Hope Not Hate exposes yet another Reform politician in a position of power who has seen fit to express extremely concerning, very racist, opinions on social media.
This time it’s Reform’s leader of the Staffordshire council, Councillor Ian Cooper. And he’s not even trying to hide his sickening behaviour.
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts.
Hope Not Hate then reminds us that ReformExposed already recently revealed that Ian Cooper is listed as a “Top Fan” of an openly racist Facebook page called “The European Race”. In Facebook terms, this means that, according to Facebook’s definition:
People can become eligible for a top or rising fan badge on your Page or profile by being one of the most active engagers, which can include liking or reacting to content, and commenting on or sharing posts.
It’s an award that the person concerned has to specifically accept, so he’s obviously proud enough of his activity. And sure enough he’s been busy liking posts that say ridiculous things like “White Men Have The Best Lives Because We Are White & Better Than The Rest Of the World“.
Hope Not Hate then dug out Councillor Cooper’s accounts on other social media sites – Youtube and X.
They weren’t pretty:
The picture painted by Cooper’s social media posts is of a man who is deeply bigoted and tapped into far-right media and terminology. In response to a video clip showing the lawyer and academic Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Cooper replied with a crude mangling of her surname and suggestions that she should “F[uck] off back to Nigeria.”
The “crude mangling” concerned was him calling her “Shaga Bing-Bong”.
Predictably, he endorses the usual “Great Replacement” style conspiracy theories in line with the typically off-the-scale right-wing scared and paranoid fantasist, with one post including:
…We are constantly indoctrinated into believing that, “Diversity is Our Stength”. We all know this is a lie and those who have arrived fromthe “Global Majority South” are intend on colonising the UK, destroying all that has gone before….Oppression by the global majority applies, disguised as DEI…
He also doesn’t believe that someone who doesn’t present as White with a stereotypical British-sounding name can in fact be British, British citizenship and birthplace be damned.
He responded to presenter Sangita Myska writing that she is English with:
Only in your dreams… You are neither ethnically, culturally or historically English. Your diaspora isn’t NW European. All you have is a piece of paper entitling you to British citizenship.
Even ignoring its offensive nature, this is not opinion remotely suitable for a man who literal job is to represent all his constituents, whether or not he thinks they come from a “NW European diaspora”.
He called the mayor of London, Sadiq Kahn, a “narcissistic Pakistani” whilst doing down Britain’s capital city.
London has become a 3rd world shit hole – fact! Truth hurts this narcissistic Pakistani.
Whilst suggesting that British MP David Lammy, a British citizen who was born in London, should not in fact be allowed to be a MP in the first place.
No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.
Hope Not Hate goes on to reminds that Ian Cooper isn’t the first such reprehensible Reform member of Staffordshire council to be exposed.
This is not the first embarrassment to stem from Reform’s Staffordshire contingent. In January, the Staffordshire County Organiser,, resigned after HOPE not hate exposed his links to the neo-Nazi Patriotic Alternative group.
And just a fortnight ago, another Staffordshire councillor apologised for posts referring to “fat-arsed black women” and calling police “indoctrinated British hating scum”.
This from a party who, let’s remember, believes that their vetting procedures are just too strict, too diligent. So either they’re comfortable with the sort of appalling and racist rhetoric Councillor Cooper promotes, or they’re extremely incompetent – these posts were after all all in his own name, publicly shown under his own personal account. These are not suitable attributes for a group who wants to literally run the country.