Reform Party’s Grant StClair-Armstrong resigns over blog comments

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1. >“I bitterly regret all of those comments made many years ago and I am just sorry that some people deemed it necessary to hunt for them when I am not the person I was then.”

   This tool actually stated that. “I am sorry that you found out what an idiot I was before. But I am totally not the same idiot now.”

2. It seems that the only Reform UK candidates left are the careful racists.

3. Kemi breathing sigh of relief then as a competitive Reform would have put her at risk. She could still go but with Reform sacking him (said he was forced to resign) and suspending their campaign I think she wins.

   This guy an idiot. Would have known this get brought up. Same with some other candidates for Reform / Greens etc.

   It why Rishi calling election early was strong tactically but the Tories themselves had no plan.

4. He does actually appear to have shown some contrition, unlike the other bloke.

5. The BNP are not a proscribed organisation but a political party that stands candidates even now throughout the country. It is not illegal to support them, nor should it ever be a cause for resignation that a fellow once had made a post on the internet supporting them.

   Reminder that the current labour candidate in Clacton quite recently posted that his favourite drink is “white men’s tears”: of the two I sure would say that the labour candidate ought to resign before this fellow

6. I suspect there’s many more of these to come as people start digging into the histories of the other Reform candidates across the country, many of whom are probably folks they pulled in off the street.