Incredible results that they are, the reality is that the Reform revolution is only at the beginning.
What Nigel Farage is doing is scrapping the convention of Liberal Tories (Cameron and the like) agreeing with centrist Labour (Blair and the like) who then run the country without giving a damn about what the voters really thought (especially about migration) as they knew they had nowhere else to go. That moment is over. They can go to Reform.
Take the three hand grenades Reform has chucked since taking power in ten local authorities. On immigration, they have told the government they will not accept migrants being dumped on their councils without a fight. That’s a first. And very welcome.
They have told the council climate change and diversity staff that their jobs are at an end, and they should seek other employment. That’s a first. And very welcome.
On cost-cutting, they have said they are going to carry out an Elon Musk analysis of how our money is being spent. Since £1 in £4 of council tax goes to council pension schemes, I am hopeful Reform will start scrapping them for new employees.
What I enjoy about those policies is that they will cause a massive national punch-up, and each time a fight makes the headlines, it will be brilliant PR for the 2026 elections, which will be held in Wales, Scotland, and various county councils in the South.
The councils going to the polls next year are Essex, Hampshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, Thurrock, East and West Sussex, Isle of Wight. Currently, the Tories hold power in many of these areas. That moment is coming to an end.
And the reality is that the Tories know there is nothing that they can do which can fend off the march of Reform.
Kemi, in yet another major error, has made clear she is not turning to the right. She can say that, but that’s where her voters are.
The middle classes, her natural habitat, are under attack from private school fees being raised through VAT, through insecurity at work, through record taxes, and through any spare money being thrown at state workers and their disgraceful gold-plated pensions.
Reform has already chucked three massive grenades, and the revolution has only just begun - Kelvin MacKenzie
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I’m afraid a majority of the middle classes are not voting Tory, even if they were paid to do so.
So, Kemi is sentencing herself to a year of dreadful polling before being kicked out when she loses all those southern county councils, with the final ignominy being that Conservatives will be bottom of five in the Senedd.
With a bit of luck, Reform might actually win Wales, which has been run into the ground over the 100 years of Labour rule. Labour has won the last six Senedd elections, but my bet is they won’t win a seventh.
What the people of Wales will love over the next 12 months will be Farage and his Reform-run council taking lumps out of Labour politicians for trying to dump literally thousands of Channel migrants into their area.
Nobody wants these people. We have hardly enough money these days to look after our own, let alone the unskilled from Pakistan or Bangladesh who are a burden on our taxes, with a minority criminally attracted to our teenage girls.
I thought Dame Andrea Jenkyns hit the right note when, only a day after being elected Mayor of Lincolnshire, she suggested migrants should be housed in tents rather than hotels. France uses tents, not hotels.
