Reform MP dubbed ‘criminal in our midst’ in violence against women debate
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nigel-farage-parliament-government-commons-reform-uk-b2676746.html
Posted by loonongrass
Reform MP dubbed ‘criminal in our midst’ in violence against women debate
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nigel-farage-parliament-government-commons-reform-uk-b2676746.html
Posted by loonongrass
21 Comments
Throwing mud to see what sticks.
There are far worse people in conservative and labour ranks.
> A Reform UK spokesman said: “James McMurdock’s conviction and time in a young offenders’ institute is a matter of public record and a spent conviction.“
The fact that he lied about it, tried to downplay it, and even did not admit to it at the time suggests that he does not consider it to be as serious as everyone else does.
Reform making so much noise about this rape gang issue.
How many Reform MPs attended yesterday’s debate on violence against women and girls?
Oh… Zero… None of them.
He also claimed recently that he only pushed the victim. Then it came out in the official court documents that he’d kicked her several times, and the severity of the attack was what led to a custodial sentence.
So he’s still lying and minimising the assault to this day.
Imagine how it must feel for this woman to see him elected to parliament and for her abuse to be dragged through the papers, with Reform supporting him.
I’m not sure that a ban on people standing for parliament should be exclusive to “violence against women and girls”, but surely any violent crime.
I’d be tempted to say any custodial sentence.
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It’s always funny how the likes of Farage makes excuses for this, but apparently cares about the women and girls of this country.
Is there anything this Reform MP could do to redeem himself?
I’ve no interest in his fate but the idea of rehabilitation requires that others accept you have rehabilitated. If acceptance is not possible, that gives little incentive to do the work to rehabilitate oneself.
Shouldn’t all criminals be cut by this cloth? Why only offences against women? In terms of running a country, there are worse crimes that you could be convicted of before being elected to run a country.
*Edit: so i guess the downvoters are happy to have criminals in general run for parliament?
I agree with what the article says about banning people who were violent against women from running for Parliament.
Can we also remember Reform stood Jack Denny as a candidate and only removed him after pressure to do so.
> Jack Denny, 26, had been selected as a parliamentary candidate, despite being on the Sex Offenders Register and despite only having walked out of jail on fraud charges three years ago.
> Denny was found guilty in February 2019 of having two images, one of a boy aged 15-17, and a girl aged 10-12, on a USB memory stick at his home in Hinckley.
[https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-uk-candidate-dropped-for-possessing-indecent-images-of-children-372525/](https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-uk-candidate-dropped-for-possessing-indecent-images-of-children-372525/)
Who was that Labour MP who took over Nick Clegg’s Sheffield seat again? What ever happened to him?
The victims of the grooming gangs must be sick at the state of our political establishment
Is there anyone voting Reform that would care about something like this? A voter base of pieces of shit and idiots
I dont think there should be criteria that limit who can stand to be an MP, especially specific crimes, why specifically violence against women ? And not 100x other heinous crimes could pick.
I would support some sort of public vetting that makes these convictions known to public though before an election..
What else would we expect? They spend more time fawning to Trump and his gang of sexual predators than doing the bare minimum for their constituents.
MPs being hypocritics by being loud on an issue and then doing nothing at all to deal with it? Say it ain’t so.
Reform are there to stoke the rape gang narrative. If they cared about the safety of women and children, they’d attend this debate. But then Farage can’t even be arsed to meet his constituents or hold MP surgeries in Clacton so I guess it track that their MPs have no interest in doing any work.
> As this Government shapes its legislative agenda, I would ask the minister to consider whether it’s time to introduce legislation that bars those who have served a custodial sentence for violence against women and girls from standing as a member of Parliament.
Not to take away from this debate, but I would go further and bar anyone with a criminal record full-stop from standing as MP.
It’s sad how many people fall for reforms bullshit.
Yep, they care so much about women and girls that they ardenntly support a wife beating pos
It’s almost as if they don’t actually care beyond making political capital
Time to demand a multi-million pound inquiry into the sexual violence within the Reform party, MP’s, members and supporters within both the press and public.