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My first thought was "wow those comments must be shockingly bad if even Reform UK is suspending/investigating them".
They absolutely are awful and embarrassing comments. But they're also comments I would fully expect a Reform UK candidate/supporter to make. Therefore I'm pretty surprised Reform UK is investigating them in the first place. Perhaps it's because they said the quiet bit out loud?
They're a right-wing populist and Eurosceptic party after all, so of course they're gonna attract racists and transphobes.
Exactly. Reform UK needs to decide whether saying awful racist and transphobic shit is a feature or a bug.
Thinking it is as feature. Saying it a bug.
Really no different from the tories. They want folks that think it to vote. But don't want sane people to refuse to vote for them.
Tin foil hat time, all of the Reform candidates have these skeletons in their closets but Reform have told the Tories that they can pay to have candidates investigated in the seats where the Tories still think they can get in.
Polls suggest the Tories will get wiped out in Scotland - I'm not sure Reform backing out of some seats will matter balanced against the Tory policies.
I mean, how many votes were they expecting north of the border anyway? It seems likely these candidates were expendable, so they could point at this and use it as evidence that they aren't all appalling.
I was so confused I thought I was reading something wrong, but no, bigots suspending bigots, I'd say a broken clock and all that, but more likely there is a money trail to be followed that will provide the explanation..