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Nigel Farage Hails “Historic Moment”, as Reform Memberships Surpasses Tories

by Toby Young
26 December 2024 3:00 PM

Membership of Reform U.K. has surpassed that of the Conservatives for the first time. The Mail has more.

A digital counter on the Reform website showed its membership tally before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past the 131,680 figure declared by the Tories during their leadership election earlier this year.

Mr. Farage said it was a “historic moment” as he posted on X: “The youngest political party in British politics has just overtaken the oldest political party in the world.

“Reform U.K. are now the real opposition.”

He also shared a video of him celebrating the news at a Boxing Day hunt this morning.

Mr. Farage said as he lifted his phone in the air: “We’ve done it. We are through. How about that – the official oppositon.”

The result comes off the back of a successful year for Reform with the party claiming five seats in the General Election in July, including Mr. Farage taking Clacton.

The party also finished in second place in a whopping 98 seats and played a key role in splitting the Conservative vote.

Responding to the surge in membership numbers, Party chairman Zia Yusuf said: “History has been made today, as the centuries-long stranglehold on the centre-right of British politics by the Tories has finally been broken.

“Nigel Farage will be the next prime minister, and will return Britain to greatness.”

There were 131,680 Conservative members eligible to vote during the party’s leadership election to replace Rishi Sunak in autumn.

The figure, revealed as Kemi Badenoch was announced leader on November 2nd, was the lowest Tory level on record and a drop from the 2022 leadership contest when there were around 172,000 members.

However, Labour remains the party with the largest membership in the U.K. It had 366,604 members as of March this year.

A Conservative Party spokesman said: “Reform has delivered a Labour Government that has cruelly cut winter fuel winter payments for 10 million pensioners, put the future of family farming and food security at risk, and launched a devastating raid on jobs which will leave working people paying the price.

“A vote for Reform this coming May is a vote for a Labour council – only the Conservatives can stop this.”

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Kemi Badenoch says Nigel’s numbers are fake.

Manipulating your own supporters at Xmas eh, Nigel?
It’s not real. It’s a fake ⏰ coded to tick up automatically. We’ve been watching the back end for days and can also see they’ve just changed the code to link to a different site as people point this out.

Farage doesn’t… https://t.co/2tAsszfHsG

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) December 26, 2024
Tags: Nigel FarageReform UKThe Conservative PartyZia Yusuf

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Gezza England
Gezza England
5 months ago

The Tories continually bleating that a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour is as tiresome as Labour droning on about 14 years of Tory decline and the mythical £22bn black hole magicked up by Rachel from Accounts.

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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago

“A digital counter on the Reform website showed its membership tally
before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past the 131,680 figure declared
by the Tories during their leadership election earlier this year.”

After its woeful election performance and betrayal felt by so many of its core voters, the Conservatives must have been haenorrhaging members since the Summer. In terms of numbers of members, Reform probably passed the Conservatives a few weeks ago..

Last edited 5 months ago by DickieA
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JXB
JXB
5 months ago
Reply to  DickieA

“366,604 members as of March this year…”

And how many now after nearly six months of Starmer-Charmer?

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
5 months ago
Reply to  DickieA

Good point. And many of the members to whom ballot papers were sent by the Tories have probably died since they joined!

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JXB
JXB
5 months ago

134 094… just now.

“A Conservative Party spokesman said: “Reform has delivered a Labour Government…”

Not delivered by a Conservative Party 14 years in Government whose policies were and still are those of authoritarian Left-wing Statist rulers?

Last edited 5 months ago by JXB
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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago
Reply to  JXB

I’ll say it again – I despise the treachorous bastards. 14 years of betrayal. How anybody with right of centre political views could still support the Conservatives, beggars belief.

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Solentviews
Solentviews
5 months ago
Reply to  DickieA

And that’s the key point. How could anyone trust those lying bar stewards ever again? They delivered on virtually nothing, and to cap it off lied their way through Covid from beginning to end. It’s frankly amazing that they have any supporters left at all.

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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago
Reply to  Solentviews

spot on.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
5 months ago

There’s reportedly thousands waiting in France to cross the Channel. I suppose they must get sick of living in a tent, freezing their arses off, when they know they’re guaranteed a comfortable hotel with central heating and hot food, so not much to deter them really, is there? You just need a calm day at sea then Bob’s your uncle;

”451 migrants in 11 dinghies ILLEGALLY crossed the channel yesterday ‘Christmas Day’

100s more are crossing TODAY

35,489 migrants in 708 dinghies have now crossed the channel this year

21,924 migrants in 390 dinghies have so far crossed since the Labour Party took control.”

https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1872278460489482352

Bit like this hotel, then;

”Festive lunch at the Fownes Hotel!

Heating on blast & food stacked high,
We take you inside for a game of pool”

https://x.com/Truthhurts101UK/status/1871256062655152355

Last edited 5 months ago by Mogwai
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
5 months ago

“A Conservative Party spokesman said: “Reform has delivered a Labour Government that has cruelly cut winter fuel winter payments for 10 million pensioners, put the future of family farming and food security at risk, and launched a devastating raid on jobs which will leave working people paying the price.

“A vote for Reform this coming May is a vote for a Labour council – only the Conservatives can stop this.”

A Conservative Party spokesman said:

“Firkin excellent weed this Christmas.”

The Tory barstewards had 14 years to sort things out. They managed only one thing successfully – opening the floodgates to unlimited immigration. Treasonous Next Tuesdays the lot of them.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

They have some bloody cheek expecting loyalty or credibility from anyone. It’s a miracle anyone at all still expresses support for them. Any of them still chirping are clearly utterly deluded and have understood nothing from the their drubbing at the polls. When somehow SIX MILLION dupes voted for them and they became Her Majesty’s Opposition I did fear this would fuel their delusion. I believe I was right. They should be offering nothing but contrition and grovelling apologies.

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago

All I can say is I’ve just read an interview with Kemi Badenoch in the Spectator.
She doesn’t have any ideas. She has nothing to say. If you take out the cliches, there is nothing left.
Nigel, in contrast, has something to say and knows what he wants to do.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

I’m not sure I want politicians with “ideas”. I don’t want to be saved by politicians or have my life improved by them. I want them to leave me the hell alone and keep the peace and protect our borders.

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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I agree wholeheartedly. I’ve been a Minarchist for the past 20 years.
From Wikli:

A night-watchman state, also referred to as a minimal state or minarchy ……. has also been popularized by Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974).[6] The United Kingdom in the 19th century has been described by historian Charles Townshend as a standard-bearer for this form of government.[7]

19th Century United Kingdom would seem a better alternative than what we have now.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
5 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I agree entirely. Politicians with “ideas” are a walking bloody disaster. If they only managed to control our borders properly they would perform an enormous service to this country and thereafter we will look after ourselves.

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JohnnyDownes
JohnnyDownes
5 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

“control our borders properly”
That’s an ‘idea’ isn’t it? A good one, even.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  JohnnyDownes

Well it’s just doing the bare minimum that any government must do to be considered a government. Instead our government regulates bloody football.

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Myra
Myra
5 months ago

I hope Reform are the grownups in the room. Kemi’s childish behaviour about a counter does not do her any favours.

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RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago

Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak – and 14 years of lies and broken “promises” delivered the Labour Government.

But why would they care about that? All that’s happened is that their Masters at the WEF have the Red Branch of the Uni-Party in power.

The Uni-Party is like a 3-legged stool. It is very stable (and will deliver for the WEF) until one of the legs is broken. Then it cannot stand.

Reform is breaking the Blu-Green leg.

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
5 months ago

Stop stop press – the Reform Party seems to have convinced the Telegraph at least that their numbers are genuine.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/27/reform-uk-threatens-legal-action-kemi-badenoch-members/

Kemi is the distinctly unimpressive leader of the rump of a once-great but now shrivelled party. They long since abandoned everything “Conservative” and became simply a vehicle for careerist hacks.

They are in fact quite sad really. Like a crumbling and rubbish-strewn abandoned factory.

The future of the Centre Right belongs to Reform.

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