Going to post this, ladies and gentlemen, both here and as a lead across the way.
Chris Littlewood
Date and Time: Friday, March 14, 2025, 17:10 GMT
…… Dear Mr Yusuf, Integrity matters to us. Cliché it might be, but this letter has been deeply sad to write. We are the interim Branch Officers for Reform UK, Chester North and Neston / Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, and we are all resigning from our posts, in concert and with immediate effect. We can no longer represent Reform UK. We can no longer face our voters, your masters, Mr Yusuf, and sincerely defend your Party’s actions. This decision comes after careful thought and with resounding unity. …/2.
Over the past five months, we’ve grown local membership from 780 to 1,482, as it stands today. We joined this Party for its drive to change politics for good, to bring hope back to the nation, and to deliver common-sense policies. We poured our hearts into structures and plans to make a major impact in our constituencies, only to see that vision crumble. We are utterly devastated. Daily, we face members who trusted us for guidance, now as disgusted as we are by your actions, many emailing to cancel their memberships immediately. If you care why you’ve lost an entire set of Branch Officers, read on. …/3.
The recent debacle, entirely of your making, involving Rupert Lowe MP’s suspension on March 7, 2025, over unproven claims, followed by dementia smear rumours by March 9 (X, 20:54 GMT) and the utterly spurious, disgraceful weaponization of the legal system in reporting him to the police on March 6, a day after his Telegraph critique (March 5), for alleged threats from December 13, 2024, an 84-day delay that reeks of retaliation, was the catalyst for our joint resignation. Worse, Richard Tice confirmed on GB News (March 9) that Lowe would not regain the whip even if the claims were proven false, exposing this as a premeditated purge, not a pursuit of justice. Played out disgracefully over the weekend, this act of self-harm toward the party leaves your grassroots Associations to defend, explain, and justify. Such arrogance, dishonesty, and fragile autocracy is unbecoming of you, Mr Yusuf. …/4.
Patriotic members across the UK placed their faith in Reform UK to differ from other parties, to usher in a new era of governance and rescue their country from terminal decline. We relied on you to steer Reform on a steady, honest, professional path, to restore democracy and right Britain’s course. We thought you were a consummate professional with integrity at his core, heart in the right place, and up to the task. We were wrong. You and Nigel are not leading this Party where we believed it was headed. The dastardly treatment of colleagues acting in the nation’s interest and your inability to tolerate the diversity of thought vital to any thriving organisation reveal your severe shortcomings. It seems we’re just more of “that lot” you want nothing to do with (Tice, GB News, March 9). …/5.
There’s no difference between this Party and the rest, willing to compromise anything for power, power for power’s sake, not the good of the people. Knowing this, how can we canvass voters or ask supporters to donate £25 a year for membership with a clear conscience? We can no longer reconcile this Party’s actions with the honest hope we pledged to deliver, a burden our integrity cannot carry. Even more critically (still reading, Mr Yusuf?), you’ve left Branch Associations to fend for themselves, with no professional tools beyond limited member database access for chairs alone, which we couldn’t share with other officers, no centralised plan, no policy updates from HQ, no reliable way to relay members’ views upward, and no banking until recently. Worse, all chairs and officers across every branch remain interim, appointed by you, not elected by members, designed to ensure dissenters like us, or Stafford, disbanded this week (March 10-11) and replaced with compliant voices, can be swiftly purged at your whim. You’ve expected us to build your grassroots from scratch with zero support, a task we can no longer stomach when challenging your methods risks our own erasure. …/6.
Most damningly, Mr Yusuf, the summer 2024 creation of ‘Reform 2025,’ where you and Nigel hold controlling interests, locks in this autocracy, shattering any illusion of a democratic Party. Reform UK isn’t like other main UK parties, it’s your personal fiefdom. Members can’t force leadership or policy shifts through votes, a right denied us while we toil as unelected placeholders. You promised the Electoral Commission and lawyers were working on full democratisation “very soon.” That hasn’t happened as expected; Reform 2025 holds all the cards, doesn’t it? We in Chester North and Neston / Ellesmere Port and Bromborough can no longer defend your Party’s actions toward talented dissenters, your ad-hoc policymaking, your unprofessionalism, the utter lack of preparation for government in 2029 or sooner, and above all, the absence of democratic accountability. We wish well to members who can still trust you. We gave this our best, and we’re saddened to resign together today. …/7.
To conclude our duties in utmost good faith and professionalism: attached is a full financial report from Peter, our Treasurer; all petty cash has been paid into Peter’s account and transferred to the Reform Branch Bank Account through the donations facility; and the Reform credit card and paper-based information have been collected and centralised by myself, Chris Littlewood. You can arrange collection of these materials, or I can shred them using a 2mm cross-cut shredder for GDPR compliance and provide photographic evidence—please let me know your preference.
Our integrity matters to us.
Yours in sorrow, Chris Littlewood, Chair Bianca Leaver, Deputy Chair Jacky, Secretary Peter Leaver, Treasurer Saffron, Campaign Manager …/END.
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Rather than comment, drawing swat plod to our doors in this seemingly lost nation … I’ll repeat this below from a Reform voter:
'I feel very scared for my safety, the parole board has said he is vengeful (Ed: then why are they letting him out?) and I've heard from people on his landing that he couldn't stop talking about me.
'I've been warned the first thing he's going to do is come straight for me.
''It's two-tier justice all over again - this government bends over backwards to give abusers another chance, and treats their victims like an afterthought.
'Tina says she feels badly let down by the justice system after being assured it would be 'many, many years before he was released'.
But Kier needs those prison spaces for his political enemies snd detractors...
'If Jenkin is released my property must be urgently target hardened, I need cameras and a security consultant to help me.' Tina has also set up a petition against his release which has already been signed by more than 11,000 people. But instead of applauding her efforts to raise awareness, Tina claims probation chiefs 'told her off' for speaking out about her case with one asking her 'don't you feel sorry for him, putting this on his head?' She said: 'When they said that to me I felt confused - I have every right to speak out and I don't want this to be brushed under the carpet. I don't want this to happen to anybody else.'
I wonder if the Secretary would lend her some of her own party’s security, since all they are up against is mean words on the Internet?
The Probation Service is currently investigating Tina's complaint about the comment and the staff member involved is understood to deny using those words.
Gosh, it's hard to decide who to believe, isn't it? Oh wait. no. It's not.
“Why Is Reform Party UK A Limited Company?”
So many have come out with more on X about this Yusuf character and then this morning, at Kathy's place, was THIS. Some excerpts:
Some believe our chair was expelled ‘to protect Yusuf’. Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf had appeared on the BBC’s Question Time on January 30 alongside Bexhill’s new Tory MP, Dr Kieran Mullen. In a segment on diversity and inclusion, Mullen took the opportunity to discredit our Reform candidate against whom he had run in the July 2024 election.
Mullen cited, out of context, two comments posted some years ago on UnHerd. These had been raked up by BBC offence archaeologists and our candidate had already apologised for them. While Mullen came prepared, Yusuf did not. Instead of attacking his Tory foe, he went straight into defence mode and unintentionally skewered our successful Reform candidate and hardworking chair.
Yusuf could have laughed and said that despite the BBC’s best efforts it hadn’t stopped his candidate from decimating Mullen’s vote and threatening his win. He might also have attacked Mullen and his woke party for being more concerned about hate crime than real crime. Or that if an apology was not good enough for Mullen, tough, it was good enough for him.
But no. Yusuf accepted his attacker’s terms and replied defensively that the candidate had been ‘stood down’. Mullen hit back, saying he had not. To which Yusuf hung our chair out to dry, stating that ‘such candidates will never again be allowed to stand for the party’.
Going for the kill the BBC, who had carefully chosen their Question Time line-up, posted the clip of this ‘gotcha’ moment on X.
About a month later we were told that our chair had unexpectedly stepped down. Now it looks as if this is not an isolated phenomenon. I’ve had similar reports from elsewhere in the South East, and I keep getting sent this post saying Stafford’s local branch is closing down.
If you really can't see what's going down here, at all levels of the party, inc. the grassroots, then either you're blind or wilfully blind or smirking ... it's going swimmingly for globopsycho Uniparty and their chosen DJT ... the reconstituted and remodelled Jenrick who suddenly, after years of inaction, becomes the champion of the little people, in lieu of Farage and The Five.
One of the most wrongheaded conclusions is that there are two sides to every conflict ... there certainly are in many conflcts ... but then there are conflicts where there was a clearly planned hit job on the very advances which caused govt to cancel elections and on the Continent ... to cause national govt puppets under the EU yoke to revoke elections, or ban certain parties winning first round votes etc. etc.
I mean, there's no accident to any of this. And some reactions to it, including my own initial comment, reminds me of Python's Holy Grail where the father of the bride looked out over Lancelot's hit job, the pogrom, and commanded: "Let's not bicker over who killed who, this is meant be a happy occasion."
Except this is not a Flying Circus or ... oops ... hmmmm ... I wonder. 🤔
Which leaves us with the same old same old question ... is there any way around their diabolical power keeping? END.
A 19-year-old man who shot dead his mother and two younger siblings at their home in Luton was also plotting a shooting at his former primary school, according to police. Nicholas Prosper admitted murdering Juliana Falcon, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13, when he appeared at Luton crown court on Monday. He also admitted other offences including buying a shotgun without a certificate, possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life and possession of a kitchen knife in a public place.
A shotgun? How do you get one of those without a license?
Prosper murdered his family in a “cold-blooded attack” with a shotgun he obtained without a licence, said Chris Derrick, a deputy chief crown prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service.
Are the police looking into how that was possible? I'm thinking they really should be...
Assistant chief constable John Murphy of Bedfordshire police said Prosper had intended to cause “maximum harm and distress” to the wider community. “We understand the deep shock this case will have on people within Luton and across the country,” he said. “We are working closely alongside Luton borough council to engage with schools in Luton to provide support, assistance and guidance to both schools and parents.”
Are you working to identify the illegal gun dealer? You don't mention it. Why not?
“Off the East Yorkshire coast, a grave incident is unfolding where the U.S.-flagged oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate loaded with jet fuel, a ship designated critical to US national security in the Department of Transportation’s Tanker Security Program (TSP), was struck while at anchor by the Portuguese-flagged containership MV Solong.
The collision has set both vessels ablaze, triggering extensive search and rescue operations. The crews have abandoned both ships. While initial reports suggest all U.S. Merchant Mariners are reportedly safe in lifeboats, one crew member from the Solong remains unaccounted for.
“It appears that Solong did not slow down or maneuver. It rammed straight into the side of Stena Immaculate,” said maritime historian Sal Mercogliano in a video analyzing the AIS ship tracks.”
https://gcaptain.com/us-merchant-marine-oil-tanker-in-flames-off-uk/“MV Solong” – as in “so long I’ll be seeing you! ” Someone taking the *iss?
My take on it was, across the way:
I was looking at this last night before dropping off … that route, by the way, was precisely the one I was due to sail a decade ago, from Hartlepool, if I’d bought the boat, only I was heading for Goole.
It was either DEI or planned to be, not unlike all the others from the bridge pylon and the deviated route to East Palestine … someone with tech expertise, militarised, did this … one of the two explanations or both. One thing I for one am noticing is high-ups continuing to use bunnies, patsies … yes, I’m calling this the Landy motif, after Pam Landy in Bourne. Whereas, in that third part of the trilogy, she turned the tables … that was a film, wasn’t it.
Another motif everpresent is how readily it collapses, once hit, not unlike a WTC tower … the term “sitting duck” springs to mind. Also Silverstein type planning of the “event”. Some bright boy or girl knows that in this case, the tanker would be lying amidships, perpendicular to the oncoming
missileMV Solong.Naturally, near impossible to sheet home to anyone and any daring to suggest something untoward … weeeell, they’re just loons, conspiracy theorists, aren’t they.
Eventually, OoL readers, one comes to the point where, even though a dear friend of mine said, years ago at OoL … “I’m not going there …” … that’s fine for then … but for how much longer? The new pic in the sidebar (for now) is not one any self-respecting rationalist with it all at the fingertips wishes to pursue.
The girl next door here said she’s not interested in politics, to which I replied, “That’s fine and I’ll not lay it on you but … politics is interested in you.” We’d been discussing defences for ladies in the light of various attacks that day from our guests, plus younger British who are a whole other species today.
Under a Pink Sky is the story of two troubled kids – only one of whom survived to tell their story.
Yes, Reader, this is the news that the mother of Brianna Ghey has a book coming out, in her quest to become the new Doreen Lawrence. 'Under A Pink Sky' is the title, presumably because 'Screwing Up Your Kids For Dummies' was too on the nose...
Ghey says there are so many parallels between her early life and Brianna’s. As a teenager, Esther Ghey was caught in a web of self-loathing. She had body dysmorphia, was desperate to be thinner, and told herself that nobody would ever love her the way she was. At times she was bullied; sometimes she picked on other children. Then she found drugs. She left school at 16 with no qualifications. “I had no self-worth because of that. I had no respect for myself, no respect for my body, no respect for my life, and that is such a sad, tragic, horrific place to be.” Brianna would go on to struggle with many of the same things: self-belief, school attendance, bullying. And while she was never hooked on drugs, Brianna was addicted to her smartphone and social media.
Incompetent screwed up parents raise incompetent screwed up kids. Is this really 'news'?
By the age of 20, Ghey was a single parent to two young children. She managed to get a house, hoped to make it a “safe haven” for her and her children, and failed miserably.
Shocker! Cue people saying she never had a chance to turn her life around. But wait!
In her late 20s, now clean and a devoted mother, she started with a job as a cleaner at a car dealership before going back to college, initially doing an English GCSE. She did an access to health professions course, because at the time she wanted to be a nurse, completed a degree in nutrition at Liverpool Hope University, and eventually became a senior product development technologist for a food company.
But it made no difference in the end.
For 14 years of Brianna’s life, she was Brett.
No, he always was Brett. Allowing your son to don womanface doesn't make him your daught. Nothing will do that.
Through the book, Ghey makes a clear distinction. She refers to Brett as he, Brianna as she. Does it seem like two different people?
“It does, though that’s not necessarily because she went from Brett to Brianna, it’s just the natural stages of life. It was important for me to talk about Brett as well, because to understand where Brianna was at, you need to understand the whole life.”
I think we do. Poor child was doomed in the womb.
What was Brett like? Her face lights up and her voice crackles with happiness. “Hyperactive, giddy, funny, always getting up to mischief. A cheeky little thing. Absolutely fearless. He taught himself gymnastics – he did backflips. I think of him bouncing around Asda, completely uncontrollable but also completely full of joy. And so kind. When he was young, he had an asthma appointment and as he was leaving he went to give the doctor a hug. He was so full of love. That kind of love started seeping away once I’d given him the phone. The impact the phone had on his mental health is stark. I believe it took my child away from me.” There’s a tremor in her voice, and Ghey starts crying.
You're blaming the technology? Really?
Brett had so many issues, she says – body dysmorphia and dysphoria, asthma, ADHD, appalling eyesight, autism (then undiagnosed).
Brianna was a mass of contradictions: desperate for attention in the digital world, but terrified of the real world.
Because he spent so little time in it, thanks to a mother who allowed him never to face reality.
“My relationship with Brianna was so bad because all I wanted to do was help her, but because I wasn’t backing down, we were having lots of arguments.” Brianna became abusive and violent. When Ghey confiscated her phone, she punched holes in her bedroom walls.
“I saw how addicted she was to her phone through her behaviour,” Ghey says, “because I’ve been through it myself. Smartphones have been built to be addictive. Social media is built to keep you on there as long as possible. It’s the attention economy.”
And that's why you're writing a book. Don't decry the 'addiction of attention' while you yourself are shooting up on it.
