Reform Trying to Sell People T-Shirts, But Where Is the Money Really Going

Clown World YT put this interesting little video up on his YouTube channel three days ago. This YouTuber is very much a man of the anti-migrant, anti-immigration and passionately anti-Labour right. But this is a video that should concern critics of Nigel Farage right across the political spectrum. Because it looks very much like a grift, or the dodgy dark money the party and its donors rely on that has been documented extensively by Open Democracy.

For 350 British smackers, you too can own a black, football style T-Shirt, with gold lettering, proudly proclaiming your support of Reform, each one signed by Nigel Farage. But as Mr Clown World shows, only £1 actually goes to Reform. Where does the rest of it go? Don’t know. I think here it should be remembered that Reform isn’t a political party, but a private company. So is that money going to Farage and his shareholders?

The video also shows the growing disenchantment many of the anti-immigrant right have with Reform. They don’t like the way Farage is behaving as a petty dictator, throwing out anyone he doesn’t like. They don’t like Reform selecting as its candidate for one of the London boroughs a Bangladeshi who supports reparations for slavery. They feel very much that Farage, if he gets his rear end in power, will jettison all his opposition to anti-racism and anti-immigration in order to be popular. I wonder if his supporter for these causes is tactical and conditional, and that his real goal is to introduce more anti-worker Trumpian politics into the UK.