AIBU to question Farage and Reform’s silence on Middlesbrough violence?

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they need disenfranchised people who feel the world is against them - that’s their voter base.

Where Farage and Reform are concerned, as they can't say anything constructive it's best that they say nothing.

Exactly! If they criticised these murderous criminals they’d have less people on their “patriot” marches and less votes.

A little girl and her aunty murdered and not a single press conference. Well we all know why don’t we.
They are Racist, hate filled, dangerous bigots.

An interesting question. Reform say they will come down hard on crime so why not speak out about this?

Reform are a single issue pressure group / money making buisoness. They have no interest in wider political or social issues. Can anyone tell us what their proposals are for education, healthcare, transport or anything else?? They certainly dont care abput ordinary law abiding people. They just see them as useful idiots they can grift ftom.

Indeed. There's nothing remotely weird about noting that he's got fuck all to say about disgusting incidents when it's white non-immigrants, whereas that's not the case with other demographic profiles.

Yeah he’s just gone to ground hasn’t he. Directly he had his life threatened and the 5mil cash grab shone a spotlight on him further he’s just kept his head down.

He did a photo opportunity at the time, but other than that, zilch.

Farage went very quiet around the time all people wanted to discuss was his £5mil and the only person
who wanted a conversation with him was a bin 😂.

he dug a hole and is now sat sulking in it.

Have they said anything about the Ann Widdecombe murder? She was a Reform MP wasn’t she? The only tributes I ever saw was from Jeremy Vine, maybe it didn’t come through my newsfeed.

If only they would keep them shut permanently.

Nothing that man or his sycophantic loser chums say will ever be of interest to me.

I'm quite local to the A66 and the trouble that's followed the crash this week (I know the fire wasn't related, but another absolutely horrendous incident regardless) and there is generally a lot of feeling that immigrants are the problem in our area, and responsible for what goes wrong, for poverty and decline, and reform was getting a voice here, playing into that and building on it.

Obviously this incident shows that actually we have home grown problems that have fuck all to do with immigrants and that doesn't fit the narrative of Reform does it? I've noticed the local Gobshites on SM usually spouting bollocks about immigration are suspiciously quiet too following this. I doubt even Farage is deluded enough to think that the people involved in these incidents vote, but a lot of people affected by their actions do, and if they're anything like me they're going to vote for whoever takes action and actually coughs up the resources to sort out the mess this area is in properly, I mean we shouldn't need 200 extra officers from other forces, we should bloody well have had enough to deal with it before it hit this stage, we shouldn't need petitions and letters to government requesting enough resources to tackle the problems, for the police and fire services, they should already be available, because decent, hard working people live in this area, and they're paying the price of this, right across their lives. But no one really gives a shit about it, including reform.

Funnily enough, the numerous threads critical of Reform always attract the same pitchfork mentality.

Reform has nothing beyond immigrant hate.

Farage is avoiding scrutiny at the moment.

I reckon with the amount of Farage threads, it's the thread starters who are more infatuated with race than Farage.

Farage only supports himself.

He’s not interested in actual people and policy.

Just disrupting those who do.

He hasn't been able to find a way to blame what's happened on immigrants. If the 5 people in the car had been brown, whether immigrants or not, he'd have been shouting from the rooftops about it.

As it is, his lack of response shows exactly how little he cares about the police, despite previous suggestions by himself to say otherwise. Not sure, has Badenoch said anything?

Quite a weird post OP. News outlets have heavily implied that this i related to Travellers and their various criminal activities and familial disputes. I'm not sure why that would be in Farage's wheelhouse any more than any other politician. Or do you think he is like the Official Ambassador for White People now?

He's been too busy attending Farage Fest. A Reform run party in Clacton to celebrate his by election success. The invitation only event was held in an airfield where Farage talked on stage and there was a ferris wheel, booze and camping

Reform are in trouble for failing to get the necessary council licences to hold the festival.

I'm not making this up, honestly.www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm9w702k1lo