Reform candidate said UK should have been neutral against Hitler
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjmmrwexv4ko
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Reform candidate said UK should have been neutral against Hitler
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjmmrwexv4ko
Posted by auspoliticsnerd
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Ah the Irish position! Yeah that’s a hard no. Well I guess Sunak leaving the D-Day memorial early is no longer the biggest gaff this election cycle!
There we go… they must have left the dog whistles at home today.
> Ian Gribbin, the party’s candidate in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care”.
Definitely sounds like someone who spends all day in a Wetherspoons.
I wonder if being pro-Nazi will harm their electoral prospects
The sad thing about this. There are people out there who will lap this shit up.
I love the fact Reform have to go in to bat for candidates like these as otherwise they’d have no candidates.
Hitler is being provoked by Franco-British expansion.
Every now and then there’s a slip and we see what they really think
A Reform UK spokesman said: “Through offence archaeology the BBC has found that Mr Gribbin has made a series of comments about a number of subjects.
“They were written with an eye to inconvenient perspectives and truths. That doesn’t make them endorsements, just arguing points in long distance debates.
“His historical perspective of what the UK could have done in the 30s was shared by the vast majority of the British establishment including the BBC of its day, *and is probably true*.
“Again no endorsement, just pointing out conveniently forgotten truths.
“As for the feminism point, his tongue is so firmly in his cheek one should be able to spot it from 100 yards.”
(Emphasis added by myself)
What a bunch of idiots, totally unelectable which is a shame because we could use some legitimate counterbalance policies to whatever the fuck the tories have been failing to do for us for the last 15 years.
A Reform UK candidate claimed the country would be “far better” if it had “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality” instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two.
I’ve played enough Wolfenstein to known that a nazi Europe isn’t a nice Europe
There was quite a few at the time who felt the same, and even now, many look back and slander Churchill’s approach to the war. Disappointing, but a luxury that comes with living in peace time.
All he had to do was say nothing, just shut the fuck up and let the tories commit harikari on their own.
Not surprised they’d say this, I don’t think their voter base would care
Reform have done zero vetting on their candidates. They simply don’t care and haven’t got the set up to do it anyway.
We are going to see a lot more of this.
Reform candidate supports Hitler – I’m shocked I tell you.
I witnessed an argument at work before the London Mayoral elections. The 1st person citing a list of Susan Hall’s dubious connections, her support for Trump, her withdrawn tweets, her shocking “pickpocket” story etc. The Susan Hall supporter’s response:
“I don’t care”
That’s what we’re dealing with folks
Another clown in the clown car saying things that confirm Reform is indeed a clown car full of clowns.
Farage will be on TV soon explaining how this chap doesn’t understand UK culture.
> In the run up to the invasion of Ukraine, he praised President Putin, writing in January 2022 that he had “shown a maturity of which we can only dream of”.
Well, of course he did.
Nice to see one of these people being honest about who they would have supported in WW2 for a change. Maybe Farage will finally follow suit too.
> “Less complaining please from the ‘sponging gender’.”
Fuck this guy.
They can rebrand but it’s obvious what they really are
Does this guy not understand our national anthem?
It’s two world wars.
It’s one World Cup.
What a funt.
He’ll do a line of the toilet cistern in the ‘Bulldogs Balls’ pub and then call it ‘Bants’ and neck a pint of stella and move on.