Il miliardario donatore conservatore dona £ 200.000 a Reform UK

[https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/05/reform-watch-14/](https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/05/reform-watch-14/)

The Pothole Pro is a niche piece of industrial equipment — so what might have prompted Reform’s interest in it? Well, as it happens, the Pothole Pro is made by JCB. And according to records, the chairman of JCB, Lord Bamford, is a Reform donor. His net worth is estimated at around £9.45 billion, making him the 15th richest person in Britain. Last year, he paid for Farage and a staff member to make a helicopter trip to their Staffordshire premises. It was valued at more than £8,000. A spokesperson for Farage has even said: “Nigel and Lord Bamford are friends.” This September, JCB was also an official exhibitor at Reform’s conference — which can’t have come cheap.

That same month, Reform’s leaders announced that it was going to trial JCB’s Pothole Pro in Lincolnshire. What a coincidence! Especially after Lincolnshire County Council trialled the machine back in 2021 and, [according](https://www.conservativelincs.org.uk/2025/08/08/100-days-of-reform-100-days-of-copying-conservative-plans/) to one Tory councillor who sat on the transport scrutiny committee, “found better tools for our county’s needs”. A source within Lincolnshire council shared an informal assessment on the Pothole Pro written before Reform was elected, and concluded that if they purchased it they would be “paying above the odds”. What could have possibly convinced Reform to change their minds?

Definitely **not** ‘the uniparty’ though and will *ABSOLUTELY* be different from the Tory party that fucked over all of the people who love to trumpet support fort Reform.