Reform UK, which claims to represent ‘ordinary’ people, is a party for the hard-line, right-wing billionaires who have lost faith in their traditional parties, such as the British Conservative Party.
From today’s Financial Times:
“Nick Candy, the new treasurer of Nigel Farage’s rightwing Reform party, has promised Britain “political disruption like we have never seen before” as he claimed to have several other billionaire backers in addition to Elon Musk.
“The property developer told the Financial Times that he would “raise more money than any other political party” and that Reform would have more members than the Conservative party within three months as it drew disillusioned Tory and Labour voters.
“We have a number of billionaires prepared to donate to the party, not just Elon,” Candy said. “The Reform Party is the disrupter — this is the seed round, the series A. This will be political disruption like we have never seen before.
“The oldest political party in the world will be overtaken by the youngest political party on the planet,” he added.
“Many in Westminster fear that a financial intervention from Musk could have a significant and lasting impact on British politics, giving Reform the resources to transform itself into an established vehicle for power.
“The party has just five MPs, but it came second in 98 seats in the July general election, 89 of those seats were won by Labour.
“After meeting Musk this week at US president-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Farage said the owner of Tesla and X was giving “serious thought” to making a donation.”
“Describing Reform as having “more Conservative values in its little finger than the Conservative party”, Candy said “Even the big Tory donors are calling me . . . A lot of people will join us. The movement has started.””
The socialist=communist left has to forge a new party that goes after these billionaire charlatans.
Reform UK wants ‘disruption’ in the interests of the tiny billionaire class, which owns everything.
We want disruption in the interests of the vast majority – the working class, which owns nothing.
We must be the ones to attack the system; we must be the ones who challenge the status quo. That means challenging the capitalist profit system that creates billionaires, while billions starve, are deprived of clean water, a safe place to live and a secure future.
We can’t limit ourselves to tinkering with capitalism. We need to abolish it.
It won’t happen overnight, but the sooner we set about building a new party, that puts our socialist=communist arguments forward to the working-class, in elections and in between, the sooner we will begin to make headway.
We may not have the money, but we have the ideas.
Now we need to get organised.
reform party and their lies that convince so many working class people to vote for them