Are Reform UK Ltd the new party for working people? |

The reality of modern politics.

Before we dig in to this, I want to say something that most people might disagree with, but it needs saying as we need to change the lens through which we view politics.

There are many things, that if we pay attention, Reform voters and Green voters tacitly agree on. In fact, I would go so far as to say that we agree on almost all of the problems that this country faces, and we only disagree on the proposed methods for dealing with these problems. With that in mind, we need to stop focusing on ‘the left and right of politics’. The left and right of politics don’t really exist other than as a distraction designed to pit us against each other. In reality, there is only the politics that is of, for and by the people and the politics that is against the people.

Billionaires and elites directly profit from us squabbling because it stops us collectively organising. If there are roughly half the population siding with billionaires because they’ve drunk the Koolaid, then change can never happen and the elites continue to profit. Over time, we get what we are currently seeing now; billionaires making money at a rate never seen before directly off the backs of working people, making us poorer and poorer and poorer.

If the higher earnings tax threshold had kept up with inflation since 2010, it would currently be sat at about £58,509 rather than the £50,000 it is currently at. This threshold has been frozen from 2022 and will remain so until 2031. We have the highest tax burden on working people in generations and we are getting nothing for it; public services have been decimated, the NHS is entirely broken, everybody is skint and the whole country are angry and depressed. This isn’t because of immigration or poorly managed public services, it is because politics has been consistently done against us.

Following the 2008 baking crash, a political decision was made by Peter Mandelson to pass the burden of the bankers’ mistakes onto working people rather than on to the bankers, whilst at the same time, giving the bankers bonuses. This was politics being done against us.

Under multiple Conservative and Labour governments, our Armed Forces were absolutely gutted, with the Army alone being reduced from 155,000 troops in the year 2000, to 100,000 today. That figure includes the reserve forces. The actual total number of full time regular soldiers we have today is 73,000. Our entire Army could be seated in Wembley stadium with 17,000 seats left empty. This has left us entirely defenceless without the aid of our European allies or America. This was politics done against us.

During the COVID 19 pandemic, the government gave away tens of billions of pounds in contracts for PPE to their friends and donors, almost all of which ended up being below specification and getting incinerated as it was unusable. We had to foot the bill. This was politics done against us.

Workers rights have consistently been eroded in favour of corporations so that now workers can be made to work significant amounts of unpaid overtime, taking away their free time and being defrauded of tens of thousands of pounds a year under unfair legislation. This is politics being done against us.

The government sold off our national water to venture capitalists who extract the maximum profit from the system whilst investing nothing in return until the system crumbles, then putting prices up again as they pump raw sewage into our waterways. We are the only nation in the whole of Europe and Asia along with almost all of Africa that has privatised water. Water is a minimum requirement for life and we privatised it. This is politics being done against us.

The current government are passing seemingly innocuous laws then altering them to sneak under the radar extremely regressive surveillance measures. They are changing them through regulation rather than legislation, meaning that nobody gets a say. In their own words, they want the eyes of the state on us at all times. They are trying to say that this is for safety and security, to protect people, but the people that we need protecting from is the government. This is politics done against us.

This same government has legislated against Trans people and the wider LGBTQIA+ community, they have tried to go after the poor, pensioners and disabled people, they have proscribed a protest group and made it illegal for people to hold signs in support of wrongly imprisoned people, people who have been denied trial for far longer than the legal limit, against their human rights and are now arresting people on the streets for this whilst the government supports a genocide in Gaza. They are embedding American surveillance companies into our NHS as they systematically sell it off to their friends under our noses. This is politics being done against us.

We are now significantly poorer, work significantly harder, have far less free time, have far fewer rights and are at much higher risk of the government acting against us, the people. It has to stop.

If we want to change this it will require all of us, together, to bring about a politics for, of and by the people.

The Relevant Parties

The party name for Reform is probably the most sensible place to start as it instantly highlights something; they are not a typical political party with collective agreement and organisation or a membership that can vote on policy. The are a limited private company with a top down hierarchy where the top person and their immediate confidants and consiglieres decide on policy and hand it down to everyone else. The limited suffix is carrying a lot of weight here as this means that they do not have a party leader; they have a director and they have shareholders. It also means that if things go catastrophically wrong, the owners and shareholders are only on the hook for up to the amount that they have invested. Think about this for a second; if someone is injured, killed, wrongly accused or suffers negative actions as a result of either their policy or governance and they are taken to court, the amount that they can be made to pay out is limited to the amount invested in the company. Now ask yourself; who does this serve? Does it serve working people or does it serve the directors and shareholders? It should be obvious that this only benefits the shareholders and owners of the company.

By setting up Reform as a limited company rather than a political party, the owners have consciously designed the system so that they can do politics against us.

In contrast, the Green Part of England and Wales is an entirely democratic organisation. The leader and co-deputy leaders have been chosen by the membership as have every person that holds office within the party. Every single policy that the Green Party has, has been put forward by a member of the party and has been voted on and approved by the membership. If a single member does not like a policy or has an idea for a new policy, they can put forward their idea, campaign within the party to spread their idea and then the membership can vote on it at the party conference, which is open to all members. Hannah Spenser, the Green Party nominee in the Gorton and Denton by-election did exactly this with the policy surrounding greyhound racing and, as a result, the policy changed. This means that no matter who you are, as long as you are a member of the party, you can directly affect policy. This is politics of, for and by the people.

The People.

The leader of Reform UK Ltd is the ambulatory phallus Nigel Farage, MP for Clacton. Good old Nige is the son of a stockbroker. He went to private school and before becoming an MP, was himself, a commodities broker. He was a member of the Conservative Party and in 1989, whilst a member of the Conservative Party, voted for the Green Party in the General Election. Farage is a multi-millionaire.

The deputy leader of Reform UK Ltd is Richard Tice, MP for Boston and Skegness. He is the son of a philanthropist and the grandson of a property developer. He went to private school before becoming a property developer and subsequently being a CEO of multiple property companies, TV presenter on Talk TV and GB News and was a member of the Conservative Party for many years. Tice is a multimillionaire.

MPs:

Sarah Pochin, MP for Runcorn and Helsby. She attended private school and worked as a Justice of the Peace as well as working for Shell oil and Gas. As a Justice of the Peace she was reprimanded by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office for using her judicial position to influence colleagues’ views in a political context as well as breaching confidentiality by publicising the complaint against her. She was a member of the conservative party and is a millionaire.

Danny Kruger is the MP for East Wiltshire. He is the son of a property developer and was privately educated at Eaton College. After leaving university, he immediately became the director of research at the Centre for Political Studies, a centre-right think tank. He then became a political advisor for the Conservative Party and then was elected and served as a Conservative MP before joining Reform UK Ltd. He owns multiple properties and land.

Robert Jenrick, MP for Newark. He is the son of a finance director who later became a managing director. He is privately educated and qualified as a solicitor working in London and Moscow before becoming a Conservative MP. He is a multimillionaire.

Suella Braverman, MP for Fareham and Waterlooville. Born to working class parents but the niece of the former Mauritian High Commissioner to the UK. She was privately educated on a partial scholarship. After graduating, she worked as a solicitor and joined the Conservative party, campaigning for election in multiple seats as a parachute candidate before becoming the Conservative MP for Fareham and Waterlooville. As home secretary, she became known as Cruella Braverman for her consistently vile, racist rhetoric and plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. She is a multimillionaire.

Andrew Rosindell, MP for Romford. One of the few genuinely working class politicians on this list, he is the son of a school dinner lady and was educated in a state school. He joined the Conservative party at 14 years old and worked as a local councillor before becoming the MP for Romford. He is staunchly anti-LGBT and was embroiled in the MPs expenses scandal

Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield. He is the other MP on this list that is genuinely working class. The son of a coal miner in Sutton-in-Ashfield, he was educated at the local school and became a coal miner in his local pit. He was a Labour supporter and part member for years and was actually a Labour councillor from 2015 to 2018 when he was suspended from the Labour Party for using boulders to block the travelling community from setting up camp. He then defected to the conservative party. His time as a conservative MP was spent in what seems like almost constant conflict with his peers. He defected for a second time, to Reform UK Ltd in March 2024. He is a multimillionaire.

In contrast, from the Green Party, we have:

The party leader, Zack Polanski was educated by a mix of private and state education. He has worked as an actor and a hypnotherapist and before joining the Green Party, was a member of the Liberal Democrat Party. Zack is the democratically elected leader of the Green Party, being elected by the membership on a massive majority of 85%. He is not a millionaire.

Co-deputy leader Mothin Ali is the son of a unionised steel worker who lived in Sheffield after emigrating from Bangladesh in the 1960s. Mothin is a Green Party councillor in the ward of Gipton and Harehills in Leeds. He was democratically elected to co-deputy leader of the party in 2025 from a pool of 9 candidates with the largest share of the vote at 33.51%. He is not a millionaire.

Co-deputy leader Rachel Millward was privately educated and after graduating, worked as a researcher in the media industry before setting up a film festival to promote and show films made by women, which are significantly under-represented in the industry. She is the deputy leader of the Wealdon district council. Whilst there is no readily available information on her net worth, her family home is valued at around £1.6 million.

MPs:

Siân Berry, MP for Brighton Pavilion was state educated then went to Oxford University where she graduated with a Masters degree in Engineering. She has worked as a medical copywriter and as a campaigner for a charity. Her only job is as an MP with no other regular roles in her parliamentary registered interests.

Ellie Chowns,MP for North Herefordshire is the daughter of a Methodist preacher. She holds a PhD in international development and has worked overseas for various charities as well as being a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where she completed her PhD. She is not a millionaire.

Carla Denyer, MP for Bristol central. Her mother was a scientist and her father worked for both the MoD and a third party supplier to the MoD. She was state educated and studied mechanical engineering at University. Following University, she worked in the renewable energy sector and became a councillor on the Bristol council. She is not a millionaire.

Adrian Ramsay, MP for Waveney Valley was state educated and at University, studied politics. After leaving university, he has worked for and in the Green Party as well as serving as the CEO for an alternative energy charity that demonstrates and teaches sustainable development. He is not a millionaire.

Looking at the patterns, we can see that the Reform UK Ltd MPs and leaders are not only mostly millionaires or multi millionaires but, with the exception of Lee Anderson and Andrew Rosindell, have all worked in fields that either generate wealth and funnel it upwards, away from the working class like property developers and stock brokers, or involve control over people, like judges and solicitors. These are the regular funnels for political careers and all of these people have vested interests in protecting their capital. Additionally, most of them come from privileged backgrounds and as a result, have no idea what it is like to live as a normal person. If you then look at their voting records, the trend continues; they generally vote against workers rights whilst voting in favour of protecting capital. They tend to vote against equality such as same sex marriage and continually vote against environmental issues which have a disproportionate negative effect on the working class and poorer members of society. I urge you to go in to the video description where you will find links to the voting records of every MP mentioned here; both Reform UK Ltd and Green. See for yourself how Reform UK Ltd MPs are voting against everything that would benefit the working class and against the interests of normal people. See how they are doing politics against you.

In contrast, the Green MPs are a representation of broader society; mostly state educated, mostly from working class backgrounds and whilst some of them have had very successful careers, they have all worked either normal jobs or in roles that directly benefit society. These are roles that are not particularly common in the political funnel as they are roles that normal people, from a variety of backgrounds would normally do. This is because these people, in general, came to politics later as a result of being negatively affected by politics being done against them in their normal lives; being a politician was not the original goal for the majority of them. Then, when you look at their voting records, without fail, they vote in the interests of both working people and broader society. They vote in alignment with the democratically elected party policies. This is politics that is of, for and by the people.

The Policies.

Given the rise of Reform UK Ltd and the massive increase in membership of the Green Party, it isn’t unreasonable to suppose that the next general election could be fought between Reform UK Ltd and the Green Party. I’m not saying that it will be, just that it isn’t ridiculous to think that it might be. I’m now going to take a look at a few of the key policies from each party. The Green Party website has a direct link to their 2024 manifesto. This can be viewed digitally as a list of policies or the manifesto can be downloaded in either short or long form. Conversely, the Reform UK Ltd website only shows a list of policies digitally.

Starting with some of the policies of Reform UK Ltd, I want to say that I found the research for this segment particularly challenging as their policies are all insane. They are full of lies, gross misrepresentations of the truth, numbers pulled out of thin air, unrealistic assumptions about other countries, plans to weaken our national defence infrastructure and plans to do away with our human rights along with plans to impoverish children, give massive tax cuts to the wealthy and to torture and disappear people.

I also want to digress for a brief moment to talk about human rights. If we choose to collectively live in a society with other people, there has to be a set of principles that protects that society from the basest impulses of humanity. To not have these protections would be entirely incompatible with society. To say otherwise is ridiculous. I am pretty sure that every single one of us would say that if I was walking down the street, it would not be okay for me to randomly kidnap and torture someone, or that if I was an employer, I should not be able to reduce your salary to almost nothing because I wanted to buy myself a new car, or that it would be unacceptable for the government to say we don’t need the working class any more, so lets eradicate them. It would be unacceptable for me to say that I like your house more than I like mine, so I’m just going to take your house then sell mine for profit. All of these things would be unacceptable to each and every one of us. So we have protections; we have rights that allow us to live our lives in peace, without fear of these things. But human rights only work if they are applied to all people. They are not negotiable and they are not exclusionary. When you make them exclusionary, you get Hitler exterminating 11 million people. When you make the exclusionary, you get Saddam Hussein gassing tens of thousands of his own people. When you make them exclusionary, you get the state of Israel trying to wipe out an entire people. Closer to home, when you make them exclusionary you have a government that illegally imprisons people and allows them to starve then suppresses the media to try to hide it from the populace. Human rights are there to protect everyone, or they are not human rights, and to not have them would bring about the collapse of society.

Now, on to the policies of Reform UK Ltd. The first of which is Operation Restoring Justice. This is the Reform UK Ltd plan for dealing with immigration. I can’t convey how bad this is by just paraphrasing and selecting certain bits, so I’m just going to read through it and discuss each part as we arrive at it. After an introduction full of inflammatory language and numbers pulled out of thin air, with no references at all, the document then begins in earnest with:

Operation Restoring Justice.

‘The Legislation

Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:

Leave the European Convention on Human Rights

Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights

Pass the Illegal Migration Bill.’

It is important to note at this point, that the supposed Bill of Rights does not exist. There are no ideas put forwards for this in this or any document and that is because they have no intention of actually passing such a bill. They do outline the Illegal Migration Bill below and in the crypto policy, there is an actual drafted Bill. If they had put any thought into a Bill of Rights, they would have published it here.

It goes on:

‘This Bill will:

Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary. The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary; The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have an extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this act.’

What they are actually saying is that if you have not already applied for and received your right to remain paperwork or you are not Irish, you will be deported. This means that legal migrants will be deported. Americans, Europeans, Chinese, Japanese… nobody is safe.

It continues:

‘The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years (though it does not say what that clause is):

Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, The UN Convention Against Torture and the Council of Europe Ant-Trafficking Convention. Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.’

This should be ringing all of the alarm bells in your head. They are talking about making refugee status illegal and removing laws against torture and human trafficking. Why would they do that unless they are going to torture and traffic people. Remember that repealing these laws and treaties means that they can also be used against all of us. This would make it legal for the government to torture and traffic British Citizens. It also starts to paint human rights solicitors and judges as enemies of the people. It gets much worse than this, but we will come on to that later. The document continues:

‘Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints. This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client’s bail, after which the client absconds.’

This part is extremely unscrupulous as the Hardial Sing constraints already allow a person to be detained for deportation. It does say that the detention MUST be for the purposes of deportation and that the Secretary of State must act with diligence to effect the removal in a reasonable time frame. Removing these constraints means that they can imprison a person for anything and just say that it is for the purposes of deportation. It also means that they can detain said person indefinitely with trial. This is talking about changing the law to allow them to disappear people. Even America’s I.C.E aren’t that bad, because although they are doing this, it is still illegal there and when the regime falls, they will be prosecuted. This would make it legal for the government to disappear any of us.

It then goes on:

‘If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story. All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act’s cope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.’

This states two things; unless you have already received your leave to stay paperwork or are Irish, it will be illegal for you to claim asylum. It also removes any legal right of challenge. This paragraph would make all claims of asylum illegal. This means that all of the Ukrainian refugees that fled the war and came to the UK, that the whole country rallied around… all of them: illegal. Deported back to the Ukraine.

It continues:

‘Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offences. Both offences will be punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

Lifetime re-entry ban. Everyone deported will be banned from re-entering for life.’

I don’t even know where to start with this one. It is obscene. As if all of this wasn’t horrific enough, it gets worse:

‘The operational plan.

We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migration Identification Centre – harnessing cutting edge data fusion. A reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade – for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customers’ status, or overstays slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.’

This creates the British Gestapo. They will be able to stop anybody they like, using AI to try to identify you whilst also spying on the medical, driving, banking, tax and police records of every single citizen to try to identify illegal migrants. It allows them to automatically break in to any property to carry out a search and every time anybody is stopped by the police, they will be forced to submit biometric data. This isn’t just against migrant, this applies to all of us. Read the words and then read between the lines. Both explicitly state that this will apply to all of us.

It continues:

‘Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000. Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build SIRCs. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive; prefabricated two person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest; no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.’

I can’t believe that in 2026 I am talking about this. This is flat out concentration camps. Out in the middle of nowhere where accidental oversight is near impossible. The Hardial Singh constraints removed so that they can pick people off the streets, take them straight to a camp where they can be detained indefinitely without trial. What if they make a mistake and you’re not a migrant? Tough; you don’t exist any more. This is what the Nazis did to Jews, Roma, Black people LGBTQIA+ people, academics who disagreed with the brutality… anybody they deemed other. In this document, Nigel Farage and the Reform UK Ltd party are explicitly stating that they are going to open concentration camps, have gangs of people hunting brown people in the streets and that they are going to disappear them to concentration camps without trial, straight from the street, that they will be allowed to torture them or even disappear them to other countries and that there will be no legal recourse. Additionally, having on-site medical suites rings alarm bells. Many of the people that are taken to these camps will die through insufficient medical treatment after being tortured.

It continues:

‘Initial Voluntary Return Window. A six month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.’

This short paragraph is saying that the carnage that we have seen on the news in Minneapolis at the hands of I.C.E, will be coming to out streets. This is insanity. I mean, how can anybody still support them after this? It continues:

‘The Deportation Flights. The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last minute unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour ‘hot-spare’ readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able to prevent flights from departing.’

This is acknowledging that civil aviation companies might not be okay with this plan, so they are going to weaken out national defence to cover that probability. Of course, they wouldn’t penalise an aviation company for a “breakdown” as they are owned by the billionaires, just like Farage and the rest of the Reform UK scumbags.

It continues:

‘Return Agreements. As Prime Minister, Nigel Farage will ensure the Foreign Office make its highest priority the securing of return agreements with all relevant countries to take back their illegal migrants. Consulates will also be required to send staff to assist in identifying illegal migrants. Countries of origin are triaged into three diplomacy tracks based on current diplomatic relations. A carrot and stick approach will be used. Aid will be offered as an incentive, the stick will involve the cessation of visa approvals and potentially sanctions.

Third country partners. The Foreign Office will rapidly negotiate deals with third countries, and a budget has been allocated for this. British Overseas Territories also offer a strategic fallback. Ascension Island’s isolated airfield can handle A330 aircraft, enabling rapid transfer of Channel arrivals.’

These last two paragraphs are an absolute joke. Remember that despite the wording, we are in fact talking mostly about asylum seekers who, thanks to no longer being a part of the Dublin regulations, have had no choice but to try to come to the UK to apply for asylum. They are going to try to force countries of origin to take these people back. These countries will either simply refuse or they will accept them back, then either imprison or kill them. There is a reason why people apply for asylum. The Reform UK Ltd company know this, so they have deliberately targetted British Overseas Territories as a fallback because it is easier to to apply pressure to these countries.

There is then a final paragraph that makes unsubstantiated claims about long term cost savings before the end of the document.

Any sensible, moral person, having read this, could never support such a thing, but it gets worse. I am now going to go through the policing policy of Reform UK Ltd as when read in conjunction with the immigration policy, should stop all of us in our tracks.

It starts with:

Britain Is Lawless.

‘Get Offenders of the Street. Zero Tolerance Policing. Restore law and order by acting against every reported crime. This means investigation and possible arrest. We will take

back control of the street with saturation stop and search affecting up to 1 in 5 people in high crime areas. Targeted curfews for under 18s in crime hotspots. Mobile knife arches to catch knife carriers.’

Stop and search has already been demonstrated to both not be particularly effective and also having a disproportionately negative effect on young black men in particular. The very nature of it results in racial profiling. Imposing a target of 1 in 5 people, when combined with the planned repeal of the human rights act along with the conventions on torture, trafficking and the Hardial Singh constraints could be a recipe for massive human rights abuses. Additionally, imposing curfews is highly aggressive and would only be enforceable through extreme policing

‘Fast Track Arrest. To arrest and charge a criminal now takes huge amounts of police time and resources. We will open pop-up custody centres on high streets in crime hotspots to ensure swift and certain justice for offenders and get police out on the beat again.’

This seems to be implying that the police will be the arresting officer, jury and judge. No single authority should have this power.

‘30,000 More Police Over a 5 Year Parliament. Fast track recruitment of military veterans. Ensure more police are on the beat and use better technology. Scrap all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion roles and regulations to stop two-tier policing. De-politicise the College of Policing.’

The first half of this paragraph, I actually agree with. More police on the street, if correctly trained governed and monitored, would be welcome, as would fast tracking veterans provided they passed all the same assessments as non-veterans. The second half of the paragraph though is an absolute abomination. Having DEI roles and regulations is one of the things that stops two tier policing. Removing this just legally allows police to unfairly target brown people, literally creating a two tier policing system. Again, taking this in conjunction with the planned repeals and the massive increase in stop and search, what they are actually saying here, is that they don’t really care about your immigration status; if you are brown, we are probably going to put you in a camp.

‘Justice

Fast Track Courts. 24/7 justice if necessary. No bail for serious violence or sexual offences. Recommission old court premises if necessary. Call for retired magistrates to return.’

In principal, I do not disagree with this, but care is needed with fast judiciary as it can lead to kangaroo courts. Additionally, multiple members of the Reform UK Ltd leadership have been committed domestic violence, but apparently, it’s okay for them as long as you don’t do it.

‘More Crime, More Time for Repeat Offenders. 10% of criminals commit 50% of all the crime. Stop the revolving door for criminals who commit multiple offences. More than 3 serious offences and you could end up with life imprisonment.’

This is importing the American penal system and this does not work. All it does is harden criminals and make it much more likely that they will re-offend. A much more nuanced approach towards rehabilitation has been repeatedly shown to work better.

‘Commit the Crime, Pay the Price. Prison with no early release and no suspended sentences for serious violent offences, sexual offenders and knife possession. End the £200 shoplifters’ charter. All shoplifters face arrest. Mandatory life imprisonment for drug trafficking.’

Keeping prisoners in prison costs the tax payer a fortune. Some people should indeed be kept in prison for a long time, but what about people who go to prison for minor offences? Someone not paying their TV license or committing minor shoplifting from a supermarket is a significantly different proposition that committing murder or rape. Murder and rape are crimes that are entirely incompatible with civilised society. People who commit these crimes absolutely should not be released. People who do shoplift from billion dollar corporations on the other hand, do not pose a threat to society and therefore, if they behave well, should absolutely be released early. What purpose does it serve to keep them inside? Realistically, community service is a much more reasonable response.

‘Keep the Public Safe

12,400 New Prison Places on MoD Land in Under 18 Months. We will end the prison place shortage. During the covid crisis, NHS Nightingale hospitals were built in weeks with help from the British Armed Forces. We would build 5 new Nightingale Prisons with the assistance of the Army. These would be low cost, high security, pre-fabricated modular structures of concrete and metal. Prisons would be named after historical figures involved in policing reform, Ex. Sir Robert Peel.’

Do Reform UK Ltd not know why those hospitals were called Nightingale hospitals? After Florence Nightingale, the sweetheart nurse of the Armed Forces? Naming prisons after her is nothing short of insulting. Additionally, building prisons on MoD land and Using MoD personnel to do this would significantly weaken the military capability at those sites. Moving on to the construction, what they are describing here are hot boxes. They were a form of torture that Japanese soldiers used against allied PoWs in World War 2.

‘10,400 More Prison Places by Transfer of Foreign Prisoners to Country of Origin. Bilateral agreements will be made so foreign offenders finish their sentence in their own country. Already accepted practice by the EU and UN. Denmark has an agreement with Kosovo.’

So every migrant that ends up in prison gets deported to their country of origin? What if they’ve lived here for a decade or two and have family here? This is a ridiculous, brutal and unnecessary step to take.

‘10,000 + Additional “Dynamic Prison” Places Overseas. Serious offenders will serve their time overseas. We will acquire flexible, low cost prison capacity through rented prison cells in third party countries. We would consider multiple partners including El Salvador.’

Transportation. They’re talking about transportation. With imprisonment added on. This is another reason why they want to repeal the Human Rights Act and the Human Trafficking conventions. Nowhere in this paragraph does it mention migrants. It also does not specify what a ‘serious offence’ is. Colonial Britain did this to it’s prisoners. Stalinist Russia did this to it’s prisoners. The French used to do this to its prisoners. Transportation has been illegal for a long time for very, very good reason. It is an extremely brutal form of punishment that is often a death sentence for transportees and even if they survive, many will never see their families again.

‘Cut Costs

Cut the Cost of Prison by 20%. Last year, a UK prison place was around £51,800. Almost the same as school fees at Eton. Annual prison costs in France are around £40,000 per inmate, In some EU countries like Romania and Slovakia it is half of that.’

The costs in other countries are irrelevant as they have different economies. Secondly, prison for prisoners is already a bare bones existence. The reason why prison is expensive is because of the involvement of private companies, just the same as its the reason why treatment on the NHS costs the NHS so much. This is an obscene statement to make from a party that want to increase private capital investment in all of our public services.

The ‘Save our Pubs’ policy.

I’m going to keep this one short. Reform UK Ltd aim to cut 5 pence off a pint of beer and they plan on paying for this by reimposing the two child benefit cap. This will put 450,000 children back in to poverty.

Making Britain A Crypto Hub.

This one is also short. It aims to make bitcoin, which Nigel Farage is a substantial investor in, a legitimate, government backed currency that banks can not refuse. The aim of this is twofold, firstly this is a direct snub towards Coutts Bank for refusing his custom, but secondly and far more importantly, because crypto is untraceable, which means all the backdoor political donations, bribes and pay-offs will be invisible to any regulator that may still exist at that point.

These are just four of their policies, and nowhere on their website is a policy about the NHS. This is by design because Nigel Farage has repeatedly said that he wants to move to an insurance based system for the NHS.

Apart from these policies being direct analogues of historical Fascist regimes, apart from these policies specifying ‘Under Nigel Farage as Prime Minister’, making him a de-facto leader despite supposedly being a party of the people, all of these policies directly, negatively effect every single person in the country other than those in power and their donors. As terrify as these policies are if they came to pass, the reality is that even if Reform got in and actually attempted to enact these polices, which they may not given the number of U-Turns they perform, they would probably fail as they rely on the cooperation of other countries, who would likely not want anything to do with us for this. We are seeing the same ting currently with the US. The entire world is against them. This is the absolute worst demonstration of politics being done against us.

Moving on to the Green Party Policies:

The Green Party Migration Policy.

‘How we treat people who have chosen the UK as their home says a great deal about our values and national character. Greens are proud that we are country forged by migrants and welcome the economic and societal contributions that immigrants and refugees make to British society. We understand that migration is inevitable, and that people have always moved around. We also recognise we all have a collective responsibility for the climate emergency and that the UK has a duty to support people forced to move due to changes

in their home environment, whether internally or overseas.’

It is important to note here that the UK as we know it has indeed been forged by migration for thousands of years, starting when our land mass was connected to mainland Europe via Doggerland and that migration after World War 2 and in to the 50’s has actually given us most of our multicultural society as we know it today. The policy continues:

‘Green MPs would advocate for inclusivity and an outward-looking approach to the world. We want to be welcoming, promote social cohesion and support migrants to put down roots. Elected Greens will push for:

An end to the hostile environment.

An end to the minimum income requirements for spouses of those holding work visas.

Safe routes to sanctuary for those fleeing danger, persecution and war.

Asylum and protection:

No one becomes a refugee lightly. People leave their homes, friends and often their family because they are forced to do so through circumstances that are intolerable. The Green Party acknowledges the right to claim asylum, in any country, as set out in the United

Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Elected Greens will campaign for a system of asylum and humanitarian protection that treats the applicant fairly, humanely and without discrimination. Elected Greens will push for:

The United Kingdom to work with other countries to establish safe routes by which those fleeing persecution, war, or climate disaster may arrive in the country of their choice to make their case without having to risk their lives.

A fast and fair process to assess asylum applications.

Those seeking asylum and protection to be permitted to work while their application is being decided.’

This is a really important section as not only does it reaffirm the commitment that we made to the United Nations, but it does three other really important things: firstly, by creating safe and legal roots for asylum claimants, it would cut the number of small boat crossings drastically. Secondly, it seeks distribute the responsibility of asylum more evenly across partner countries rather than forcing asylum claimant towards particular countries, like the UK since we left the Dublin agreement. Thirdly, it allows claimants to not just work, but more importantly, to pay tax whilst their claim is being assessed so that not only are they not a burden on the public services but they also directly contribute to society.

‘Ending the hostile environment:

The hostile environment approach has not only been found at times to be unlawful, it has caused immense suffering for those who have been caught up in it, including the Windrush generation. Green MPs would campaign to abolish the No Recourse to Public Funds condition that exacerbates social, economic, and racial inequalities. We would also campaign to abolish the ten-year route to settlement which unfairly traps people in poverty and hardship.

We believe that migration is not a criminal offence under any circumstances and that there should be an end to immigration detention for all migrants unless they are a danger to public safety. All visa-holding residents should have the right to vote in all elections and referendums.’

This section aims to reset the damage to public perception of asylum that has been done by successive governments over the last couple of decades.

‘Fixing a broken system:

We will push to dismantle the dysfunctional Home Office and create a new Department of Migration alongside a Department of Justice, thus separating functions around migration and citizenship from the criminal justice system. The system of visa applications should be simplified and all applications should be processed swiftly, and with empathy and intelligence. We would seek the end to the exploitation of people for profit and only charge application fees at cost. Access to the NHS should be free and comprehensive for migrants with visas.

Workers, students and families:

We want to attract the best researchers for our universities, the top talent for our start-ups and to welcome those who come to work in our health and social services, on our farms, and in our offices. Elected Greens will therefore push for migrants, including students, to be allowed to bring members of their family to the UK who would normally live with them in their country of origin, or would do so if it were permitted by law or custom.’

One of the many reasons that we have such an issue in dealing with migration in this country is because the system has always been tied to the judiciary, which means that any asylum claims or visa applications are unnecessarily slow. It also states that if you are working or studying here, you bring value to our economy so providing you have a Visa, healthcare will be provided for. This is motivational and encourages potential immigrants to apply for the correct Visa and follow the rules. It also means that no matter what industry you work in, there will be a place for you and your family if you are willing to contribute.

‘Elected Greens will push to remove minimum income requirements from all applications

including spousal visas, because all British citizens should have the right to reside with their loved ones no matter their income.’

This one is a no-brainer. The current minimum income requirement is £29,000 per year. In contrast, the current minimum wage for the average 35 hour week is £22,200. According to the Migration Observatory, last year, net migrations was around 204,000 people but more than 2 million people are on the minimum wage in this country. It is grossly unfair to expect a migrant new to the country to earn so much more than the minimum wage.

‘Migration and climate breakdown:

People have always moved in search of better lives, but famine and the increasing conflict in the world is driving an increase in involuntary migration. As the climate crisis worsens and the impacts on people in marginalised communities become more severe, more people may be forced to leave their homes. Our proposed significant increase to the overseas aid budget, as well as our policy of supporting lower-income countries to deal with the climate crisis, are vital to ensure people can stay in their home communities, but

we will also ensure that those who are forced to leave can do so safely and with dignity, without fear or intimidation.’

This section does quite a lot. Firstly, it accepts that developed western nations are largely responsible for the conditions that these countries are facing, particularly in the global south. Secondly, it acknowledges that no matter what we do, it is already too late and the situation is only going to get worse. Thirdly, it promotes a methodology for removing the need for migration in the first place for many people whilst still allowing entry to the neediest.

This is not a policy of open borders, it is a policy of sensible, fair and controlled migration that, for the first time, allows migrants and asylum seekers to actually contribute to the society that is adopting them before their application is complete, so that they do not become a burden on the state but can actually contribute to it. It seeks to undo much of the discriminatory damage done to the migration system by successive governments and it seeks a way to more fairly distribute the responsibility of asylum and migration across many more countries. This is politics of, for and by the people.

Moving on to the policing strategy, this is a very well worded document that requires almost no explanation so I will just read it.

Policing.

‘Everyone has the right to feel safe – on the street, in their home or online. Simple things like more police on the beat and greater support for domestic violence units can make a huge difference. But Greens recognise it’s time to do more – so we will tackle structural injustice and transform our policing and justice system.

Green MPs will expand restorative justice when crimes do take place, both to give victims a voice and to help offenders take responsibility for the harm they have done. We will focus on the prevention of crime through restoring the funding withdrawn from youth services since 2010 and through community-based policing. We will focus on rehabilitation through investment in the probation and prison services; Greens choose to rebuild people’s lives rather than condemning them to a downward cycle of crime and imprisonment.

It is a cliché that justice delayed is justice denied, but it is also true. We would invest in criminal justice so that defendants are brought to trial quickly in the interests of both victims and the people accused.

Elected Greens will work to:

Restore trust and confidence in the police.

End violence against women and girls.

Repair and renew our court system with a £2.5bn investment.

Trust and confidence in the police:

We believe in policing by consent, but this can only work if the police can rebuild trust with the communities they serve. Police Services need to acknowledge the institutional racism, misogyny, homophobia and ableism that have dominated policing for so long. They must root out any officers who hold views incompatible with serving as a police officer.

Many communities, especially Black communities, are disillusioned with the police after experiencing decades of disproportionate policing and traumatising tactics like stop and search and the use of force. Rebuilding trust and confidence and earning the consent of communities to being policed is critical for the future of policing. Police Services should be accountable to elected local government and to the communities where they work.

Elected Greens will push for:

An end to the routine use of stop and search and to the use of facial recognition software.

Police Services to deliver ongoing fitness to practice assessments on diversity for all

police officers and relevant civilian staff.

Police and Crime Commissioners, and local councillors on police and crime panels, to have open access to the data needed to enable effective scrutiny of operational policing.

Restorative justice and a practical approach to prosecution:

The Green approach to crime is grounded in a restorative approach and a belief that

rehabilitation is the best way to reduce future offending. Prison is a demonstrably ineffective way of reducing re-offending: evidence shows that short prison sentences are especially ineffective and lead to higher rates of recidivism. There are some people who need to be imprisoned for reasons of public safety or the seriousness of their offence. For others a restorative approach, forcing criminals to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, is better for the offender, the victim and society at large.

Elected Greens will seek to break the cycle of re-offending through legislating for a presumption against custodial sentences under two years. The Green Party welcomes the greater emphasis on diversion in the criminal justice system.

Green MPs will ensure that diversion programmes are in place for:

All low-level drug and alcohol related offences.

Young offenders arrested for low-level offences.

End domestic abuse and violence against women and girls:

The continuing murder, abuse, harassment and denigration of women and girls is a stain on our society. It is a Green Party priority to end domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.

Elected Greens will push to:

Make misogyny a hate crime across the UK and increase the police’s capacity to deal with domestic violence.

Develop and implement a new UK-wide strategy to tackle gender-based violence, including domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and

trafficking.

Ensure that domestic abuse and gender-based violence is a key measurable priority for all police forces and that all police officers are trained to recognise and tackle domestic violence.

Fund local authorities so that domestic violence, rape crisis and other provision can meet local needs.

Decriminalise sex work.

Tackling the court backlog:

The court system is in chaos and it’s letting down victims and the accused, whilst large numbers of prisoners on remand and endless court cancellations create knock-on effects for the prison and probation services too.

The Green Party will invest £11bn in restoring the Ministry of Justice budget over the course of the next parliament. This would be used to restore legal aid budgets, to ensure that the Criminal Bar is sufficiently well funded and to repair court buildings. Elected Greens will push to recruit more judges and to ensure that they are representative of wider society.

A public health approach to tackling violence:

Violence is experienced by communities across the country. The evidence supporting a

public health approach to reducing violence is compelling. The Green Party supports the use of violence reduction units and the need for them to be a focus on multi-agency working. In Scotland, the introduction of violence reduction units, coordinated with the Scottish Government’s control over public services, has delivered a welcome decrease in violence. Elected Greens will push for more local control over public services and more effective joined up working across public services to deliver violence reduction strategies.

Communities all over the country experience youth violence in particular. Many of the Green Party’s proposals will, over time, reduce the level of violence affecting young people.

Elected Greens will also campaign to ensure that:

Local authorities are properly funded to deliver youth services including the youth workers who play a key role in keeping young people safe.

Safeguarding is the priority in encounters between young people and the police.

The use of traumatising tactics like stop and search becomes an exception, not routine.

Children and young people are never strip searched without an appropriate adult present, and only in very exceptional circumstances.

Youth workers rather than police officers work with pupils in schools.

Reforming drug laws:

Elected Greens will push for the establishment of a National Commission to agree an evidence-based approach to reform of the UK’s counterproductive drug laws. Neither prohibition nor the policing of low-level drug offences, especially cannabis possession, have reduced use and consequently have had no impact on the size of the criminal market or the profits made by organised crime. Elected Greens will therefore push to decriminalise personal possession of drugs, diverting people from the criminal justice system towards support with addiction, housing and employment, from health workers focused on drug harm reduction This would free up hundreds of thousands of hours of police time, which could instead be invested in tackling other priorities which benefit wider society.’

These are long documents, so I’m not going to read any more, but almost all of the Green policies follow this format; evidence based approaches that reset the balance of power in society to make living in the UK a much fairer, worthwhile endeavour that we can all be proud of and that restores public services so that our lives become more affordable again, restoring that missing quality of life that we have been forced to suffer for too long. The Green Party also have a comprehensive policy on bringing our NHS fully back under public control, restoring its capability and protecting it in to the future. This is politics of, for and by the people.’

Evidence From Around the Country

So, how are Reform UK Ltd and Green councils stacking up around the country? I am using councils here as that is effectively how most policies are enacted either for or against us; by local councils.

Well, starting with Reform UK ltd, despite only controlling 10 councils, since May last year, 51 councillors have either been sacked for racist or offensive comments or incompetence, or have resigned because the council is ineffective at delivering any actual reforms, including four councillors under police investigation, one for “malicious” election comments, one councillor threatened to kill his wife, another was charged with assault and one tried to bribe voters outside of a voting station with free ice cream.

Conversely, the Green Party during the same period, had no resignations or expulsions of elected councillors.

Every single Reform UK Ltd council has had to increase council tax after the party promised it wouldn’t as a result of systemic overspending, with Kent County Council having overspent by more than £46 million pounds just before announcing a budget that has been called both reckless and casino style by a Lib Dem councillor on the council and announcing council tax raises. Warwickshire council have failed to agree on a budget, causing chaos in the county. Nottinghamshire County Council has spent £75,000 on flags despite promising to cut waste spending and having to put up council tax. Durham County Council has had multiple resignations, with the latest one being Councillor Nick Brown who resigned citing, amongst other things, a failure to fund the long promisedA68 Tofthill Bypass despite the council having received full funding for this. This is highly incompetent politics being done against us.

Meanwhile, the Green Party have a long history of both running County Councils and of councillors challenging the status-quo; Stroud County Council has built 300 new council homes since coming into office in 2014 with another 100 planned. Oxford councillors campaigned for the utilisation of brownfield sites; e.g. old industrial sites, above car parks, to build affordable, zero carbon housing. They supported the purchase of long-term vacant properties, for social housing, backed by compulsory purchase orders if needed. They opposed evictions which result from cuts or delays in benefits or Universal Credit and argued for the establishment of a new Council-backed letting agency offering fairer rents and more secure contracts.

Brighton council have successfully secured budget amendments for more housing for adults with disabilities, more specialist housing for children in care with specialist needs, climate change planning, street improvements and more action on fly tipping – funded by charging commercial landlords whose buildings do not meet the energy efficiency requirements, funding the local crisis prevention fund, tackling Bristol’s housing crisis by creating extra rooms in existing Council Housing where possible. This has created more space for larger families and given foster families the space they need for extra children and they have allocated funding to train council staff and apprentices to install low carbon and green technologies like heat pumps in housing, to help tackle the climate crisis and support the growth of green jobs.

The pattern is repeated across all Green councils; if the council has a Green majority, they achieve big. If the council has a Green minority, they still successfully campaign for and achieve real change for residents. This is politics of, for and by the people.

Conclusions.

Reform are offering a platform of change, but their entire line-up is literally the same people from the last Conservative government who broke the country. The same immigration ministers, the same Home Secretary, the same housing ministers. These are specifically the same people that were responsible for the state of immigration in the country, in charge of the housing crisis, in charge of selling off our NHS and who were responsible for the terrible state of the nation’s finance. The party are set up under a dictatorial model where membership can not vote on anything; they are simply told what is happening and if they don’t like it, they are eject from the party, usually under a smear campaign for anyone of significance. Whilst the policies that I’ve highlighted from Reform UK Ltd are quite extreme, most of their policies are business as usual; reduce worker’s rights, reduce you freedoms and funnel money from you to billionaires. Additionally, the Reform UK Ltd MPs have consistently voted in favour of protecting capital and disenfranchising the working class and their councils have brought nothing but chaos and scandal. This is a display of their absolute litany of politics being done against us.

The Green Party MPs were all selected to stand democratically before winning their respective election campaigns. Both the Parliamentary and local government history of the Green Party is one of fighting continually for the rights of workers, for local community issues and fighting to protect our environment from the worst ravages of uncontrolled capitalism. They both a history of and a mandate to hold power to account and all of their policies are democratically elected. Their entire policy catalogue is developed around making genuine, radical improvement and change to the way we live our lives and they want to bring in Proportional Representation, which would bring true democracy to both local government and Parliamentary general elections.

We all agree on the problems; lets start working together on the solutions; a vote for the Green Party is a vote for real, meaningful reform in our beloved country, whilst a vote for Reform UK Ltd is a vote for business as usual with added cruelty.

References:

Nigel Farage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage

Richard Tice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tice

Sarah Pochin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Pochin

Danny Kruger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kruger

Robert Jenrick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenrick

Suella Braverman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suella_Braverman

Andrew Rosindell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Rosindell

Lee Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Anderson

Zack Polanski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Polanski

Mothin Ali: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothin_Ali

Rachel Milward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Millward