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To my fellow Reform UK members and supporters.
The pressure is real. Every other political party and much of the establishment media are throwing everything they have at us.
Our outer armour is taking a battering — and that’s exactly what happens when you’re the real threat.
But underneath that armour, something far stronger is being built.
Dedicated people across the country are working tirelessly, quietly, and with total focus, preparing Reform to govern. The policies, the people, the organisation — it’s all taking shape.
When the moment comes, we won’t just be ready. We’ll be stronger for everything we’ve faced.
We will win.
Tory shadow cabinet members who were MPs in 2016 and supported Remain include Tom Tugendhat (Shadow Foreign Secretary), Chris Philp (Shadow Home Secretary), James Cartlidge (Shadow Defence Secretary), Damian Hinds (Shadow Health Secretary), Helen Whately, and Victoria Atkins.
Don’t believe the con artist @KemiBadenoch nothing has changed.
Around 50 current Tory MPs are EU supporters
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Still makes me laugh.
Conservative commentators, when Reform lead in over 200 polls: We are so back. This is proof we're the party of the right.
Conservative commentators, when they lead in one poll: It's obvious we're the party to back.
They genuinely believe they're entitled to rule, despite all their betrayals... they think 7mn voters are going to go flocking back after everything that happened. If Reform disappeared tomorrow, they'd still be lucky to get anywhere near power.
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The stark divisions within the Conservatives are already re-emerging. Copying Reform’s policies is one thing; getting all your MPs behind them is quite another. Not a chance while the Gauke-ward squad claims to have the support of a third of Conservative MPs. Splits showing..
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They will never change.
I will never vote Conservative ever again.
Never dreamed it would come to this, but they r 100% responsible for the mess we're in.
My heart breaks lookin at what they've allowed London to become.
They could hve turned things around.
THEY CHOSE NOT TO!
Even if the Reform vote utterly collapsed and the party fell apart, I know I would not be alone in saying I would still not vote for the Conservative Party again.
The so called "Kemistry" is inauthentic. She has Matt Hancock's Witch Finder General coordinating policy and writing the manifesto and Henry Newman who pushed Net Zero and statutory gender self recognition as her Chief of Staff. They have not changed.
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Britain faces “economic disaster” and the death of the family business if Labour continues to pursue “anti-growth” policies, the chairman of the Independent Business Network (IBN) has warned.
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Pretty sure that @RichardGCorbett knows that he is lying here.
We went through this in 2017 - we tried to deport homeless EU citizens, and we're told it was contrary to EU law to do so, as they "have a right to live in another country irrespective of whether they are homeless".
EU Freedom of Movement is NOT an unconditional right under EU law: it is conditional on finding a job or being self-sufficient i.e. not being a burden on taxpayers. Otherwise they have no right to stay.
#BBCLauraK
Looking forward to honest conversations about rejoining the EU
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the EU is facing significant financial and economic challenges, with several analysts warning of a potential sovereign debt crisis or structural decline. Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has explicitly stated that a new financial crisis is "definitely coming" due to excessive public debt, while experts warn that France could require a massive bailout, potentially adding €2 trillion to the bloc’s existing debt burden.
The EU’s financial stability is currently threatened by several converging factors:
High Sovereign Debt: Six EU nations, including France, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal, have public debt exceeding the size of their yearly economic output (GDP). France’s debt is approaching 120% of GDP, with a budget deficit above 5%, breaching EU fiscal rules.
Stagnant Growth: The EU is experiencing a "competitiveness crisis" with sluggish growth (forecast at 0.9% to 1.1% in 2025), lagging behind the US and China due to overregulation, low innovation, and demographic strains.
Monetary Pressure: The euro has weakened significantly, trading around $1.12, reflecting concerns about Europe’s growth potential and fiscal discipline.
However, some officials argue that a total collapse is not inevitable. While the EU faces a "perfect storm" of energy shocks, political fragmentation, and rising borrowing costs, the bloc has demonstrated resilience by navigating previous crises like the Eurozone debt crisis and Brexit. The long-term outlook depends on whether member states can implement structural reforms and restore fiscal discipline to prevent a deeper financial meltdown.
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Andrew James retweeted
NEW Chagossians celebrate in Westminster Hall this lunchtime after peers voted to give them a veto on any transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Will the government let it become law?
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We need to rally behind organizations that are working hard to defend our place outside the EU.
I'm going to post a few links every day for the next few weeks, who deserve your support and will no doubt be publishing great content.
First up:
@BritainUnbound
@tfa4freedom
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No wonder @JeevunSandher turns of responses so you can’t challenge his nonsense.
The fiscal illiteracy of MPs is astonishing.
If you increase tax on businesses they will pass at least some of that additional tax onto their customers and have less to invest in growth and job creation.
It’s GCSE economics and they don’t get it. In my lifetime I’ve never seen such
A bunch of incompetents in parliament.
Shocking
Nope, that’s not how taxes and price works. The price is determined by demand and supply.
Companies charge the highest price they can given demand. A tax levied on *profits* does not affect a company’s cost ie supply.
Taxes on *windfall* profits (like oil and gas) are the most efficient kind of tax there is.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Corporate profit taxes do not directly shift marginal costs but empirical studies show partial pass-through into higher consumer prices. Windfall taxes on oil and gas have deterred investment and production in practice despite theoretical efficiency on rents.
dadun.unav.edu/server/api/cor…
ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps…
taxfoundation.org/blog/big-oil-p…
scottishfinancialreview.com/2025/09/03/win…
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GOVT BORROWING OUT OF CONTROL
Budget week will see Chancellor pretend all is ok
IT IS NOT
Sept borrowing £24.5bn highest month since GE
Total year to date £97.8 bn = £3,400 extra debt per household in just 6 months
Some £6 bn more than OBR forecast in March
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No big headline for this 👇
Labour fined £14,250. Reform fined £2,187. Guess which one the left-wing press shouted about?
In 2023 Labour was fined £14,250 by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare donations properly. 20 separate breaches. Big money, real reporting failures.
No big headlines on The London Economic. No pile-on.
This week Reform was fined £1,750 for missing small print on three social media pages and an advert. Paid it a month late so it went to £2,187.
That's it. Admin.
But that one is everywhere. Screenshots, outrage, "Reform in trouble."
Same regulator. Same type of mistake. One fine seven times bigger than the other.
Only one gets turned into a scandal - and it's the one for Farage.
Tell you everything you need to know about the left-wing press. 🤦
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Again Richard is lying.
The EU treaties are very clear. Accession requires an obligation to adopt the Euro and to join Schengen.
The EU themselves happily tell you this. Their websites confirm it. Their treaties confirm it.
So why is @RichardGCorbett such a brazen liar.
Why Andy Burnham is making the right call to say that EU freedom of movement is not (or no longer) the problem portrayed by some, and why Britain would not have to join Schengen or the euro if it rejoined the EU:
labourlist.org/2026/10/imagi…
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If EU immigration is supposedly less permanent, how does Burnham explain (1) that we have around 6 million EU citizens with permanent rights to live here under the EU settlement scheme, and (2) that we are still granting applications 6 years after leaving the EU?
Andy Burnham first discussed his theory that EU immigration might be less permanent than post-Brexit immigration (and so perhaps better for the UK) in his interview with me on @GBNEWS last month.
CH: You said immigration controls weaken Brexit, but Brexit gives you the power to control legal migration. Boris Johnson ignored that. The Boris wave happened. He was punished at the polls. Brexit gives you the power you want to be a sovereign nation.
PM: One thing that I want to convey here is Brexit has changed the nature of immigration to this country, because in the past, when we were in the European Union, people can have their view about it, about whether it was good or bad. But what we had was a more revolving door form of migration, where people would come here in their younger years. Many people did from Eastern Europe. People would remember, and they'd maybe spend you know a few years here in their mid to late 20s, and then go home and start a family, and that was a very common form of immigration. Now, immigration is more likely to be a permanent settlement, where people are coming on a visa to work here. And then we saw obviously the Boris wave and the changes that came through in that in that period. So it's changed the nature of immigration.
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3.5 million+ non-Europeans have been given an EU passport since Britain left the single market at the end of 2020.
Top nations: Morocco, Syria, Albania, Turkey.
An "honest conversation" about freedom of movement must recognise that the EU has changed dramatically since we left
New: Andy Burnham is “open” to rejoining freedom of movement.
Since 2021, 750k Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Eritreans, and Iranians have obtained an EU passport.
Under EU rules these migrants would have the right to move to Britain and access welfare.
centreformigrationcontrol.co…
