Whisper it quietly, but it looks like the bubble is beginning to burst for the frog-faced phantom of British politics, Nigel Farage.
Some might say it hasn’t just burst, but popped with the wet, pathetic splat of a whoopee cushion under a collapsing clown car.
But British politics is carried out in the most hostile of environments, and the British electorate can be an incredibly fickle force when it is nudged in a particular direction by the elites.
You see, constantly peddling anti-immigrant bile to distract from the real thieves in boardrooms and billionaires’ bunkers does have its limitations. Farage isn’t a kind-hearted patriot; he is a capitalist con-artist at the head of a cult of personality.
Reform has become a Monty Python sketch with Farage as the main character
Reform UK is an utter farce. Think of a Monty Python sketch about incompetent fascists and you’re on the right path.
Führer Farage has lost 40% of his original MPs already, hoovering up deadbeat Tories that couldn’t hack it in their own rancid party, and the internal bloodbath that has been played out very publicly has seen the pint-swilling pied piper purge anyone that dares to outshine his ego.
Perhaps it isn’t as bad as I am thinking, but I am pretty convinced that Farage and the Reform Rouble Rangers have peaked too soon and the once-unassailable surge is now a plateau of stagnation with each fresh scandal pushing the Thatcherism-laced-with-extra-hate party towards a glorious, long winded implosion.
Maybe I’m just being hopeful.
I’m not sure where I can even begin to start with the Reform scandals, to be entirely honest.
The very worst of us
Farage attracts the very worst of us, including people like former Welsh Reform boss Nathan Gill, currently rotting in jail for pocketing Putin’s blood money, and people like Linden Kemkaran, the head of Reform’s flagship Kent County Council, screeching “fucking suck it up” at her own councillors in leaked tapes.
Are we really foolish enough to hand a parliamentary majority to what is a Ponzi scheme of prejudice, built on diverting the genuine grievances of poor and working class people from the real culprits — corporate greed, the architects of austerity, and imperial warmongers — toward refugees and “elites”?
Farage hobnobs with billionaires.
It would appear that less and less of the electorate are willing to do so as each month passes, with pollster YouGov slashing Reform’s lead to just 5% in their most recent poll.
I have absolutely no doubt that a disciple from the cult of Farage would vehemently disagree with my synopsis of their batshit outfit, and insist I am merely distracting from their populist rhetoric.
Perhaps they can help me with Reform’s policy vacuum because all I am seeing is bullet points scribbled down on the back of a duty free removed packet.
The WORST
Prosecuting civil servants for letting in rapists? Strip their pensions? Scrap net zero and fucking woke windmills? And Farage’s deep desire to bring in an American-style health service is hardly Westminster’s greatest kept secret, is it? You can deny it all you like, Nige, but we know who pulls your strings.
The racism ‘allegations’ that cling to Farage like cheap aftershave are one of the driving forces behind the rapid decline in his own personal approval ratings.
Only Keir Starmer is more disliked than the Reform leader. Even Kemi Badenoch is more popular than the Brexit bungling buffoon, and she hasn’t had to swallow a single marsupial testicle*
*To the best of my knowledge. For all I know she might have them flown in from Down Under.
I really need to slow down on these alliterations.
Hey big spender
Farage has confirmed that Reform UK plans to spend £5 million in the build up to the local elections in May. Who would’ve thought that poisoning the well of public discourse would come at such a high price?
One would imagine that much, if not all of this “spending blitz” is being funded by the former Tory donor and Boris Johnson superfan, Christopher Harborne, who has donated £9 million to Reform in August 2025. This is said to be the largest single political donation ever made by a living person in UK history.
Eurosceptic Harborne is another one of the Brexit-backing multi-millionaires that will keep throwing his fortune at populist right-wing lost causes.
What a waste of money. His money, granted. But think of what £9 million would do for the thousands of Food Banks across Britain, many of whom are inundated with desperate families that have felt the sharpest end of Brexit and the never ending cost of corporate greed crisis.
The local elections in May could well be a case of shit or bust for Farage and Reform UK.
With big spending comes high expectations. Anything less than an absolute rout of Labour and Conservative councillors will be a catastrophic humiliation for Nigel Farage and his toxic populist project.
Farage on the ropes
Farage’s personal brand — built on charisma and grievance — would crack, exposing a leader whose Trump playbook works for disruption but crumbles under responsibility and the scrutiny that comes with it.
A 2026 election flop for Reform UK would prove that Britain can reject Farage’s divisive nightmare, reaffirming that decency and equality can prevail over hate.
So maybe that Reform bubble hasn’t burst just yet, and it may well need lancing, like most septic boils that are clinging on to the anus of humanity.
In my humble opinion, if anyone has earned a vote at the local elections, it’s Zack Polanski and his Greens. If you want to be the lance that pops the unsightly boil, give your vote to the Green Party.
Happy New Year? I’ll let you know in twelve months’ time…
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