Jack backs Jack as former first minister campaigns for Labour namesake in Holyrood election<\/a><\/p>\nAn annual gathering of global leaders at Davos is sometimes cited as a location for the so-called plot, while Microsoft founder Gates is also wrongly identified as a leading figure.<\/p>\n
In 2024, McLennan responded to claims that unnamed forces had sprayed \u201chard\u201d from the skies in Kansas in the US.<\/p>\n
McLennan responded: \u201cI’m in Scotland and you can SE [sic] the vapour trails across the blue canvas slowly, surely, definitely turn into clouds to hide the sun. Gates and Davos are trying to cull the global population.\u201d<\/p>\n
In June last year, McLennan also wrote on X: \u201cI’m white. Christian ( though not practicing) ..and worried.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m seeing the fabric of our society changing before my eyes. Specifically the threat from Islam. The spread of the Qu’uran , the fear of any female coming home alone. Is it just me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Around the same time, he wrote: \u201cWake up guys, they’re here to take over. By 2050, this could be a Muslim country..\u201d<\/p>\n
Scottish Labour Deputy Leader Jackie Baillie said: \u201cLord Offord and Reform have welcomed crank conspiracy theorists with open arms, but Scotland deserves better.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is clearer than ever that Reform is nothing but a distraction in this election and the only party that can deliver change is Scottish Labour.<\/p>\n
Scottish Greens spokesperson for Net-Zero Patrick Harvie said: \u201cAnother day, another Reform candidate pushing conspiracy theories and racist fearmongering. It shows once again exactly what kind of people Reform are putting forward for Parliament: stupid, racist and dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cScotland deserves serious representatives who will stand up for communities, tackle poverty and protect public services. Instead Reform is offering candidates who believe in nonsense like chemtrails and population conspiracies, fronted by a leader who boasts about his extreme wealth during a cost of living crisis. Meanwhile, across the whole UK, they are spreading racism and making direct threats against communities that refuse to vote for them.<\/p>\n
“It doesn\u2019t matter how many times Nigel Farage rebrands, from UKIP to Brexit to Reform. The truth is that he\u2019s just reheating the same old far-right politics that have been rejected by Scotland time and time again.”<\/p>\n
A Scottish Conservative spokesman said: \u201cThis crank is just the latest Reform candidate to have their murky past exposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cReform are in disarray. They can\u2019t be trusted to stand up to the SNP and John Swinney\u2019s push for another independence referendum.\u201d<\/p>\n
McLennan, who was a landlord, said in 2024 that Reform UK are a \u201clandlords\u2019 party\u201d that will help owners gain possession of their homes.<\/p>\n
He also blasted the abolition of no-fault evictions south of the border – despite soaring homelessness levels.<\/p>\n
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