Reform UK proposes ban on foreign nationals claiming benefits
Reform put this crap out for attention and in order to appear like a serious political outfit. They're in fact DEEPLY unserious and should be treated as such. Far too many people start to engage with what is essentially a game of pigeon chess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stevie D74And by giving it such uncritical prominence, the BBC have shown that their News & Politics division is equally unserious and equally deserving of contempt.
Jo 🕊️💚72BBC are legitimising this nonsense by presenting it as a statement of fact. It’s utterly shameful.
Stuart Hemingway40If only the BBC didn’t give them the airtime to spout their drivel perhaps people wouldn’t be so believing of their blatant lies and hypocrisy. A prime example is this…. Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Rob Baron38Simply a pile of attention seeking bollocks, just like their "manifesto" at the last general election, full of promises that, when costed, would have been twice as expensive as the Liz Truss budget that cost the country tens of billions and drove it to the verge of bankruptcy.
Freddy Hicarus25They have just 8 MPs, 3 of which were never elected as reform MPs. Why they're treated as the official opposition is just bonkers.
TensegrityFan🐝🍯20It has only ever been about ‘flooding the zone’, to distract from their corrupt, fraudulent funding and their nefarious agenda.
Mike Bailey9Why does the BBC validate them by giving them top billing? Has the BBC become FoxNews?
Feargal Cochrane5Yup the dead cat strategy to get media talking about something other than Farage’s humiliation in Clacton/HoC Standards Enquiry recommencing…. And of course they have obliged.
Róisín Dubh2"How many times must the far right get airtime... The answer my friend..." (For my #GrandOleOpry album 🤠 RD 🌹 (c) 2026 Credit to #BobDylan ofc 🙌😇)
victoria1921.bsky.social2Johnson appointed Tory stooges into management positions to deliberately trash the BBC. Their 'political' journalists, Kuenssberg, Mason are so bad it might be laughable, if it wasn't so insulting to licence fee payers. Reform IS Farage + failed, vicious former Tories. Former. Anagram of Reform.
It's as if "Parody Nigel Farage" lives in the Reform UK leaders head ...
domiracer.bsky.social5I went onto the Mail Online website and said more-or-less the same thing. They went apoplectic. Great fun.
PastaPete4There is no such thing as “parody” on this subject any more! The parody is now his policy.
joesoap.bsky.social3Reform UK committing electoral suicide. The main receivers of benefits are their supporters, and their supporters' friends and relatives.
Quiet Majority2It's so close that its hardly satire.
Echoes of Bexley Square2Protect the wealth of the rich at all costs
alienjawdee.bsky.social1Are the Clacton voters the same inbred imbeciles that voted for Nigel and Brexit… “How’s Brexit working out for them?”
There’s something deeply repellent about Reform’s vengeful and racist obsession to take money from the most vulnerable when they’re under multiple investigations for breaking rules, dodging tax and gorging on £millions for themselves. (And trashing our EU agreement is just so thick it hurts) iPaper
Mia39Well, I am one such ‘foreigner’ I.e. EU settled status transferred here for work from NY to London And I can assure Mr Jenrick, that what I have thus far paid in taxes which by extension naturally also pays for benefits to ‘British workers’ far surpasses what many British pay So he can f off
Ben Sowton21It’s all they’ve got. Perhaps the 46% economically inactive voters in Clacton should start paying attention as this is aimed at them. Turkey’s and Christmas spring to mind
Andrew Whiteley18What I don't understand is why the media is treating these 'policies' as if they will ever happen in practice. Reform could announce that they would kill the firstborn and the media would cover it and debate the outcome. It's all bollocks to distract from the Farage money laundering investigations.
Claire S (UK not USA)16My Polish DiL has lived and worked in the UK for nearly 15 years, if she isn't going to be allowed to claim any benefits why should she pay tax, it's a ridiculous policy which will fall apart like a cheap suit with proper scrutiny.
Donna15They're like the one person in the workplace who has ridiculous obnoxious political views being given the red carpet every bloody week. A bunch of nasty bastards we're supposed to take seriously. Fuck to that!
Grahame Lucas12Reform is deploying the Trumpian “own the libs” tactic, that is putting out ridiculous and provocative ideas to get everyone who cares about upholding human decency all riled up and foaming at the mouth. The objective is to shift the news agenda away from Reform’s corruption. It seems to be working.
Maggie Duarte #fbpe3Deeply repellent Reform Ltd. That fits
mike007.bsky.social2Repellant, repulsive, repugnant.... That is the reality of Reform
Marta Moon ⁷ 💜2If I may - I dislike the word "retaliatory" These are RECIPROCAL agreements and rights, like Freedom of Movement was. Also to point UK citizens are one of the biggest migrant communities in many of the EU countries (ICD if they call themselves "expats") & benefit greatly from all these.
The ban would include European Union (EU) nationals with settled status in the UK. It would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal with the EU, potentially meaning that British expatriates living in the EU could lose equivalent rights. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MrsVB Shadow Profanity Secretary58Really pisses me off that this minority party, heading for 3rd place in the polls and 3 years out from a general election is making headlines with a nonsensical, unworkable and vile policy that will never happen.
Hannah Mayhem31Why are the BBC still talking about this? If it was any other political party it would rarely get a mention, never mind two days of articles.
Custardsteeth19British expats are immigrants. Reform really don't like anyone
God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO13But that would never occur to brexit morons who STILL think that we hold all the cards despite years of evidence to the contrary. I despair of these people ever getting a clue.
NetherSchot 🇪🇺🏴🇳🇱12Good. Already I couldn't vote in the Brexit referendum and can't vote in UK elections. How exciting if I now can't get sick or lose my job either. Settled Status is such a privilege!
Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪9This is a betrayal of every promise made during the Brexit years. Perhaps it's time for EU nationals in the UK to start having a packed suitcase by the door.
Mike Bailey14Why are the extreme racist policy wet dreams of a far right party with 8 MPs, half not even elected to the party, given headline prominence by the national broadcaster? Has the BBC become FoxNews for the UK? Why is the Labour government condoning this?
mikefa.bsky.social3we all know that Reform could not give a toss appealing only to self centred individuals and frustrated Tories who are pure hypocrites having no soles !
Diane Messias3#RobertJenrick is, of course, the Tory Housing Secretary who unlawfully fast-tracked a £1 billion property development for Tory donor Richard Desmond. #MillionPoundlandTrump #ReformUK
Neill Morgan the (Non) legend that is Ironmorg 2Bloody hell, Reform being given inordinate amounts of publicity again. This is a non starter, and it is being reported as if it's a Done deal. Bloody hell BBC scrutinise it properly and have your journalists do your fucking jobs
mark norris2This is EXACTLY what they want, isn't it? Restarting a row with the EU to prevent any possibility of them responding positively to overtures from the present UK government. The 'We can't trust the Brits' response so long as there is the remotest possibilty of voters returning a Deform majority.
Karen by name not nature! 📎 🦋2Sooo if you were lucky enough to retire to the EU and are getting your state pension paid into your bank. Vote Deform…… your pension will be stopped. Especially difficult if it is part of your unearned income that allows you to be retired to the EU!!!
Reform UK plans ban on all foreign nationals claiming benefits, including EU citizens legally settled in UK They can work, pay taxes but won't get most benefits. Expect other countries to retaliate. At home, will cut benefits to poor, disabled, old, children. Silence on corporate welfare.
Mial Pagan15Jenrick’s rapidly becoming the face of Reform as Farage heads, willingly or unwillingly, for the bin of history. Let's not forget (esp Clacton people) Reform see the state pension as 'welfare'.
Andrew Whiteley11These aren't policies, they are clickbait for the far right in the race to the bottom against Restore UK and the Tories. It's time that all media outlets stopped treating Reform as a serious political party, reporting every utterance without any editorial comment, and called out its neofascism.
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU7The EU would never tolerate this - it breaks the WA in so many ways.
Andrew Halliwell6Further proof, if ever we needed it, that everyone in reform or who votes for them are utter cunts.
Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan6Monday morning abhorrent policy drop again, another repeat
Freida4Last time I checked, Labour was in power.
Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️🌈💙19ReformUK is a cesspit political party, where the dregs of pond life & failed MPs shout increasingly hate filled slogans from the side lines. They want to divide & destroy 🇬🇧 communities. They want to isolate us from 🇪🇺 Do we really want these ghastly people to have any real chance of govt here in 🇬🇧?😔
Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP5So you’re saying #NHS workers who make #UK #healthcare possible won’t be able to access healthcare themselves or for their families? Great recruitment tool.
Julia Adamo2Nasty, vile inhuman selfish spoilt little men who taint the whole of Britain! Begger off back to Dubai if they’ll have you after your anti foreigner jibes!!
Why oh why is BBC headlining half arsed policies, by a minority Party with just 8 MPs, that’s in a tailspin down the polls, awash with financial investigations over dodgy dealings❓ It’s clearly a diversion.. 🤷🏻♂️ LibDems have 71 MPs, when was the last time one of their policies got such coverage🤔
meribel123.bsky.social19Because there are very obviously powerful interests at work here. Serious stuff that we as citizens should be paying attention to and vociferous about. This insidious media has platforming is exactly what got a turd like Trump into power in the US and Hitler in 1930s Germany . Pay attention.
Fiona Gardner13yes I have lodged a complaint about bias with the BBC - felt furious when it was top item 9am on radio 4 on Sunday
Sauntering Steev10Perhaps the Lib Dems ought to come up with a ridiculous uncoated policy that the BBC are forced to report on to make the point. Free unicycles for the over 60s or something.
hornist24.bsky.social10Robbie Gibb is "in on the act" with his ReformUK company pals, isn't he? Make a big song and dance over ridiculous "policy" announcements made by Reform on Sunday evenings into Monday during the summer, when HoC is in recess. All about grabbing the headlines. It happened last summer too. By the ....
PA6It's unfathomable and needs to stop immediately. There are other decent parties not getting a look in.
Pumpkin #FBPE 🇬🇧🇪🇺 5I don’t understand why this gets any publicity whatsoever.
Matt Bennett35I cannot understand why the LibDems (now representing me after 170 years of Tories!) don’t get more coverage. Well, I can actually, since John McAndrew joined in 2022 as Director of News Programmes from *GB News*. Hence the current prominence of Reform, I suggest.
Chris Gough30BBC News has long been captured by an unscrupulous cabal of rightwing extremists, led by Robbie Gibb, the zionist genocide-supporting owner of the Jewish Chronicle; BBC Director of News formerly did the same job at Reform outlet GBNews, where he was sanctioned by Ofcom several times ...
Toastie_Pan5Since the BBC is failing so terribly, it's up to the public to start talking about other policies being discussed by other parties. We can no longer rely on the general press. So much money is pushing a message of division. Them vs Us. Here's something different. www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...
tpsut.bsky.social5The past giants of BBC journalism must be appalled or turning in their graves. Truly, it has completely lost its way.
R A Turner (he/him)4@ofcom.bsky.social I believe this is your responsibility to investigate these valid concerns no?
Reform would strip benefits from EU citizens with settled status, ripping up the Brexit deal & putting UK-EU migrants at risk. Totally out of touch with what Brits actually want - CLOSER ties with our allies. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/farage-jenrick-migrants-welfare-reform-37558189
Cambridge for Europe9Always remember is that Reform's plans haven't anything to do with saving money or even "making Brexit work". It's all about tearing up international relationships and the institutions that can hold autocrats and their billionaire oligarch backers to account.
Aldo "Antifa"3As a member of the settled status group that pays thousands a month in taxes and NI will I be entitled to a reduced tax bill under Reform (I know they don't want to pay any taxes) as I will not be entitled to any assistance whatsoever!!! Taxation without representation
John Henderson2Reform person on R4 Today this morning admitted that Farage and Tice's constituencies have a higher level of in-work benefits claimants than the national average but seem to think even those people want benefits cuts.
frenchbill.bsky.social1He is a nasty piece of work ! Also going after the disabled like nazi Germany !
Tom Hayes62Not much hope then for campaigning for a better deal for Brits living in Europe. You can kiss any hope of ending the 90/180 rule goodbye. Who would want to do business with a country where this guy might be the next PM? The UK is caught in a European doom-loop and will be for a long time to come.
Cambridge for Europe8Always remember is that Reform's plans haven't anything to do with saving money or even "making Brexit work". It's all about tearing up international relationships and the institutions that can hold autocrats and their billionaire oligarch backers to account.
Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈3Party of eight, spiralling in the polls and mired in scandal shouts out any old half baked rubbish to try and grab the headlines. Anyway about that £5 million gift from a Thai based crypto billionaire Nige…
Tony 3Surprised? You shouldn't be. Farage is a wrecker, a destroyer. He has no other talents. Like a child in a permanent tantrum, he could no more run a country than he could tell the truth. And he has never done that.
Adam Wahby #FBPE2Reform would dismantle the entire welfare system. No-one should imagine that they would not.
Among many other things, the Withdrawal Agreement is international law and supposed to protect the rights of EU citizens who were living in the UK pre-Brexit. What Reform is proposing is a significant violation of that, undermining relations with the EU on other areas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dan Sohege52The simple reality is that most migrants are blocked from accessing state support anyway. Migrants also statistically pay more into the state than they take out, unlike UK nationals who statistically take out more than they put in. People do need a safety net at times though.
l'Esprit de l'Escalier18But why are they even being given airtime to spout this nonsense? They're not even the official opposition, and there's no GE in sight, but the BBC platforms them as if they're the party in power and this is happening next week. Goebbels - Repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it.
catsinfrance16I really despise Reform. Deep into my bones, I despise Reform.
Vladimir Tabakovic12The usual tactic of the rich: pjhollis123.medium.com/careful-mate...
Cheshire dog walker12Reform is a fringe party that gets a disproportionate amount of coverage from the BBC. Its policies are that of hatred and division. The BBC should be covering all parties to the same degree but dont
4everalearner.bsky.social6Certainly taken attention away from the £5m though eh? Or am I being a tad sceptical ? 🤔😏(Btw was Jenrick a lawyer in a past life?)
Very unlikely that the EU would agree to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement on this point. Plus yer man Jenrick there was in a Conservative government that called it an "oven ready deal" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leon16“The British taxpayer cannot afford to subsidise everyone on the planet” is quite the straw man.
Neil White15Reform - announce a clearly unworkable policy, wait for people to say it’s unworkable, blame the “establishment“ and play the victim, keep Reform supporters angry. The same cycle and the same morons fall for it
Pascal Jacquemain9Or maybe the goal is to salt the earth, undo all agreements, and end up with a no-deal Brexit, the only "real Brexit", with settled citizens exchanged for expats in the middle of the Channel Tunnel.
NG6Spanish government: “nice free healthcare Brits living here have got, be a shame if anything were to happen to it”
oh_no_its_john #FBPE 🇪🇺3I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this. They want to get rid of ALL “forrins” and will have no intention of renegotiating the withdrawal agreement- they will simply just tear it up
Hugh Barnard3Wider than the sky: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli... Russophile crypto man, a property developer's tax allergic son and (here) planning guy. 30p Lee too. Frankly United Underworld, a gathering of four powerful villains in Gotham City: Joker, Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman is a classier lineup.
JWexTheSpa38All Reform’s policies are based - entirely reasonably - on the assumption that its support base is as thick as two short planks.
Elena Adaal37The UK far right becomes ever more unhinged. Of course Jenrick knows that going back on an existing treaty with the EU will invite serious retaliation - so it won’t happen.
Dave Andress8This might well be the point at which they do just say "Hahaha, go fuck yourself" and walk out.
Pascal Jacquemain6Honest Bob Jenrick posted this on X. Over half of the answers are from Restore UK supporters. Anyone not born in the UK should be deprived from benefits and/or expelled they say, even if with British citizenship.
Just reading through Reform UK's constitution. A motion of no confidence in the Party Leader can only be called if "50% of all Members in Good Standing write to the Chairman requesting" it. 50% of 280,000-odd members writing to the Chairman is an *extraordinarily* high bar. Basically impossible.
Josiah Mortimer53I am now imagining Reform chairman Lee Anderson receiving 140,000 handwritten letters to his address and having to assess whether all of them are from members of "Good Standing". Oh, and they're only valid for 60 days.
Josiah Mortimer27Reform constitution: "In between meetings all powers of the Board are delegated to the Party Leader who may exercise those powers at his discretion." "Any decision made by the Party Leader that would have been made by the Board is subject to ratification" at next meeting. But NF controls the board
Gajep.12The request being only valid for 60 days and then can be ignored is really telling. Even if a request is made, ignore it for 60 days and the problem goes away. King Farage is what it appears to mean.
Phil Bryan12He runs Reform like a dictatorship, he’d run the country like a dictatorship given half a chance
Matt Beany4Especially as possibly only 40% of them can write.
hawksland.bsky.social4I’d have thought finding 50% of good standing would be impossible using the definition of good character and trustworthiness
aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30)29Because it’s not a Political Party. It’s a company. I’m only surprised he didn’t put it to an actual shareholders’ vote.
Dr_Aust_PhD4As has been said repeatedly, its not a political party. It's a personal vehicle for Nigel Fromage. He owns it. He & his flacks run it. He can never be deposed. It's a commercial arm for his neofascist personality cult.
Reform UK PIP changes: Reform UK MPs vs Old Tory MPs Farage, Pochin, Anderson, Tice, vs Jenrick, Braverman, Rosindell, Kruger Having reviewed PIP data and mapped it against Reform UK constituencies, and weighted for working age claimants, it's clear that there is a divide between them.
Reform Party UK Exposed19So is Reform UK trying to become Tory 2.0?
John Brown10The question is, will their PIP-claiming voters realise/care that Reform plan to make them destitute? They give every appearance of refusing to care about anything, including their own welfare, so long as 'foreigners' are demonised, excluded, deported
jamesthedog.bsky.social7Reform supporters will be like Trump supporters, think it's only going to happen to the "bad" people and not them. Then be shocked when it happens to them. But still support them because racism is more important to them than living.
pitseapanda.bsky.social4Working age reform voters who claim pip being like 😂
Froggy 🐸4They're going to strew over their own voters, what reform just done is shoot themselves on the foot. I'm not saying this is a bad thing because they will lose voters
Stephen Moran.3Nigel Bin Clacton's Reform have unveiled their plan for pensioners and the disabled
Dave Andress17The multiple indices of deprivation that leave double-digit percentages of the population on disability benefits are a source of the desperation that led people to actually vote in REFUK MPs. The thanks they get is being told they can go starve in the gutter.
ScouseLakes14So Farage’s constituents would fare worse. Once again, WELL BLOODY DONE, CLACTON!
Nelson also correctly points out that Reform's plans to cut benefits from foreign nationals, even if implemented, would save very little *because there is nothing stopping almost all these claimants from applying for UK citizenship*
danjac.eurosky.social31Reform's secret weapon: its irredeemably thick supporters
Murmuration3And presumably most of these foreign nationals also pay taxes, and buy things that have taxes paid on them??
Luke Piper3Clearly unworkable. If they wanted to scrutinise citizenship, it is very hard to administrate. The procedure would probably cost more than what they think they'd save! Even then, where do you draw the line? Are children of settled people (automatically British) excluded? Tiers of citizenship?
Bavovna Buff 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 🇳🇴2Blocking them from doing so is probably the next part of the plan. Trying to pick apart logical inconsistencies in Reform's announcements is a waste of time, because they're not an accurate representation of what they REALLY want.
Cathy2Can easily imagine Reform, in unison, saying "NOW".
Garvan Walshe2Apart from the application fees though which would be very expensive for these people if I’m not mistaken.
