Thread 6 Burnham: Resitting and Resetting

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I wonder if Farage (as the legal owner of Reform) will plead poverty.

This is not a case he will want anywhere near a court

Also it's a shame the tabloids decided not to cover it. Clacton-on-Sue is surely too good to miss out on ?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/farage-election-gambit-lives-on-in-rival-s-demand-for-repayment

Political rival Daniel Pocock has filed a court application to liquidate Reform UK Party Limited following the August 2026 Clacton-on-Sea by-election. The legal challenge targets the corporate entity of the party after Nigel Farage successfully reclaimed his parliamentary seat during the re-election bid.

I can’t read that - what are his grounds?

https://danielpocock.com/en/winding-up-petition-leaked-before-service-reform-uk-party-limited/

More info here that isn't paywalled.

Reform UK's failure to respond to my Statutory Demand gave me the opportunity to ask a High Court judge to focus on Reform UK's solvency at a time that may be extremely inconvenient for them. If Reform UK pays me now, the normal thing to do would be to write to the court and withdraw the petition. Yet there is nothing to stop other creditors, donors or members of the party from contacting the High Court insolvency list and asking to be included in the case.

Specifically, a judge may decide the enormous donations from non-resident billionaires need to be kept in a frozen bank account until the parliament votes on whether or not to backdate the regulations banning those donations.

I don't really understand. Reform doesn't actually owe Pocock any money. He says he is asking for the money Reform said it would pay for the costs of the Clacton by election. But as we all know Reform was not be actually allowed to do that?

This is one of those court cases which is not about what it is about (I suspect).

Mr. Pocock won't be expecting to get a single penny ot it.

However what he will achieve is a statement - under oath - from Reform UK, possibly from the only person the court will be prepared to hear it from - that the public promise of paying for the election was made in the full knowledge that it could not happen.

Mr. Farage, as owner of Reform UK, you are on record as stating that Reform UK would pay the costs of the election ? Were you serious in this offer ?

Possible answers

YES - you have admitted under oath a conspiracy to break the law on election funding

NO - so you had no intention of honouring this offer ?

It's not quite Oscar Wilde and libel, admittedly. But anything which might see Farage under oath is not a bad thing.

Yes it's the under oath that's key issue.

If Reform's overseas assets are frozen, it could well descend into Jarndyce v Jarndyce territory re the length of the trial. Very doubtful.

At the very least, it could prompt some serious questions about how exactly this money has been "gifted" ? And to whom, exactly ?

Can't even begin to imagine the MSM furore if it was the leader of any other party.

It should never have been allowed to go ahead, especially at 2am in the early hours of this morning.

Gavin Robinson, DUP leader, insists that the parade of 30/35 Orange Order Men will wait hours, days and months to march down the Garvaghy Road, Portadown.

Never did I think I would agree with Micheál Martin, the Irish Fianna Fáil politician serving as Taoiseach since January 2025, when he said that the decision by the Parades Comission to allow the Orange Order march to go ahead was "Incomprehensible and wrong".

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/richard-tice-reform-council-nurseries-5Hjdj7J_2/

In other words.

The Reform Party is demonstrating that cuts will happen to those who most need them, especially when it comes to women and children - those that provide the valuable service and those that need them.

£1.1million in cuts that means unemployment, a lack of provision to continue employment for parents and a vital early years start for the education and socialisation of young children.

Disgraceful and disgusting.

Democracy in action. It's a rare and beautiful flower .....

Admittedly I'm a complete outsider but I can't see how allowing the march to go ahead, in any form, could be anything other than divisive and inflammatory.

It’s appalling. They have no shame.

Not to mention the frothing from Farage and Reform UK themselves about it.

I'm not a massive fan of "allowing" things to happen. Who decides ?

Really the default should be to be able to march/parade/demonstrate unless there is good reason for the authorities to intervene.

Obviously in this case then there are probably a whole host of reasons to look very carefully at the use of existing legislation to ensure public safety and order.

But that should be the case in all cases anyway. No matter where, no matter why. If people want to live in a world where things have to be "allowed" then they are welcome to fuck off to China or North Korea.

I imagine I will be flamed from here to kingdom come for that.

On top of that they are trying to make out that they are heroes for being brave enough to make this decision. It's a pity those supporters of theirs who will be affected by this will still carry on supporting them.

A sharper media would have pointed out that punching down on women and children is clearly Reform policy.

Who'd have thunked it ?

I’m not sure. It’s a sure fire vote loser as far as I can see.

I really hope you’re right about that.

Someone voted for this. Whether or not they knew or cared is another matter. But that's how "the system" works.

Did they? I haven’t noticed Reform councils being particularly fussy about adhering to their election promises.

Well it's up to the voters to remove them then.

As I say, that's how the system works. For us all.