Who Is Reform Actually For? The Money, The Men And The Record
An opinion piece on Reform UK, built from its own documents and the public record. Its plan to rescind indefinite leave to remain from people who live, work and pay tax here. A welfare plan that spares the State Pension and cuts working-age support. A party company leader-owned until 2025, and a constitution that leaves members a suggestion box. The in-work Universal Credit claimants and the carers the plan would remove. 75 to 80% of donations from donors living abroad, a domicile test Parliament passed in 2009 and never switched on, and what the Council of Europe and the government’s own review say about that kind of money. The donors’ interests: Tether, QinetiQ, crypto, and a US guilty plea and pardon. The £5m gift, Farage’s earnings and his record as an MEP, Tice’s property and tax, Jenrick’s reversal and Westferry, the Putin and Trump links, who paid for the trips to Trump’s inauguration, Mar-a-Lago, Abu Dhabi and Israel, RFOI Ltd, the Ghandehari trust and the near-bankrupt firms that gave £485,000, the crypto firms paying Farage and the pensioners losing money to crypto fraud, the coverage Reform gets on the BBC and its own seat on GB News, the racism and discipline record, and 7 of 12 smears that turned out to be real. Then the question in the title.