So, today we listened to Mr Tice from Reform UK excitingly announce that his party would be standing candidates in 630 parliamentary seats across the UK at the next General Election to the back-drop of a handful of former BREXIT Party MEP’s.

Yet only one of the former MEP’s openly committed to stand themselves.

We were told how Reform continue to grow and that they were the only party talking hard on immigration with the government stealing their policy ideas and slogans. It’s important to note that not long ago, Mr Tice referred to speaking about the hot topic of controlling immigration as being a “bit too UKIPey”.

We have tried endlessly in the interests of the UK to speak to Mr Tice and have been repeatedly ignored, except for an email from Mr Tice’s journo partner, Isabel Oakeshott who believed we were all racists for wanting to protect our borders and control immigration.

We should also not forget, Tice and his former MEP chums, are the very same people who believed BREXIT was done and changed the name of their party to Reform UK. Only our party and its members knew we had been sold a dud.

Today’s announcement is a reheated, best of British, Sausage & Mash Microwave Meal; lumpy wet mash, dried up wieners and a bitter salty aftertaste!

We must NEVER forget, that Reform UK are the party that stood candidates down for a Tory deal that never came, lapped up COVID restrictions and mandatory vaccinations and threw the kitchen sink at Andrew Bridgen MP for speaking out against the health risks from the vaccinations. They are certainly not a party of Free-Speech.

Despite the endless 6-point plans, ego-massaging and lack of answers on policy, we learned nothing new about the floppy-haired, London-centric grifter company that continues to fragment our side of the political fence by design.

For the UK Independence Party, it’s very much business as usual. Our work to bring like-minded political groups and parties together continues, and headway is being made.

We are not a party of big business, big money or Tory-lite policies and we are certainly NOT managed opposition which is essentially what Reform UK have morphed into.

UKIP will never allow itself to be sold out in favour of our leaderships personal ambitions, position or platform grab; it will always act in the interests of the United Kingdom and its people.

People not Politics.

 Ben Walker

National Party Chairman - UK independence Party