Climate Resistance target Nigel Farage & the Reform Conference

The activist group Climate Resistance has targeted Nigel Farage at the Reform conference.

🚨BREAKING: on the eve of @reformparty_uk‘s conference, we beamed a message onto the venue.

Nigel Farage is funded by billionaires to scapegoat migrants, but the only minority ruining this country is the super-rich. pic.twitter.com/IgvvRiah42

— Climate Resistance (@climate_resist) September 5, 2025

The action follows several similar protests from the group.

Guerilla ads

As part of its latest action, Climate Resistance installed guerilla adverts at bus stops:

As Climate Resistance have said, this first poster referenced Reform UK MPs’ recent vote against the Employment Rights Bill”. Following that vote, HOPE not Hate reported:

With the British Steel factory in Scunthorpe in the news this week, Nigel Farage and Reform UK have attempted to portray themselves as being on the side of the working people in the UK.

However, all four Reform UK MPs voted against the Employment Rights Bill workers rights, including voting against banning zero hours contracts and giving all workers sick pay from day one – policies which are overwhelmingly popular across the country.

Another advert suggested Farage’s allegiance is to the rich:

Speaking on this second advert, Climate Resistance said:

Reform UK, and previously the Brexit Party, has been overwhelmingly funded by a handful of multimillionaire donors, such as Aaron Banks. The party’s current treasurer, billionaire Nick Candy, has pledged a seven-figure donation.

Self-described “self-made billionaire” Nick Candy has attracted controversy, with the Guardian reporting the following on the property tycoon and his brother / business partner in 2017:

There is a saying in the property world: “You only deal with Candy & Candy once”. Those were the words of a witness at a £132m high court trial for damages which has turned the private and financial affairs of billionaire property moguls Nick and Christian Candy into a succession of lurid headlines.

The former Monaco tax exiles are known as the “brothers bling” for their high-rolling lifestyles: the silk carpeted private jet, the Candyscape yachts and the Swiss watch collection

The piece noted that the brothers have a “reputation for burning bridges”, and that several of their “former friends, advisers, and business partners” had testified against them in court. The piece reported that:

Aside from offering a glimpse into a world of extreme wealth, much of the evidence has centred on a single, striking theme: violence. Violent language, threats of violence, and actual physical harm.

“They regularly reduced their personal assistants to tears, as I witnessed on many occasions first hand,” said former KPMG partner Clive Hyman, who in 2005 was paid £10,000 a week as interim chief executive for Candy & Candy. “Nick was particularly brutal in his criticism … after one PA had made a minor mistake, he publicly threatened to ‘cut off your tits’ if she made the same mistake again.”

The Candy brothers were later cleared of extortion, with the judge refuting the claims of central accuser Mark Holyoake.

Reporting on other donors to Reform UK, Peter Geoghegan of Prospect wrote in March:

As Reform’s supporter numbers have increased, so has the party’s bank balance. In 2023, Reform raised £155,000 in donations. Last year, the party took in £4.75m. A third of that total came from people who have previously given to the Conservatives, mainly from the party’s Brexiteer wing. Among them is Richard Smith, who owns a Georgian townhouse on Tufton Street that has long housed a slew of influential—and opaquely funded—right-wing thinktanks; Fitriani Hay, the biggest donor to Liz Truss’s 2022 Tory leadership campaign; and hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, who in March was banned from working in the UK financial services industry and fined £1.8m by the Financial Conduct Authority, which said he showed a “lack of integrity” in his conduct following allegations of sexual harassment. (Odey has denied the allegations and said he will challenge the decision.)

The piece added:

“Reform is where the money is going now,” says former Conservative donor Mohamed Amersi.

Light shows at the Reform Conference

Climate Resistance also used light projections to shine messages, including the following:

Climate Resistance’s Sam Simons said of the protest at the Reform Conference:

Nigel Farage is a billionaire-backed, private school, banker, masquerading as a man of the people. He’s funded by billionaires to scape-goat migrants, but the only minority ruining this country is the super-rich.

Right now, super-rich oligarchs are hoarding extreme wealth, fanning the flames of climate collapse with their lavish lifestyles, and exploiting people and the planet for profit. It’s time to tax the super-rich out of existence and use their obscene wealth to fund climate action.

The group has previously staged actions at other UK events:

BREAKING: We disrupted Darren Jones MP at an AI conference to demand a tax on the super rich!

While his government cosies up to tech billionaires, those same billionaires are trashing our planet, dismantling human rights, and profiting from hardship. Abolish billionaires now! pic.twitter.com/OhhvUhOm5J

— Climate Resistance (@climate_resist) September 3, 2025

🚨 We crashed this event where Palantir was attempting to recruit students.

Owned by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir is a tech company that that provides lethal AI services to the Israeli military to facilitate their genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/b8dod5NIab

— Climate Resistance (@climate_resist) August 18, 2025

Why is @Tate Modern taking millions from a billionaire, pro-Israel oil tycoon? 👇 pic.twitter.com/LeCXGcwSi3

— Climate Resistance (@climate_resist) July 7, 2025

Featured image and in-story images via Climate Resistance