Hope Not Hate is, once again, giving us a rundown of the unpleasant history of some of Reform’s candidates in recent or upcoming council elections – showing that Reform’s claim to have a vetting process that is simply too perfect for its own good is an absolute joke.
Isaiah-John Reasbeck
Isaiah-John Reasbeck, who will be standing for election tomorrow in the Bentley ward of Doncaster is yet another Islamophobe. In the past he’s tweeted that:
Bradford has one of the biggest Muslim populations in Europe it is also one of the biggest shitholes in Europe draw your own conclusions.
and that, in a separate post, that people should “should be fucking terrified” of Islam.
Lewis Holmes
Lewis Holmes, who recently stood in the council by-election for Thames View, and is also chairman of the party’s Barking and Dagenham branch, has “promoted a slew of far-right content and used offensive slurs” on X.
He’s shared posts by continuously disgraced, very racist, convicted felon Tommy Robinson calling him a national hero.
The media won’t say this but I will. @TRobinsonNewEra is a national hero.
As well as retweeting content from a wider array of racists and misogynists:
Holmes has also reposted content from Catherine Blaiklock, a politician with the far-right English nationalist party English Democrats; Laurence Fox, the leader of the far-right Reclaim party; and Andrew Tate, the infamous misogynist charged with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.
He also goes around publicly insulting anyone he doesn’t like with with some very unpleasant words. As one example, he tweeted at the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom that:
you’re one of the reasons it’s happened you incompetent mong. The only people that use the word disinformation are those who think the audience are retarded dribblers.
For being a Reform candidate, he also doesn’t seem to like Reform all that much.
He wrote ‘Amen’ under a post from Rupert Lowe that claimed that “we need a credible alternative to the utter shambles that is Reform UK”, as well as retweeting a comment that “Farage and his ego are together incapable of building a team” saying the Farage “must never be Prime Minister”.
I can’t disagree with the latter point.
David Jarvis
Lastly, David Jarvis, who was recently the Reform candidate for Barnstaple with Westacott.
He’s a anit-woman homophobe, claiming that avideo claiming that the idea that “homosexuality is normal” and that “feminism is good” are lies of a anti-Christian age is “Powerful testimony and truth”.
He claims:
that he knows “of many previously ‘Gay’ persons” who “have been able to understand where the twist came in, where the lie was implanted and have embraced their original identity.”
He’s another paranoid conspiracy theorist – expressing total credulity in all the usual paranoid delusions of his ilk.
Firstly he believes that homosexuality is a part of the “global agenda of family destruction and societal breakdown”.
But that’s not all. He would appear to believe that in the weird conspiracy that the earth is actually flat, repositing content from accounts try to prove the lie, and sharing posts into the “Philippine Flat Earth Truthers” Facebook group.
Naturally he also believes that the Covid pandemic was/is fake:
…the MSM is still complicit and driving this scaredemic”.
He’s also referred to it as a “scamdemic” and claimed that governments are trying to “kill people with the vaccine”.
Nor does he believe in climate change – claiming that he’s a “Global Warming Denier of the first degree” and that scientists are lying about it.
He thinks that climate change is simply an effort to “justify a federal government power-grab”.
As well as seemingly being another Islamophobe, sharing a speech for Geert Wilders that claimed that
If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
and that it’s “not compatible with freedom or democracy”.