The Guardian’s John Crace described it as a “black swan event”. Keir Starmer launched a joke at Prime Minister’s Questions and, improbable though this sounds, it actually landed. MPs from every party except Reform UK were, if not quite rolling in the aisles, audibly gleeful.

The cause of the chortles (and even a few guffaws) was the PM’s festive advice to the Faragistas that “If mysterious men appear from the east bearing gifts, this time report it to the police.” This was, of course, a reference to Reform’s former Welsh leader Nathan Gill receiving a sentence of more than 10 years for accepting bribes to promote the interests of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Adult content

In Searchlight’s view, the gag would have been even funnier if Starmer had added “Not to mention women arriving from ever further east.” Because it had just emerged that Reform’s latest benefactor was ‘adult content provider’ (ie sex video star) Bonnie Blue, who is in the process of being dispatched to the UK from Indonesia under a deportation order after attempting to film, well, Blue movies in Bali.

Not, we must stress, that ‘Bonnie’ (real name Tia Billinger) has been supplying Reform with Putin-like bribes. Nor even laying on the kind of spread that she is better known for offering. Good gracious no. Farage is, we gather, strictly into taking French lessons these days.

Endorsement

No, the benefit we have in mind is that the online porn performer (who claims to have broken the world record for copulating with the largest number of different men in one 12-hour, four-figure filthfest) has bestowed upon Reform her (apparently valuable) political endorsement.

This we have discovered via the rather surprising route of an article by her, published not in the venerable ‘I Confess’ section of Fiesta but as a bylined piece in… er… the Spectator. (Is the magazine really that desperate to puff up Farage?)

“I am not very knowledgeable about politics,” she tells the Speccy, and goes on to prove that with her apparent lack of understanding about how taxation or pensions work. But what she does know is the answer to the fact that “the UK is very messed up,” and you are probably way ahead of us in guessing what that is. “Reform has sensible positions on immigration and inheritance tax. so I stand with Nigel Farage.”

Thorny question

How long, we wonder, before she decides to switch her stage name from ‘Bonnie Blue’ to ‘Tracey Turquoise’? Or, indeed, for the party to officially adopt the nickname by which many people already know it: RefUK.

Now, you may be wondering whether Reform actually welcomes a testimonial from “the woman who changed sex work”. Unpredictably, it fell to a recent defector from the Conservatives, Danny Kruger MP, to tackle this thorny question – one made even more difficult by the fact that Devout Danny has made great play of the fact that he is an evangelical Christian.

The party wants “all the support we can get,” Kruger told a press conference when asked about the Blue endorsement, adding ” We’ll take votes wherever we can get them. We know 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.”

Somehow the man who, in his recent book, extolled the virtues of marriage as a way to “make sex safe” and less prone to “wreck relationships and produce unwanted babies,” managed to welcome a notoriously – indeed boastfully – ultra-promiscuous woman to the fold without choking on his own words.

Shameless

Shamelessness is a quality clearly quickly acquired within the Farage camp (which Kruger only joined in September), no doubt helped by the fact that its leader is a past master of the art. But will Danny find it quite as easy to slide his generous broad-mindedness past other congregants in the new Christian Fellowship for Reform? Perhaps he could smooth things over by leading a communal sing-song – though we would suggest avoiding at all costs My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean.

The Bali incident is not Ms Billinger’s first tangle with overseas authorities. In 2024 she had her Australian tourist visa cancelled and was also deported from Fiji.

Tittle-tattle

We are, by the way, unconvinced by cruel tittle-tattle that she at first planned to conduct her Sex With A Thousand Men In One Day stunt in conjunction with UKIP but found that they didn’t have enough members to fulfil their intended role, and then considered the Conservatives, who did have enough members, but virtually none of them men in her preferred 18-19 age range – or even pre-retirement, come to that.