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.

@Piggywaspushed post WW1 Germany had to pay reparations. The country was poor and people were struggling. An unhappy population is easy to persuade that it’s all someone else’s fault. Hitler convinced a population to turn on their friends and neighbours simply because they were Jewish. In this country we have a COL crisis, we have shocking NHS delays, we have underfunded schools, we have long waits for social housing. People feel angry and hard done by. Those emotions are a perfect breeding ground for racism and hatred.

@Happyjoe I’m just telling OP what a lot of people think. I’m simply quoting my observations. Being snappy and shutting down dialogue is what causes a lot of problems in the first place.

No it's not, that's untrue.
You can tell any ardent supporter of any party truth, they won't change their minds, they won't see logic, truth or whatever is in front of them. Seen it over and over again. See it on here often enough! Being snappy, kind, logical - means absolutely nothing.

And while you may now say you are reporting on what others think, perhaps make it clear that it's not the opinion of yours when written? And just because there are many people who feel that their long NHS waiting list is unfair, they are blaming the wrong people. Just because there may be many doesn't make it any less idiotic.

Again, just as those who want to vote the anti-women, Andrew Tate loving Reform because of trans issues and asylum seeker attacks, why on earth would they vote for privatising the NHS Reform while complaining about their waiting list? If they have the money in the first place to go get medical insurance, they should go get medical insurance instead of ruining it for the whole country.

As I said, people are idiotic.

@Happyjoe as I said in a previous post, most Reform voters don’t know what the non-immigration policies are. And if they do know, they think it’s a sacrifice worth making, in order to get a government who will reduce immigration. You can have a go at me as much as you like, but that’s what many people think. This refusal to engage with huge swathes of the population is what will get Labour voted out. But you don’t have to believe me. You can just wait for the next general election!

So who has refused to engage? Who exactly? What? Are you blaming Labour now too and trying to pretend otherwise?

They HAVE a government who is reducing immigration right now. Numbers are down with immigration (not reported in the daily mail & express on the day, I wonder why!). Anyway, it's not being believed as you say, boats have come down for the moment, returns have stepped up, inherited backlog being worked through by employing more people.
Deals being made for other countries for the UK to help with growth. NHS waiting times are supposed to be falling. Chip chip chip away. Can't undo 14 years of mucked up tory gov in 2 years with little money, but hey, who cares about reasonable expectations? Any good news isn't believed with Labour, any bad news is taken as the truth.

No, what will get Labour voted out is a largely right wing media and people being too stupid to question it or blinded by their prejudices. Farage being an excellent oil snakesman. The state of the country that was caused by an awful tory government, brexit, covid too and now we've another war to add to the mix, through no fault of the UK but in this day and age, people expect instant results.

Have any Reform supporters on here actually said unequivocally whether or not Kenyon should remain the candidate?

He'll be the first left wing PM in decades

He hasn't been very left in the past, he changes with what suits him

Anyone of any political persuasion who tries to take abortion rights away or shame those who have one is a significant danger to women.
Any man who does this is is a man who does not believe women have the right to the bodies they live in- ie a very very dangerous man.

Very much so. This is classic Burnham. He criticised the Labour leadership for not opposing this bill. Yet when it came to the actual vote, he abstained rather than having the guts to rebel.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33608826

Yes. He's a weasel I wouldn't want on my team. Or as my PM.

Not that I can see! Regardless of whether you support Reforms policies, I personally would have thought it was a no brainer!

Farage actually wrote to the Charity Commission to complain about the uncovering of his candidate's online posting history rather than, you know, address the issues which were uncovered...

He’ll be the first PM in generations to give a shit about the North.

Still no Reform supporters prepared to give an opinion on Kenyon’s suitability as a candidate?

Robert Kenyon made his comments before standing for Reform, as did Wes Streeting before joining Labour. So if we say that Robert Kenyon shouldn't stand then we have to apply the same rules to WS.

I doubt anyone on here would admit to supporting Reform!

Not true. Apparently 20% of MN users support reform. Didn't you see the news story about this?

Every political thread is CRAWLING with Reform voters!!

@Clavinova who is talking about pushing Jan moir under a train ? Steering ?

Streeting.

I commented on the Wes Streeting remark down thread. To sum up-Streeting made an ill advised remark in anger about the journalist Jan Moir who had just published appalling views about the death of a gay public figure. He apologised. Kenyon said that “everyone”-presumably every man-wanted to lick and sniff Carole Vordeman’s arsehole. He also said that women who have abortions are slags and pretend to have been raped. He said that he is a sexist. He says that women can’t drive. He has not apologised for anything he said.

Strange how things change. A couple of years ago on here the left were claiming that the Tories were the 'evil' party and vilifying anyone who supported them.

I took PPs comment to be more about not wanting to embarass themselves by not being able to answer the questions, rather than not existing.

For the avoidance of doubt, Jan Moir said that Stephen Gately’s death could not be considered natural because he was gay and therefore his lifestyle caused his death (it didn’t). Streeting said that if he pushed Moir under a train it would have been her lifestyle that caused her death. As I said, he apologised.