By Indybag
If you listen to the shouty men on the telly or the grifters on X, they’ll tell you that Reform UK is a new force coming to shake up the establishment. They talk about taking the country back and standing for the real folk against the Westminster elite. But pull back the curtain for five seconds and you’ll see the biggest con job in modern British politics.
Reform isn’t an alternative to the Tory party. It IS the Tory party. Specifically, it’s the bits of the Tory party that were too incompetent, too extreme, or too radioactive even for the current lot in Westminster.
Same team, new shirts
Just look at the team sheet. If it was the Conservative Party that broke Britain over the last fourteen years, which it was, how does voting for a party that consists of nothing but Ex-Conservatives fix a single thing?
The list is staggering. Party leader? Ex-Conservative. Deputy leader? Ex-Conservative. Party chairman and treasurer? Ex-Conservatives. Scottish leader and Welsh leader? Both Ex-Conservatives. Every single one of their board members, their head of local government, and over 80% of their councillors are just Tories who’ve changed their tie colour from blue to cyan.
They’re like a failed football team that gets relegated, changes the name of the club, and expects the fans not to notice that the same useless strikers are still missing every sitter.
Follow the Money
It’s not just the faces that are the same; it’s the wallet. Over 92% of Reform’s party funding comes from Ex-Conservative donors. The same billionaire backers who funded austerity, who cheered on the destruction of our public services, and who profited while our schemes were left to rot, are now the ones bankrolling Nigel Farage’s latest ego trip.
These backers haven’t had a change of heart. They’ve just realised the Conservative brand is toxic, so they’ve shifted their capital into a new shell company. It’s a corporate rebrand, not a political revolution.
This is why their outsider act is so insulting. They send these middle-class uni students and ex-Tory councillors into our schemes like missionaries, trying to tell folk that this time they have the answers. They play on people’s genuine anger about housing and energy prices, but their actual policies are just Toryism on steroids: more tax cuts for the wealthy and more attacks on the public rights that we have left.
They claim to be anti-establishment, but every single person at the top of the Reform hierarchy has spent their life embedded in that very establishment. They are the architects of the mess they’re now pretending to be angry about.
Clearing the Slooter
In Scotland, we know a grift when we see one. We don’t need Tory Lite or Tory Extreme. We need a clean break from the Westminster model entirely.
The far-right wants us to believe that Reform is a rebellion. It’s not. It’s just the same old Tory clart trying to sneak through the back door on the regional lists. If we want a future that actually tackles poverty and builds a fair country, we have to bypass these blue-to-cyan grifters.
Don’t buy the paper, don’t follow the strongmen, and for the love of f**k, don’t give a Tory a second chance just because they’ve put on a different shade of tie.
