By Liz S

Calling Malcolm Offord & Thomas Kerr to ask them if they watched last night’s ITV news report on the racist & sexist comments made by Reform UK Councillors and Candidates in England (is it only there though ?).

Reminds me of when the BBC reported on Reform UK on their BBC website in March 2026 via this headline “Reform UK suspends Scotland candidate over financial allegations” .

That also, as an article , included other Reform candidates suspect opinions in one of them “spreading rumours about asylum seekers moving into a former school in Perthshire” and also another Reform candidate “calling former First Minister Humza Yousaf a “grandstanding Islamist moron” and said “he’s not British”.

So then at the end of that BBC article there was analysis by BBC Scotland political correspondent, Philp Sim, where he wrote ” Reform has always been a party comfortable with saying things that others might hesitate to voice” and he also wrote “If that causes controversy – as it frequently does – then it gets people talking about the issues they want to discuss” .

Then he, Sim, wrote “Other parties know this, but are quite happy to play along by piling in with criticism – because they like the idea of Reform as a sort of bogeyman to encourage their supporters out to vote“.

Watching last night’s ITV report on Reform UK makes me wonder whether Philip Sim from the BBC stands by his above ‘observations’ in March 2026, in that “Reform has always been a party comfortable with saying things that others might hesitate to voice“.

Perhaps “others” are just not racist or sexist, so then Philp they , as people, would not want to “voice” some of the opinions that those within Reform UK want to “voice”.

Last night ITV News did a report on Reform UK councillors in England, & also a Welsh member too , making racist & sexist remarks.

One of the issues that they noted was the fact that Nigel Farage, in 2024, had made assurances that “Reform UK candidates for local elections in 2025 will be “vetted” following controversial comments during the General Election“.

Not within this ITV report , but still pertinent to this subject , was that in 2024 Farage defended a Reform UK UK GE candidate, Ian Gribbin, who was standing in the Bexhill and Battle’s constituency .

Gribbin had said that “Britain would be “far better” if it had “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality” instead of fighting the Nazis”.

Then when speaking to the media on these comments “Farage dismissed the remarks as “thought bubbles” and eccentric views, arguing that everyone says silly things in online chat rooms and refused to drop him as a candidate”.

In June 2024 it was also reported that “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”.

Indeed previously , in posts from 2022 , Gribbin, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin. (of course we all remember Nathan Gill , former leader of Reform UK in Wales, who delivered pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament then it was revealed that “he accepted up to £40,000 in bribes to promote Russian and pro-Russian political interests” and he was subsequently jailed for 10 and a half years in prison under the UK Bribery Act 2010).

Previously in June 2022 “Gribbin criticised women, writing on the (Unherd) site’s message board: “Do you think you could actually work and pay for it all too like good citizens? Men pay 80% of tax – women spend 80% of tax revenue. On aggregate as a group you only take from society. Less complaining please from the ‘sponging gender’””. He added that women are “subsidised by men to merely breath (sic)”.

In July 2022, Mr Gribbin also posted on the Unherd website: “Britain would be in a far better state today had we taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality…. but oh no Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people”.

This guy, Gribbin, was the candidate for Reform UK in the 2024 GE !

This guy was obviously not vetted at all by Reform UK’s , checks notes, vigorous vetting process , as Reform UK knew about his comments prior to the 2024 UK GE , yet they still allowed him to stand as a candidate to potentially become a Reform UK MP !

Now what was interesting about last night’s ITV’s news report, as in their exposé, of Reform UK Councillors and candidates was that one of their Councillors was a former Tory Councillor who then defected to Reform UK.

It was reported that “ITV undercover reporters joined Reform UK councillor, Alan Feeney, in Solihull, in the West Midlands, where he was campaigning to retain his seat on the council, having defected from the Tory party in 2025″.

Now he , Feeney, told the ITV undercover reporters “the area has been “infested” with Asian families, and he called them “absolute parasites”.

Later in the film, he is recorded saying: “I’d be saying no more than one per cent of British population can be non-white.”

So as a former Tory with those racist opinions , I wonder then what the vetting process was for him to be selected by the Tories as a former Tory candidate, who then won a seat as a Tory councillor.

But apparently after last night’s ITV news report on Reform UK the BBC did an article and reported that “The Conservatives said: “Nigel Farage promised to make Reform ready for government. These sorry individuals are proof he has failed.”

Well one of those “sorry individuals” was once one of their Tory “sorry individuals”, so then surely they, the Tories, also “failed” in allowing him to once be a candidate for the Tory party, who then became a Tory Councillor. (before he, like many other Tories, also defected to Reform UK)

Also were any of the other “sorry individuals” filmed by ITV also former Tory candidates or Tory Councillors ?

What that’s saying again about “not all people who vote for [X] are racists, but all racists vote for [X]”.

So then I wonder whether that could also be applied to some of the candidates for , or the existing politicians within, X Y & Z , who were formerly with other parties ?

To substantiate the “racism” label connected to Reform UK then all one needed to do was to access the Blue Sky account of Reform Party UK Exposed , as they got there long before ITV did , in them regularly exposing racist comments made by Reform UK candidates and also via elected Reform UK Councillors.

I think we are now seeing much of the media establishment gunning for Reform UK , SKY News did a report on Reform UK Scotland which was called “Inside Reform UK Scotland” which was very ‘revealing’ on some of the suspect opinions of some of their 2026 Scottish election candidates and party members .

Channel 4 showed undercover footage in them “showing James Orr (Reform UK’s head of policy) and Dan Jukes (Nigel Farage’s senior aide) discussing ways to bypass UK electoral laws on foreign political donations and unlabelled opinion polling worth over £32,000” .

Where they also showed that “Farage was briefly captured in footage at a lunch in Clacton where the setup was discussed”

He then denied any wrongdoing, stated he “frankly wasn’t listening” during parts of the conversation, and claimed he was “unaware of how the polling or funds were arranged beforehand”.

Now we have ITV News and their undercover report on Reform UK Councillors and candidates and their racist and sexist comments. (also some other Refornm UK candidates stated that they could and would say anything to get elected , then just do what they want secretly when elected).

So what about the BBC ?

Well there is yet another Reform UK panellist, James Evans, on BBC QT tonight.

James Evans, who was also formerly another Tory who defected to Reform UK and who was reported, before his defection, to have frequently “criticized Reform UK, previously describing the party’s output and policies as “rubbish” and “populist slogans in late 2024”, and calling the idea of a Reform government “scary”.

Another hypocrite then, whose former opinion (as a Tory) of Reform UK was then massively changed as an opinion, to such an extent that he defected to them, as in the same party whose policies he had previously declared were “rubbish” and who he thought that it would be “scary” to have them, Reform UK, as a future UK government.

(As in the same Reform UK who he then defected to and so now sits in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) as a Member of the Senedd (MS) representing Reform UK for the constituency of Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd).

Let’s not allow the media to just frame this as only being Reform UK’s problem (though for much of their members it does seem a tad too blatant) as many of Reform UK’s candidates and their politicians were formerly Tories , so the question today on racism & sexism within Reform UK should also extend to other parties as well, as in some of the other parties who all sit on their respective self appointed moral high horses to critique the SNP and so then declare them as being “divisive” and so then undesirable as a party to vote for.

In other news , surprising news that is, Rupert Lowe last posted on ‘X’ over 15 hours ago – that’s unusual for him is it not ? (the time is now 10.53am on 15 October).

#LyingLow or Lowe staying low, I wonder why (have you seen his suspect posts on X and the racist responses to his posts by Restore Britain members).

Well my advise to all parties and indeed a lot of the media is to ‘Look in the mirror’ .

However it does seem to be that currently some of the media appear to be getting spooked at the idea of a possible future Reform UK government in the UK (what with some of the media saying that we could have an early UK GE – perhaps they do not want a similar situation as is happening in America , where Trump always declares much of the media as being #FakeNews , or rather those who own much of the UK media prefer other parties to Reform UK).

Undecided Scots are you YES yet ?

Liz S