You would need to have a heart of stone not to fall about laughing. There was a time not so long ago when Reform could give a passable impression of a vaguely functional political party. One that knew its audience and had learned how to get its message across through the media.
Admittedly this was largely because the party was a one-man band with all its MPs accepting that they owed their entire existence to Nige. They were satellites to his sun. Nigel Farage was Reform, and Reform was Nige.
In recent months, though, things have been falling apart and Reform now resembles an anarchic end-of-the-pier clown show. And chaos has seldom been this entertaining. The fun started when Nige had an uncharacteristic fit of humility and tried to pretend he was only a first among equals with the grandiose announcement of a “shadow cabinet” of four people.
Largely because that’s about as many serious politicians as he had at his disposal. The trouble with this was the country took one look at Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf and thought it must be a joke. The idea of any of them in charge of a government department was genuinely terrifying.
And Zia can’t even get elected as an MP. It’s doubtful any Reform constituency association wants anything to do with him. He’s a man whom people dislike on sight – it saves time that way – and who appeared to have been admitted to the Reform elite only because he had a lot of money that he was prepared to give to the party.
That was just the start, though. Then came the money troubles. The £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne that Nige has never satisfactorily managed to explain.
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