> The Reform UK candidate near me probably would not call himself a local. That is entirely fair, as London is a hugely metropolitan city. What might be more of an issue should he be elected is the fact that he lives a 38 hour walk to his hopeful constituency.
> Mark Matlock wants to make “big changes to London”. But it would involve getting from his South Cotswolds home to South London, Brixton, to do so.
> There is precious little information available about Mark Matlock, I discovered on a recent flick through candidates in nearby seats.
> **His profile photo is almost perfectly airbrushed. The only video on his site is of Nigel Farage. I can see no evidence of hustings appearances or media interviews.** (He has not responded to a request for comment as yet – but we will include it if he does).
> **Why so shy? When I noticed dear Mark’s curious absence, I began to notice similar trends in other constituencies.**
> But first I asked other candidates if they’d seen or heard from him.
> Green party candidate Shao-Lan Yuen told Byline Times: “I haven’t seen or heard from the Reform UK candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill constituency. He wasn’t at the hustings.”
> **“I’ve heard suspicions that the image on his leaflets are AI generated.”**
> Independent Jon Key added there was “no sign of him.”
> “I did email Mark, as well as all the other candidates. I heard back from a few, but not from Mark…He doesn’t live in the constituency,” he tells me.
> The Reform candidate for Leeds North East likewise has almost no digital footprint. There is seemingly no video, just a couple of pictures. One constituent tells me: “He’s not been to hustings, but the few videos I have found don’t have him in [either].”
> Social media sleuths have also been trying to figure out who South Dorset candidate Morgan Young is. “There is still no sign of Reform UK Party Ltd’s candidate Morgan Tara Young just two days before the general election. **No photo, no bio, no social media**,” BrexitBuster wrote on X
This is the archive of Mark Matlock’s website. It certainly looks like an AI generated photo.
My local Reform candidate was called Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, which I’m gonna say is not the name you’d expect, and didn’t even have a photo on their website, just like the empty profile picture outline thing. Cant find out a single thing about him. I’m so intrigued.
I can’t even seem to find a photo of my candidate online. Nothing but a generic page with no specific details.
All the other candidates for my area including the independent with just 100 votes I can find a fair amount of info including a photo.
His name is down for local elections in the past at least.
I’d like a deeper investigation into this, as if they are made up candidates, that’s a lot of election fraud by the party.
Reform UK potentially being a fraud and a grift? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
The most likely explantion is the chaotic nature of the party and lack of an actual local party structure means they had randoms who stuck their name in the ring to be their local candidate so many never bothered sending in pictures or doing much legwork and door knocking.
>Social media sleuths have also been trying to figure out who South Dorset candidate Morgan Young is. “There is still no sign of Reform UK Party Ltd’s candidate Morgan Tara Young just two days before the general election. **No photo, no bio, no social media**,” BrexitBuster wrote on X
This is the South Dorest result I am willing to be Mrs Union Jack Skirt is Morgan Young.
The Reform candidate here has no photos of themselves on their leaflets and nothing on their online page either. There’s nothing whatsoever in the leaflets or web page stating what they actually intended to bring to the area; just soundbites from Nigel.
They seem to be a real person but there’s literally zero online presence from them in the last 2 years that I can see, and the last stuff was a news article unrelated to any political party.
Even if they are genuine why even bother entering as a candidate if you’re not even going to make appearances or release any info about what you’d do?
Their candidate for
Mitcham and Morden has no online presence and an address in Hackney the other side of London. They’re literally invisible
I don’t buy the idea that they couldn’t book a professional photographer or find 5 minutes to write a small statement on what they stand for. A selfie and some copy-paste party talk would have been enough at short notice, but they didn’t even bother with that. Just doesn’t sit right.
Pretty sure the Reform candidate was real in my constituency, because I caught him out delivering his own leaflets lol.
Old Nige does like to point how bad the system is. If its possible to do this, he probably has a point. Although his point was more around the voter numbers.
Let them be investigated and see what comes out.
As they are registered company their filings are there for all to see.
Mine had the same name as a popular local radio DJ, which makes trying to actually find anything about him almost impossible…
I have a feeling that one of Keir Starmer’s priorities is overhauling standards in public life, dishonesty from politicians, other sources of income, and electoral reform.
None of which will make Nigel (man of the sheeple) Farage happy.
The candidate that stood for my constituency does have a digital foot print, looked at her Twitter and wow thank god she didn’t win
And she didn’t live here, can’t they find us local candidates because the idea is to send someone to represent us at parliament
Reform’s leaflet was the only party campaign leaflet I received that didn’t have the face of the actual candidate on it. Instead it had a big picture of Tice and Farage. Says it all.
The Wirral West Reform candidate is listed as resident in Ireland on Companies House, when asked about it he offered no explanation except that he’d only ever been to Dublin to try the Guinness.
I knew they had Russian bots commenting on reform media but wow, Russian bot standing that’s something else altogether.
So all the fuss over voter ID to prevent fraud and it was the candidates all along! I hope this gets investigated further.
So when the candidates for Brixton got announced I went to find what insane things whatever the reform candidate had said online on Facebook and twitter and could find absolutely nothing about him after a few hours of searching. Nothing. The only mark matlock I could find was an old antiques dealer. I saw the picture on reform’s site and was convinced it was a totally AI generated picture of some guy. And then I check this link and it’s literally about “Matlock” lol
I hope the Reform supporters here enjoyed doing another Russian vote.
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> The Reform UK candidate near me probably would not call himself a local. That is entirely fair, as London is a hugely metropolitan city. What might be more of an issue should he be elected is the fact that he lives a 38 hour walk to his hopeful constituency.
> Mark Matlock wants to make “big changes to London”. But it would involve getting from his South Cotswolds home to South London, Brixton, to do so.
> There is precious little information available about Mark Matlock, I discovered on a recent flick through candidates in nearby seats.
> **His profile photo is almost perfectly airbrushed. The only video on his site is of Nigel Farage. I can see no evidence of hustings appearances or media interviews.** (He has not responded to a request for comment as yet – but we will include it if he does).
> **Why so shy? When I noticed dear Mark’s curious absence, I began to notice similar trends in other constituencies.**
> But first I asked other candidates if they’d seen or heard from him.
> Green party candidate Shao-Lan Yuen told Byline Times: “I haven’t seen or heard from the Reform UK candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill constituency. He wasn’t at the hustings.”
> **“I’ve heard suspicions that the image on his leaflets are AI generated.”**
> Independent Jon Key added there was “no sign of him.”
> “I did email Mark, as well as all the other candidates. I heard back from a few, but not from Mark…He doesn’t live in the constituency,” he tells me.
> The Reform candidate for Leeds North East likewise has almost no digital footprint. There is seemingly no video, just a couple of pictures. One constituent tells me: “He’s not been to hustings, but the few videos I have found don’t have him in [either].”
> Social media sleuths have also been trying to figure out who South Dorset candidate Morgan Young is. “There is still no sign of Reform UK Party Ltd’s candidate Morgan Tara Young just two days before the general election. **No photo, no bio, no social media**,” BrexitBuster wrote on X
This is the archive of Mark Matlock’s website. It certainly looks like an AI generated photo.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240624162420/https://www.markmatlock.co.uk/
My local Reform candidate was called Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, which I’m gonna say is not the name you’d expect, and didn’t even have a photo on their website, just like the empty profile picture outline thing. Cant find out a single thing about him. I’m so intrigued.
I can’t even seem to find a photo of my candidate online. Nothing but a generic page with no specific details.
All the other candidates for my area including the independent with just 100 votes I can find a fair amount of info including a photo.
His name is down for local elections in the past at least.
I’d like a deeper investigation into this, as if they are made up candidates, that’s a lot of election fraud by the party.
Reform UK potentially being a fraud and a grift? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
The most likely explantion is the chaotic nature of the party and lack of an actual local party structure means they had randoms who stuck their name in the ring to be their local candidate so many never bothered sending in pictures or doing much legwork and door knocking.
>Social media sleuths have also been trying to figure out who South Dorset candidate Morgan Young is. “There is still no sign of Reform UK Party Ltd’s candidate Morgan Tara Young just two days before the general election. **No photo, no bio, no social media**,” BrexitBuster wrote on X
This is the South Dorest result I am willing to be Mrs Union Jack Skirt is Morgan Young.
[https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/7/5/57912ad3-f7ee-468a-ac12-e0ade80a6e64.jpg](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/7/5/57912ad3-f7ee-468a-ac12-e0ade80a6e64.jpg)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dorset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dorset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s)
[Similar cases here in France](https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/article/legislatives-elodie-babin-candidate-fantome-du-rn-justifie-son-absence-de-la-campagne_236468.html) with these Rassemblement National SOBs.
The Reform candidate here has no photos of themselves on their leaflets and nothing on their online page either. There’s nothing whatsoever in the leaflets or web page stating what they actually intended to bring to the area; just soundbites from Nigel.
They seem to be a real person but there’s literally zero online presence from them in the last 2 years that I can see, and the last stuff was a news article unrelated to any political party.
Even if they are genuine why even bother entering as a candidate if you’re not even going to make appearances or release any info about what you’d do?
Their candidate for
Mitcham and Morden has no online presence and an address in Hackney the other side of London. They’re literally invisible
[In this small piece](https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/07/04/uk-election-2024-ghost-candidates-could-it-be-true/) the reporter found 115 Reform candidates with no photo’s or information present, so this isn’t an isolated incident.
I don’t buy the idea that they couldn’t book a professional photographer or find 5 minutes to write a small statement on what they stand for. A selfie and some copy-paste party talk would have been enough at short notice, but they didn’t even bother with that. Just doesn’t sit right.
Pretty sure the Reform candidate was real in my constituency, because I caught him out delivering his own leaflets lol.
Old Nige does like to point how bad the system is. If its possible to do this, he probably has a point. Although his point was more around the voter numbers.
Let them be investigated and see what comes out.
As they are registered company their filings are there for all to see.
Mine had the same name as a popular local radio DJ, which makes trying to actually find anything about him almost impossible…
I have a feeling that one of Keir Starmer’s priorities is overhauling standards in public life, dishonesty from politicians, other sources of income, and electoral reform.
None of which will make Nigel (man of the sheeple) Farage happy.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/09/geoffrey-cox-under-pressure-to-quit-for-working-from-caribbean
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/06/second-jobs-earnings-mps-little-changed
Don’t forget that Boris Johnson paid cash for his £3.8 million mansion in Oxford.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/17/boris-johnson-agrees-to-buy-4m-nine-bed-georgian-manor-house-with-moat
The candidate that stood for my constituency does have a digital foot print, looked at her Twitter and wow thank god she didn’t win
And she didn’t live here, can’t they find us local candidates because the idea is to send someone to represent us at parliament
Reform’s leaflet was the only party campaign leaflet I received that didn’t have the face of the actual candidate on it. Instead it had a big picture of Tice and Farage. Says it all.
The Wirral West Reform candidate is listed as resident in Ireland on Companies House, when asked about it he offered no explanation except that he’d only ever been to Dublin to try the Guinness.
I knew they had Russian bots commenting on reform media but wow, Russian bot standing that’s something else altogether.
So all the fuss over voter ID to prevent fraud and it was the candidates all along! I hope this gets investigated further.
So when the candidates for Brixton got announced I went to find what insane things whatever the reform candidate had said online on Facebook and twitter and could find absolutely nothing about him after a few hours of searching. Nothing. The only mark matlock I could find was an old antiques dealer. I saw the picture on reform’s site and was convinced it was a totally AI generated picture of some guy. And then I check this link and it’s literally about “Matlock” lol
I hope the Reform supporters here enjoyed doing another Russian vote.