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(This post was last modified: 5 hours ago by C C.)
Yah, better be doing something about it. "If your party can't early detect the nuts, then it's gonna be strewn with guts." Yusuf is every bit as much a Brit as Farage. That's including even if Farage is a first-class grifter, as establishment conspiracy or the rhetoric of rival Labour and Tories attest.
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Reform UK suspends aspiring MP who said ‘Muslims can't be British’
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/...be-british
A Reform UK MP has been suspended from the party after being caught saying “you cannot be a Muslim and British” and advocating for the use of concentration camps.
Jason Powell was recorded making the comments at an event referred to as Farage Fest as part of a year-long ITV investigation which aired last night. The party threw the event to thank volunteers who helped Nigel Farage get re-elected as the MP for Clacton during the recent by-election.
Undercover filming recorded Mr Powell saying that he had passed vetting checks to become a Reform parliamentary candidate and: “Anyone who comes across on a boat, as an example, in the first week of election, build concentration camps, and everyone who comes across on the Channel, you’re in there.
“And that’s the first, the very first day … They just need to be rounded up, every single last one of them, and sent to those concentration camps, and then be given an ultimatum.”
He was also recorded as saying that he was “pretty hardline about Islam as well,” adding: “I would have disagreements, especially with, um, I mean, as far as I understand, Zia Yusuf [Reform’s home affairs spokesperson] is a Muslim. To me … you cannot be a Muslim and British … it’s like oil and water.”
Reform has said that two other party figures who were elected as councillors in London and recorded advocating the mass shooting of grooming gang members were not under investigation. Adam Parkins was recorded as saying that if he was prime minister he “would quite happily do Sunday morning rose garden executions.”
David Kerr, a colleague of Mr Parkins on Hounslow council in west London, said: “When it comes to like, yeah, grooming gang perpetrators, like, yeah dude, we just fucking line them up on the wall … line up a few thousand grooming gang perpetrators and machine gun them down.”
Mr Powell later told ITV that his views were those of British people in general and were not extremist. Stand up to Racism co-convener Sabby Dhalu said: “Reform UK is riddled with racism, Islamophobia and fascism, yet continues to masquerade as a legitimate political party. The revelations in the ITV documentary are just the latest examples of what lies beneath its public image.
“Reform UK serves the interests of billionaires and millionaires while exploiting public anger over the cost-of-living crisis to scapegoat asylum-seekers and stoke racism and Islamophobia, diverting blame from the wealthy interests it represents.
“We must mobilise to defeat Reform UK wherever it holds power locally and ensure it gets nowhere near power nationally.”
Reform UK said: “Reform UK has improved and prioritised its vetting procedures, but from time to time a handful of individuals who do not share our values will initially make it through vetting.”
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Reform UK suspends aspiring MP who said ‘Muslims can't be British’
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/...be-british
A Reform UK MP has been suspended from the party after being caught saying “you cannot be a Muslim and British” and advocating for the use of concentration camps.
Jason Powell was recorded making the comments at an event referred to as Farage Fest as part of a year-long ITV investigation which aired last night. The party threw the event to thank volunteers who helped Nigel Farage get re-elected as the MP for Clacton during the recent by-election.
Undercover filming recorded Mr Powell saying that he had passed vetting checks to become a Reform parliamentary candidate and: “Anyone who comes across on a boat, as an example, in the first week of election, build concentration camps, and everyone who comes across on the Channel, you’re in there.
“And that’s the first, the very first day … They just need to be rounded up, every single last one of them, and sent to those concentration camps, and then be given an ultimatum.”
He was also recorded as saying that he was “pretty hardline about Islam as well,” adding: “I would have disagreements, especially with, um, I mean, as far as I understand, Zia Yusuf [Reform’s home affairs spokesperson] is a Muslim. To me … you cannot be a Muslim and British … it’s like oil and water.”
Reform has said that two other party figures who were elected as councillors in London and recorded advocating the mass shooting of grooming gang members were not under investigation. Adam Parkins was recorded as saying that if he was prime minister he “would quite happily do Sunday morning rose garden executions.”
David Kerr, a colleague of Mr Parkins on Hounslow council in west London, said: “When it comes to like, yeah, grooming gang perpetrators, like, yeah dude, we just fucking line them up on the wall … line up a few thousand grooming gang perpetrators and machine gun them down.”
Mr Powell later told ITV that his views were those of British people in general and were not extremist. Stand up to Racism co-convener Sabby Dhalu said: “Reform UK is riddled with racism, Islamophobia and fascism, yet continues to masquerade as a legitimate political party. The revelations in the ITV documentary are just the latest examples of what lies beneath its public image.
“Reform UK serves the interests of billionaires and millionaires while exploiting public anger over the cost-of-living crisis to scapegoat asylum-seekers and stoke racism and Islamophobia, diverting blame from the wealthy interests it represents.
“We must mobilise to defeat Reform UK wherever it holds power locally and ensure it gets nowhere near power nationally.”
Reform UK said: “Reform UK has improved and prioritised its vetting procedures, but from time to time a handful of individuals who do not share our values will initially make it through vetting.”