EXCL: Nigel Farage threatens vetting firm hired by Reform UK with legal action
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/18/farage-reform-stitched-up-by-candidate-vetting-firm/
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EXCL: Nigel Farage threatens vetting firm hired by Reform UK with legal action
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/18/farage-reform-stitched-up-by-candidate-vetting-firm/
Posted by TheTelegraph
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This is why you don’t outsource vetting!!! Sorry we had a third party assess the kooks willing to run to be Reform candidates and we are *shocked* to find out it was a bunch of Nazi sympathisers. We blame the company we paid to vet them cos checking our candidates was a bit much like work.
This guy actually thinks he should get a county to run when checking whether someone has Nazi sympathies before running for parliament is beyond him. My days, I pity anyone dumb enough to be duped by this. Snake oil salesmen used to be good at what they did, you can see the damage this guy would do to society from space!
Presumably, he’s disappointed that his bunch of swivel-eyed loons have been shown to be swivel-eyed loons.
I suspect that’s not really the vetting firm’s fault, though.
But the criterion was “Do they have £20k spare to fund a hopeless election campaign and are they stupid enough to spend it on that?”
If the answers to both parts were ‘yes’, there was no further vetting.
“Vetting firm states that if they did their Job to any higher standard then Farage himself wouldn’t pass the process”
That can’t be Nigel Farage stood in front of a Union Jack that isn’t in the proper colours. Surely. He’s dead against that sort of thing.
Well let us know if he does sue them, I’m sure he will, he’s a total man of his word
Fantastic orator and very charming guy.
Go Nigel!
Standard for his type, he never takes responsibility for his or his organisation’s failings.
Ever the perpetual victim.
He’d be the same as PM, complaining that forces were working against him, everything is rigged, the deep state, etc etc.
A deeply pathetic, whiny little man.
Invariably with these types, they make loud proclamations about suing people and never do because they have no grounds but enough time will pass that their supporters forget he ever said anything.
They won’t do anything, its just a way to deflect, whilst keeping the media spotlight on him.
I am fairly certain we all know who’s playbook he is following on this one.
You know Farage is onto something when the papers start printing endless articles about him, he’s making a long-awaited shockwave across UK politics and giving two fingers to the establishment political class!
Go on Nige! I’m with you on July 4th.
May this train of grifting, hate,and evil keep wrecking itself.
Again.
And again.
The issue is the small parties (even the Greens for example) don’t have the huge staff, infrastructure and cash that Labour/Conservatives have which makes it difficult to seriously vet potentially thousands of people. Even Labour/Conservatives have recently had issues and they have the resources. There probably should be some sort of central government funding allocated to parties to specifically spend vetting their potential candidates to prevent issues like this.
This isn’t just a Reform issue. This is an issue that faces all small parties.
“Wait, when you said ‘vet them for nazi sympathisers’ you didn’t mean they had to be nazi sympathisers?”
Are we supposed to be shocked about the number of conspiracy theorists and Fuhrer admirers gravitating towards Reform?
Honestly, how could “we want you to vet candidates for their Nazi beliefs” possibly be misinterpreted?
Guns out for Farage this season huh.
Amazing how somebody who probably won’t even become an MP and who’s party won’t win the election, has so many tankies and elite, screeching against him.
The irony is all the hyperbole spouted by these people, pushes more and more to support him in protest.
Always someone else’s fault, eh Nige?
Stop listening to this charlatan.
A normal political party has constituency associations that do the legwork to ensure they know who they are nominating, and support that with the vetting process their HQ will do. It doesn’t always work, but it’s a lot more effective than paying someone £300 per candidate and hoping.
The claims it was done deliberately…now that is a libel case I’m gonna need some popcorn for.
Can’t even set up vetting correctly, and want the keys to No 10?!
Couldn’t organise a piss up in a Spoons.
So the issue isn’t that many of your candidates are racists with criminal records, but that you hired a firm who didn’t spot it?
This is typical of the mentality of the populist right and especially supporters of “Reform” (shurely shome mishtake?): blame someone else for your own mistakes, disappointments and personal shortcomings.
He’s already said that he won’t remove them from the party even though all this shit has no come out…so clearly he only cares about optics and not that his party is run by fascists for fascists.