Ex-Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK
Former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson has defected to Reform UK, declaring: “I want my country back.”
The Ashfield MP was kicked out of the Conservative Party last month in an Islamophobia row.
He announced his switch to the Nigel Farage-linked right-wing populist party at a press conference alongside party leader Richard Tice in London on Monday.
Immigration
Mr Anderson said: “I will start by saying I want my country back.
“Over the last year or so I’ve had to do a lot of soul searching on my political journey.
“I don’t expect much in politics other than to be able to speak my mind.”
He said that leads him to be “labelled as controversial,” but argued it is “not controversial to be concerned about immigration” or to “fight back in a culture war”.
Mr Anderson continued: “It is no secret that I’ve been talking to my friends in Reform for a while. And Reform UK has offered me the chance to speak out in Parliament on behalf of millions of people up and down the country who feel that they’re not being listened to.
“People will say that I’ve took a gamble. And I’m prepared to gamble on myself, as I know from my mailbag how many people in this country support Reform UK and what they have to say. And like millions of people up and down the country, all I want is my country back.”
Mr Tice said he had found a “champion of the Red Wall for Reform UK” in welcoming Mr Anderson to his party.
“He’s also coincidentally going to be Reform UK’s first Member of Parliament’s in the House of Commons.
“He is, of course, a person of great integrity, no nonsense, and is the Member of Parliament in the county of Nottinghamshire for Ashfield.”
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Surprise surprise. Bigoted Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK from the Conservatives. The rat has scampered from the sinking ship to sanctuary in the sewer.
That there has to be a ‘Reform’ is blood curdling really but I suppose Tories need somewhere to go when their own party is not bigoted enough.
Reform UK, like the Brexit Party, Ukip & BNP before them, are ultra far-right Conservative zealots who weaponize fear & hate. Voting for such parties is not only a wasted vote but the equivalent of putting sawdust on vomit. Although there’s a thin veil covering, the viscous bile still remains bubbling beneath the surface putridness and ever pungent.
Free transfer ? No fee ? early release from contract ? Heading flat out into anonymity.
Is he taking his BFF, ARTD?
I heard Tice call Farage a reporter on one radio show. How I laughed.
Ah, here it is. 30p voting that people who cross the floor in the HoC must be recalled for a by-election. Man of his word.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-09-02/division/BC12A962-20C9-432C-9C11-D92090E22150/RecallOfMps(ChangeOfPartyAffiliation)?outputType=Names
Yes, Tice stepped in to say a by election is too expensive but he’s not going to pass up being able to say that Reform actually has an MP for a few months until his sorry butt gets a ballot box beating.
From Labour to the Tory party, and now from the Torys to Reform. I am sure if he continues to move further to the right, he will eventually find his spiritual home.
From Labour to Reform via Tories in six years!
So a FAR FAR RIGHT TOTORY IS JOINING A FAR FAR RIGHT PARTY there will be More joining this nut job from the Tory party Tommy Robinson shortly as well i would think
I hope Tice will charge Anderson a symbolic 30p joining fee and ‘snuggle’ at him for his ‘pound shop Farage’ insult. Such hateful people all in the same room will rip each other to shreds. Sit back and enjoy the show.
This man being ‘accepted’ by the Reform Party has destroyed any lingering doubts I had about this Party, They obviously ARE as racist, misogynistic, and bigoted as I thought they may be. When people start advocating harsh measures against minorities, don’t be surprised when they knock on your door next!
If they knock on my door, they will receive an expletive filled tirade followed by ‘Now go and tell the media THAT’S what you’re hearing on the doorstep’.
If he wants HIS country back does that mean we can have ours back for the first time in centuries? 🙄 I didn’t think so 🙄😠 His country!? Pfft 😡 Most of it isn’t even English! 😠😡 30p Lee has found a place where there will be no pressure to wind his neck in, which he needs to and then some!!