Nigel Farage gives up ownership of Reform UK to make party more democratic

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/nigel-farage-gives-up-control-reform-uk-make-party-more-democratic-2025-02-20/

Posted by hotchillieater

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  1. The new owners

    Figel Narage

    Nigel Garage

    Nigel Fuhrage

    Nigellus Fatagistus

    oh, and c**t Aaron.

  3. Reform becomes more popular, Nigel ducks out just in case he has to do any real work.

  7. It is the people in the background who will not step down, just like Thiel, Musk and co were pulling Trumps strings. The same is going on with Reform, they are backed by Russia and Trump, they are compromised from within.

    Do not ever trust these people, not ever. They want the same for the UK, EU and the entire world as is happening in the US. They will weasel there way in with lies and hate, and then take everything you have.

    Edit: Added a picture of the friends Farage keeps – [https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1ityd11/trumpettes_of_patriots/](https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1ityd11/trumpettes_of_patriots/)

  9. Surely now there’s nothing to stop hundreds of thousands of *new* members insisting the party adopts a policy of rejoining the EU then?

  10. It was very worrying that Reform UK was a limited company in the first place! This man is a grifter through and through. It’s all about making money not about making things better for the public.

  11. I hate how Farage isn’t locked up for his past deeds.

  12. A quick search of Companies house will tell you Farage has made himself director of Reform 2025 LTD.

    Saying the 200k “members” have control is like giving your little brother an unplugged PS control and telling him he’s playing the game.

  13. He’s still the leader, he just has handed ownership of the party off. I actually hadn’t realised it was a Ltd company anyway.

    Regardless if you vote reform as it currently stands you are saying you want Farage to be the PM.

  14. It only took him… Several years… To finally make a political party democratic and not privately owned, after having already ran in 2 elections.

    Yep… Seems totally commendable… Except I don’t forget.

  15. I’m a little confused, it says that it has relinquished control from Nigel Farage to a company called Reform 2025 ltd. However that company is owner by Farage. So how in any material sense has he given up control.

    It feels like myself saying that I have given control of my company to my cat. Sure the cat is the technical owner, but as I own the cat it really is a difference without a distinction.

    Having checked their website, it hasn’t actually articulated how they are giving back control to memebers or what that control looks like.

  16. Wait…what’s the actual difference between farage owning the Reform Party Ltd, and Farage owning Reform 2025 owning the Reform Party Ltd?

    It’s just the same thing with extra steps?

  17. Ha. He’s scared he’ll win and have to do the PM job. He doesn’t want to be the one to actually do the work and solve all the problems because he knows his ideas won’t work.

    Such a coward.

  18. In other words, Garage has realised he might be liable for the horrible shit his company employees will get up to.

  19. probably bled as much cash out of it as he wants and is going to sideline it whilst he works on a new grift

  20. Idk about you guys but the fact that it was a company should’ve been a red flag from the start

  23. good old Nigel looking for a distraction from why he hasn’t called out Donald Trump for saying Ukraine caused their own invasion.

  24. And all accountability

    The grift is on… Trump not bringing in the bucks gotta find a new cow to cash in

  25. UK doesn’t want a government that supports Putin like orange man trump is

  29. And he is in control of the new “reform 2025” group. As always, he’s getting shit so he tries a cheeky rebrand to hope fuckwits believe him. 

    And once again the gammons will eat it up cause “ar nige iz a man o’ peepul, norra forennur”

  30. For anyone thinking of voting for this version of MAGA in the UK here are some analysis of Reform’s tax policies.

    **Analysis of Reform’s tax plans**

    https://www.ippr.org/media-office/analysis-of-reforms-tax-plans#:~:text=The%20tax%20cuts%20announced%20in,benefits%20across%20different%20income%20groups.

    **Our take on the Reform UK Manifesto**

    *Reform UK has* [*published its manifesto*](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/253/attachments/original/1718625371/Reform_UK_Our_Contract_with_You.pdf?1718625371)*. They plan personal tax cuts which they say will cost £70bn; however our analysis shows that they’ve miscalculated, and the actual cost will be at least £88bn.*

    *Reform UK says it will fund these tax costs with £70bn of savings and additional revenue, but it provides few details. Their proposal to change Bank of England reserve rules is over-stated by at least £15bn, and the cost would likely fall on businesses and consumers, not banks.*

    *These two factors mean that Reform UK’s plans have a total unfunded cost of at least £33bn –* [*about twice*](https://ifs.org.uk/articles/mini-budget-response) *the unfunded cost of Liz Truss’ ill-fated 2022 “*[*mini-Budget*](https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/truss-kwarteng-mini-budget-one-year)*“.*

    [https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/17/reform_uk_manifesto_2024/](https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/17/reform_uk_manifesto_2024/)

    **Reform UK manifesto: a reaction**

    [https://ifs.org.uk/articles/reform-uk-manifesto-reaction](https://ifs.org.uk/articles/reform-uk-manifesto-reaction)

  31. Okay, how long before he abandons it and forms another new party?

  32. Fartrage is planning to abandon Reform and get a deputy leadership position in the Tory party. He’ll then try and remove BadEnoch and reform the Tory party into something akin to the GoP, with himself as a Trump like caricature.

    Essentially the Tories and Fartrage will be like a Temu GOP and Trump.

  33. This guy likes creating something and then leaving before doing any of the actual work

  34. We are reaching levels of spin not seen before in UK politics.

    Wonder what this transition does for Elon Musk’s ability to “donate” to the “party”

  36. He also owns Thorn in the Side plc (or ltd). That’s where he does his laundry.

  37. I hope the uk intelligence services are already taking measures to counter the incoming ultra right wing power grab currently going on in the USA and other places. Putin and Co are clearly trying their hardest to destroy western democracy. Who would have thought it’d be so easy 🤔

  39. Aye, and an alcoholic will be fine if they just have the one.

  40. Farage is only ever looking after himself, whatever his words or actions.

  41. Reuters being uncharacteristically sloppy here. “Make party more democratic” should be a quote, and he’s made himself director anyway. Imagine he’s found some loophole which means he pays less tax as director rather than owner.

  42. I have to wonder if this has anything to do with him being ordered to back Trump up with elections in Ukraine and presumably, more stuff to follow.

    He needs to distance himself or he’ll destroy the Reform party.

    So, it is the duty of all good patriots to remind everyone at every turn, he still owns it and he’s still the leader and that his actions are what Reform stands for: Sucking off Donald Trump.

  45. You know, maybe, if he wanted it to be more democratic, he’d make a bloody political party instead of a company. That would clear things up nicely.

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