If you are Reform are you ok with this repulsive man potentially becoming an MP and representing women in parliament?

[Johnogroats]

Robert Kenyon, the “cheeky local chappie” who is standing for Reform in Makerfield is on record as making some shockingly sexist comments and statements. Reform are standing by him.

Can I ask the women on here who are Reform voters if they are ok with the him remaining a candidate given what I cite below. Btw I am absolutely not, but I’m not and never will be a Reform voter for a variety of reasons.

1. Retweeting a post about performing a (graphic description) of a sexual act on Carol Voderman.
2. He has attacked women as being promiscuous and accused them of taking any decision to have an abortion lightly. He wrote, “reproductive rights, women's rights, they can dress it up all they want.
3. They're deciding to kill a baby inside the womb. What they mean is they want to shag anyone they want. And if they get caught, they get a second chance and treat it as a secondary, last form of contraception.”

Either you think this is ok (don’t understand how anyone let alone a woman could be ok with it) or presumably you’ll be contacting Tice and Farage etc to drop him.

Interested in your thoughts.

Also, there is no chance of the Greens forming the next government….

I think the abuse that JKR has suffered is appalling. I’m not sure the comments are worse (but doubt I’ve seen all of them). If they are in the same league those people should absolutely be sanctioned. But here I’m focused on the current news about Kenyon. He may be a mere wannabe MP but seems to me at least to be entirely unsuited to represent the women of his potential constituency.

I’m sure members of the Labour and Green Party say appalling things too. This man is a prospective parliamentary candidate for a party that may well form the next administration.

I’ve scrolled back to find this as you’ve asked why I hadn’t responded. TBH I’m not sure what you want me to say. But…

1. Yes. Agreed. Laws need to have safeguards. Personally I’m pro assisted dying WITH appropriate and sensible safeguards…. The proposed law needs scrutiny and I guess parliament will come back to that one day.
2. Re Vorders. What you say is vile. That tweet was repulsive and intended to humiliate her. You are saying that anyone who makes the most of themselves is inviting abuse. Just gross.
3. Kenyon has repeatedly said vile things and shown us who he is. On him that’s enough for me to think at the least Reform should deselect him. With regard to other parties…. It’s bloody hard to change the course of a supertanker in 2 years. I think Labour / Starmer have been politically inept at times. I don’t think Starmer is a bad person. He wasn’t covering up child abuse as a report had been done. He had to change his stance (good thing) after Louise Casey I think looked into it. I know small boats numbers have been bad over this weekend but overall the immigration numbers are surprisingly headed in the right direction.

Hope that answers your points.

Here’s the thing - people vote for people like Kenyon BECAUSE they say things like that, not IN SPITE of them saying things like that. It’s like voting for Trump. The first time he was elected president, many voters possibly didn’t really know what they were getting. The second time round, they absolutely knew; they knew he was a rapey racist misogynist who cheated on his wives, slept with prostitutes, and was a leading character in the Epstein Files. They knew he was a liar and a hypocrite and a bully and a cheat. And enough people liked that about him to get him reelected.

We get it wrong when we believe everyone wants equal rights for all. The fact is that lots and lots of people really, really, don’t.

Edited for typo.

I think they are targeting a distinct demographic. I doubt we will see him in my area as he won't want to be challenged on his views nor do I think he has the intelligence for a sensible discussion about them.

I'm inclined to agree with you. While decent intelligent people will see Kenyons tweets and feel horrified that an individual like this could be elected to our government, other crude, regressive specimens, of low intelligence and dubious morals will be cheering him on.
The men who think catcalling school girls in their uniforms is a great start to the day, that can't control their hilarity when their mate shouts 'tits' at a woman from the van, who subject women to their creepy unsolicited attentions, they'll all be delighted at the thought of 'one of the lads' sticking two fingers up at the 'woke brigade' spoiling their fun.

You have hit the nail on the head there, or should I say hit the pipe with the nail as dodgy plumbers often do!

Really sad but I’m sure you have a point. Still don’t understand why women would vote Kenyon… but I do t understand why they went and still go for the pussy grabber.

Yes I am

What do you mean? Are you suggesting previous left wing voters on here have now changed to supporting Reform?

I'm guessing those women / people think they're safe from those risks. So they would trade sexism to women (who are faceless/nameless to them) in order to see the things they do want (ICE abuse).

I think Reform voters are fine with it because he is a means to an end. They want to stop immigration, he will not oppose that.

I also suspect they may be surrounded by people who generally speak about women in this way and are used to it.
And as someone mentioned above, people know who Trump is and still vote for him.

I would like to challenge poor behaviour across all parties. I don't buy into "they are all as bad as each other" - this is not an excuse to allow it.
And the "knows what a woman is", well... lots of very unpleasant men know what a woman is.

Yes, I agree. Much like that Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party meme (‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party).

https://thedailybritain.co.uk/kenyon-reform-makerfield-interview-no-apology-vorderman-policies-white-van-man-2026/

But reduced chance of my grandchildren being sexuslly assaulted or stabbed 🤷

Why? 🤨

Are you talking about immigration vs emigration? Or just immigration? If the vs option, have you looked at how many higher tax payers have come in vs out etc? If the net immigration is down because we are loosing skilled higher paid workers that is not a good thing.

NHS budgets have been slashed in real terms over past 2 years - my nhs team has had to cut costs by 10%. The school for which I'm a governor is going into deficit for first time in 15 years due to real term budget cuts, and that's after cutting several TA's. The infants my youngest attends (year 1) is much more restricted in what it can provide than when her older sister (year 4) was there.

Whatever figures released by Labour say, many people are experiencing higher taxes with poorer services. DH and I are middle rate earners and when we voted Labour at last election we expected to be paying a significant amount of tax under labour, but we did not expect our daughters educational experience to get worse under labour, or my nhs budget to be cut and me having to explain to my team and our patients that we can no longer provide the same quality of service that we did a few years ago. People are hearing all this rhetoric from the labour publicity machine that there is more funding and more appts, when the opposite is actually true. We are working with life limited children and families put their trust in us at one of the toughest times of their lives, so to feel like we are letting them down is really tough

Kenyon is caught lying

He's saying in a post on X that the former St Mary's Church is now a Mosque.

It is not, it's a food bank with a Muslim prayer room.

One that was firebombed.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/robert-kenyon-reform-makerfield-church-turned-into-mosque-406608/

God that's awful.

"zionist juicer" FFS.

The alternative is Burnham probably becoming PM. So yeah I am very happy for Reform to win that seat.

If you are Reform you won’t care unless he isn’t repulsive enough in which case there’s always Restore

Would you care to elaborate? Why (Immigration?) and if so what do you think about Kenyon? Would you prefer if reform chose someone else or are uuu cool with his sexism and repulsive statements?

@Bollihobs it is dreadful and unforgivable. The difference is that the Greens deselected her and she wasn’t elected. So far reform leaders are happy with Kenyon.

please tell me (as a non Labour voter who knows very little about Burham) why he is so dreadful you’d rather have a misogynist?