Never strangers to raising money by any grift they deem feasible, Reform has started selling a football shirt emblazoned with the name of their party and their leader.
The supporters of a party who constantly pretend they’re on the side of the poor everyday working man currently going through a cost of living crisis will have to stump up £39.99 to get the basic version or an astonishing £99.99 if they want one signed by Nigel Farage.
Apparently:
…it reflects our commitment to independence, strength and unity.
“Unity” is an odd claim to make for a party whose whole reason for being appears to be to sow division.
But that’s not the only hypocrisy at play. Remember last year when Nigel Farage was appalled at the British Olympic team having a perfectly recognisable version of UK’s flag that didn’t reflect the original colour scheme on their merchandise?
At that time, Farage, dramatic as ever, seemed to think that a few people wearing something based on somewhat recoloured flag was going to destroy society:
I have to say I think this is really all quite deliberate, an attempt that goes right through much of civil society, right through much of our education system.
They want us to basically be ashamed of who we are as people, not proud. I am dead against it.
But what’s this on the top left of their official merch?
Looks like a distinctly recoloured flag to me!
It has also been noted that he didn’t appear to make quite such a fuss when UKIP, a political party which he was a founder and one-time leader of, changed Britain’s flag to be entirely purple with a big £ sign in the middle.
The latter change would have at least been an honest reflection of Reform’s greedy intention here.
The football shirt emblazoned with the name of a political party also seems further hypocritical for someone who has previously called for keeping politics out of football.
By which he meant, once again, keeping only the politics he doesn’t like and can’t make him money out of football. Yet again, one rule for his friends (and anything that could make him money), another rule for anyone he doesn’t like