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Has Reform harnessed AI – badly?

Why do they spread lies into the faces of their own supporters, to set their own country on fire?

Robin Tudge by Robin Tudge
30-03-2026 10:47 - Updated on 18-04-2026 08:26
in Opinion, Technology
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Reform seems to be making use of AI, possibly in some 21st century Potemkin propaganda reboot. The recent flooding of the system with includes the following:

Here’s a picture of the Reform Party having a geezer time in the boozer as they seek to repeal the smoking ban – except it’s fake.

Here’s a picture showing a busload taking over a village in County Durham by Reform party councillor and professional stoat, Darren Grimes – except it’s fake.

Here’s a picture of Nigel Farage in the Oval Office with Donald Trump – except ‘either the left hand picture has been photoshopped or Farage has no reflection’.

Here’s Farage (I had to add this for posterity) doorstepping a supposedly random couple from Wigan with a cheque to pay their energy bills – except random they were not! Ray and June Dibble being longstanding members and supporters of the Brexit Party and Reform and being seen in previous photo opps with our Nige.

Here’s Reform Party candidate Matt Goodwin’s hyperbolic book – except it’s error strewn not least because he used ChatGPT to write it.

I guess AI just speeds up what they make up by hand, like Goodwin’s fake stats about London’s population and housing, as ‘ruthlessly owned’ by Mehdi Hasan; his baseless claims of ‘family voting’ at the Gorton and Denton by-election, that he lost; Robert Jenrick’s lies about about migrants and sex crimes; Farage blaming migrants in hotels for the Southport murders. All jolly little lies leading to a race war.

Having previous in making stuff up seems to be what opens the door to Reform – see 30p Lee’s ‘favourable doorstep encounter’ set-up at the 2019 GE when deputy chair of the Conservative Party – then defected to Reform.

Why do they spread lies into the faces of their own supporters, to set their own country on fire?

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Robin Tudge is a writer, activist, and editor, and his debut novel Mr Whippy Goes to Schaumberg is available on Amazon. He's also an actor, and has been an EMT for London Ambulance Service and a tour guide in North Korea, but has settled for living in Edinburgh, itinerantly attending his blog.

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