After Sunday night’s ITV exposé of widespread racism and misogyny within Reform, you might have expected one of its MPs to have taken to the airwaves on Monday morning to defend the party’s honour. To try to persuade viewers that the real problem lay with the journalists who couldn’t stop themselves from investigating Reform rather than the fact that the party’s bigotry was endemic. Every Reform MP was otherwise engaged.
Were too busy having breakfast. Nothing from Nigel Farage. Nothing even from Robert Jenrick.
Maybe he realised he had crashed and burned a few days earlier by suggesting it was just one of those things. One of life’s little mysteries. The BBC was riddled with paedophiles and Reform was awash with racists, said Honest Bob.
Every organisation had its crosses to bear. The only MP to take to X in the morning was Richard Tice, who was feeling decidedly grumpy having only just got married to Isabel Oakeshott. Perhaps he had a hangover.
Though his main gripe was that British Airways was yet another failing British institution because it had mislaid at least one of his bags. Dicky’s social media post had more than a touch of the “don’t you know who I am” to it. You can only imagine the baggage handler may have known exactly who Dicky was and had taken great pleasure in diverting one of the fake Louis Vuitton suitcases from Dubai to Manila.
The one person out and about for Reform was the one person you would have thought the party would want to keep hidden. Step forward Matt Goodwin, the party’s failed candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection whose own views could easily pass off as borderline racist in polite circles. Matt is going through his own personal anti-growth agenda.
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