Reform Leader for Scotland - Malcolm Ian Offord, Baron Offord of Garvel

Another Reform announcement, another failed Liberal Blairite Tory

Jan 15, 2026

Reform Leader for Scotland - Malcolm Ian Offord, Baron Offord of Garvel. Nothing says party of the working class like Lord Baron.

As Minister for Exports for Tories, Offord set annual priorities for UK Export Finance (UKEF) that included expanding outreach to “a more diverse customer base”, specifically naming “underserved businesses such as those owned by women and ethnic minorities”.

UKEF’s 2024–2029 business plan committed to better targeting “underserved” businesses such as “ethnic-minority and women-led businesses” and to measure and increase the proportion of underserved businesses it supports year-on-year.

In its Annual Report and Accounts 2024–25, UKEF reported hosting two events for ethnic minority-led and female-led businesses on access to export finance, and stated it would engage directly with ethnic minority-led businesses to address barriers and ensure its offer meets the needs of these underserved firms, in response to Offord’s priorities as Minister.

As part of the Sunak government’s broader net zero priorities, Offord stated in his annual priorities letter to UK Export Finance (UKEF) that supporting the UK’s growing clean growth and transition industries was a government priority, emphasising the importance of placing UK suppliers at the heart of the global low-carbon transition and recognising both the environmental and economic opportunities involved, as well as the scale of finance required.

Since, Farage came back and took over leadership. I have no idea what Reform stands for anymore. They would welcome in OF prossies, failed liberal ex-Tories, establishment cronies - the Blairite Tories, Green Party councillors, Lib Dems. Such a broad church that no one even knows what God they serve.

And on the case of Muslims - all they want to do is attract Muslim votes. Coming up with these oxymoron terms of Anglican Islam and what not. Seriously. A question to ask Farage would be that why Reform is neither attracting nor approaching any ex-Muslims? That probably tells the hypocrisy of "moderate" Muslims, they can't have them as it won't attract the Muslim vote.

Seriously, good luck to them and to the Reform ultras that follow them blindly. They will save certain parts of the economy and set the country to become culturally hollow in the next 3/4 decades. Reform and Lib Dems are the face of the new establishment, the new uniparty system. And people are fine with it because they rarely care what is beyond their nose. As long as I am alright. Or as Tice said, well I won’t be long dead by then. Right so who cares, and “you lot” are not their priority anyway.