Liz S

Just how many current and previous politicians at different levels will the Tory party lose from their party to the Reform UK party.

The latest two are a former Tory Welsh Secretary Sir David Jones and now we have Sir Jake Berry also announcing that he too has defected to the Reform UK party.

We also had Anne Marie Morris a former Tory MP also defect to Rerform.

Then in the recent English local elections we saw ………..

Former Tory MP (and Tory Minister) Andrea Jenkinson elected as the Reform UK Mayor of Lincolnshire.

Also the former Tory Councillor Sarah Pochin now is a new Reform UK MP.

Various former Tory councillors have also now defected to Reform UK as Councillors in Scotland and also elsewhere within the UK.

Also the former (useless and so short lived ) Tory PM Liz Truss now vocalising her support for Reform UK.

So who the H else , as both current Tory politicians or former ones , now sees a potentially brighter future aka better career prospects for themselves with the Reform UK party who, as a (pretend) party, are polling higher than the Tories ?

Well quite believable is a former Tory MSP and MP……….one Ross Thomson (political blast from the past and one we all hoped would have stayed there in the political past).

Thomson an ex Tory MSP and then also an ex Tory MP who was confusingly someone who went over to America to support the Trump election campaign, then he became employed by Trump International resort in Balmeadie , Aberdeenshire . He also canvassed last year for the Tory party in the 2024 UK GE but now he is yet another Tory who has defected to the Reform UK.

Is this perhaps him seeing an opportunity to get back into politics , as his time as a Tory politician is very much dead in the water and so unable to be resuscitated due to his own stupidity and also now his very much obvious lack of loyalty to them.

Ross Thomson tweeted this on 26 June 2025:

“On #BBCQT tonight, @CllrKerrwas outstanding – straight-talking, honest, and full of common sense. While the old parties rehashed the same tired lines, Thomas showed exactly why Scotland needs Reform”.

“@ReformUKScot”

He also tweeted this three days before….

23 June 2025 tweet by Thomson

“The decline of the North Sea, the loss of jobs, isn’t inevitable – it’s a political choice We can still unlock 7.5 billion barrels, add £165 billion to the UK economy, and save 200,000 jobs Scrap the windfall tax. Grant new licences. Start drilling again “

So what epiphany has Thomson had that made him change from being a Tory last year to now being a Reform UK member this year …..well I suspect recent results of dire polling for his former party has swayed him as well as the rising polling outcomes for his ‘new’ adopted party Reform UK.

Some of the proverbial (Tory) rats are now abandoning the sinking (Tory) ship………..and all that they formerly declared as Tories , where they all told us that the Tory party was best , that it, as a party, was the most successful UK government(s) and so then the only party that we all should vote for in all of the previous elections within their UK……is now as declarations by them to be forgotten and so rejected ?

Indeed only positive things did they all , as former Tories , communicate about their former party but now it seems that all of these supposed virtues and attributes connected to their former party (the Tories) have now all mysteriously disappeared and they have now all miraculously re-emerged under Reform UK.

( I wonder could Douglas Ross even possibly also join Reform UK as I think his neck has been well polished and is the brassiest it has ever been and he would be a perfect fit for them too).

The Q is with all of these defections………..was it a case of the Tories, as a party, were always bad and so were always failing people within their UK throughout the time that these various former Tory politicians were in the Tory party and not, as they are all now trying to suggest, as in it all just being a sudden realisation by them of #ToryBad……….as in an collective epiphany.

I strongly suspect it is the future dire political ‘writing on the wall’ for the Tories that is currently showing that they , as a party, have now fallen and may not rise any time soon.

So that means that some of these former Tories as in, ‘Grifters gonna grift’ , realised that their future careers can only be sustained or reborn by them defecting to Reform UK.

As we also have others , no longer active as a Tory politician, now seeing this as an opportunity to re-emerge (be reborn) as a new Reform UK politician and perhaps, they hope, their new political careers managing to reach certain new dizzy heights within their newly adopted party, Reform UK.

I mean the no longer active and former Tory politician Ross Thomson was praising another Tory Defector to Reform UK, one Thomas Kerr’s appearance on BBC QT in Scotland recently , but the same Ross Thomson had formerly tweeted this…

18 July 2024

“? Why don’t those wanting to break up the Conservative Party muster the courage of their convictions & establish their new party”?

“To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, “You can separate if you want to, the Scottish Conservatives are not for separating.”

“My @MailOnline comments”.

Also……

24 October 2024

“I’m proud to have voted for @KemiBadenoch to be Conservative Party leader”.

“Kemi is authentic, courageous, and brings a refreshing approach to politics. She stands for true Conservative values and will renew our party and our country”.

So I wonder if he, Thomson, has been deleting historical tweets supportive of his former party, the Tories, as I saw this online but it seems to no longer be a tweet:

“I’ve written for @ConHome examining the recent local election results and the impact of voting for Reform . Spoiler alert it’s a win for (Labour?)………” only to get this message come up “Something went wrong try reloading” aka that was a sure sign of a deleted tweet.

(Thomson had written in this article in Conservative Home in May 2024 that “a vote for Reform UK in the UK GE would hand the keys of Downing street to Keir Starmer” and he also wrote in this article that “the Conservatives must offer an inspiring conservative vision for the future. There should be a vision, rooted in conservative values, that transcends the immediate challenges and offer a compelling picture of a nation brimming with hope, opportunity, and aspiration”.

Well that never lasted long for Thomson as in June 2025 , just over one year later, he announced his defection to Reform UK. So what changed then for Ross Thomson?

#SelfInterest that is perhaps combined with #NewCareerProspects

Let’s be honest here Reform UK are nothing but a new version of the Tory party, as even their current leader, Farage, and also many of their existing MP’s and many Councillors were all former Tory supporters and members. Their deputy leader, Richard Tice, was also a former Tory donor .

So if any Scots are indeed considering voting for Reform UK next year in the Scottish elections and who, as voters, formerly would never ever vote for the Tory party , then I really hope that they all realise , as voters , that in them now considering voting Reform UK next year then they are now just actually changing their voting habit in now voting Tory.

Not really rocket science is it, as in with so many former and existing Tories being so very comfortable to move from the Tory party to the Reform UK party , that in itself is very telling and so self explanaTORY (Ha Ha) that they all are very much politically one and the same , in what is now really just a reinvented Tory (new pretend) party ?

It seems for UK politics there is little distinction between Labour-the Tory party-Reform UK party.

Now we just need a collective epiphany to be had by more voters in Scotland to that indisputable fact based on current evidence in policy and rhetoric from all of these UK parties.

The scavenger party, the Lib Dems, are just those who mop up the votes of disillusioned former Tory voters and also those other voters who just cannot bring themselves to vote for any other UK parties, as it seems that as voters they prefer the party (Lib Dems) who jump on and off popular and unpopular bandwagons . (Oh and who also, as a party, has as a current MP who has been proven to be a LIAR -as in one A. Carmichael ).

No wonder so many of us are beyond frustrated and also demented at times with the apathy and ignorance of some of our fellow Scots, that then allows this UK political circus to continue and so Scotland still being compelled to endure it as a terrible situation.

So when will the rot finally stop for Scotland as a nation still confined within their clearly decaying and so quite unbearable UK ?

Liz S