Reform UK office in Caerphilly targeted for second time
A Reform UK office in Caerphilly has been vandalised for the second time in five months as the Senedd election approaches.
A sticker was placed over the party’s slogan, changing it to read “Caerphilly needs Fascism”.
The incident follows a previous act of vandalism after the October 2025 Caerphilly by-election, when graffiti reading “now you can f*** off home” was written on the premises.
That contest saw Reform UK finish second despite polling suggesting its candidate, Llŷr Powell, could win. The party ultimately lost to Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle, who secured 47% of the vote, in a result that marked Labour’s first parliamentary defeat in Caerphilly for more than a century.
Reform’s campaign in the by-election focused heavily on immigration and criticism of the Welsh Government’s Nation of Sanctuary policy.
Following the earlier incident, the party’s regional director for Wales accused the Welsh media of “anti-Reform” bias, while senior figures including deputy leader Richard Tice and MP Lee Anderson claimed Reform activists had faced intimidation during the campaign.
They alleged posters featuring Powell had been defaced with Nazi symbols and that the candidate’s home door had been “kicked in” during the run-up to the vote. Security cameras were later installed at the party’s Caerphilly office, with local representatives saying they would not be intimidated.
The latest vandalism comes as polling suggests Reform UK could be a major force in Welsh politics ahead of the May 7 election.
A recent poll by Beaufort Research for Nation.Cymru puts Plaid Cymru narrowly ahead on 30%, with Reform UK close behind on 27%. Labour trails on 17%, with the Greens on 11%, the Conservatives on 9% and the Liberal Democrats on 6%.
Seat projection
A seat projection based on the poll suggests Plaid Cymru could emerge as the largest party with 37 seats, followed by Reform UK on 30 and Labour on 15.
The Conservatives and the Green Party are both projected to win 6 seats each, with the Liberal Democrats on 2.
The result would leave Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth on course to become First Minister, with current First Minister Eluned Morgan projected to lose her seat.
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Well done all to those involved. Using humour to ridicule all that Reform represents is a great way to show these charlatans up for what they truly are.
Excellent work Caerphilly. Unfortunately they don’t seem to understand that there is zero place in Wales for racism or its supporters.
These individuals are incredibly dangerous for our communities and should be treated as such.
I thought they were free speech absolutists? Or do they consider punching down the only legitimate form of speech?
Droll but unfortunately Reform will use it to make themselves look like ‘victims’ eg headlines in the media saying ‘Reform office vandalised’
No smashed windows or paint daubed walls, just a well printed sign with a positive message. What on earth are they complaining about?
This is no joking matter. I wish Reform UK were indeed a joke.Sadly they are not.
It wasn’t meant as a joke, I was being sarcastic.
Don’t like them but can’t condone anything that attacks their property as they will adopt the old “victim” nonsense with ease. Also ask yourselves what you do if a neighbour has opinions with which you disagree. Do you pop round to his house and put stickers above his door, or are you tempted to do even worse?
There’s a difference in a neighbour putting up something you don’t agree with as opposed to putting up something offensive, how about that big blue sign above it?
I actually do have a racist neighbour who strongly supports reform.
I’ve politely told him to stay well away from my family as I consider him a genuine threat, there’s been no stickering or similar, but the entire village now treat him like some sort of wrong un.
And I feel this is very acceptable.
Where there’s racism there are always other sinister things.
This is not vandalism, this is legitimate protest, and very funny too. It’s simply a sticker someone has added too so easy to take off. Nothing was actually damaged, and any sense of manufactured hurt that the Reform fascists come out with should be seen as just that. Let’s not beat about the bush with this, I understand that the F label is extreme, but Reform is fascist light at the moment, but we already know the party contains crypto-fascists, and that Reform when in its Brexit Party manifestation sided with European fascists and the far-right the European Parliament groups.… Read more »
You have to laugh it’s Mr Squeegee himself.Cllr David Thoams getting all huffy about this.
The same one who had been taking down signs of his rivals and driving off with them.
He could shin up his ladder when he’s on his round and take it down, no probs. Come to think of it, as a man with a ladder, did he put it up as a false flag in the first place?
Hilarious how they claim bias in the Welsh media. Other than NC, the media were touting Reform as the next thing until Caerffili. True to form, these cut-price journos then started printing anti-reform stories. They’re onto a thing, get the mouth-frothers something to get apoplectic about in the comments section. Note that a Reform-led council in England stopped giving media access to a paper that wrote something negative about them. Bunch of gammons to a man and woman.