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Dear Editor
Wednesday’s TCW article by Julia Stephenson, ‘I’ve watched aghast as Farage put his ego before the country’, could not have been written better by a rabid far-left anti-Reform activist, terrified of the prospect of a future right-wing government.
Such is the bile, the seeping hatred of Reform’s leader, which is completely opposite to my experience in Reform. To portray Nigel Farage as an egotistical poison dispenser with the nation’s interests in second or lesser place in his priorities in my view is a slander too far.
Julia Stephenson, and she is entitled to her opinions, is obviously a huge fan of both Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe, and misleads the reader with a version of events that preclude the facts.
Ben Habib, a stalwart certainly, until he could not retain his deputy leader position as he had not been fortunate to win a Parliamentary seat. Arguably his personal ambitions then overwhelmed him and for myself he exposed his true colours.
Since the Rupert Lowe drama, Ben Habib has been active in attempting to undermine Reform, his every interview as damaging to Reform as any MSM output. His personal ambition to lead the party regardless of the consequences, particularly at this very crucial time when Reform is on the crux of winning hundreds of seats, is quite inexcusable.
A few facts regarding the Rupert Lowe drama whilst awaiting the results of the various ongoing enquiries into the charges against him are significantly quite absent from Julia Stephenson’s article.
Reform have a duty of care to investigate complaints from staff and employees. Had they not done so promptly the party would have left itself wide open, and rightly so, to very serious criticism of breach of their legal obligations to all employees.
Reform’s employment of an independent King’s Counsel to investigate the allegations on Reform’s behalf is exactly the proper and professional course to have taken.
Investigations by the Metropolitan police regarding threats of violence are in progress, as are Parliamentary enquiries. I would invite all to await the various reports before taking a position.
Finally, the question remains. In whose best interest are such articles as Julia Stephenson’s? Certainly not Reform’s or Nigel Farage’s. The serve only the enemies of Reform whose success is ongoing, certainly in the eyes of the electorate. Who else, I ask, can save the United Kingdom from this appalling socialist government and pull us back from the abyss we face?
Sincerely,
Michael Bennett
South Wales
