Of course Nigel Farage and his chums are benefitting financially from a “gold-plated” pension scheme of a type that they intend to prevent other people from enjoying. It could hardly be more on brand.
No matter that the Reform UK leader has described “defined benefit pensions”, which guarantee some public sector workers an income for life, as “the single biggest ticking bomb in our government finances”, he and his fellow Reform MPs are, as this newspaper revealed yesterday, all signed up for the scheme despite pledging to abolish it for future council workers.
Weapons-grade hypocrisy seems to be a job requirement for these people. Their self-styled “Shadow Home Secretary” Zia Yusuf, not even an MP despite his grandiose job title, complained this week that: “For too long Westminster has run on who you know and what school you went to. That’s how Britain got the rotten political class it has.”
How shocked he must have been to discover not only that he himself attended an exclusive west London private school, but also that his colleagues actually in Parliament almost all attended fee-paying institutions. Danny Kruger, for example, went to Eton and Farage to Dulwich College. Perhaps most surprisingly, Richard Tice apparently received a first-class education at Uppingham School. I hope his parents kept the receipts. Someone is surely due a refund.
