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fifthalt they/them  1d ago (x.com) 180 thread views #348269 earned 76 coins from votes

What happened with the reform party? :marseyreading: I keep finding disappointed tweets but no explanation on what Farage did to crush everyone's (chuds') hopes and dreams :marseyconfused:

https://x.com/Kingbingo_/status/1898276870749143401
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Only thing I can think of is that online chuds dislike Farage because he's not anywhere near as hardline as the media makes him out to be. He's therefore viewed as cockblocking said more hardline members of his party from rising. I think he backstabbed one such of the other popular members. IRL though Farage is Reform's lifeblood and there's no one who'd be seriously able to rival him in popularity and boost the party as much c.f. UKIP.

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Yeah, I knew about that, especially since Farage contradicted Musk on twitter and started a debate, but I found tweets about how people had hopes for this party only to have them crushed and how the supporters are all preparing to totally move away from UK, all in two days. And now this tweet hinting at Farage destroying the party due to ego.

I thought there's some scandal here :marseyshrug:

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Seems they expelled some MP who threatened the Jeet party chairman (allegedly). Reading the Tweets is what I glean from such anyway. Not sure if the expelled MP was some sort of gigachud.

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Thanks a lot :marseynotes:

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Sargon has a recent stream about it if you care about :marseylongpost: . Basically Lowe said that Reform UK should act more like a serious party than a protest vote, suggesting that they should have their own 'shadow cabinet' of prepared MPs doing media appearances and not just be a Farage personality cult. Much of the party turned on Lowe and he had been reported to police over bullying allegations.

The Akkadian points out that this is a pattern with other members, and Farage views them as a threat to his authority. The party structure is authoritarian in favour of Farage, and while this is not inherently bad, he doesn't seem to have serious governing intentions, cucks on the question of deportations and demographic change, and basically holds the right hostage. Much of the right views him as containment.

I personally agree that Farage is not as far-right like people allege him to be, and would cave on important questions if he got to the levers of power.

It's obviously true that he's extremely popular and the party would collapse without him. This is precisely why they need to dedicate time on building up other MPs and not not have a Farage-centric structure that kneecaps the development of an A-Team. What if he gets hit by a car tomorrow? He's not extremely old but won't be around forever.

!chuds !britbongs

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