Restore Britain is a breakaway party of Reform UK which exists because the latter wasn’t right-wing enough.
Reform has largely just ignored its rival, but this changed in late May when it turned out Restore could stop them from winning the Makerfield by-election. An interesting development since then is that the legions of anonymous Twitter/X accounts seem to have turned on Restore.
The question is whether these accounts are actually British, or if they’re foreign users trying to game Twitter’s algorithm? Because as you can see, some of these people apparently live in Ecuador:
Just a heads up
All of these pro Reform UK accounts are being paid for and are based in Ecuador pic.twitter.com/81adNLktSm
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 25, 2026
Foreign interference… in Restore Britain…?
In 2025, Elon Musk announced that Twitter would be revealing every user’s location data. People anticipated this day, because they suspected many far-right accounts were actually foreign individuals cosplaying as Western reactionaries to farm clicks. Surprise, surprise – this ended up being precisely what happened:
Confirmation that this account is Indian. pic.twitter.com/myNTIrfTPR
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) November 23, 2025
Shockingly, the exposed accounts included the US Department of Homeland Security:
https://t.co/32KUm3JeHL pic.twitter.com/mbFdamoqkb
— j! (@astrrals) November 21, 2025
Reporting on the issue at the time, the Independentwrote:
MAGANationX, for example, includes a bio line that reads “Patriot Voice for We The People,” but was actually started in Eastern Europe, according to the new feature.
Another account, using an image of President Donald Trump in a tuxedo and using the name “MAGA Scope” with an American flag emoji, was found to have been started in Nigeria in 2024.
In terms of the UK, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported on a man who shared AI slop videos of Keir Starmer dressed as a Muslim. Surprisingly, this particular account holder turned out to be “a devout Muslim man living in Pakistan”. The Bureau added:
This man, who we are not naming for his own safety, runs successful accounts pushing Islamophobic AI slop to UK audiences. Videos shared by just one of his Facebook pages had been viewed millions of times and he told us in an interview he earned around $1,500 a month from that page alone.
While it sounds bizarre that Black and Brown people could be driving white supremacy in the UK, you have to remember:
- These people don’t have to worry about racism in a foreign country.
- Our uneven and individualistic global system guarantees there will always be people out there doing anything they can to get ahead.
We have plenty of scammers in the UK, too – the difference is our homegrown talent can pull in a lot more than $1,500 a month:
Anyone seen this Tory lately she has “£122m” belonging us ?
“Baroness Michelle Mone remains under active criminal investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) regarding suspected offenses related to the procurement of PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic” pic.twitter.com/70F3evAfEg
— Gazberto (@gazberto) May 25, 2026
It’s also far from the case that only foreign accounts are spreading misinformation. In America, the reformed influencer Ashley St. Clair revealed that her former right-wing bedfellows get paid to coordinate their messaging. St. Clair recently discussed this and a lot more about the right-wing grift-o-sphere in a conversation with Hasan Piker:
Anon for Reform
One of the prominent accounts posting in favour of Reform UK is ‘Wolf’:
Rupert Lowe dismisses concerns about splitting the vote in Makerfield.
So why isn’t he standing a candidate in the Aberdeen by-election?
Because it looks like the Tories could win there and I strongly suspect he’s got a deal in place with them.
It’s so obvious what this is. pic.twitter.com/Ro3v1TL0Wg
— Wolf
(@WorldByWolf) May 24, 2026
If we look at Wolf’s account, it says they’re in the UK but with an exclamation point by the name:
The exclamation point indicates that the account is using (or has used) a VPN. A VPN allows you to set your location to someplace else, suggesting that Wolf is using one to hide their true location.
I should note that this method of verifying where someone is from isn’t foolproof. I actually have the exclamation point on my account, which is almost certainly because I use a VPN sometimes. Thankfully, however, we released a physical newspaper today, allowing me to demonstrate that I am in fact in the country:
First edition of the Canary print edition!
Find where you can get a copy here:https://t.co/EDhyWLES5W pic.twitter.com/Rm3Usz6UII
— Willem Moore (@willem_moore_uk) May 26, 2026
Be sure to pick a copy up near you!
Back to today’s news, Wolf is far from the only account going all out for Reform. The following is apparently based in Ecuador, but confusingly also has the VPN symbol:
Lowe is the man that talks about banning Halal slaughter but has it in the menu at his son’s wedding.
Restore is a party set up by the establishment to derail Reform. https://t.co/RsLGDXJJix
— UK Patriot
(@Yvonne1388552) May 26, 2026
If these accounts are fraudulent, the question is whether their activities are coordinated, or whether individual accounts are simple posting in a fashion which best brings in the cash? Because – let’s be clear – we’re not pointing this stuff out because we’d prefer Restore Britain to Reform UK. As much as these accounts pretend otherwise, they’re both the same party, and that party is the Tories.
Another thing to note is that while there’s a deluge of anonymous accounts blasting Restore right now, they’re not all leaning that way. The ‘Basil the Great’ account we shared at the top supports Restore and is also of questionable origin. Said account is additionally a prominent spreader of misinformation:
That Basil account already deleted the video, but look how they spread misinformation. pic.twitter.com/yPx5kTbA56
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) August 22, 2025
There are also many accounts like this one with obviously AI profile pictures:
If you vote for Labour nothing changes.
If you vote for Greens you get Sharia.
If you vote for Reform you get demographically replaced.
If you vote for Restore Britain you send shockwaves through the establishment and put them all on the back foot.
Use your vote wisely.
— British Bastard
Strange times
We live in a bizarre period in which it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s real. The legions of anonymous accounts attacking Restore Britain could be shy Brits; they could be foreign users; they could be AI; they could be all manner of things. The issue is we simply don’t know, and many people don’t care to check.
It’s hard to say exactly how we solve this problem. Do we want to end anonymity online? Almost certainly not, but if these accounts are receiving money to push political messaging, it might not be ridiculous to make them display the actual country they’re posting from at least.
In the long term, the only way to prevent people from cheating the system is to create a system which doesn’t need to be cheated. If we all lived roughly equal lives, people wouldn’t be scrabbling to get ahead.
In the meantime, be careful who you trust.
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By Willem Moore
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