Reform UK criticised for candidates’ offensive posts

Reform UK is presenting the local electoral candidates who “published, pushed conspiracies well and praised the extremists”, despite Nigel Farage’s statement to have reinforced the party verification process, said the Hope campaign group.

Reform UK, which has been recruited more than 1,600 candidates for the elections of the English Council of May 1, has made much of its efforts to “professionalize” the party after a series of racism scandals in the general elections last year.

Speaking in a campaign event in Dover on Thursday, Farage said that the game had implemented “a verification system that was so good if not better than the other parts” for this year’s elections.

The leader of Reform UK said that “hundreds of people who requested to be candidates for the elections of the County Council were rejected … often due to the repeated use of words with F and C on social networks.”

He said that others had been rejected “because they only said things that were simply ridiculous, outrageous, shameful.”

But Hope does not hate, an anti -racism campaign group that has faced Farage in the past, said the examples that his research statements had undermined.

On Thursday of last week, the group published details of social media publications that had found 14 current current reform candidates of the United Kingdom.

The BBC has spent the last seven days reviewing the positions and looking for an response from individual candidates, as well as the central office of the party.

We request requests for comments to reform the United Kingdom headquarters, but we still don’t receive anything.

Publications seen by the BBC include:

• A reform candidate should be used in the United Kingdom that says “a large nuclear bomb” to eliminate Islam from the world
• Another that Bradford says has a large Muslim population and is a “shit”
• Others promote the conspiracy theory that Muslims are looking to “supplant the native population” in the United Kingdom

Some of the publications, on Facebook or X, were made this year, others return to a decade.

They seem to have the leg open to anyone to see when Reform UK selected and examined the candidates, but some now now hidden or eliminated.

Steven Biggs is a reform candidate from the United Kingdom who hopes to win a seat in Pelton in North Durham on May 1.

On the UK reform website, he says that he is “defending the reform of the United Kingdom because they represent the good traditional values.”

In August 2015, it is published on its Facebook page that “Islam does not take place on this land. A large nuclear bomb was needed.” The BBC confirmed that the publication was still visible last week, but for this week it seemed to have eliminated the leg.

Biggs has also repeatedly published links to Great Britain, the Anti-Islam political party on its Facebook account.

The BBC tried to contact Biggs to comment on the phone, but did not respond.

Another of the UK reform candidates highlighted by Hope Not Ody is Isaiah-John Smith reality, standing at Hexthorpe and Balby North in Doncaster.

On August 6 of last year, Readebck wrote in X “Bradford has one of the greatest Muslim populations in Europe, it is also one of Europe’s greatest shithols out of its own conclusions.”

When the BBC verified the user’s account @ij_reasbeck, the publication was visible last week. From the leg it has been removed from the leg.

The account, however, remains active and identifies Reasbeck as a candidate of the United Kingdom Reform Council.

The BBC contacted the reform UK Doncaster branch for Realbeck comments. None have been received.

Howard Rimmer, who is also in Roman Ridge, expect other publications that Howard Rimmer, who is also defending UK Reforma in Doncaster, hoped to win at Roman Ridge Roman Ridge.

On January 16 of this year, Rimmer published on his Facebook page an element of the “Traditional Group of Great Britain – Bags Salvavidas” that describes himself as “a home of the disappointed patriot.”

The group’s publication said: “We are importing lower people of intellectual coefficient and when they commit atrocious crimes, the judges give them more indulgent phrases, since they are ‘iq low and a common way of life’.”

He also referred to “The Great Replacement”, a theory of conspiracy that elites are found to replace the populations of Western nations with immigrants.

That publication was still visible this week, along with other elements that Rimmer has published again, including a graphic entitled “How Islam is colonizing non -Muslim countries,” said something, the graph was “known as Jihad Demography” “

Several times in the last year, Rimmer again published elements about the activist of the extreme right Tommy Robinson, including one that describes him as someone “member about the importance of celebrating the identity, culture and British values” and another saying “people need people.”

The BBC has contacted the president of the Doncaster branch of Email and Telephone several times, but has not yet received an answer.

Another candidate whose publications has seen the BBC is Trevor Bridgwood, standing at Bardney and Cherry Willingham in Lincolnshire.

Bridgwood, who fits conservatives and UKIP, shared an article on his Facebook page in 2015 entitled “The goal of Muslim immigration” that said it was “a means of complementing the native population” of a country. He added his own comment “Doesn’t it like what is happening in the news now?”

The BBC sent an email to Bridgwood for an answer last week, but has not received an answer.

Hope Not Hate, which is based on individual donations and unions, says it is a non -partisan campaign that “focuses on the extreme right organized”, something that Farage has repeatedly insisted does not include reform in the United Kingdom.

Reform UK is chaired by a Muslim, Zia Yusuf, and Farage has said that “he never wants to have anything to do with” Tommy Robinson, rejecting the calls of the hats to allow him to join the reform. “

In 2024, Reforma UK withdrew several candidates that he had selected for the general elections on offensive comments on social networks.

After that, Farage told the BBC “I had no idea how bad it was. I had no idea that half of these people simply house, that has to change.”

At a party conference in February, Yusuf said that the new system “although it will not be perfect” was “the most complete research process of anywhere, I think I can say that with confidence and conviction, certainly at the counter level.”

In recent weeks, the comments of other reform candidates from the United Kingdom, apart from those identified by Hope Not Hate, have also come to light.

Earlier this month, Reforma UK remained in a candidate for the council in Leinteshire about a racist position that accuses black drivers or tail activity.

Responding to the rejuvenation of that post Elliott Allman, a reform candidate for the Lepadershire County Council, said he had “matured” from the position.

And, separately, the Parish Council of East Hensbury warned the reform candidate Ron SignMan Elder Tweets with racist and sexist insults came to light.