Is the Inevitible Reform UK implosion already happening?
- Martin Curtis
- Oct 19
- 2 min read
I have always predicted that Reform UK would implode. I saw it happen with UKIP and the personalities and thinking behind Reform are too similar not to expect it to happen again. Anyway, it might already be happening. Nationally, they have councillors and MPs walking away from the party, resigning as. councillors and/or being expelled and have shed two of its 5 MPs (yes they have gained one, but he was a Conservative who has left a sinking ship).
In Cambridgeshire we have Councillor Osborn in court for allegedly making false statements about another candidate in an election campaign and under investigation locally for being downright nasty about Children in Care. Now we hear that another Councillor in Cambridgeshire has resigned the Reform UK whip. We don't know why, but rumours are this is potentially surrounding disagreements over who should be their group leader.
None of this surprises me. My experience as a County Council Leader when UKIP were on a high was that the really decent Councillors in their group quickly started to look around at their Reform compatriots and realised it wasn't a place they wanted to be. I suspect this is what we are starting to see. Yes, of course, Reform supporters are going to accuse me of saying that because I am taking part in an election where reform have a candidate. But the evidence is there, both locally and Nationally and the evidence IS starting to reflect what happened with UKIP.
If you are a Reform voter, do you truly understand what you're voting for? In this election, we already face issues with the Conservatives pushing people out of office. We definitely don't need to elect individuals who are more prone than others to abandon their party or get expelled from the one they claim to represent.

