Vanessa Lindsey 💙

I was with Nigel 3 weeks ago in Scotland, had a personal conversation with him. I was a reform member, an activist. I have receipts, it's not bullshit. Farage is running a cult of personality dictatorship. I've seen how it all works for 2 years, at every local and regional group meeting, all the WhatsApp groups. The regions treat him like an old town lord from 1453. When he appeared at our meeting everyone was literally told to stand up and clap and cheer, shout out his name. We were told to never speak when he speaks, never interrupt him. Absolutely NOBODY in the party is permitted to challenge him in any way, and I mean even polite conversation. If he doesn't like the look of you, you're gone. Despite any competence you may have. He does not emit ANY degree of likeability. I've been around political parties for decades, I've never seen this kind of behaviour in the political world, it's a bit disturbing tbh. It all feels "off" If he could do what he did to Lowe, a colleague, a man of depth and legitimate love of the UK, just imagine what he can do to a nation or a group he dislikes when he has control of the judiciary, legislature and executive branches. Farage literally sought to imprison, destroy and wreck the life of an ally over a policy disagreement. A man like that can't be anywhere near power. And on that, I don't believe Farage is in it for political power, my gut instinct tells me it's about nothing but money. I've worked as a director in big pharma for 25 years, I can smell the cashrats a mile away. Lowe is the single most authentic politician in this country, whether you disagree with him or not, he's the real deal. Zero bullshit. We have 3 years, I think Reform will implode, you cannot sustain a system like that, the sniping, bitching and backstabbing behind the scenes is on another level. It's a collective of failure, of desperation, of deception. They won't expel anything like the numbers required, they will offer an amnesty and tell the UK it's simply impossible to do it, and too costly. They don't have the stomach for it. Lowe has been clear, it's going to be incredibly difficult, we'll go through a transition that's going to be painful as hell, especially the working classes. But once we go through that, we WILL rebuild a world we can pass to our kids knowing they are going to be safe again, a world where they can, and will flourish. I've heard people openly state they're ready and willing to start this journey of renewal, they know there's going to be a lot of pain along the way but EVERYONE has to embrace it. You all have a role to play here, and you MUST stand up and be counted, and over the next few years, it's going to become very clear exactly what that means. Deus Vult. 🇬🇧

In England today, disabled children have a legal right to an education that meets their needs. The SEND system may be stretched, underfunded and far, far from perfect, but that fundamental principle is what prevents us from returning to a time when disabled children were labelled “ineducable” and denied access to schooling altogether. Strip away legal rights and you strip away accountability — making it much easier to ration, delay or deny the support disabled children need to access education. So it’s infuriating to read that the latest in the seemingly never-ending stream of DfE white paper leaks points to a move away from statutory protections towards a system with fewer safeguards and more gatekeeping, where local authorities are effectively left to mark their own homework. It’s also hard not to ask why proposals of this magnitude are being trailed through media leaks rather than set out in a full white paper, open to proper scrutiny and challenge. Without full and proper legal protections, how long will it take to edge us back towards a system where some children are once again treated as “ineducable”?