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.
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.