Anderson Boosts Reform Revolution - Is Farage Next?

Reform took their open-topped ‘battle bus’ to Ashfield on Friday, to spread Lee’s message: ‘We want our country back’.

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A week on from his historic defection to Reform, will Lee Anderson signal the start of a ‘Red Wall Revolt?’

The early signs look encouraging for Richard Tice’s insurgent party - and ominous for CCHQ - with new 2,000 supporters signing up, at an average of £30 a pop. The ‘Lee Anderson effect’ has already netted £60,000, not bad for a week’s work.

Reform took their open-topped ‘battle bus’ to Ashfield on Friday, to spread Lee’s message: ‘We want our country back’.

On the campaign trail, Lee was subjected to a tirade of disgusting verbal abuse by a woman, but, unsurprisingly, it didn’t cause outrage from the establishment media. In fact - in stark contrast to when one of their own cops it - they seemed mildly amused by it.

But, mark my words - just as when Nigel Farage was milkshaked during the 2019 EU elections - such grassroots aggro will help Lee. The British public cannot stand a bully.

For now, the big question is: will other Tory MPs follow Lee? Three big factors will set the agenda here.

First: will Rishi Sunak stay or go as Tory Leader? The corridors of power are thick with the stench of plots - yet, ironically, if Rishi stays the chances of other Tory MPs - the so-called ‘Reform Nine’ - following suit increases.

Secondly, will Lee’s defection see a bump in the polls for Reform? If Reform started to nudge 16%, and the Tories sink towards parity, then we set the path for the third, and perhaps decisive factor: Nigel Farage’s return to front line politics.

Saturday’s Express front page once again dangle that carrot, claiming ‘Farage plots Sunak’s demise’. Richard Tice added to the rumour, tweeting: “Imagine if we had a cunning plan…”

On Friday, when asked by journalists, Lee made it clear: he reckons the country wants its Nigel back.

But, for now, we must wait. And time is surely running out for Rishi Sunak, a man of seemingly limitless wealth who is finding to the hard way that you simply cannot buy popularity.

Looking ahead, with every day that passes, more small boats will arrive. I’ve said many times on GB News: “There’s more chances of me flying to the moon than a single asylum seeker being flown to Rwanda”. And I stand by my words.

As we saw with Brexit, the entire establishment - the Lords, the lawyers, the charities, the Archbishops, the luvvies and Linekerites - will never allow it.

But Brexit prevailed because it had the people on its side - something Rishi Sunak can seemingly only dream of.

Lee Anderson might occasionally put his foot in it. He might have all the subtlety of a note tied to a house brick. But for Red Wall voters hungry for revolution, for now, he’s as close as they’ve got to a Reform revolution in Westminster.