Hey Reform, the Workers Party have got your anti-Muslim number.
Reform have been lucky. Their success in the May 2026 elections owed as much to working class disappointment with Labour as with any merit on their part, just as Labour themselves benefitted from disappointment with the Tories in the 2024 General Election.
The Labour Party surrendered its working class heartlands when it became the party of luxury middle class beliefs like transgenderism and identity politics, when it sacrificed industry on the altar of Net Zero, and when it became indistinguishable from the Tories in favouring higher defence spending and throwing billions at a losing war in Eastern Europe.
Now the new iteration of the uniparty, Reform, parading its Tory retreads like Jenrick and Braverman, is trying to pass itself off as the champion of the working class, much as Boris Johnson did.
Don't make me laugh. All Reform are doing is exploiting fear over demographic change, naturally felt most by a white working class demoralised by lowered living standards, deindustrialisation and deteriorating public services.
What other policies do Reform have, other than opposition to migration? Even their criticism of Net Zero - put in the shop window to make it look like they have a broader offer - sounds unauthentic when they embrace leading Tories who were all in favour of it.
Similarly Reform's putting itself forward as a defender of free speech and personal freedoms rings hollow when they bay for ever tighter restrictions on Palestine protests.
But Reform, as I say, are lucky. Who is going to call them out for the one trick ponies they are? Not moribund Labour, which differs from them on migration only in matters of degree. Not the Tories, obviously. Not the Greens, whose gurning leader carries too much hippy baggage to be a credible opponent of Farage. And not Muslim Independents acting alone or in uncomfortable alliance with a Green Party that wants to make drugs legal.
Step forward the Workers Party, the authentic voice of the working class and true advocate for Palestine over many years. We have no millionaires bunging us millions to flood letter boxes with glossy leaflets, buy newspaper space and run our own television station. But we have a charismatic leader, George Galloway, persecuted by the state for being an effective voice for the working class and for peace. And we have a small army of highly motivated volunteers.
Reform's focus on migration is even more pernicious than it seems on the surface. They have no problem with Hong Kong or Ukrainian migrants. It is only Muslims they have a real problem with, including residents as well as new migrants. A few minutes watching GB News, Farage's mouthpiece, is sufficient to appreciate this. Constant anti-Muslim bile and sneering.
This is of a piece with Reform's unqualified support for Israel, a country which loses no opportunity to stir up Islamophobia in this country.
The claim that Reform is the "patriotic' party is code for being the white party, resisting perceived Muslim encroachment. Reform are not patriotic at all when they serve first and foremost the agenda of Israel and Farage's friend Donald Trump.
The working class has been a serial dupe of fraudsters pretending to have its interests at heart: first Labour, then Johnson, then Labour again, and now Reform. Time to wake up. Reform are just chancers and con artists using the working class to gain power. They are making Muslims scapegoats for all that ails society, much as Jews were scapegoated in the past.
Time then for the Muslim community also to wake up. Labour are not the antidote, they are the reason why Islamphobia is becoming rampant: they facilitated the rise of Reform by shilly-shallying over Brexit, trying to appease the anti-migrant mob, accelerating deindustrialisation and generally taking working class and Muslim votes for granted.
