Reform deputy leader refuses to condemn councillor who wanted to ‘melt Nigerians to fill potholes’

Of course not, it’s a party of racists, this is their cornerstone. Very bold of him to use the “look at the antisemitic green party!!” excuse when some of his recently elected councillors are under spotlight at the moment for being highly antisemitic and holocaust deniers. so it’s wrong when the greens do it but not when reform does it?

They’ve been banging on for ages about how good their new vetting process is, so that means they don’t see anything wrong with these statements. It says it all really. Anyway, here’s the list again…

**Elected during the local elections:**

**Stuart prior** – **Elected** Essex – praised the rape of two sikh women (“good, reap it”) declared white people the master race, claimed genocide can’t occur against Muslim “rats” and called for a purge of third world “invaders” to this country. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/05/mps-demand-reform-suspend-candidate-over-claims-he-celebrated-of-sikh-women

**Derrick bullock** – **Elected** Bolton – “shoot the p*ki’s” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/10/reform-uk-local-election-candidate-was-twice-disciplined-by-tories-over-alleged-racist-comments

**Jay Leslie Cooper** – **Elected** Sefton – Holocaust denier: the Hallocaust [sic] is a hoax. “There wasn’t [sic] even 6 million Jews in Europe at the time. Propaganda” https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-face-questions-after-holocaust-is-a-hoax-candidate-elected/

**Ben Rowe** – **Elected** Plymouth – blamed “Jews” for flooding Europe with immigrants who “breed like rats” shared a video glorifying mecca being bombed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g51jl2zzno

**Glenn Gibbins** – **Elected** Hylton Castle Sunderland- “Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes” https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/09/reform-candidate-said-nigerians-melted-fill-pot-holes-wins-seat-28297091/

**David Barker** – **Elected** Sunderland – Severely beat up his girlfriend and blamed it on his cannabis use, additonally accused of child abuse and neglect https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/paranoid-sunderland-man-in-horrific-attack-on-girlfriend-that-left-her-black-and-blue-357368

**Phil Tierney** – **Elected** Solihull – Open Islamophobe, called for the closure of all mosques, denial of religious freedoms https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpn1jyd2lo

**Not elected but had a contributing role to the campaign:**

**Howrd Dini** – Not elected, West London Candidate – Self-Identified “proud islamophobe”, wants to celebrate every palestinain being dead, called for a mass shooting of muslims and called immigration an “invasion” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy012knxk3lo

**Eleanor Jackson** – London Colney branch chair – Called for remigration/ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, referred to immigrants as “imported thugs” https://hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/06/meet-the-racist-restore-britain-activist-on-the-ballot-for-reform-uk/

**Paul Stephen Conway** – Not elected, Enfield Lock Candiate – Open Neo-Nazi with links to Skinhead network *Blood and Honour* and BNP, made repeated racist & antisemetic jokes/comments online https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/enfield-reform-uk-candidate-is-nazi-who-celebrated-holocaust/

**Matt Davis** – Not elected, Chingford Candidate – Called Islam “evil” labelled it a “death cult” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-racist-islamphobic-local-election-candidates-nigel-farage-b2968453.html

**Graham Holland** – failed vetting initially but decision later reversed – Muslims taking over the country and training to kill our kids, blamed his racism on Nigerians https://archive.is/Sd6kC

**Matt Goodwin** – suspended antisemite remains as reform election agent https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/14/reform-activist-suspended-over-racist-antisemitic-comments-remains-election-agent-adam-mitula

**Adam Mitula** – suspended but no update on disciplinary outcome – openly uses the N-word and holocaust downplayer/diminisher https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89k0g7vexeo

*UPDATE/EDIT: Glenn Gibbins (“Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes”) has just been suspended by Reform, however lets not act like this is progress. His tweets were very well reported before the election, and not only did he get to stand, but 1285 racists voted for him and his ideologies, racist ideologies reforms deputy leader refused to condemn. Lets make this very clear, Reform does not suspend people for racism, they suspend people for bringing too much bad PR to the party, for saying the quiet part out loud, while they ditch the person, they still back the ideologies.*

Well ofcourse he would.

I think we have to understand that the racism is WHY reform is so popular with it’s base.

Remove the racism and the Reform base would just move to Restore or even the BNP.

I have no problem at all with melting Nigels for our potholes. Don’t know how many it’ll fill though.

Why would he condemn someone who is standing by their party’s core values?

Why does it feel like 70 percent of the UK are the raged into racism ..there is. Nothing about Reform that aligns with British Values.

This man has targeted autistic children too. He’s awful. He’s a multi millionaire who doesn’t care about anyone.