Ten Reform UK councillors in Derbyshire say they have resigned in protest over Nigel Farage’s leadership.
The group said Reform was being run in an “increasingly autocratic manner” and “has lost its sense of direction” since Farage took over as leader last June.
But Farage told BBC Newsnight the councillors who had quit were put forward by a “rogue branch” of the party and that “none of them passed vetting”.
The Clacton MP also said he and Elon Musk had patched up their relationship after the tech billionaire posted on the X social media platform that Reform needed a new leader.
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Stevenson, who stood for Reform UK in Amber Valley in the general election and came second, did not deny that some of the candidates he put forward for local elections had not passed the party’s vetting process.
“Apparently one of them shared a Tommy Robinson post a few years ago,” he told the BBC. “We have got no issue with that.”
He added the councillor in question, who he did not name, was a “good bloke”.
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Farage told Newsnight that Musk had wanted him to “come out strongly and support [former EDL leader] Tommy Robinson.”
“Whilst many things Tommy Robinson has said have been right and it’s wrong he’s in solitary confinement, I certainly don’t want Tommy Robinson in my party,” he said.
Refusing to disclose the contents of their “private conversation”, Farage said that he and Musk have since made up and “absolutely agree we don’t want to be at war with each other and have very similar aims”.
The signatories added: “We have seen no meaningful steps taken towards democratising the party, which we were promised.”
They really are gullible, aren’t they?
To give them their due, they’re less gullible than the rest of the party members. That’s not a high bar, but it’s something.
“As a result of [the latter], several of these ‘councillors’ are illegitimate and new elections must be held. Reform stands for the highest standards in public life, and those who commit fraud will always be expelled.”
Do these ‘high standards in public life’ include using donor cash to influence foreign elections, collecting user data without consent and inciting pogroms?
Ukip, Brexit, Reform… What are the odds on how long it takes Farage to make yet another party?
When you’re not quite racist enough …
“[We] have very similar aims”
That’s all you need to know.
Very similar aims to Elon Musk? But isn’t that this guy?:
Elon Musk tweets probed by UK counter-extremism unit as alarm raised over risk to Britain
Stevenson, who stood for Reform UK in Amber Valley in the general election and came second, did not deny that some of the candidates he put forward for local elections had not passed the party’s vetting process.
So they’ve resigned from a party that didn’t even support them anyway? 😂
