Reform campaigners in Clacton

[CassieMaddox]

Channel 4 news gone undercover with Reform campaigners in Clacton (where Farage is standing).
Just shocking. They aren't even pretending to be anything other than BNP in suits at this point.

https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-undercover-inside-reforms-campaign-evidence-of-homophobia-and-canvassers-racism

They all seem pretty nuts the Labour Party candidate said his favorate drink is 'white man's tears'

Owusu-Nepaul was heavily criticised online during the campaign after an old tweet of his emerged in which he reacted to a friend talking about “white man tears” with the reply: “My favourite drink”.
“They were comments made before I put myself forward for election. Prior to that I was a private citizen. Of course, I would never use such language as an elective representative,” the candidate told PoliticsHome.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-clacton-candidate-says-running-for-every-black-brown-person-uk

I would prefer if we could go back to an era where racial politics were not weaponised and back to helping the poorest and least able in society whatever their colour. I think that it is imported from America and does not suit the UK.

Have you actually watched the video? It is way, way beyond a candidate making an off the cuff comment about "white mans tears" 4 years ago when he was still a teenager.

Have a watch and then see if you still want to defend Reform.

i’ve just watched it and yeah anyone who believes that party isn’t full of bigots is lying.

they hate foreigners, gays, women and everything else.

The true face of Reform. No one is surprised.

Disgusting facists. It appals me that people like this exist.

I have asked this before, but I think it bears repeating.

Why are racists and indeed fascists, embarrassed to identify as such?

They are currently embarrassed. They would prefer to be more in charge so they don’t have to be. You know, freedom to offend…

That's just too upsetting. I'm horrified.

But surely not surprised? I mean no one should be

It won’t stop people voting for them because unfortunately too many share their repugnant views.

Will Reform voters care though?

Don't they already know that a vote for Reform is a vote for these views?

We've got a handful on our local Facebook page and being gobsmackingly thick and astonishingly racist/xenophobic//homophobic Islamophobic/misogynistic etc is their stock in trade.

We just have to hope that these Putin fanboys are a minority, don't we?

Yes. It’s actually the point of them. Then no one will have bother not being racist because we can all fit in with Reform

already their fans are saying how this is ‘normal’ speech. like no darling it isn’t for people who aren’t facists

This is what Reform is about

it’s not going to stop any voters who are planning to vote Reform

sadly there are a number of people who have these opinions

Racists tend think everyone is racist like them.

And Reform isn't exactly going after the classy well informed graduate vote is it?

Very quick off the mark with the Farage-approved deflection!

The one-off old joke about white man's tears does not compare to advocating rounding up the residents of Bradford and shooting them or murdering people of colour in ambulances or using asylum seekers as target practice or replacing the police with paramilitaries. All of which are discussed in the footage seriously by Reform activists.

But immediately there is an attempt to dilute it with - oh look, they're all as bad as each other!

No. No, they aren't. These examples are a million miles apart from one another.

National Front, BNP, EDF, Brexit Party, Reform.

All the same, different label.

Edited- borked link

Try this one for NF total non apology apology, similar to first post on this thread

x.com/Channel4News/status/1806393673770246588

Sadly most people who will vote for them share the same views so it's unlikely to bother them.

l'm worried by the number of people locally who support them. There is too much complacency that they will never amount to anything.

On a local level, i am worried. But from their social media it seems to be so many bots which makes me feel a lot better.

On the comments, Farage said;

We’ve had one or two candidates that have said things they shouldn’t have said. In most cases they’re just speaking like ordinary folk.

So there you are.

Who on earth are these ordinary folk?! I've never met anyone who supports the BNP, or who wants to shoot people. The views of some of these candidates who seem to be the absolute dregs of society, are off the scale repulsive.

these people genuinely think this is how "everyone" feels but just doesn't say.

No, we just have empathy and aren't evil little fascists.

That's some echo chamber they've got going on.