Reform will not drop candidates who compared Covid lockdowns to the Holocaust

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1. Following this election there needs to be a new centre right party form otherwise the vacuum created by the Tories inevitable capitulation will be filled by Reform.

   I can’t see them ever polling any higher than 20% in their current form but if moderate Tories become homeless I predict that will be the demographic that could propel Reform into government at the next election.

   This will also be partially Labour’s fault if they remain too cautious in government it will be easy for Reform to amplify their message regarding politicians all being the same.

2. Six week long election campaign which is pretty long, so the usual news cycles for an election are being stretched. Farages hope of blustering through these scandals and the press turning onto the next story are not working as well because the press are running out of stories and Farage bashing is popular with a broad part of the public.

   He hoped to bounce into the election at the last minute to avoid scrutiny and had last Thursday been the end of a 4 week campaign it would have worked. Week and a half left.

3. They can’t drop their swivel eyed loons. Otherwise, they have no candidates.

4. well yeah they can’t go dropping the moderate wing like that

5. Because reform needs candidates in every constituency to punish the tories for not giving Nige a cosy position in their party.

6. Why would they? They’re just expressing the viewpoint of their party.

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9. Well yeah – at this point only the willful ignorants think Reform has any dignity that can’t be bought

10. How will Farage address the serious allegations of anti-semitism in the Reform party?

11. Why would they drop them? They’re aiming for the votes of the people who agree!

12. “ Writing on Facebook in 2021, Jake Fraser, who is standing in Widnes and Halewood, said: “We’re on the precipice of a Health Holocaust.

    “The same methodology the Nazis used to rise to power with minimal opposition by appealing to both sides of the political spectrum… is unfolding before our eyes.

    He added: “The rhetoric was a tip of the hat to parallels of totalitarianism employed by National Socialists during the rise of Hitler prior to (not during) the Holocaust.”

    Angela Carter-Begbie, standing in Queen’s Park and Maida Vale, said: “It’s true. The behaviour of the jabbed towards the un-jabbed was boarder line [sic] the Holocaust.”

    Pete Durnell, Smethwick, West Midlands wrote on social media in 2020: “[The] idea that elderly and/or infirm should be forcibly isolated, virtually indefinitely, is one which fits better with 1940s Germany than a modern day democracy.”

    While he previously did not understand why, in Nazi Germany, “ordinary German folk meekly comply with orders to hate and persecute Jews, with zero justification,” Durnell said he was now watching, “something so similar unfold around me.”

    John Edwards, a candidate in Southampton West, condemned a Canadian rail firm that, “tells vaccinated travellers to wear a yellow sticker”, adding: “Nazi Germany did something similar.” “

    The headline lead me to believe there would be something a bit more shocking in the article, it’s all a bit ‘meh’

    I’d start jailing people for over egging headlines, do you know who else would do that? The Germans in the 1930’s.

13. So many people trying to shit on Reform at the momemt, and theyre sounding a little bit nervous and desperate

14. Nigel Farage has always happily courted antisemitism, whether it is holocaust minimisation like this or trading conspiracy theories with Alex Jones. 

    This is not new. This is who he is.

15. Of course they will not. It would lose them a chunk of voters and goes against their free speech narrative.

16. Like a shit Sunday league team from that one pub that’s only frequented by wankers.

17. The sub is just constant Reform bashing headliners.

    TORY MUCH?

18. Rallying people into alienating Jews. Taking jobs from the Jews. Wanting to restrict all freedoms of Jews. Ensuring the public throw blind allegiance to the Nazis. Police used to enforce strict rules against freedom, police thought, police speech, arrest and remove dissenting opinion.

    Swap ‘Jew’ for ‘unvaccinated’.

    People lost jobs. People were arrested for not sticking to clearly false rules that were knowingly implemented wrongly and broken by the elites. Pressure was put on people to be vaccinated. Anyone challenging the vaccine were peppers who were antivax despite having vaccines for most things. Rallying the public to bang pots and pans for the holy NHS, using that sacred cow to brow beat people into the vaccine.

    Damn fucking straight there are similarities to what led to the holocaust. In fact, I find it hilarious that people cry about China and Russian propaganda in their own countries when the West did the exact same thing.

19. Well yeah, there ms not many replacements waiting in gods waiting room

20. For when the Tories aren’t awful enough: there’s Reform.

    Seriously, it’s like they rolled a snowball out of all the worst Tory tendencies and tossed it through Britain’s front window.

    It’ll be a happy day when Farage shuffles off this mortal coil. Hopefully his liver is limbering up for the knockout blow soon.