REFORM YOURSELVES
EXCLUSIVE
AS latest polls show Reform UK is our third most popular political party, we today expose the vile and frightening views of some of its would-be MPs.
Our revelations come as one of them, salesman Joe Dyas, resigned as Reform’s Shrewsbury candidate yesterday after we confronted him with our findings over sickening Facebook remarks – including support for the racist British National Party.
We found candidates for rightwing Reform UK – which was formerly the Brexit Party – have ranted about “white pride” and Muslims needing to “get the f **** out”. And one liked the slogan “ain’t no black in union jack”.
Dyas’ posts are printed as they were written. The self-styled “Mr Shrewsbury” – pictured above canvassing with party leader Richard Tice – wrote of Muslims: “They come to this county, live off are benefits, wear all this f **** ng seek s***, bomb are sub ways”.
Trevor Nicholls, Reform’s Warrington North candidate, railed on Facebook about so-called “Muslim only areas”.
Nicholls, pictured above with party president Nigel Farage, complained that proclaiming “our white pride” is denounced as racist. Also due to stand in next month’s local polls, he claimed “BEING PROUD TO BE WHITE” is “very close” to being a crime.
Our revelations emerge as Reform UK has become a threat to the Conservatives, whose former deputy chairman, Lee Anderson, defected last month.
A YouGov/Times poll on Westminster voting intentions last week showed Reform on 15%, not far behind the Conservatives on 19%, while Labour are on 45%.
Yesterday, Reform UK stood by Nicholls, saying it “will not sack people who ask questions of the left-wing establishment”.
Meanwhile, the party’s national organiser, Noel Matthews, Reform’s North Leicestershire candidate, re-posted a claim that controversial ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson had been “persecuted”.
Ironically, Matthews has been involved in dumping Reform candidates for offensive social media posts. But campaign group DeSmog highlighted that he had tweeted an article in 2018 making the claim about Robinson.
And in 2017, Matthews encouraged followers to watch a video by former UKIP London Assembly Member David Kurten entitled “Why Islamophobia is a silly made up word”.
Reform UK has been beset by trouble after the emergence of its
They come to this county, live off are benefits, wear all this f ****** seek s***, bomb are sub ways
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candidates’ views on social media. In the 2010 post, Dyas – who stood for the party in the 2021 local elections – wrote: “So a few muslims burn some of are poppys hey... fair a nuff... fair anuff. buring a symbol of the people who died for this county... 3 letters peope B N P... am just putting it out there. that’s all am saying!”
In a comment under the post he wrote: “i anit saying no one deserve to die… am just sayin they need to get the f*** out. i mean they come to this county, live off are benefits, wear all this f ****** seek s***, bomb are sub ways, f ****** burn are f ****** poppeys and think are women are wrost then f ****** pigs, and we cant even stand up for are selfs cuz we are called f ****** racist!!!… Well if sticking up for your county and its people is racist then by far i am a racist. but tbh i am just sick and tired with the amount of s*** they are getting away with.”
When a commenter told Dyas she knew a “fantastic” Muslim girl and
pleaded with him not to “tar them all with the same brush”, Dyas wrote: “they are all as bad as each other.”
In another comment, he added that his dream was “for me to stand at the docks singing cheerio! cheerio! cheerio! to the people who come in to this county and f*** it up”. And in a further reply, he wrote: “vote bnp. and keep the great, in great britian”.
In September 2010, he posted simply: “BNP!” And he liked a response from a commenter who wrote: “Aint no black in union jack lol.”
Nicholls, formerly UKIP’s Warrington chairman, is now listed on Reform UK’s website as a prospective Parliamentary candidate.
In June 2020, he posted: “You say whites commit a lot of violence against you. So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
“...You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you’re not afraid to announce it and that’s fine. But when we announce our white
pride, you call us racists.” The Brussels-based non-profit European Center for Populism Studies says on its website: “White pride is a white supremacist slogan appropriated from expressions of ethnic pride by various minority groups in the US.”
Dyas told us: “I am horrified posts from over a decade ago, when I was a very different man, have come to light. I had forgotten I had such attitudes. I understand that, though they in no way represent how I think today, they are embarrassing to
Reform and undermine our attempt to offer the country, and in particular the people of Shrewsbury, hope for a better, freer country, so I have offered my resignation.”
Reform UK said of Nicholls: “The post was written to ask a question
about the way in which Pride has been captured by all sorts of different groups as a good thing but not for the majority group in the country.
“It in no way suggested support for those who use the phrase for nefarious purposes.” A representative of Nicholls said: “He stands by his post of being proud to be white. He denies any influence or connection to any white supremacist organisations.”
Reform UK said of Matthews’ tweet about Robinson: “The tweet was an article about free speech. It said Robinson had been persecuted. And he had been.” Regarding the Kurten video on the word Islamaphobia, it said Matthews was “arguing against the use of the suffix ‘phobia’ being slapped on to every rights issue”.
I am horrified. I had completely forgotten I had such attitudes. I have offered my resignation