Nigel Farage Welcomes Nadine Dorries – The Tory Minister Responsible for the Online Safety Act
Nigel Farage welcomed Nadine Dorries to Reform last night – despite Dorries being the Tory culture minister responsible for the Orwellian Online Safety Act that Farage has savaged and pledged to replace.
Farage on Thursday called Dorries a “big signing” and “a significant addition to [the] team”.
She’s been there, she knows the problems. She crosses the line from being just a politician into celebrity – she’s been in the jungle like me, she sold 3.5 million books, she’s an accomplished columnist on the Daily Mail and this shows that the Conservative Party is beginning to disintegrate before your eyes.
He wasn’t so keen on her when she was in government, however. Back then, as Dorries continued to defend Boris when most of his supporters had fled, Farage commented:
I had the misfortune of watching and listening to Nadine Dorries this morning. If she is the PM’s defence then he really is a goner.
Hopefully he won’t be giving her the culture brief…
Dorries’s defection came on the eve of the Reform party conference, where Trump’s America is being looked to as the inspiration for a radical plan for government that will push back on the increasingly lunatic Leftism that has dominated British governance since Blair. The Mail has more.
Jubilant Reform is kicking off its conference today following the defection of former Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries.
Nigel Farage is set to rally his party in Birmingham after he welcomed Ms Dorries – who announced her move by telling the Daily Mail the Tories “are dead”.
Reform has seen an extraordinary surge in support since the General Election, and is now enjoying double-digit poll leads over Labour.
Professor John Curtice this morning described Mr Farage as the most influential politician of the century. He told the BBC that Reform could win a majority at an election with the current levels of support – although the contest might still be four years away.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that half the Cabinet might not be MPs if Mr Farage does end up in power.
Reform’s DOGE chief Zia Yusuf said “all the talents” would be deployed in a US-style administration.
They could be made peers in order to serve in office – although critics have warned that would pose problems with democratic accountability.
Mr Yusuf told the Telegraph: “The number of people who are coming forward saying that they want to help Reform, either in the background or potentially front line, is growing all of the time.
“Some of these people are household names. I’m not going to give you them, because I’m not going to betray confidences. But these are incredible – this is galactic-level talent that we’d be very proud to have serving our country.”
Touring broadcast studios this morning, Mr Yusuf said the party is actively “preparing for government”.
He told BBC Breakfast: “Nigel is preparing for government. We are taking seriously the important work of getting ready for government.
“We’re not going to be like Labour, if the British people see fit to elect a Reform government, we will come into power with a plan.”
Worth reading in full.
Richard Tice this morning told BBC Radio 4 Today that Reform will follow Donald Trump’s lead on borders and Net Zero if it wins the next election, saying the American President had achieved “much to be inspired about”.
He’s been very successful at many things. He’s the President of the US. and what is my inspiration is the low energy costs in the US because they drill baby drill. And that creates a rich nation where they’ve got high economic growth. He’s successfully stopped illegal immigration so there’s much to be inspired about.
And with Dorries on board, there’s, er, no stopping Reform now.
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“I’ll always remember where I was when Rayner resigned”
The collapse of the house of cards is now at full speed, election by Xmas?
Hopefully
Leftist Apologist Legacy media CNN writes:
”Her departure is another headache for the United Kingdom’s increasingly unpopular leader, Keir Starmer, and deprives his cabinet of one of its brightest political stars.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/uk/angela-rayner-resigns-labour-uk-deputy-prime-minister
From a poolside, somewhere in Menorca.
The Labour Government is like a disaster movie with the audience waiting in anticipation for the next catastrophe, sure to come.
I can think of no reason for a majority of MPs to vote to have an election – most of them will lose their seats.
Dorries and winds blowing…..no one from the ‘Tory’ gov’t can be trusted with anything. Farage needs to be careful.
Agreed. I think he and leadership will be careful.
I want to vote Reform, but don’t trust Farage. Too much from him recently that I didn’t want to hear. No one else to vote for though. Zia Yusuf in charge would make me more inclined to vote for them. But I will vote for them.
“They could be made peers in order to serve in office – although critics have warned that would pose problems with democratic accountability”
What democratic accountability? We were ruled by a bureaucracy in Brussels for nearly 50 years with no democratic accountability, the civil service and judiciary who now think they rule are nog elected, and in any case whoever we elect is apparently powerless to carry out the will of the People because we are governed by International Law.
But there are supposed to be three elements in government Executive, Parliament, People. (Remember: “government by the People”? Fat chance!)
Parliament sits between Executive and People to protect the latter’s Rights and interests. However Executive and Parliament are one, the latter protecting Party interests and protecting the State against the People.
Maybe an Executive that is not Parliament will be an improvement.
Promotion from back-benches into Government positions is how PM’s ensure “loyalty” and why MPs toe the Party line. Getting rid of that patronage might make MPs care more about their constituents than their own ambitions.
Worth a try because the current situation is broken.
There is another: The Executive, The Legislature, and The Judiciary.
The Globalists are building The Judiciary into The Global Kritocracy: unelected, impossible to sack, and answerable to no one.
Except their paymasters… not necessarily their employers though
Nadine Doris is a danger to Reform, Nigel must not give her a place in any future cabinet, she is a Borisite, she will be trouble.
Wow— I read years ago that Nigel wanted to follow the Canadian example of Stephen Harper, and he seems to be following exactly in Harper’s footsteps, using Harper’s playbook, as you can see here: “ Harper was one of the founders of the REFORM PARTY OF CANADA and was first elected in1993 in Calgary West. He did not seek re-election in the 1997 federal election, instead joining and later leading the National Citizens Coalition, a conservative lobbyist group. In 2002, he succeeded Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance, THE SUCCESSOR TO THE REFORM PARTY, and returned to parliament as Leader of the Official Opposition.” “In 2003, Harper negotiated THE MERGER of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to form THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF CANADA, and was elected as the party’s first leader in March 2004. In the 2004 federal election, the new party LOST its first election to the LIBERAL PARTY led by Paul Martin.” “The 2006 federal election resulted in a minority government led by the Conservative Party with Harper becoming Prime Minister of Canada.” “In the 2015 federal election, the Conservative Party lost power to the Liberal Party led by Justin Trudeau.” ******************************************************************************************* So you see, dear people, it was all… Read more »
I hope you are wrong but am very concerned that you might not be. Maybe Dorries has changed her views, but anyone who had anything to do with the Online Safety Act does not and cannot ever represent me or my views or have my support, unless they undergo some kind of radical conversion – which I doubt in her case.
I hope some courageous journalist will ask Nigel & Nadine about the Orwellian Safety Act she sponsored and he denounced only days ago in the US Congress. It’s something that inspires “cognitive dissonance” in normal people.
“Courageous” and “journalist” don’t often belong in the same sentence. Journalists worthy of the name are thin on the ground – our gracious host Lord Young, Peter Hitchens, Mike Graham are the only ones who are “mainstream” that spring to mind.
And Dan Wootton, among many others, though not mainstream. Perhaps a Reform Party member will ask Nigel & Nadine for their views on it.
Imagine what the US Congress thinks of this, after listening to Nigel’s testimony against the Orwellian Act only days ago, and now watching him welcome the sponsor of that same Orwellian Act into the Reform Party.
Steven Edginton has been very good asking questions I want to hear him answer . https://youtu.be/aVMhFVZH_gY?si=w76UovLyM04pMNQI
Thanks, that’s good to know
I don’t watch GB News (or any other news for that matter) – not enough time!
Id be pretty certain that it was just handed to her as a fait accompli and she was told to push it through
That doesn’t make me feel differently. There’s nothing conservative about that legislation.
You’re certainly getting your exercise today Heretic, jumping to all these conclusions. Although we are all sceptical by our association here, not everything needs a conspiracy theory.
Nigel himself said years ago that he wanted to follow Stephen Harper’s example.
See the Globalist Mark Carney now in charge of Canada.
Make of it what you will.
That’s fair enough, but I think we ought to extend to everyone the ability to change their mind. Or perhaps to follow a similar logic but with different intentions for the outcome.
Exactly. Most people have no idea what is happening. The globalists will remain in control, as they are now.
Well done to you for realizing that!
I have four concerns:
1. Two Muslims in top-level, influential policy positions.
2. Who legally owns Reform?
3. Farage’s narcissism.
4. Facing the biggest challenge since WW2 with the least experienced team.
That said, they are by a country mile the ‘least worst’ option.
Nigel changed the whole basis of the party when he officially turned it into a company owned by himself and Mohammed Yusuf. They are equal owners, unless Nigel has changed it again to hand it all to Mohammed…
“Bait & Switch”.
Well you could always carry on with the Labour & the Tories merry-go-round.
How long before Boris Johnson’s deputy leader of Reform?
I’m surprised Tony Blair hasn’t joined.
Given how bad the Tories were there is a concern at Reform going around and siging up these out of contract politicians like some desperate football club. To succeed Reform needs to be free of the CINOs which will sink any chance Olukemi Adegoke has of moving the Tories away from left wing unipartyism.
But Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke has no intention of moving the Tories away from Left Wing Unipartyism, and called Tory members’ moves to give her the boot “REGICIDE”, obviously still thinking of her Adegoke Nigerian Royal Caste status.
At Reform conference today. Mood friendly, angry, determined and by the time I had to leave confident of our prospects. The range of people who appeared on stage was impressive.
I expect that Ms Dorries is expecting the ‘gong’ that she didn’t get from Johnson, from Farage instead 🤔
Good point. Nigel has often said he deserved a knighthood for Brexit, which he did, and we all cheered him on at the time. But Boris didn’t reward him for handing the election to the Tories on a plate, so Nigel will have to wait for that Egyptian Muslim Lawyer woman Laila Cunningham to give him a knighthood after he steps aside for her to illegally occupy No. 10.
The pollution of Reform by Tory has beens needs to be very limited.They are “dead”as Nadine says, for a very good reason. A deplorable 14 years of sabotage of our country. ND produced the toxic on line safety bill. Doesn’t seem right.