Police are in the grip of a lefty ideology, warns Reform UK leader
Nigel Farage has been the victim of multiple threats to his safety (Image: Getty)
British police forces are infected by a “woke culture” that has made them biased against Right-wingers, Nigel Farage has claimed. The Reform UK leader compared the UK to Russia and Communist China as he warned police were harassing people for expressing opinions instead of fighting crime. It follows a series of incidents in which police have turned up at people’s homes following complaints about social media posts.
And Mr Farage highlighted the Metropolitan Police’s refusal to take action against Green Party leader Zack Polanski. Mr Polanksi had shared a photo of a man with a T-shirt showing a guillotine and the phrase “we’re only making plans for Nigel”. The Green leader said he had made an “inadvertent mistake” but refused to apologise. Mr Farage said: “There were more knocks at the door in this country in 2025 than there were in Communist China or Russia.”
“People do say horrible things on social media, but it all appears to be one way round.
“Polanski put something out on Instagram, which is ‘only making plans for Nigel’ with a guillotine, and the police say the evidential bar to act hasn’t been reached.
“Can you imagine if I did that? I promise you, the evidential bar would be met.
“And so all of this leads into the perception and feeling of two-tier policing and two-tier justice, and that’s how the country feels, and I think it’s got every right to feel that way.”
But Mr Farage blamed the leadership of the police rather than rank and file officers.
“The fish rots from the head down … the woke culture has completely run through police bosses at the top, and that most of the practitioners on the ground are sort of in despair at what they’re being asked to do.”
He welcomed the election of former detective Colin Sutton, who led the investigation that caught the killer of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, as a Reform Police and Crime Commissioner in Norfolk.
Criminals should be sent overseas to serve sentences in foreign jails in order to prevent early releases, Mr Farage said.
He argued prison overcrowding crisis could be solved party by sending foreign prisoners to serve time in third countries, if it was not possible to deport them to their homeland.
“There are 10,800 foreign prisoners. You deport them, either back to their home country, or you find a third party country that is prepared to have them. That would clear space in prison, or by the way, save a fortune. Because having prisoners in this country is very expensive.”
He also called for the creation of emergency prisons, modelled on temporary “Nightingale” hospitals created during the Covid pandemic.
Fury at secret Home Office plan to house asylum seekers in idyllic seaside town
Reform Welsh Senedd member Tom Montgomery claimed as many as 52 asylum seekers could be housed at the site.
Sunset over the Welsh coast near Gronant (Image: Getty)
Families in an idyllic coastal village better known for its colony of little terns have reacted with fury to secretive Home Office plans to house asylum seekers there. Residents of Gronant in Flintshire, which has a population of around 1,600, have been told that 13 of 15 new homes at the former Gronant Institute site are due to be used by Clearsprings, a company working for the Home Office, to accommodate families awaiting decisions on their asylum claims.
Local councillor Glyn Banks is seeking a meeting involving the area’s Labour MP, police and representatives of concerned residents. He said: “The lack of any early briefing from Clearsprings or the Home Office has caused great upset in the community.”
Reform Welsh Senedd member Tom Montgomery claimed as many as 52 asylum seekers could be housed at the site.
He has written to the UK Government asking what security checks have been carried out and demanding that the proposals are stopped.
Mr Montgomery said: “With Gronant only having 697 households, limited services, and poor public transport links, it should be apparent to any reasonable person that it is the wrong place to house asylum-seekers.”
The plans have prompted concern in the village, with residents angry that they say they were not properly informed about the proposals before they emerged.
Gronant is home to an important colony of little terns and is known for its coastal setting and sandy beaches.
Flintshire County Council defended the asylum seekers who could be housed there.
A spokesman said: “They are not illegal immigrants, they are individuals exercising their legal right to claim asylum and deserve to be treated with compassion and respect.”