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.
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.