David Bull – who once referred to Farage as prejudiced and dangerous – becomes chairman of Reform

Earlier this week, Reform appointed a new chairman, David Bull. This follows the chaotic resignation and un-resignation of the previous one. The one-man dictator of the party, Nigel Farage, reputedly split Zia Yusuf’s previous role so as to ensure the new chairman held less power.

(Photograph from the Independent)

So what do we know about David Bull? Here are a few facts about his past life.

He once called his now-party-leader, Nigel Farage, a “prejudiced and dangerous idiot” – so his judgement clearly wasn’t always lacking.

The relevant post on Twitter read:

Nigel Farage’s comments are ill-judged, prejudiced and dangerous. HIV can affect anyone regardless of sex, race & class. #idiot #unhelpful

For what it’s worth, he’s also condemned Donald Trump as being a “fool”, “dangerous” and a “source of hate”. Whereas party leader Farage still seems to be a (wannabe?) close friend of Trump’s calling him the “single most resilient and bravest person I have ever met in my life”. Well, less so recently, perhaps. Whereas Bull seems to have moved in the other direction, becoming a big fan of Trump, as we’ll see later.

Bull is actually a failed candidate for another party, the Conservatives, quitting his candidacy to represent Brighton Pavilion back in 2010 before the election actually took place.

Bull has also been condemned in the past for trying to exploit National HIV Testing Week to try and profiteer by selling “discounted HIV testing kits”. In the UK there is no need to give money to any greedy charlatan for these kits. They are available for free from the National Health Service.

“Abhorrent,” said one Twitter user. “UK testing is free, fast and comes with professional support. It’s also rather standard in most diagnostics. There is no room for profit here.”

You could also win a lifetime’s supply of condoms if you “followed the brand” and “shared the post”. Real social media grifter stuff.

He was also perhaps most famous for his presenter role on the show “Most Haunted Live!”. This is a paranormal ghost-hunting show. Unfortunately it has since been exposed as being fake by one of the parapsychologists involved.

He accuses the show’s medium Derek Acorah of hoodwinking viewers by pretending to communicate with spirits and obtaining information about locations prior to filming.

The Mirror has also obtained unedited footage which appears to show presenter Yvette Fielding and her husband faking ‘paranormal’ occurrences such as ghostly bumps and knocks.

Less famously he’s seen fit to appear on the “The Richie Allen Show”, a show which platforms some rather awful people.

HOPE not hate can reveal that two Brexit Party MEPs and a prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) have appeared on the Richie Allen Show, a David Icke-affiliated radio broadcast that serves as an online platform for antisemitic conspiracy theorists and Holocaust deniers.

But oddly, he now seems to be strangely pro-immigration for being the chair of such a party whose primary gambit is really being rabidly anti-immigrant. Soon after his appointment he claimed that “immigration is the lifeblood of this country”.

Predictably, this absolutely infuriated viewers of GB News:

The comment immediately sparked fierce debate among viewers, with many expressing outrage that Reform UK’s new chairman appeared to be endorsing immigration just hours into his new role.

Perhaps most bizarrely, especially given his past comments on Trump, last year he appeared on TalkTV wearing an ear bandage in “solidarity” with President Trump after Trump’s first assassination attempt.