GEORGE Jones, pictured above with Reform UK’s Nigel Farage, was standing alongside Farage in a Clacton pub recently, drumming up support for the far-right leader. Later he was filmed mouthing off fascist crap, saying, among other things in an undercover Channel 4 report that, were his party to win power, police supporting Pride events will be transformed into paramiltaries and will target “nonces” rather than support them.
On spotting a police car with a rainbow flag, he said he was “surprised that it did not have an Islamic flag on the back.”
Jones unwittingly revealed the party’s true colours in the Channel 4 video, much to Farage’s fury, and is now “no longer involved in the campaign. He’s gone,” according to this report.
Farage faced angry questions from a Question Time audience about the Channel 4 recording, which also showed Andrew Parker, above, a canvasser for Reform UK, calling Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a “fucking Paki.”
He also called Islam a “disgusting cult” and that Reform would “fucking kick out all Muslims from mosques and turn them into Wetherspoons.”
On Friday Mr Sunak said it made him “angry” that his daughters had to see a Reform campaigner using racist language about him.
Farage described the comments as a “tirade of invective abuse” but suggested the man may have been paid and claimed it was “a political setup of astonishing proportions”.
Channel 4 News said it stood by its “rigorous and duly impartial journalism”, adding that it met Mr Parker for the first time at Reform UK party headquarters and had not paid him any money.
In a statement, Parker said he wanted to:
Apologise profusely to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party if my personal views have reflected badly on them and brought them into disrepute as this was not my intention.
Meanwhile Essex Police have said they are “urgently assessing” comments in the programme “to establish if there are any criminal offences”.
A Reform spokesman confirmed that George Jones, was a party volunteer.
In the footage, Jones, “a longtime party activist who organises events for Mr Farage,” calls a Pride flag on a police car a “fucking degenerate flag”.
He repeatedly suggests members of the LGBT+ community are paedophiles and criticises police attending Pride.
Farage had previously described Jones’s comments as “vulgar, drunk and wrong”.
Reform UK has dropped three of its candidates following reports they had made offensive comments, a spokesman said.
Edward Oakenfull, who is standing in Derbyshire Dales; Robert Lomas, a candidate in Barnsley North, and Leslie Lilley, standing in Southend East and Rochford, will still appear on the ballot paper as Reform candidates as it is too late for them to be removed.
A Reform spokesman said if any of the three were elected they would sit as independent MPs.
However, he said people should still vote for the candidates if they wished to register support for Reform.
It comes after leader Farage disowned the candidates during an appearance on BBC Question Time on Friday evening, when their remarks were put to him.
Farage told the programme: “I want nothing to do with them.”
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To his credit, Nigel Farage has purged his Clacton constituency of a small clique of vocal homophobes and racists. As a fairly new party, Reform UK is still “finding its feet” and it is still not certain if its populism will settle into a traditional right-wing mould, or be something more progressive, acting as a counter to the increasingly globalist and puritan Labour Party. Some of Reform’s policies, like removing the two-child benefit cap and lifting low paid workers out of poverty by increasing the threshold at which tax becomes payable to £20,000, are being characterised as “left-wing”, although traditional terms like “left” and “right” are admittedly less useful and meaningful than they were 20 years ago. It should be noted that former deputy leaders of the Reform UK party include Dr David Bull (an openly gay LGBT advocate) and Ben Habib (a Pakistani immigrant whose family settled in Britain in 1979). This is indicative that the struggle for the heart, soul and future direction of Reform UK is by no means certain, one way or the other. With a return of blasphemy laws under Labour a very real possibility (to secure and appease their Muslim support base), it will be interesting to see which way Reform UK jumps on this and other issues.
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