Donna Edmunds, one of the fleet of Reform candidates that won a local election to become a councillor during the elections on 1st May 2025 was suspended by the party just three days later. Reform claimed that one of her social media posts “damaged the interests of their party” .
Why? She claims it was:
Because I urged people here on X to lend Reform their support for the short term – for Thursday’s elections – even if they felt they couldn’t for the long term.
They claim it was because she posted her intent to defect to another party.
In any case, the next day she formally quit Reform, having come to believe it is in fact a cult.
“I thought I was joining a party. It turned out I had joined a cult,” Edmunds said in a statement.
She reports that Farage replaces anyone who questions anything with “‘yes men’ who are willing to display sycophantic loyalty” and is a “terrible leader” who “must never be prime minister”.
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