Reform’s Bonnie Blue Christmas

The piece reads like a transcript of bad spoken word poetry. Clearly, Bonnie Blue isn’t a writer, and the article sitting under her byline in the Spectator’s Christmas edition was never meant to be about her prose. Still, it’s tough to get through. The words are flat and there aren’t any segues. Even the paragraph that later made the headlines feels oddly inhuman, though not even AI-generated.

“You shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax, as you’ve already been taxed on that money. When my grandad died, it was particularly sad because he was too young for my grandma to receive his pension. That’s disgusting. Reform has sensible positions on immigration and inheritance tax, so I stand with Nigel Farage”. That’s what the pornstar wrote. Not exactly a ringing, lyrical endorsement, is it?

Still, she was welcomed into the party with open arms. At a press conference on Monday, former Tory MP Danny Kruger said that “we’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue… I’m not going to be judgmental about people who want to vote Reform.”

This may come as a surprise to a number of people. As you may know from the roughly 7,000 profiles of him published since his election in 2019, Danny Kruger is quite the right wing firebrand. Not only is he quite potently socially conservative, his politics are also ultra-Christian – of the most conservative kind – and he actively aims to fight against modern liberalism.

He called the fact that women in Britain get abortions “tragic”, argued that marriage between men and women is “the only possible basis for a safe and successful society”, and believes the 20th-century sexual revolution was a mistake. Now, at risk of stating the obvious, it seems worth asking: did he really welcome Bonnie Blue into his party? That Bonnie Blue, who slept with over 1,000 men on camera in 24 hours? Of all the odd marriages borne out of political expediency, this may be the oddest one yet.

Well, or maybe it all makes sense. Dig a bit into Blue’s, erm, clothed output, and you will see that she hardly is a beacon of liberalism herself. “My friends and I used to joke about how all we wanted was to find a rich husband and stay at home”, she wrote in the Spectator. “Don’t worry that people might judge you”. Isn’t that quite the Reform-friendly piece of advice?

More broadly, Blue has repeatedly told interviewers over the years that she happily sleeps with married men, as it’s not their fault they’re cheating. If husbands are being unfaithful, then their wives should be to blame. Again: isn’t she putting the “action” into “reactionary”?

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Though what she does for a living isn’t exactly what you’d imagine a good Christian right winger condoning, her views fit right in with Kruger’s. They may have got to it from very different angles but, at the end of the day, they both argue for gender essentialism and – most importantly – for women being put in their place. What felt nonsensical at surface level may actually make more sense than you’d think.

Oh, and it seems worth adding that they do have one crucial thing in common: both Nigel Farage and Bonnie Blue love attention, and will do anything to get it. Controversy is what they chase because, despite their different aims and backgrounds, they know that the times we live in are inherently cynical ones, and reward whoever gets the most eyeballs.

Blue was recently deported from Bali because filming adult content is illegal there, and she didn’t seem phased by any of it. Uncomfortable schoolboy-era stories aside, Farage usually loves nothing more than to talk about even unflattering stories published about his party by the press. All publicity is only ever good for business.

Of course, the whole thing is infuriating. A proud pornstar shouldn’t be backing a party which supports curtailing women’s rights, and it seems absurd that a right wing populist party would welcome in a woman bragging about deflowering “barely legal” men. Having to witness such hypocrisy, coming from so many different sides, is enough to drive you mad.

There just isn’t much to be done, though, aside from choosing to, if not ignore them, then at least consider their actions as coolly and cynically as they would do themselves. Bonnie and Danny dearly hope that you’ll be furious about this; it may not be easy, but don’t give them what they want.