Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf reverses decision to quit party

I can’t figure out if this makes them more or less of a laughing stock than they were two days ago. 

Either way, what an absolute circus

Political theatre aimed at diverting questions away from Yusuf ignoring Reform shifting on Muslims.

[His tweet](https://x.com/ZiaYusufUK/status/1931382094187397152?t=sWmjYctEycgJMSCWOhYvsg&s=19)

Over the last 24 hours I have received a huge number of lovely and heartfelt messages from people who have expressed their dismay at my resignation, urging me to reconsider.

After 11 months of working as a volunteer to build a political party from scratch, with barely a single day off, my tweet was a decision born of exhaustion.

I only came into politics out of a sense of duty, to serve the country I love. The country that had been so kind to my parents and presented me with immense opportunity.

Out of a sense of duty to do whatever I could to reverse decades of decline and make this a country one in which we could be excited for our children to grow up.

I came into politics out of belief that Nigel Farage was the man to deliver that.

Having read the messages, I believe in these things more than ever.

I know the mission is too important and I cannot let people down. 

So, I will be continuing my work with Reform, my commitment redoubled. 

Reform has come a long way since I was appointed Chairman, and has moved from ‘startup’ to ‘scaleup’. 

Given this, and that we have now won power at a local level, I will focus on a new role. I will be running the UK DOGE team to fight for taxpayers, as well as working on party policy and representing it in the media. 

I will continue to give all my time to the most important project of my life, getting a Reform government elected with Nigel as Prime Minister. 🇬🇧

Bad news. He has reportedly been responsible for the growing membership numbers and doing a good job. I wished he’d stayed resigned.

You put your chairman in, your chairman out. In out in out and have a fall out . You do the hokey kokey…

Aren’t U-turns supposed to be a bad thing to do in their eyes?

This is the same guy who (deliberately?) [confused a national budget framework with Kent County Council’s spending](https://reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1l5k9wk/exposed_reform_uk_doesnt_know_how_government/)

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Do any of the political parties actually want to win, they all seem to be run by imbeciles who are competing to see who can do the poorest job

Can we all just take a moment to remind ourselves that “DOGE” was created by Elon Musk based on an Internet Meme of a Shiba Inu dog. It’s a childish meme that’s been doing the rounds since at least 2012/2013.

After supporting the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, he then morphed the term “DOGE” into “Department of Government Efficiency”. Reform using the term for Local Councils as a “Doge Team” makes literally no sense. It’s not a Department of Government Efficiency; because they’re not in Government. They’re in Local Government.

Also, Elected Councillors (such as Reform Councillors and their “DOGE TEAM”) don’t get to manage day-to-day procurement within Local Councils that they now control. This is done by Council Officers employed by the Council and whose Line Management has nothing to do with Councillors and they have no control over hiring and firing. They may set strategic priorities and approve major contracts or sit on committees that scrutinise or approve large procurement decisions.

However to suggest they’re going through finance decisions line by line and cancelling contracts like Musk’s team is doing – is just wrong and is not going to happen.

Its weekend now and he quit on Friday right? I bet he left a fiver in his office drawer on his way out.

Got redundancy pay and a golden handshake. Started his new job with signing on bonus and increase in pay as they wanted to attract the right people.

They are trying to steal the Tory’s title as a Party of U-turns.

he’s from the party of principles are fine until they cost you something – assuming they had any principles to start with

I give it a 25% chance that Rupert Lowe starts posting cryptic Twitter screeds alluding to Nigel and Yusuf being in a sexual relationship within the next week.

Reminder that as of now the doge team is only in Kent council. He went from the chairman of a party to the leader of a pseudo-department in one council

Zia Yusuf in Reform is like a Jew in NSDAP. I wonder what his IQ is.

Absolute clownshow of a party.

You know what UK electorate, you do you. But don’t you dare hit us with the shocked Pikachu face once you vote them in and shit hits the fan. Because you’re being given fair warning, right now.

I slightly get why some in the US thought DOGE could have saved money (it couldn’t but some people are dim bulbs) but in the U.K.? After austerity?? 15 years of it!?!? What are they gonna do to ‘save money’? Stop replacing lightbulbs & providing toilet paper? Replace lifts with stairs & intercoms with comically sized bells??? Where. Are. These. Mythical. Savings. Coming. From.

Reform are an unserious party that just lost its Musk funding & access to his propaganda machine. I honestly thought Zia leaving was a good idea as all he cares about is business & with musk gone, so was the money, but to come back as the head of some new musk tribute band group within Reform, that’s honestly funny as fuck

If that doesn’t display weakness in leadership I have no clue what does

It’s not a flip flop it’s a triple backwards somersault.