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.

Well, you do your bit.

As if Labour councils have not experienced chaos, not to mention the current government. What guarantees do we have that there are not large numbers of people like Kenyon in the House of Commons already, especially among the Labour ranks? How did (Labour) MPs like Andrew Gwynne, Lloyd Russell-Moyle and Neil Coyle get through? There could be dozens of men like this on Labour's backbenches. Neil Coyle is still a Labour MP and I noticed that Lloyd Russell-Moyle recently joined the Green Party with a fanfare, no doubt he will be back in the Commons in 2029.

Also, I noticed a big fuss about a newly-elected councillor for Reform with a tattoo. I looked up the ward to see who had represented the area before and found a tribute to a former Labour councillor who died earlier this year. The head of the Labour group described the late, former, councillor as a 'straight-talker' - I looked him up - he was suspended in 2019 for using the N-word.

That tattoo resembled a swastika, or as he and his wife claimed a obsure Bhuddist symbol

To be fair, I don't think it's that obscure as a Buddhist symbol;

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/buddhist-swastika.html?sortBy=relevant

How long ago are they claiming he had it done - 40 years ago, 50 years ago?

You noticed the big fuss, I am sure you will be able to answer those questions yourself.

I live in the Makerfield constituency. It’s strange at the moment, our little northern town totally in the spotlight. Barely a day goes by without someone knocking on the door asking me who we are voting for.
Anyways, Robert Kenyon is a disgusting human being.
Plenty of my friends and family agree with that however I’m sure a lot of people in Makerfield will vote reform regardless and they are disillusioned with labour and will vote for anyone who will get them out. I will be voting for Andy Burnham, but in all honesty i don’t think he will even win the seat. God help us if Kenyon takes the helm.

I thought Kenyon's local policies sounded ok - from one of the links someone posted up thread;

^His local policy priorities, if elected, include campaigning for a new hospital for Wigan, lobbying against greenbelt development, regenerating high streets in Ashton and Hindley and saving Ashton Library.

Though there are claims he has had nothing to do with saving the library. So is it possible he is just sort of saying that rather than being interested in it? Just a wild guess.

I have, in my jewellery box, a beautifully made gold swastika charm, which was my great grandmother’s, and which she considered a good luck symbol. The point of the story is that she stopped thinking of it as a good luck symbol in the late 1930s.

‘Have had’ is the correct phrasing. The greens have been forced to take action after information made public. Left to themselves they’d vote David challenor or equivalent in as pm. Ditto reform. They’re all totally judgey nutbags and unelectable and many of them should be in jail in my view on both sides of the spectrum. I want normal people to vote for! But these kind of posts do make
me think people in glass houses… and first remove the plank from thine own eye. I support morals, and i want nothing to do with faux purity from hypocrites who love it if it’s someone ‘on their team’ no matter how much harm they do others. Which are you op?

OP, you're not wrong. But what this thread and so many others show is how happy ordinary people are to torch their own rights and benefits if it means The Other will be punished a bit harder.

If you are Reform are you ok with Bonnie Blue?

Reform welcomes porn star Bonnie Blue’s support Danny Kruger says party is not ‘judgmental’ over voters and wants ‘all the support we can get’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/15/reform-welcomes-porn-star-bonnie-blue-support/

Interesting perspective thank you. If someone has clearly (not just allegations) done something wrong or inappropriate as with this man, I’m pretty unforgiving. If I was Refirm I’d be disgusted and would be lobbying for a different candidate. Under no circumstances would I vote for him. And that’s the same for different parties…. If I’d been a Liberal in the 70s, I can’t see how I’d have voted for Jeremy Thorpe. And if I’d known about Lloyd George’s proclivities, I think I’d have had serious reservations.

Kenyon can't be that bothered about saving greenbelt land or saving Ashton library as he has not been to a single meeting about the Winstanley Hall development (building on greenbelt, incidentally where he actually lives) or the meetings about saving Ashton Library (where he is actually the counsellor for).
His interview with the MEN was an embarrassment. He had no idea about ANY of Reforms policies and deflected every question about it with 'I will have to have a deeper look into that'. He is as thick as two short planks.

The swastika is also found in ancient Native American tribal art namely the Navaho and Hopi peoples. It is a completely unrelated symbol of life and good health.

Ew. Please make it stop. Makerfield deserves better. So does everyone

Makerfield and the rest of the UK deserves better than this shitshow. But no let’s sit back and watch Reform UK get voted in.
Ew indeed. The thought of standing in a queue to sign a ballot paper (for any party other than Reform yUK!) with Bonnie Blue and her thousands of ‘men’ signing up to Reform UK 🤢 🤮 🤢

Doesn't surprise me in the least. The cross over between men who don't see an issue in the 'work' of BB, and men who vote Reform will be significant. Reform know their punters, and Rob Kenyon is their poster boy. Hence they're not that fussed about him revealing his crude misogyny.
I only hope they have misjudged the numbers in this demographic by comparison to the numbers of decent men and women in Makerfield.

It’s wrong to say every Reform voter approves of Bonnie Blue. Doing so is yet another example of how the white working class in this country are continually mischaracterised.

Obviously the person who started the thread and the people who have constructively engaged with it?

Its equally wrong to use Reform voters and 'white working class' as though they are interchangeable.
In the recent council elections, only around 40% of people bothered to vote at all. Of those that did vote, only 27% voted Reform. This leaves a vast majority of people in the UK who do not support Reform. Many of whom will be working class.
So when you're on your high horse about stereotyping Reform voters, maybe pause to think how very offensive your own stereotyping of WC people as Reform voters is.
Just because a lot of Reform support comes from the WC, it doesn't mean the majority of the WC support Reform. As a WC person, that's highly offensive to me.

Deflection.

An incredibly ridiculous take. This thread is speaking specifically about Reform voters and working class people. There is no conflation. as someone who is working-class, from the Makerfield constituency and very much not a reform voter, why don’t you get off your high horse and then learn some comprehension skills.

I think you may have misunderstood the thread. The OP is about the vile misogyny of Rob Kenyon, and is asking Reform voters if they support him despite that.
I genuinely don't know how you have leapt from that to this being a thread about 'working class people' unless you have somehow decided that vile misogyny and Reform voting are characteristics of WC people?

Not another one…