Reform’s Lee Anderson the ‘secret’ main speaker at Caerphilly ‘victory’ event
Martin Shipton
Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has been lined up as the main speaker at a “Countdown to Victory” event to be held two days after the crucial Caerphilly by-election, we can reveal.
Members of the far right party will have reserved seating in the front rows and eat a three-course meal in the company of the former Conservative Party deputy chairman if they buy VIP tickets for £75 each.
Mr Anderson’s presence at the event in the Caerphilly constituency is meant to be a closely guarded secret, but details have been leaked to Nation.Cymru
David Thomas, a Torfaen councillor who is the Director of Wales Reform, has sent an email to members of the party’s Newport branch on behalf of its interim chair Kevin Preston, who doesn’t yet have a Reform email address.
‘Curry night’
The message to members states: “The next branch meeting will be held on Thursday 9th October at the usual venue, Newport Golf Club. The agenda is not fully decided yet, we will let you know in due course. We had intended to have a social evening ‘Curry Night’ but have decided to postpone this until November.
“The reason for this is our big ‘Countdown to Victory’ event at Bryn Meadows Golf Hotel & Spa, Maesycwmmer, Nr Ystrad Mynach, CF82 7SN at 14:00 hrs on Saturday 25th October where we will have Lee Anderson as our main speaker.
“We will also have a number of other speakers including Laura Jones MS, Cllr David Thomas (Director Wales Reform), Cllr Stuart Keyte, Cllr Maxwell Harrison and Llyr Powell the candidate for Caerphilly.
“This is a very important event for the branch and should be well worth attending.
“Standard admission tickets are available at £20 each or VIP tickets which include admission, front rows seating and 3 course evening meal with Lee Anderson in attendance for £75.
“Tickets are limited in number and we are offering them to our branch members first before advertising them to the other branches. All money raised by this event will go directly to branch funds to support our campaigning activities. Tickets are only available to members.
“As well as being a fantastic event you will be helping the branch raise much needed funds for our campaigning efforts for the Senedd elections [sic] which are not that far away. Please purchase your tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
“Reform HQ have asked that members do not post details of Lee Anderson’s attendance at our event on social media, please take this request seriously. I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting and especially on the 25th October,”
The evening meal menu starts with Chef’s Homemade Leek & Potato Soup served with warm fresh baked bread. The main course is Roast Topside of Beef, served with roast potatoes, honey roasted parsnips & carrots, Yorkshire Pudding, and rich roast gravy.. A vegetarian option is also available. The dessert is Eton Mess, served with mixed berries, crushed meringue and Chantilly cream.
Arrogant
A political source said: “By billing this dinner as a ‘Countdown to Victory’ event, Reform is arrogantly taking for granted the votes of the people of Wales, and most of the party’s supporters couldn’t afford £75 to dine with Lee Anderson.
“It’s appropriate though that their main speaker was a Tory MP until just 18 months ago. They want to con people into believing they’re something new, when so many of them are former Tories who have rebranded themselves as Reform.”
Meanwhile the Conservative candidate in the Caerphilly by-election, Gareth Potter, has been ridiculed for being the ‘guest speaker’ at his own fundraising curry night at the Raj of India restaurant in Caerphilly on October 8.
‘Guest speaker’
A message sent to Nation.Cymru anonymously about the event said: “Do we have a guest speaker raising funds for his own by-election campaign in Caerphilly? How can he be a guest speaker? Surely, he would be a host speaker? Is he hosting himself?
“It’s saying something when the Welsh Conservatives can’t even book a guest speaker to drum up support for a serious by-election at the Senedd. Kemi Badenoch? Robert Jenrick? Mel Stride? Surely, someone was available Nobody has heard of Gareth Potter.
“It’s going to be a complete disaster as the planned curry night is also on the same day the party’s national conference finishes. It finishes at 1pm and the curry night is planned to start at 6pm, however it takes four hours to get back down into Wales from Manchester. Hardly anyone will go. It’s a complete shit show.
“Last weekend, there were only a small number out campaigning for the Caerphilly by-election. Just the usual suspects from floor three at the Senedd, ie mainly paid staff and MSs. They are completely out of touch. There is now a huge disconnect from floor three to the wider voluntary party. At this rate, they will be lucky to retain their deposit in Caerphilly. [Darren] Millar will be gone in May next year as Tory leader.”
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Surely, I must be reading this wrong. How are anti immigrant political party hosting a dinner night with a themed meal revolving around curry, a term derived from the south Indian tamil ‘kari’? Ironic. Let’s pray they all order the Jalfrezi Chicken.
An arrogant fool.
The bloke is a grifter, like his boss, and lines up his mates to do favourable door knock for the press.
Also ARTD had a thing for him once.
Golfs clubs and British Nationalism. Well it makes sense. Bigotry all around, as they sip G&T’s with the Daily Mail in their back pockets.
I’ve heard that the other guests will be the Russian Ambassador to the UK and via Zoom all the way from Moscow Vladimir Putin.
The voters of CAERPILLY, yes, CAERPILLY (they even stole a letter off them there), will be told to ration themselves to 30p a day on food while the architect of their hunger comes to stuff 3 courses down under their noses. I hope by then their ‘Countdown to victory’ presumption ends up like the thousands of Grand Slam T-shirts England fans had ready in Cardiff the day Wales hammered them 30-3. The clothes bank skips were overwhelmed.
I wonder if any venue planning to host an event for such a vicious hate movement with arguably its’ most nasty high profile savage in attendance has considered the effect on its’ future business.
The event it was meant to be kept under wraps. The Reform UK “Countdown to Victory” event featuring Lee Anderson is scheduled for Saturday 25th October at 14:00, and the venue is: Bryn Meadows Golf Hotel & Spa Maesycwmmer, near Ystrad Mynach Postcode: CF82 7SN According to leaked details, VIP tickets (£75) include a three-course meal and front-row seating with Anderson, while standard admission is £20. The event is being marketed internally to party members, with explicit instructions not to post about Anderson’s attendance on social media. ccording to a leaked internal email reported by Nation.Cymru, Reform UK explicitly instructed… Read more »
An accurate appraisal of the situation. A covert racist rally that the venue should have rejected immediately even if it set the conditions of secrecy. It should have known that it would get out. The excitement at the prospect of having their chief hate preacher there could never be contained. Watch this space for the pending cancellation. The reputation of the venue depends on this outcome.
I Agree, it’s put me off visiting Bryn Meadows. Iv’e spent a lot of money over there family weddings and other events not likely to do business with them again.
Abolish Wales aready celebrating victory in Caerphilly because that’s how confident they are that the left-left will put egos before Wales when they split the pro-Wales vote.
That’s a convenient narrative, but it doesn’t hold water. The real threat to Wales isn’t a split vote—it’s the rise of parties who want to abolish Welsh identity altogether. Blaming the left for having principles is just a distraction from the fact that Reform UK offers no solutions, only slogans. Caerphilly deserves better than millionaire grievance tourism.
It’s not a narrative but a mathematical fact of the voting system.
Assume the Abolish Wales vote share is 40% and the Pro Wales share is 60% but split between three parties on 20% each.
Abolish wins despite the Pro majority.
If that happens then the election result will have NO democratic validity.
Almost no election under FPTP delivers a result a majority are happy with. Yet in 2011 a supermajority chose to keep FPTP for Westminster elections. So it’s fair to say that, with genuine democratic validity, most people want to be unhappy.
“Assume the Abolish Wales vote share is 40% and the Pro Wales share is 60% but split between three parties on 20% each.” This is not a fact. It’s a hypothetical scenario dressed up as inevitability. And like most of the Reform UK sales hype it collapses under scrutiny. Why It’s Nonsense: No evidence supports a 40% vote share for Abolish/Reform in Caerphilly. Reform UK has never approached that figure in Wales. In fact, their support is often in single digits. Pro-Wales parties (Plaid Cymru, Welsh Labour, Greens) have distinct platforms and voter bases. Suggesting they should merge to “beat… Read more »
If you need AI to fail to make your point for you then all hope is lost.
A gentle reminder that the topic for today is uniting to defeat fascism, not arguing about who has the best socialist credentials.
“If Reform UK were so confident, why was their Caerphilly ‘victory’ event a covert enterprise? Secret venue. Hidden speaker. £75 to dine with division. That’s not democracy—it’s pantomime. Cymru deserves open debate, not imported bile behind velvet ropes.”
So Reform UK held a “victory” event in Caerphilly, and Lee Anderson was the secret sauce? That’s not politics—it’s pantomime. A millionaire parachutes into Wales to preach division, while real communities carry the weight of care, poverty, and dignity. Anderson’s slogans might play well in a soundbite, but they crumble under scrutiny—just like his party’s grasp of actual solutions. Billy Bragg nailed it: Reform UK is the BNP in blazers. Wales deserves better than imported bile dressed up as bravado.
I didn’t know Billy said that bit. Top man. NF/BNP/EDL/UKIP/BREXIT/REFORM. (RESTORE/RECLAIM/ADVANCE). One evolving and rebranding hate movement over decades. There will never be a government called ‘Reform UK’. It will have to be rebranded yet again by then. What will it be called? ‘HATE UK’? Why not? It provides a vehicle for hate and somewhere between giving the place away to foreign control and abolishing Scotland and Wales, it plans to rip up the acts of union thereby dissolving and ending the union itself., an accusation normally flung at the Independence movements. Traitor UK? Cancel UK? Oh no! They can’t… Read more »
I’m so sorry you in Wales have to put up with him, but let’s hope they eventually get seen for their thin experience and dangerous to democracy agenda. As my MP here in Ashfield, he’s nothing but a big mouth pretending to be an ex miner. And not Popular around here. Since being elected last year (for his third choice of party), he’s been invisible, presumably cloistered in the rich environment of Westminster, stroking a portrait of Farage, repeatedly saying “my precious”. To take it for granted that they’ll be elected to control Wales, England and maybe Scotland is so… Read more »
Kind words but you have a lot more putting up with him to do than us here when he is your MP. It is interesting to know he is as much use there as Farij is in Clacton. How absent can an MP be before a recall petition kicks in? I know it’s up to the constituents to get that going. Keep the faith, as I will, that you and all of us will be rid of him, and them, as soon as possible.
How presumptuous of Lee Anderson to celebrate victory even before the Caerphilly by-election has been held. Arrogance personified. But is this the same Lee Anderson who said he wouldn’t live in Wales a few months ago due to Welsh Labour policies. Funny really, as UK Labour are in power in England and I don’t see this social hypocrite move out of England , say to Dubai? Hang on a moment. Dubai, isn’t that where former far right leader of Reform UK English fascist Richard Tice and his carbuncle wife Isabel Oakeshott now reside? Yes it is. Well I be damned.… Read more »
Three course evening meal. That’s going to be a challenge on the cutlery front for some guests.
From curry night to covert roast beef—Reform UK’s culinary journey is as confused as their ideology. £75 for a three-course meal with Lee Anderson? That’s a lot of cutlery for a party that struggles with nuance. I haven’t seen any boats on the castle moat, but I’ve seen plenty of imported bile on the menu.
How ironic that the t**t who said people should be able to feed themselves for 30p thinks nothing of asking for £75 for a posh nosh up.
What a delicious day it would well be indeed if Reform lose. Perhaps they could rebrand it a commiseration meal. All to fight for. Many people are only just getting to know the Reform party – hopefully when they fully realise what a threat to them the party is, they’ll avoid it like the plague.
Why doesn’t Lee take control of the catering and show everyone what a slap-up feast be had for just 30p per person.
Huw Davies spouting opinions about the Tories again. At least he has been kicked out now and can’t be quoted as a Tory source anymore.
Let’s hope Reform can oust these corrupt Welsh charlatans from Cardiff Bay.
£75 to hear someone who’s worth 30 pence at most
Some mistake surely!
Lee Anderson’s net worth? Around £1.1 million. But he thinks the people of Wales are worth 30p—and daft enough to vote for it.
He parachutes into Caerphilly for a £75 VIP ticketed dinner, while telling working families they should survive on scraps. That’s not politics—it’s pantomime. Cymru deserves dignity, not millionaire grievance tourism dressed in a Union Jack.