Reform UK have abandoned their major election pledge, which promised £90bn in tax cuts.
NEW: Nigel Farage is set to totally SCRAP his pledge to increase the tax threshold to £20,000.
This was essentially Reform’s only economic policy that would have immediately benefitted ordinary people financially.
— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) October 13, 2025
Reform is managing to grow a strong, local base across England – mainly because of Farage’s anti-immigration rhetoric. It is also gaining in the polls, despite criticism from economists about its financial plans.
During the 2024 election, Reform promised to cut £90bn in tax.
According to the Guardian,
Policies in the manifesto included raising the inheritance tax threshold to £2m, lifting the income tax personal allowance to £20,000 and the higher rate to £70,000 and reducing corporation tax to 15%. It also included tax relief on private school fees and cuts to fuel duty.
It was literally their only policy that would benefit regular people.
Instead, pledges such as raising the income tax threshold are now “aspirations”. This U-turn is so sharp you can smell the burning rubber.
Embarrassing U-turn from Farage.
His policies are built on sand. He’s no better than Starmer. https://t.co/KIdD0SR3fQ
— Mark Vipond (@MarkVipond) October 13, 2025
We all have dreams, Nige. But the rest of us don’t try to sell them as manifestos.
Cutting public services
Already, eight Reform-led local councils are ‘considering tax increases‘.
When Reform promise you savings on your council tax bill, what else could you expect pic.twitter.com/Hw7tLUuM5v
— The London Economic (@LondonEconomic) October 13, 2025
Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, has said it will focus on cutting the civil service and scrapping net zero.
Scrapping net zero? I guess no one will care about tax increases when the whole world is literally on fire.
It’s almost as if it was completely made up just to get votes, because Reform knew they had no chance of winning an election.
I thought people were switching to Reform because they’d had enough of parties lying to them in manifestos? https://t.co/uhjBHlT7N5
— Steve Loftus (@LoftusSteve) October 13, 2025
Instead of tax cuts, the party is now promising more cuts to public services. Is there still anything left to cut?
So the Reform pledge to cut taxes ia dead. And theyre now promising more cuts to public services instead. https://t.co/goCQiFy9Ra
— Ben 🇬🇧 (@BenInRushcliffe) October 13, 2025
It won’t be long before the Reformers find a way to blame tax increases on immigrants. Or literally anyone, but themselves and their inability to do basic maths.
“Despite all my boasting, I’ve recently been introduced to reality, so now I’m blaming everyone but myself.”
— Oliver Stirling (@OWS1892) October 13, 2025
In an interview with The Times, Farage said, “Reform will never borrow to spend”.
“A ban on borrowing to fund Government expenditure” – so austerity then. Which means the continuation of a devastating 50 year experiment in monetary policy, privatisation, outsourcing govt services, and replacing industry with finance as the core of the economy. REF=LAB=CON=LD. https://t.co/OSW6fZcJZ7
— Ben Goren (@BanGaoRen) October 13, 2025
Previously, Farage had said that he expected to make £350bn worth of cuts over the course of parliament. According to the Guardian, this is the equivalent of wiping out a third of NHS funding annually.
He also said he would make cuts to migrant hotels and diversity initiatives.
Mugs
It says a lot when a political party has to start selling merch to raise funds. In August, Farage launched Reform FC football shirts. And they’re not even a real team. Shame your merch won’t cover the tax cuts.
Hey @reformparty_uk voters, look how your hero @Nigel_Farage lied to you and how he made mugs of you all.
He literally took your money and lied to you. https://t.co/UQcAL1PBM1— TallyCat 🇬🇧🌹 (@TallyCat8) October 13, 2025
Maybe Reform’s fundraising wing will branch out to mugs next. Because that’s what they’re trying to take the voters for. They did not, and still don’t have a real plan. Instead, Farage is banking on his anti-immigrant bullshit winning him the next election. But let’s be real for a minute – that’s all it is – bullshit. He has no real plan and no intentions of helping ordinary British people.
Featured image via The Canary
