Reform UK is Reform UK, not just Nigel Farage

For many Reform is seen as the only way forward for the country, and for many of those people Reform is Nigel Farage.

However, many of the hardened Reform followers are the ones that had previously been the ones that offered the most critical thinking around Covid, vaccines, lock-downs, and a whole range of issues.

They were the people that were personally searching for a better way forward for themselves, their families and the country – for them finding Reform UK gave them an answer.

These are often now the people that are refusing to use that ability to critically think about Reform UK, and have put their unwavering faith in the party and Nigel Farage. That critical thinking is needed to shape the party in the way it should be.

But let’s not forget Reform UK grew due to the considerable efforts from Ben Habib and Richard Tice, not Nigel Farage.

Farage has used the party to develop his own personal following, and support, but at the detriment of developing the party.

Some people love Farage and some people not, but what all wanted to see was the development of an open, professional and democratic party – people want to see manifesto but they are also judging on the organisation as an ability to deliver.

So that creates a divide or groups of people.

That divide is clearly visible with the Rupert Lowe debacle. But having a party leader that can’t manage, work with or lead one of only 5 MP’s just isn’t a good look. It doesn’t in any way inspire confidence that this is the person that would lead the country.