Reform UK’s candidate for Mayor in Doncaster this May has been accused of making “openly racist comments” following the train stabbings over the weekend.
In posts on Sunday, responding to Saturday’s mass stabbing attack on the Doncaster to London King’s Cross train, Reform councillor Alexander Jones explicitly attributed the crime to “individuals” who were “not English” and instead “Black and of Caribbean descent” – despite the alleged killer being British.
This reminds me of the hubbub surrounding Rishi Sunak’s Englishness and David Lammy’s Englishness.
Maybe anyone who lives or has lived in England could reasonably call themselves English. Just like if you live or have lived in Liverpool then you could call yourself a Liverpudlian, regardless of your ethnicity or anything else.
Good to see USA has not cornered the market for fucking assholes.
They’re the racism party, this is par for the course
But they get into a snit if you call them racists.
*par for the course
But yeah, you’re right. Hopefully now they’re moving out of dog-whistle territory, any decent people who’ve been tricked will see them for what they really are.
damn autoincorrect
They pay black people to hand out leaflets outside train stations though. I ran into a UKIP one in like 2014ish in london. Same party, same bollocks, same idiots.
Nigel Farage is of French Hugeanot descent and therefore he also cannot be considered English because he doesn’t have an Anglo-Saxon bone in his body.
For that matter, neither am I because my family is a mix of Irish and Norman, fuck myself back to Donegal then I guess.
Nigel Farage is of French Hugeanot descent
BLOODY HUGEANOTS! Coming over here from medieval france, bloody french with their famed ability to weave jerkins out of lace… WE DON’T WANT YOUR LACE HERE
To be honest we are riddled with beaker people at the moment.
Bloody beaker folk. Farage will send them back to the Iberian Peninsula so they can fill it with beakers.
As long as they’re drinking pear cider made from 100% pears, they’re alright by me.
Mmm, perry…
Since we’re in a thread about Farage I feel obliged to post this
Why does he have so many teeth? Why does he look like a ballsack?
Alex Jones lmao
There’s a Welsh lady Alex Jones too. She’s much nicer.
They’re showing us who they are
Believe them
No people of colour just nonces
Good to get this shit out in the open. Unfortunately not surprising that people think like that - I predicted it as soon as the suspects’ details were published.
I don’t think reform voters have any understanding of confirmation or selection bias, so are extremely vulnerable to this kind of thinking.
I was always curious if racism against blacks was like it is in the US. Guess it is….
It’s much different in the UK than in the US. Here in the UK, there are very few overtly racist shits. But there are far more racists who are superficially polite, but secretly hate black people, and will fuck them over, given a chance.
The Reform Party, like MAGA in the US, is trying to make racism and xenophobia mainstream so they can grab power and profit from the scapegoating. Their rhetoric is likely to get some asylum-seekers murdered, and the two mainstream parties have been pandering to the bigots instead of confronting and shaming them. Appeasement doesn’t work.
When Farage’s mob and Tommy Robinson’s bovver boys came to my city, though, and tried to terrorize the tiny contingent of brown and black people who live here, they were convinced very quickly to fuck off. Turkish shopkeepers are not soft targets. Neither are some of their white customers. When the fascists saw the kind of welcome they were likely to get, they scarpered. It was good that they left when they did, since there were many hundreds of bricks stockpiled on the roofs above some of the high-street shops, ready to use in case things really kicked off.
