Reform’s Zia Yusuf: ‘Failed Tories are trying to infiltrate us’

According to Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf, “failed Tories” are trying to “infiltrate” the party. While no one is disagreeing with this sentiment, the problem is these failed Tories are walking in through the front door:

"Failed Tories are trying to infiltrate us."

Suella Braverman
Lee Anderson
Robert Jenrick
Andrew Rosindell
Danny Kruger
Nadhim Zahawi
Nadine Dorris
Andrea Jenkyns
Jonathan Gullis
Jake Berry pic.twitter.com/12DwdTyPBa

— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) April 21, 2026

Reform UK aka The Tories 2.0

Yusuf’s message continues:

As a startup party, we have already made history and smashed the two-party system.

To be fair, this is accurate, as the Canary reported.

Labour/Tory support has dropped 37 points since last elections

Following years of failed neoliberal guff from the duopoly, it's clear to see why Labour and Tories' polling is in the toilethttps://t.co/tBSDC2yQs8https://t.co/tBSDC2yQs8

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) April 21, 2026

However, Reform isn’t solely responsible for this because the Green Party has also taken votes away from the duopoly. The difference is the Greens actually offer some sort of alternative to the dead end neoliberal failures of the past few decades by:

• Seeking to minimise the gap between the billionaires and the rest of us.
• Targeting the issues driving the Affordability Crisis.
• Identifying solutions to the problems faced by renters and homeowners.
• Opposing cruel immigration and policing policies
• Listening to experts on how to solve the ‘War on Drugs’.
• Supporting its candidates when they’re smeared by the media and Zionists (finally).

Meanwhile, Reform looks to:

• Double down on failed immigration policies at the expense of the economy.
• Prevent the UK achieving energy security by blocking cheap renewable energy projects.
• Promote crypto (a technology many have compared to a pyramid scheme).
• Produce an endless supply of candidates who praise Hitler and British fascists.

Yusuf is correct that they’re outside the two-party system, but Reform isn’t an alternative; it’s just the Tories on steroids.

Yusuf: ‘We will not back down’

Reform’s spokesperson for home affairs continued:

We will not back down.

We will defeat the uniparty and break the establishment that has failed and betrayed the British people.

Clearly, Yusuf is thinking: ‘To beat the uniparty we must think like the uniparty. We must accept all of their worst MPs and copy their worst policies’.

It’s obvious why Yusuf would think this because Yusuf is himself a failed Tory.

It’s hilarious that people don’t realise Zia Yusuf was a Tory less than 2 years ago.

Being he’s never been elected to anything, you might say he’s a #FailedTory. https://t.co/1Sf51t6yK3

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) April 22, 2026

Yusuf is far from the only failed Tory to join up, and Farage and co often weren’t kind about their new friends.

Jenrick is a fraud. I’ve alway thought so, this quote proves it. pic.twitter.com/pMcuhe88mw

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) August 18, 2025

Nigel Farage appears to have changed his mind… pic.twitter.com/IUfhE388vN

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 26, 2026

Oh, and as the Canary reported on 20 April, many of these ex-Tories are currently predicted to lose their seats to their old party come 2029.

Chicken Run Alert 🐓🏃‍♂️🚨 https://t.co/H9YAaH9K71

— Kevin Hollinrake MP (@kevinhollinrake) April 19, 2026

Turquoise takeover

Yusuf finished his post by claiming:

Nigel Farage will be our Prime Minister, supported by a majority of turquoise-blooded Reform MPs.

A brighter future awaits Britain. 🇬🇧

‘Turquoise-blooded’ doesn’t have the same ring to it as ‘red-blooded’ or ‘blue-blooded’, does it?

The colour is fitting, however, because Reform’s turquoise is really just a louder version of  Tory blue. We can see it, and so can all these Tories who keep ‘infiltrating’ the party at the invitation of Nigel Farage.

Featured image via Wikimedia Commons/ Chris McAndrew/ David Woolfall