Reform mayoral candidate replicates Trump’s controversial Greenland penguin image

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-uk-laila-cunningham-penguin-greenland-donald-trump-b2907512.html

Posted by tylerthe-theatre

36 Comments

  1. So London is now in the Himalayas, and shes walking towards Tower Bridge with a Penguin?

    Has she overdone the crack this morning?

  2. Aspect-Unusual on

    Trump could release a AI image of himself butt naked whipping a brown immigrant with his belt and this lot wouldnt think twice about aping it

  3. The Far-Right/Alt-Right/MAGA is essentially an international movement. Payrolled by the same paymasters across western democracies.

    People need to absolutely understand that Reform UK are our branch of this. Perhaps 20% of the UK population are on board with it, as depressing as this is, but I outright *refuse* to believe that there’s enough people in the UK who are on board with this to give them a FPTP win.

    People *need* to know what they will be voting for. Reform UK should be receiving 100 times the scrutiny they’re currently getting.

  4. SpottedDicknCustard on

    Nothing Reform does is original, they lack intelligence and wit and simply cannot come up with anything new on their own. They just rip off the idiots across the pond.

  5. Actual-Photograph794 on

    You’d think Reform might shy away from linking themselves to Trump / MAGA for a bit after last week, but they really are joined at the hip aren’t they. At least they make it easy demonstrate

  6. ShowmasterQMTHH on

    A cold day in hell has arrived ?

    Nige looks good in his tux though, i thought he’d be taller.

  7. Vivid_Transition4807 on

    So, has Laila been standing still while the penguin has been hopping on one foot to her position in order to hold her hand while they take time to stare at yeti tracks? The footprints make even less sense than the original.

  8. Give_Me_Your_Pierogi on

    The right’s/new right’s and their submission to whatever is trending in the US needs to be studied. It’s not even nationalism as they seemed to be more loyal to trumpism than their countries. And it happens all over Europe too. Their biggest goal is to ‘owning the libs’, not improving lives in their countries. Like for people who claim to hate globalism they really love the globalism aspect of following whatever is happening in the US.

  9. SebastianVanCartier on

    Someone needs to do a welfare check on that woman. I don’t think she’s very well

  10. TheLastThylacine on

    So none of the people involved with either know that there are no penguins in Greenland as they only live in the southern hemisphere?

  11. There was a great question on reformuk today , about nativism and immigration.
    Several of the replies were “duh , what , illegals bad ” or even , “what you asking ? Don’t understand ”

    This image seems to suggest that we’ll be returning penguins to their country of origin.Well it would , if the footprints actually made sense.

  12. Farage is backed by the same think tank that is behind Trumps politics… and that’s going so well at the moment. The man has no ethics and would sell us out to anyone that benefits him.

  13. why is it an ice age? why is there mountains? why are there footprints already? these people are insane.

  14. Ill_Refrigerator_593 on

    Is it so obvious that it’s not worth mentioning that you don’t get Penguins in Greenland?

  15. Impressive-Bird-6085 on

    Reform U.K. may as well just rebrand itself MAGA, and Farage change his name by deed poll to Donald J. Trump!!

  16. TheCharalampos on

    My hope is that the absolute state of the USA will knock some sense into some folks here.

  17. It gets more apparent every day that Reform are just Trumpism repackaged with no original ideas of their own.

  18. Chemical-Car4852 on

    It doesn’t work as a message, as satire, or as flattery. 

    Imagine being so lacking in creativity and independent thought that in order to make a point, you had to copy a rapist.

  19. The AI image doesn’t even make sense. The footprints aren’t in the right place. Why is London in a snow storm? No one knows.

  20. This article doesn’t mention this (for some reason that is totally beyond me – journalistic laziness?), but the penguin thing is a reference to [this meme](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/penguin-walking-toward-mountain-nihilist-penguin), which has had a resurgence over the past few weeks, particularly in hard-right terminally online circles.

    It’s a clip from a Werner Herzog documentary showing a penguin walking off into the distance, away from the colony.

    It’s essentially a nihilistic/stoic ‘I’m going against the crowd but I’m determined and I’ll get there eventually’ kind of thing.

  21. River Thames has frozen over and mountains have appeared out of nowhere.

    And they’ll still deny admitting climate change is man made? 😏

  22. This picture… it doesn’t even start to make sense.

    I can sort of get what Trump shills wanted to state with the left one… Despite neglecting the fact that Penguins live in the *Southern hemisphere.*

    But the right one… Why is London locked in ice? Why is there a huge rock in St. Katherine?

  23. So, she is leaving no footprints in the snow, so she is either an elf or a ghost. There is a trail of other footprints they are following, who are they following? Why is London now mountainous and frozen? They do also know the penguin is meant to be the ‘nihilist penguin’ who was walking off to their own death. So is she leading it to its death? Is she the cause of its death?

    Or, she’s just a moron who didn’t think about any of this.

  24. Remember folks, penguins only travel towards mountains to die. According to the image, voting reform also means death. Feels oddly self aware 

  25. Hal_Industries on

    I don’t get it, did London sell Tower Bridge to Greenland and this woman is having a penguin walk her out to her death

  26. Electronic-Bend-2064 on

    If anyone was ever unsure whether Reform are a facist party, I hope they wizen up before election time.

  27. Background-Gas8109 on

    For people who want to “take our country back” they sure love sucking off a fat old American oompa loompa.

  28. Why can’t people see through these self-serving charlatans? When did the British public become so damn gullible?

  29. How can they have possibly fucked that up any more?

    “London, vote for me! I can’t be arsed to even think about the basics of an image I’m using to get you to vote for me”

    Trumps was stupid for so many reasons, most hilariously that the penguin and Trump shared the same foot size and stride. But at least it had 2 trails implying 4 feet behind them where they’ve walked.