Some alarming aspects of Reform's success

SO we're “off to sea in a beautiful turquoise boat; they took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a £5 note” ~ so says the well-known nursery rhyme.

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The promise of honey, and, as the highest paid MP, Nigel Farage has “plenty of money”. He is once again in the place he loves most - every screen, all the time.

His buddy, Aaron Banks, failed in the election for Mayor of the West of England. Had he won, two of the “Bad Boys of Brexit” would have been reunited. How have we forgotten that “Bad Boys” label they gave themselves? Should we give the care of our elderly relatives or significant influence over the education of our kids to the newly elected and vastly inexperienced councillors/followers of the “Bad Boys of Reform”? Some risk.

Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe, a close colleague of “Our Great Leader Nigel” (the title used recently) lasted seven months. He argued and was dismissed. Let's hope that the continuous chaos of colleagues being chucked out of “the turquoise boat” doesn’t become a feature. That's “leadership” Trump-style but not yet adopted here, even though Farage recently repeated that “Trump is inspirational’.

Were the essential responsibilities of local government mentioned in the recent Reform electoral flyers? No, three things were repeated endlessly: “Britain is broken, Reform will recreate the Britain that we knew when we were young, and migrants should be policed into living in tents.”