Jenrick for Chancellor 😱

This is the Reform constitution, WWM.

reformuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Reform_UK_Constitution.pdf

As you can see, the leader cannot be removed until such time as there are over 100 MPs and half of them request a motion of no confidence. Ordinary members could remove him if half of them write requesting a motion of no confidence within a 60 day window.

As for applying to be a candidate: fill in a form, supply ID and pay £250. No prior political experience is necessary. You will receive free training from our Centre of Excellence. Stop laughing at the back.

pro-worker.reformparty.uk/candidates/apply

Funding is mostly from overseas donors. Harborne virtually owns Farage and gave £9 million last year. As we know from the Epstein files, Bannon has a piece of him too. And what was all that about the gardening churchwarden fronting the Iranian donors who funded his trip to Davos?

The structure of the company is very murky. Byline Times and tax expert Dan Neidle have done some research into this.

Unelected Yusuf is Head of Policy this week but who knows? He's already been company Chair bought for £250,000 and Head of the ridiculous Dolge, which was a resounding flop with Reform-lead councils increasing council tax to record levels. Policy is little more than a bunch of slogans.

You’re wrong about Oswald Moseley Oreo. Contemporary reports say he was charming, charismatic - and handsome! He was also a posh boy, which was attractive to many.

With the possibility of war in our time and our government having to forge allegiances with Europe, namely the EU, I think would be nationally suicidal to vote for a party headed by a man who publicly slagged off the EU and spends more time in the US than in his constituency, in the full knowledge that Trump is not the ally of old and wants the UK and Europe to fend for themselves.
In the name of defence we need Reform like we need a bullet in the head.

If there’s a war in the next 10 years, surely a coalition government would be formed? No one party could be trusted with government in such a scenario. This is the stuff of nightmares…..

I agree ronib, as in WW2 when Churchill led a coalition government, but I imagine only major political parties would be included, not Reform plc.

LemonJam

A press conference to announce who Farage currently proposes for these cabinet positions IF successful in a GE in 3-5 years- ok.

Anything can happen to Farage or these individuals in 3 plus years- fall outs, defections, convictions for taking bribes from the Russians - all of which Farage has recent experience. He's just trying to get away from the public (and often Reform party member) impression that Reform is a one man band imho.

Currently Reform UK only has 8 MPs, Farage and his colleagues do not have great attendance and make little impact in the H0C, and Reform is falling in the polls. Local Reform run councils are falling out with each other and not faring well either. Thats the main story.

But they’re on tv every day and the media treat them as if they are the next government…

Casdon

You’re wrong about Oswald Moseley Oreo. Contemporary reports say he was charming, charismatic - and handsome! He was also a posh boy, which was attractive to many.

He certainly charmed the ladies. He was from an old aristocratic family and related to the Queen Mother.

The royals at that time were very open to fascism - look at the Windsors, The Greek royal family etc.

Thanks graphite

I worry very much about the Bannon/white supremicists and Russian connection.

Isn’t Jenrick the guy who insisted on some cartoons being removed from an Asylum Centre? They had been painted on the walls to amuse the children. Basically he is mean and grim.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Isn’t Jenrick the guy who insisted on some cartoons being removed from an Asylum Centre? They had been painted on the walls to amuse the children. Basically he is mean and grim.

Yes. That’s him.

Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/reform-mps-accused-of-pandering-to-putin-after-skipping-russian-interference-debate/

Hmmm......would you buy a used car from Robert Jenrick? That's the acid test.

mae13

Hmmm......would you buy a used car from Robert Jenrick? That's the acid test.

It is the acid test. Also I can’t recall him being any good in any of the jobs he has been given. He is a nasty, slimy, disloyal, can’t be trusted with money individual. Otherwise he seems okay☹️😏🤨

Even Ch4 News had to make a point of showing Farages shadow cabinet tonight. No health Secretary I see but then we probably won’t need one when it’s insurance based.

I saw on the GB News facebook that it was being called the Shady Cabinet in the comments section. I didn’t realise, but apparently the term shadow cabinet only applies to the official party in opposition, which is obviously the Tories.

Yes, I heard that too. I think they’ve now given it another name ( again me not concentrating and can’t remember what it is…).

Farage is making huge sums of money currently being a maverick agitator - lining his pockets to the tune of well over £1 million a year. As others have said it's hard to see him actually wanting to be PM- too much like hard work plus I cant see him wanting to take the income drop.... Let's face it public service has never been his purpose and Reform is already dropping in the polls.

Fallingstar

Oh my. I mean, oh dear.
Are Reform trying to scupper their chances, even Tories couldn’t stand the man, he is a snake in the grass and a man after his own ends intent upon stabbing anyone in the back given the chance.
I really don’t think the majority of Reform voters will like him for this either. Unless they aren’t too fussed who does the job.

I think he fits in very well with Reform!

Honestly, don’t people get carried away!

I know this seems to be a pretty unpopular opinion on here, but really, do people really really believe Farage can just rustle up enough MPs, without giving shelter to “has-been Tories” to get a majority in Parliament? Of course, he could do some dirty little deal with the Tories, but this might not suit the huge egos in both parties.

Farage doesn’t really want to be PM anyhow, (imo) he’s too lazy, a grifter rather than a grafter and can barely turn up in either Westminster or Clacton, too busy in other places selling his own self importance and own brand of snake oil.

Let’s be patient, a GE is over 3 years away

Casdon

You’re wrong about Oswald Moseley Oreo. Contemporary reports say he was charming, charismatic - and handsome! He was also a posh boy, which was attractive to many.

He was indeed “charismatic” and “charming” by all accounts.

Many facist dictators have also been so!

He was a thoroughly nasty individual, an avid racist who got his just desserts!

I see James Orr has now replaced Zia Yusuf as Head of Policy. Orr, hard-right authoritarian, intellectual mentor to JD Vance and ally to the late Charlie Kirk.

We can see where this is heading.

Women can kiss goodbye to many of the rights they fought for.

Exactly Casdon- only the "opposition party" can have a Shadow cabinet- currently the Conservative Party- the clue is in the name/title. That is the 'shadow member's" brief is to 'SHADOW" each of the incumbent government minister's briefs to provide opposition and challenge. Evidently a shadow member necessarily also needs to be an MP.

Reform is not in opposition, does not shadow incumbent government minsters and is way off having even the third largest number of MPs, it only has 8. The names Farage has put forward today, as Lee Anderson rightly says- cannot be legitimately called 'shadow minsters' only spokes persons. Just more Farage smoke and mirrors and media attention.

Yes, exactly. The job of shadow ministers is to shadow their government counterparts and to challenge them in the HoC while having no executive power. For Farage to call his motley crew a shadow cabinet is an exercise in hubris, an assumption that Reform will form the next government.

The Institute of Government is an excellent source of information about government ministers.

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/government-ministers

There are 146 positions altogether held by 122 people. A maximum of 109 can be paid.

If you look at the chart as of January 2026, you will see who is appointed to assist each cabinet minister. Check out these names and who will find that most bring a wealth of political experience.

This is something which Reform does not have.

The notion that Zia Yusuf could be Home Secretary is ludicrous. He is unelected and therefore cannot sit, speak, or vote as a Member of Parliament. He would have to be appointed to the Lords. How would his work I practice? It is one of the key positions in the Cabinet. How would he make statements and answer questions in the HoC?

Of course, it isn’t unprecedented. Cameron was appointed Foreign Secretary during the dying embers of Sunak’s Premiership but it complicates the process of conducting government business and flies in the face of democracy.

The Lee Anderson quote was fascinating.

It's a sop to lure more conservatives away? Or massage the massive Jenrick ego.

Farage is in it to get rich and it's working.

Poor old 30p. No place for him in the Shady Cabinet.

Do we think he has one more defection in him?

Labour ➡ Tory ➡ Reform ➡ Restore?

Farage is already very,very rich A million p.a.is chickenfeed to him. I think he is really in it for ‘fame’ and ego. Same applies to some ,but not all, of his mates. Which makes you question why he says he supports poor working people.