Twelve Reform UK councillors to resign over Nigel Farage’s leadership | Exclusive: Departures will add to pressure on party leader after Elon Musk said he was ‘not up to the job’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/10/reform-uk-councillors-to-resign-over-nigel-farage-leadership?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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It really is kinda pathetic that so many of these guys don’t actually have any opinions for themselves, and just copy whatever Musk tells them to think.
If Reform is to develop into a party with a long term future these are the people they should be glad to be rid of.
Appeals to Yaxley-Lennon’s base for years.
Appeals to a foreign billionaire.
Distances himself from some of Yaxley-Lennon ideas.
Billionaire and own base backs Yaxley-Lennon instead.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the greatest statesman of our generation, Nigel Paul Farage.
And here , ladies and gentlemen is the proof of everything Reform stand for. Musk backs a literal neo nazi over Farage , and now it’s own councillors agree he’s not right wing and racist enough for them.
Anyone who voted , or are even contemplating voting for these cretins…
We both know what you are.
I never thought I’d see the day when I thought someone was a huge prick for rejecting Nigel Farage, but here we are.
Imagine thinking Nigel Farage isn’t right wing enough because Elon Musk told you so.
🗿
There’s not happy how undemocratically it’s being run, almost like it’s a company set up where Farage decides he gets the glory but none of the responsibility.
I mean… you had to see it coming
I can’t believe I’m saying this…
But thank you, Elon
Farage isn’t going anywhere, there are going to be some irrelevant also ran B grade drop outs as the party develops.
Pathetic.
Imagine Richard Branson telling the Republicans that Trump wasn’t right wing enough and that they should get behind some random coke head from a town in Michigan. They’d quite rightly tell him it has nothing to do with him.
I thought it might be because he was saying we should let Begum back in
Nigel Farage is doing a fantastic job.
It’s his job to move money from someone elses pocket into his, by doing as little real work as possible, and he’s fucking fantastic at it.
He’ll get to gob off say some divisive shit to get the gammons into a real lather, promptly return to his compound that restricts the very gammons he pretends to care about, and as Jay-Z once said, onto the next one.
Just don’t ask where he gets his money from, that’s not the point, the point is you like looking at him and talking about him and that’s really great cos your eyes are important to advertisers and social political intelligence manipulators. and that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day, social engineering and advertisements, and he’s fucking amazing at what he does. he should get a Pulitzer.
It says councillors of different levels. Some were parish, we should do away with parish councils, need to streamline ridiculous layers of local govt
Considering he spends more time travelling to America to fangirl Trump and make money peddling fake news rather than running the party it’s no wonder everyone is leaving him! I give it another year before he resigns and Clacton on sea throws him out!
Three way split on the right. Good luck getting rid of Starmer with that, twitter.
Literally two weeks ago these guys loved Nigel. He made the party from nothing – he basically is Brexit.
How pathetic they truly are. I can’t stand Nigel, but for having even thr slightest shred of sanity they throw him to the wolves.
The boss of the world ordered your departure man. You gotta go, you gotta go.
I hope there is some kind of rule for councils in future
I keep seeing for mostly all parties that’s councillors keep resigning because they are not happy about their leaders or the party decisions
Most recently there was some labour ones who resigned because not happy with Starmer.
“A week’s a long time in politics” really holds true for the Nigel party and anyone daft enough to join it
Silly thing is Farage is why they are relevant. I don’t like him but without him do they win 5 (or 4) sears in the commons? And 14% of the vote? With who, Leeanderthal as leader? You could give him Google’s russia fine and he’d get you one MP by fluke.