Ex-Tory joke Jonathan Gullis set to become Reform joke

Another Tory has gone to Reform, and this time it’s former MP Jonathan Gullis. On the defection, Gullis said on Facebook

Leaving the Conservative Party after 18 years is not a decision I have taken lightly. Over time, I have watched a party I once believed in lose touch with the people it was meant to serve.

Jonathan Gullis’ disgusting views

As pointed out by Adam Bienkov, this is a bit rich from Gullis, as when he was an MP, he once took a five-figure donation from JCB. Then, the charmer said nothing whilst the firm axed hundreds of jobs in his constituency of Stoke-on-Trent.

Despite saying he’s been a Tory for “eighteen years”, he was only elected as an MP for 5 of those years. He was also very briefly Undersecretary for the Department of Education during Liz Truss’ disastrous five minute reign in 2022 and deputy chair of the Conservative Party between April and June last year.

In 2024, Gullis whinged to Times Radio that since losing his Stoke on Trent seat, he’d struggled to go back to teaching because of his political views. This is understandable when you consider just what his views are. His beliefs are so vile that he was once criticised by Piers Morgan of all people for saying the media had a “sick obsession” with coronavirus deaths.

He was also part of a group calling themselves “The Common Sense Group” who had a collective tantrum that the National Trust acknowledged the links between some of their properties and slavery. They called the NT “elitist bourgeois liberals”.

Immigration (read: racism) top of the agenda

Gullis cited Reform’s stance on immigration as one of his main reasons for joining the party. In 2022, during a debate about Home Office deportation flights, Gullis said:

My constituents are flabbergasted that the woke, wet and wobbly lot opposite are on the side of their lefty woke warriors, who are making sure these rapists and paedophiles remain in this United Kingdom, rather than standing up for the British people and their safety.

It seems like Gullis will be right at home with Reform on that front at least. However, it seems like an odd choice for a man who, as a teacher, completely lost it at a group of year 8s for photoshopping his head onto a seagull and nicknaming him Seagullis, to have joined a party like Reform. The party is, after all, absolutely rife with bullying claims.

Most recently, leader Nigel Farage has faced scrutiny after it has come to light that the present-day racist was also a racist bully in his youth.

But we’re sure it’ll water off a seagull’s back.

Featured image via the Canary