Former Tory minister, and now Reform UK’s spokesperson for the Treasury, Robert Jenrick described his new party as a ‘party for working people’ in January. As they enter the local elections hoping to make gains at hated Starmer’s Labour’s expense, let’s see how working-class the ‘anti-establishment’ party full of former Tories is.
Reform treasurer, and major financial backer, Nick Candy completed the most expensive property deal in the UK. He sold his Chelsea mansion for over £275 million.
Reform leader Nigel Farage has just purchased £2 million of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. He did this for Stack, a Bitcoin treasury company whose chair is Kwasi Kwarteng, in which Farage had invested £215,000 at the end of last year. Kwarteng was Liz Truss’s chancellor, whose short tenure in that job was disastrous for working-class people.
How can Candy, Farage, or Reform MP Richard Tice – in the news for a row about tens of thousands of pounds of tax paid on the dividends of his property company – have any idea what its like to be a working-class person struggling to make ends meet? If you’re selling the UK’s most expensive mansion then how can you represent people who have spent years waiting for a council house, or forced to spend half their wages on rent? If you have £2 million spare to purchase some cryptocurrency, what can you know about seeing food prices rising faster than your wages? We need a party that actually represents the working class. When Socialist Party members stand for Parliament they pledge to only take the wage of a skilled worker they represent, so they rise with the class that they’re fighting for, not sitting pretty on massive MP salaries. Instead of filling a party with millionaires we are building a party that will fight to take the wealth off them and put it to use for the good of the millions of us.
