The Government proroguing of parliament was illegal.
The Government announced it was going to break the law ‘in a limited way’.
Eleven Tory MPs have now broken the Ministerial Code at least once.
Voter suppression, gerrymandering & the criminalization of protest is under way.
£Billions in taxpayers' money has been handed to Government friends & supporters without any transparency or oversight.
Government gross incompetence has led to 128,000 largely avoidable deaths.
The Government commissions reports that have no intention of finding the truth.
The Government appoints ideological extremists & supporters to important institutional roles & positions which require nuance & independence.
The Government appointed a Goldman Sachs hedge funder who gave the Government £400,000 as @BBC Chair & wanted Paul Dacre for Ofcom Chief.
The Government relentlessly attacks decent charities & organisations such as the National Trust – which just 4% of the population have a negative opinion of – because they give an honest & balanced account of history.
The Government has destroyed Britain's global reputation.
The Government pushes populist nationalist rhetoric in ways that resemble the most tyrannical dictatorships in history.
The Government denies the reality of structural racism which has resulted in a disproportionate amount of minority ethnic deaths during the pandemic.
The Government has created the conditions in which the wealth of Britain’s billionaires - many of whom fund the Tory Party because they prioritise & protect their interests over the interests of ordinary people - has increased by £100 billion in the last twelve months.
The Government has a huge majority despite just 29% of the electorate voting for them.
The Government still demonizes the EU & talks about "the will of the people" in relation to Brexit, despite just 26% of the current UK population voting to leave the EU.
The Government are determined to destroy the @BBC despite the revolving door between No 10 & the BBC, & despite its enormous help over the last decade, especially in treating Jeremy Corbyn completely differently to Boris Johnson in the context of alleged antisemitism & racism.
The Government have pressed ahead with privatizing the #NHS & lied about it.
The Government lied about the number of new hospitals.
The Government will shortly begin selling the confidential medical records of over 50 million NHS patients in England to commercial third parties.
Despite being the sixth richest country on earth, during a global pandemic the Government is to significantly cut foreign aid.
The Government have already broken many manifesto promises, including about food standards in a deal with Australia that will devastate British farming.
Boris Johnson met & works closely with anti-democratic far-right authoritarian racist Viktor Orban, despite the Biden administration calling Hungary a totalitarian regime.
The Government is supported by a global network of free market think tanks funded by foreign billionaires.
The legal system is on the verge of collapse, with 56,000 Crown Court cases backlogged, & people waiting years.
The Law Society has warned that the Government's judicial review "would allow unlawful acts by Government or public bodies to be untouched or untouchable".
The Government demonizes minorities, young people, Universities, schools, footballers, Unions, Black Lives Matter, judges, feminists, environmentalists, scientists, the NHS, BBC, & National Trust, public sector workers, charities, foreigners, historians, the poor, & the Left.
They don't care about the honesty or truth.
They don't care about bodies piled high.
They don't care about poverty.
They don't care about the law.
They don't care about voters.
And they certainly don't care about YOU.
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Reform UK’s slick, stage-managed launch of a Christian Fellowship in St Michael’s Church is not some harmless Christmas-season publicity stunt. It is a clear and brazen step towards the Trumpification of UK politics, where religion is weaponised as a tool for cultural warfare and political mobilisation.
This is not organic Christian revival. It’s strategic political engineering.
Behind this development sit figures who have spent years trying to inject a US-style fusion of right-wing politics and religious identity into British political culture:
• Paul Marshall
A billionaire media financier with a clear ideological project: to build a hard-right cultural and religious counter-establishment. Through GB “News”, The |Spectator and UnHerd and other platforms he has amplified narratives about “woke attacks” on tradition, identity, and Christianity. The Islamophobic tweets he liked are disgusting. His network provides the media oxygen for precisely the kind of politicised Christianity on display at the Reform launch.
• James Orr
A Cambridge academic and prominent Anglican conservative intellectual, closely connected to the “post-liberal” movement and hard-right US conservative and Hungarian organisations. Orr openly promotes the idea of restoring Britain’s “Christian identity” through politics — a framing that sits uncomfortably close to the Christian-nationalist rhetoric of the US right. His advisory role to senior Reform figures is a clear sign of the ideological hardening underway.
• Danny Kruger
Long known for advocating a more “muscular” Christian politics, Kruger has repeatedly argued that the UK should explicitly root its laws and social policy in “Judeo-Christian values” - a dog whistle I explain in the next tweet.
This is the British echo of US culture-war evangelicalism: turning religion into a political badge, not a spiritual or moral tradition. His involvement in shaping Reform’s policy direction cements the party’s shift toward faith-infused populism.
• Calvin Robinson
Though no longer in the Church of England, disgraced former GBN presenter and political extremist Robinson remains one of the most prominent voices pushing an aggressive “anti-woke, anti-liberal” form of Christianity in the media — including endorsing narratives that paint inclusive or progressive churches as heretical. His alignment with Reform’s messaging shows how the party is deliberately courting polemical, grievance-driven Christian activism.
Together, these figures represent a new coalition: a British attempt to import the US religious-right model, with all its corrosive social consequences.
Using St Michael’s Cornhill — a church rooted in the conservative evangelical network — as the backdrop for this political spectacle is shocking in a UK context.
This is not merely a “religious event attended by politicians.” It was a political rally held in a church, wrapped in Anglican aesthetics.
The Church of England has historically avoided such political entanglement precisely because it knows how dangerous it is to let a religious institution become a vessel for partisan identity politics.
Britain is not America — but Reform UK wants to change that
What we are seeing is the deliberate construction of a political identity rooted in far-right themes lurching toward a contemporary form of Christofascism:
grievance Christianity
nostalgia for a mythic “Christian Britain”
hostility to minorities and multiculturalism
anti-LGBTQ+ theology rebranded as “family values”
anti-immigrant populism framed as moral duty
and a narrative of cultural siege identical to the US evangelical right
It is the Trump playbook, translated into British idiom.
This is disturbing, because once a political movement fuses religious identity with national identity, democratic debate changes: Opponents are no longer wrong — they are heretical. Policies are no longer argued — they are sanctified. Compromise becomes betrayal. And politics becomes a zero-sum culture war.
Britain has largely avoided this polarising poison. Reform UK is now trying to inject it directly into the bloodstream of national politics.
Reform UK’s “Christian Fellowship” is not about faith. It is the public unveiling of a British Christian-nationalist project — backed by wealthy ideologues, amplified by culture-war media, and borrowing heavily from the most divisive elements of the US right.
It is a serious warning sign of where Reform UK intends to take the country: toward a politics defined by religious grievance, cultural division, and the erosion of the pluralistic norms that have protected Britain from the worst excesses of American political extremism.
How have populist UK politicians and Britain’s right-wing press and broadcasters got away with repeating — day after day, year after year — the brazenly false and wildly misleading claim that we live in a “high-welfare, high-tax” country?
The claim that Britain is a “high-welfare, high-tax” country is a shameless lie—brazenly false—as OECD and OBR data consistently show: the UK's tax take is ~36% of GDP (mid-table globally, and well under the EU average of 40.5%).
The UK's total tax take of 36% is far under France's 45% or Denmark's 46%. Welfare benefits spending (including state pensions) is a modest ~11% of GDP—among the lowest in the OECD, well below the EU average of 17.5%, and just under half that of France (20.5%) and Italy (20%).
Not only has Nigel Farage shamelessly normalized far right discourse, but Reform UK have welcomed a new generation of young, radicalised, Andrew Tate fanboys who think it's acceptable to spread divisive bigoted lies and disinformation, and to make crass bigoted 'jokes'.
Joseph Boam is a radicalised 22-year-old Tate fanboy who started out as a Tory, running as a district councillor, then switching to Reform UK in 2024 and becoming a councillor in May 2025 representing the Whitwick division on Leicestershire County Council for the Reform UK party.
A former KFC worker, who has worked with his dad on sheds and property renovation, despite his total lack of any relevant experience or knowledge of the area, he was appointed Council deputy leader and cabinet member for adult social care—which ispatently absurd.
Across the West, figures such as Trump, JD Vance, Farage, Johnson, Tice, Kruger, and Lowe helped normalise far-right populist rhetoric within mainstream politics. Their appeal is anti-elite—yet they themselves embody the privilege they claim to challenge.
A multibillion-dollar scheme that exchanges cash from drug and gun sales in the UK for crypto—digital tokens hiding users’ identities—has enabling “sanctions evasions and the highest levels of organised crime, including providing money-laundering services to the Russian state”. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
In 2023, the hedge fund co-founded by GB "News" owner Paul Marshall, who employs 60% of anti-Net Zero Reform UK's MPs, had £1.8 BILLION invested in fossil fuel firms.
Harborne (who has Thai citizenship under the name 'Chakrit Sakunkrit) also makes money from fossil fuels.
I and countless others are sick to death of the billionaire-funded Reform UK propaganda machine, GB “News”, and their decontextualised ‘facts’ that would make Goebbels blush.
Let’s examine the claim that “one quarter of foreign sex offenders come from just five countries”.
Yes, the raw data comes from a genuine Ministry of Justice (MoJ) prison census, but the way it’s being weaponised is deeply misleading.
The statistic sounds explosive, and deliberately so: a factoid engineered to sound like a revelation of hidden danger.
The right-wing information pipeline: a cherry-picked fragment of official data stripped of context, laundered through an opaquely funded “think tank” that isn't a think tank, amplified by billionaire-funded media, and weaponised by opportunistic politicians for electoral gain.