Britain : A Westminster Member of Parliament leaves the Tory party and joins the far-right Reform outfit :

“Conservative MP Danny Kruger has defected to Reform UK, the first time a sitting Tory has joined the rightwing populist party led by Nigel Farage. The defection means Reform now has five MPs in parliament and is a big blow to Kemi Badenoch, Conservative leader, ahead of her party conference next month…..

With Reform leading UK opinion polls since the spring, Kruger’s defection will give further credibility to the party, as will his withering departing words aimed at the Tories. “The rule of our time in office was failure,” Kruger said at a press conference in London. “Bigger government, social decline, lower wages, higher taxes and less of what ordinary people actually wanted.” He added: “The Conservative party is over, over as a national party, over as the principal opposition to the left. “The flame is passing from one torch to another. The new torch is already alight, already brighter than the one it is replacing, held aloft in firm and confident hands.” – Financial Times Report.

These developments, which will continue, are encouraging the far-right in the 26 and 6 county bits of Ireland.
The Reform party leader Nigel Farage is already threatening to alter the Good Friday Agreement, and make it worse :

Speaking yesterday, Mr Farage said he wanted to remove human rights law from the peace accord to make it easier to deport illegal migrants.

Reform has signalled that if it gets into power in Britain the party will leave the European Convention on
Human Rights (ECHR), repeal the Human Rights Act and pass the Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill.

The ECHR is incorporated into the 1998 Northern Ireland Act, which codified the Good Friday Agreement into law.

Mr Farage said that as prime minister he would, in time, be able to renegotiate the agreement.

“We are not far away from major civil disorder,” he told a press conference.

Source, John Manley, Irish News August 27 2025

The Fermanagh and Omagh District Council adopted a progressive policy in 2022 which is an excellent start :

Despite Common Travel Area “There is an Invisible Hard Border in Ireland That leads to Racial Discrimination”

Council Meeting – 5th July 2022

Fermanagh & Omagh District Council notes that the Common Travel Area (CTA) enables free
movement within the island of Ireland. However, it excludes people of other nationalities, in
particular citizens of countries in Africa, Asia, and South America.

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