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[chiefdave]

Sir Nige blaming 'the establishment' again for this latest incident.

Yes Nigel, it was the establishment that made your councillors make those appalling comments. Of course it was.

He's also said "We actually vet to a much higher standard than the other parties."

Not sure he realises how bad that makes the party look. If they genuinely vet to a higher standard than other parties it raises the question of why they need to, and if these are the people who pass how bad are those that don't?

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I think where the grey lines on this are, Reform are still a relatively new party and probably don't have the infrastructure or the right resource for the initial vetting process. I imagine there are lots more like them too who won't yet have been discovered and all they can do as these are exposed, remove them from the party and tbf to them they have done that in this case.

No doubt the ones in question will move over to Restore. It can hardly be a surprise that the more extreme sides attract even more extreme people as each will have a fairly broad church. I imagine there are plenty of Conservative voters to the left and right of me too and I'm sure similar with a lot of you who are staunch Labour supporters. Equally I'm pretty confident that the Green party will have some radical Muslims among their ranks and a similar expose could be out there but less newsworthy, so the pile on reads like a bit of faux outrage.

They don't have the resource? They've recently received £72m in donations - that should cover it.

 

[PVA]

They obviously have to but it’s safe to say councillors in general are of a type.

They are, but if Reform win a decent number of seats at the next election some of these freaks they keep finding may end up as MPs.

 

[LarryGrayson]

They are, but if Reform win a decent number of seats at the next election some of these freaks they keep finding may end up as MPs.

George Finch for example, who's wasted a load of cash and time for his *own party* to conclude there wasn't a problem in the first place.

https://www.warwickshireworld.com/news/people/warwickshire-library-review-finds-no-evidence-of-problems-with-displays-but-still-calls-for-changes-9282094

Mind you, we knew that from the FOI request.

Reform ‘importing US culture wars’ says Rachel, as she reveals zero complaints about inappropriate library books - Rachel Taylor MP

Rachel has accused Reform UK in Warwickshire of launching a “desperate” crusade against LGBT+ people after new figures revealed that zero complaints have been made about books being inappropriate for children in the county’s libraries. In June, the 19-year-old Reform UK Warwickshire council...

rachel-taylor.co.uk

 

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[SkyBlueCharlie9]

They obviously have to but it’s safe to say councillors in general are of a type.

They are, but 95% are sound and care a lot and do a desperately dull and boring critical roles to run vitally important services. However and having worked directly with many Councillors in South East over last 25years, the handful of the racist and homophobic fruitcake Councillors who made comments in proffessional conversations, have all later transfered from Conservatives to Reform in last few years. Fair to say I've worked with a few clowns in Greens, LDs and Labour too but not nasty just old, idealistic and lacked common sense.