HOW we chuckled and chortled when Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party descended into farcical in-fighting around, oh, five minutes after their formation.
Your Party’s co-founder, ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana, has accused Jezbollah Corbyn of overseeing a “sexist boys’ club”.
Jezza himself complained that Sultana’s efforts to flog £55 memberships was “unauthorised” and he was seeking legal advice.
How the jokes about His Party and Her Party flew.
How the comical rift among the comrades recalled the split between the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front in the Life Of Brian.
Wait until they start asking each other if a woman can have a todger.
But it is not just the loopy Left that fights among itself.
Together, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage were an unstoppable force in British politics.
The loose alliance between BoJo and Nigel delivered Brexit AND Johnson’s landslide victory at the 2019 General Election — when Nigel did not stand his Brexit Party candidates in 317 Tory seats, generously giving BoJo a clear path to 10 Downing Street.
Johnson and Farage were a powerful alliance of patriotic power.
But as the Libertines sang: “You can’t stand me now.”
The big buzzword in the Reform lexicon is “Boriswave” — blaming the post-Brexit surge in immigration on Boris.
Boris Johnson defends ‘Boriswave’ of surging net migration and hits back at Nigel Farage
Speaking to my colleague Harry Cole, BoJo angrily lashed back, accusing Reform of being soft on Russia.
Why does it matter?
Because together, the Tories and Reform UK could deliver us from this clueless, witless Labour Government.
But apart, we are heading toward many years of shagged-out socialism — either under some hideous rainbow coalition or a Labour Government led by Andy Burnham, whose only route to power is prostrating himself before his party’s hard Left.
Reform remain the bookies’ hot favourites to win the most seats at the next general election. But current polling has them falling short — just — of an overall working majority. Common sense suggests the Conservatives and Reform should work together.
Taxi rides
But Reform believe they can bury the Tories for ever.
Their loathing of Boris is not for show. Reform’s true believers despise BoJo as a closet metropolitan liberal, a David Cameron clone who cynically knew which side his Brexit was buttered on.
“We certainly would not welcome Boris Johnson — that’s never going to happen,” Reform’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, told Sky’s Trevor Phillips, branding Boris “one of the worst prime ministers in British history”
Boris, stung, spat back at Reform: “You want to kick out the nurses?”
It’s a good question.
Reform, for all their momentum, will one day have to confront a difficult truth — this country needs immigrants.
Yes, we all feel our blood pressure spike when reading about asylum seekers taking £600 taxi rides to see a GP for their poor little knee.
But there ARE immigrants who contribute enormously to this country — and we need them.
Will Reform ever be able to admit it?
There is no hope of reconciliation between Boris and Farage.
But there is still hope that the Tories and Reform will form some kind of partnership in the national interest. There MUST be hope.
Because a patriotic pact of the Right is our country’s ONLY hope.
