel Reeves inevitably fails to produce much growth, you’ll be reminded that the answer to that will be because the wealth is hoarded by the wealthiest in this country and unless it gets spent, which they do not do, money doesn’t work in the economy and we don’t get growth. The answer to so much of the nations issues begin with a wealth tax and just as the Tories won’t do that because they are bought and paid for, just as Starmer’s Labour won’t do that, because they are bought and paid for, Reform UK Ltd won’t either, though in their case, things are ever so slightly different and frankly ever so slightly worse in my opinion, since they’re all like a leaf out of Rishi Sunak’s book, given they themselves are the very rich people that need taxing more and in no small part is that down to what can’t even be described as second jobbing to their MPs role, given the job as an MP to several them, is the actual side hustle and certainly in the case of Nigel Farage himself, the reports are that he isn’t even doing the job, just taking the cash, never there for his constituents, their concerns going unanswered, him swanning off to Trump at a moments notice, why is he getting away with such conduct? He’s tried 8 times to become an MP, why not do the job, but then look at his record as an MEP as well and he was often nowhere to be seen them either!
Much of this wealth crisis that Reform UK have, is that their MPs themselves are all rich people and anything but real men of the people. All those frothing red faced fools hanging on their every word, if they woke up to themselves, they’d realise they have more in common with those people arriving in small boats that get demonised incessantly as a distraction by politicians and our mainstream media, than they do with these Reform UK berks they idolise and this has been exposed in those first MPs declaration of interests that we’ve seen in this first parliamentary term, because as much as the focus has been on Farage, it really shouldn’t be just on him, but I’m still going to start with him anyway and it’s a wonderful mechanism of transparency to look at, your MPs register of financial interests, especially the first one after a General Election, because all the donors get listed, so do check your own MP out for that, but where Reform UK go and especially Farage himself of late, it has been employment and earnings outside of his elected position as an MP that tell us the most and certainly the biggest earning post is going to be the one that gets prioritised. You would expect that to be the MPs salary, of which the basic rate is now £91,346. This should be enough for anyone to live on. Most of us, would be lucky to be earning half that a year, but when it isn’t the main source of income, then we have a serious problem as to whether being an elected member of the Commons to help run this country is the priority for the MP in question and Reform, despite only having 5 MPs, have a big problem here. According to Farage’s expenses, his monthly wage from GB News for just 32 hours work a month, so not even a full time weekly role, exceeds his annual MP salary. He’s on 1.18m a year from GB News. Of course he would prioritise that. Who wouldn’t? On top of that he’s still raking it in from those video greeting messages he does via the Cameo app, a speaking engagement and he’s coined it in from the Torygraph, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta group, and Elon Musk’s now well and truly screwed up Twitter, yeah I called it Twitter. All in, he’s made nearly £133,000 outside of being an MP in the last month, the vast majority of that from GB News.
Richard Tice, Reform’s MP for Boston & Skegness well he’s already a millionaire and in fact has been self financing Reform UK for years, via Britain Means Business Ltd. He was of course a longtime presenter on Rupert Murdoch’s Talk TV, before moving to GB News himself, though his register of interests implies he doesn’t take a salary from them, frankly he's so wealthy he doesn’t need to, having made his fortune in property and as recent news coverage has shown, an investigation by the Good Law Project, he’s not averse to squirrelling away millions in offshore bank accounts. Economist Richard Murphy put the boot in over that as this Good Law Project excerpt states:
‘According to the tax expert Richard Murphy, “There are only two reasons to use tax havens.” He said, “One is to secure secrecy, but that was obviously not his goal here because his use of Jersey trusts is on public record. The other is to save tax. You would not incur the expense otherwise. That must be his aim in this case.”’
Nothing quite screams being one of us, like trying to avoid paying your taxes as only the rich can and do.
What about the Leeanderthal Lee Anderson? 30p Lee, now Reform MP for Ashfield. He gets £100,000 a year for being on GB News, so that’s 3 for 3 so far working for right wing alleged news outlet, though that depends on who’s asking GBeebies. Clearly he’s not worth as much to them as Farage is and on top of that he got £1000 for an article he’s drawn for the comic that passes itself off as a newspaper, the Daily Express.
Two Reform MP’s left, what about Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth and former chairman of Southampton Football Club, oh with that in his CV he’s bound to be one of us isn’t he?
Did you know that Lowe attempted to take legal action against somebody who was posting flyers saying Lowe had 13 second jobs, which was literally double the number of second jobs his Great Yarmouth Tory predecessor Brandon Lewis, himself with a reputation for rabid second jobbing, had. Well it mightn’t be too far from the truth.
Lowe holds 4 directorships he apparently gets income from, but due to them being directorships, the sums involved are not disclosed. The same goes for the land he has declared, 5 parcels of land all of which must be worth over £100,000 and which generate a monthly income of more than £10,000 to be declarable. On top of that there are the six shareholdings he has, of which he must hold more than 15% of shares for them to be declarable, and of course as ordinary working class people we’ve all got those, but then there are a further 13 shareholdings, where the value of the shares, if less than 15% of shareholdings, must be worth more than £70,000 to be declarable. If second jobs count as sources of income, then the 13 examples the flyer dropper was talking about were an understatement, Lowe is generating income from 28 other sources according to the register.
Lastly there is James McMurdock, a guy with a conviction for assault and who according to Byline Times might have padded out his CV a tad. Reform vetting processes and all that eh? He was a surprise winner, so perhaps it’s no surprise he actually did have an ordinary job that has now wrapped up, his final salary payment as a chartered accountant all there is to say about his interests. I daresay fans of the party, will point to McMurdock as one of them, despite him being I would argue when you look at the rest of Reform’s MPs, as little more than a working class mascot.
I referred to Reform UK as having a wealth crisis, as in they are represented by people too wealthy to be credibly seen as being on our side and quite clearly they aren’t and when 3 of the 5 all work for GB News these days, who is actually running the party, when, with the exception of the already wealthy Tice, they get paid more a year by GB News then they get as MPs. A wealth crisis might not be the best way of putting it though, a grifter crisis might be more apt since that is what the party is represented in parliament by – people for whom the MPs wage, with the exception certainly of one of them, the guy nobody thought would win – is the second income. So when people complain about Farage not being there for them, for those that didn’t back him, I’m really sorry, but for those that did and are now moaning, he’s got a long enough track record that you should have seen this coming. There’s a reason it took him 8 attempts to become an MP after all!
Reform UK have more incentive to represent GB News in parliament than they do their constituents who actually voted for them. If Starmer ended second jobbing tomorrow, most of them would probably quit due to their lucrative outside interests, so what does that say to you as their constituents? Lucky for them, that won’t be happening.
Of course Starmer had a hand in inflicting Farage on the people of Clacton too, the only seat Starmer mysteriously pulled his candidate out of and there’s an argument on one hand that this was down to petty jealousy, but of all people to give a free run to, why would he hand that to Farage? For more details on that Clacton stitch up, which saw a credible young Labour candidate shafted by his own party, get the details in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.