• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Well, yes. Reforms only hope to come to power is there being enough hateful racist idiots to vote for them

  • Superfool@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Lot of people here saying ‘well duh’.

    The target audience for UKIP, Reform, BNP, and whatever new name they come up with are gullible, and do not think critically.

    People need to be reminded constantly that these parties are filled with fucking awful examples of the worst of humanity.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Every media outlet: OMG right-wing assholes are racist! Read all about it!

    Everyone: well, yeah. We know. YOU know.

  • voracitude@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A member of the Reform party - a party whose every principle, tenet, and policy is based on pure unadulterated racism - said and/or did something racist?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    A Reform UK activist in the constituency where Nigel Farage is standing has been secretly filmed making extremely racist comments about Rishi Sunak, as well as using Islamophobic and other offensive language.

    Farage said he was “dismayed” by the views expressed by Andrew Parker, a Reform canvasser, who was filmed as part of an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News.

    The channel also secretly filmed George Jones, a longtime party activist who organises events for Farage, making homophobic comments, calling the Pride flag “degenerate” and LGBT people “nonces”.

    The most serious comments uncovered by Channel 4 News involved Parker, who was covertly filmed making them while canvassing and travelling by car around Clacton, where Farage is the favourite to unseat the incumbent Conservative.

    Telling the reporter, who was posing as an activist, to “emphasise ‘illegal’” if discussing migration with minority ethnic voters, Parker called Islam “a cult”, saying: “We’re fucking kicking all the Muslims out of the mosques and turning them into Wetherspoon’s.”

    In another covertly filmed exchange, at a pub in Clacton, Jones reacts with scorn when he sees a police car going past displaying a Pride flag.


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