Reform UK just lost a seat to Labour in Kidsgrove.
Their candidate won it unopposed in May, failed to sign the paperwork, then got beaten 403–377 in the by-election yesterday.
Zia Yusuf won’t be posting about this one. He’d rather his followers keep thinking the unstoppable surge is still unstoppable.
I’ll post it for him. 😂
Exclusive: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage owes almost £10,000 after he ended up with a county court judgment, Channel 4 News can reveal.
A Reform UK spokesperson said he was unaware of the judgment until we brought it to his attention.
The real story shouldn't be Starmer it’s this. Ben Habib casually dropping an allegation that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson were each handed £1m by Christopher Harborne to fix an election. Truly astonishing claims but sure, let’s all pretend the headline issue is Starmer. The £5m bung is the tip of the iceberg, our press should be camped outside Farage's girlfriends house not 10 Downing Street waiting for the police to arrive #ReformUK #Farage
No matter how you vote in the #LocalElections, Labour will hold power nationally for 3 years with a big majority, that won’t change
What WILL change is your local council’s Competence, Accountability & the Quality of Your Public Services
That choice is yours
Your vote matters
Latest data on small boat arrivals from Home Office as of 1 May, 2026
1 January 2026 to 30 April 2026 = 6,416 people
That’s 42% down on same period in 2025
https://t.co/6bhdAZy4Gh
Back in October, Reform made a big fuss claiming that Nigel Farage's publicly funded security detail had been cut by 75%
But this week Farage claimed that he has never had publicly funded security and all of it has always been provided by donors
These can't both be true
Also: gifts aren’t taxable.
So £5m tax-free personal “gift” to Farage will be the the biggest single sum accepted by any UK politician in democratic history.
Reform is lobbying for crypto tax cuts, forcing BoE to hold crypto etc. A scandal hiding in plain sight.
The govt rejects the petition signed by 114,216 people to hold a public enquiry into pro-Israel influence in Britain.
In unrelated news, half the Cabinet has been funded by the pro-Israel lobby, the last time we looked.
👉 https://t.co/xEdyiQvyJU
An Israeli military spokesman has announced a replacement for the statue of Jesus Christ which was felled by one of their soldiers in south Lebanon - as videos emerge of entire villages and towns obliterated by the same military
The CEO of Nigel Farage’s bitcoin company left the board yesterday as it is revealed it is not a new company - it’s a rebranded, failed company which was liquidated last year
https://t.co/gAGgHUOb4a
Greater Manchester Police say they have no evidence of family voting after an extensive investigation, including speaking to Democracy Volunteers and seizing CCTV:
We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting.
Our investigation into alleged influencing of voters at a polling booth (under Section 62C Representation of the People Act 1983 (Ballot Secrecy Act 2023)) began after a criminal report from the Reform UK party following a public statement made by independent electoral observers at Democracy Volunteers.
We have spoken to the four Democracy Volunteers observers present at polling stations on the day of the by-election (26 February) who have shared with us their eyewitness account. This includes some instances of more than one voter going into a booth at the same time, and instances of people looking over the shoulder of voters.
The information they have provided to us estimates this may have happened on 32 occasions across 15 polling stations.
The observers do not allege any verbal instruction or physical conduct that indicated one person was directing or coercing another regarding how to vote. This is a crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed.
Our investigation team, led by an experienced senior investigating officer, spoke to all four volunteers from Democracy Volunteers as part of our enquiries – obtaining a copy of their observations.
We also spoke to the Presiding Officers at 15 stations as well as the Acting Returning Officer, none of whom received any reports other than from Democracy Volunteers.
We have received no further criminal reports.
For us to investigate allegations, we require an understanding of who the potential suspects may be, and evidence that may corroborate eyewitness accounts. For an investigation to meet the criminal threshold for prosecution, we require admissible evidence of intent or action aimed at influencing the vote.
We have asked Democracy Volunteers for descriptions of those alleged to be involved, and timings on when these are believed to have occurred. These details were not documented by observers or the complainant, and we have not been provided with any identities or descriptions to pursue.
The absence of this information means there is no remaining reasonable line of enquiry. This also includes limitations with CCTV as an absence of descriptions, and votes not being time-stamped, meaning we are not able to identify individuals from footage.
We have approached all 45 polling stations in the Gorton and Denton constituency to ask for CCTV from the day. Forty-one of those polling stations told us they did not have CCTV activated in the building as it would have compromised the secrecy of the vote during polling day, in line with advice given.
We have seized and viewed CCTV from three of the remaining four polling stations. These are three polling station that Democracy Volunteers visited. We have spoken to the Presiding Officer from each one.
However, these stations do not show any evidence of anyone directing or coercing another regarding how to vote – the crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed.
There is no evidence to suggest any intent to influence or refrain a person from voting as stated in the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023.
We have been liaising with the Electoral Commission, who we have shared our findings with. We have also shared our findings with the Returning Officer.
We have updated the complainant about the work of our investigation and the conclusion we have reached.
Two years ago, we exposed how one quarter of UK MPs had accepted funding from the pro-Israel lobby.
Today, the government publishes an independent review into "foreign financial influence" in UK politics.
It does not mention Israel once.
So all the performance art and fantasy of the petrol station last week
Not one Reform MP was in Parliament to vote on the fuel duty issue this afternoon