Reform UK's Rotten Councillors | Why Farage Will Never Be PM

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[00:00:00]Hello. The uh the lady on my thumbnail this week, the oh, you know, hair and and teeth, the lady who looks as though she could quite easily bite the head off any any small mammal. Um she's called Emma Beck and uh Emma is a a new counselor in St. Helens in Liverpool.

[00:00:19]She was elected two or three weeks ago and she'd campaigned on tackling antisocial behavior. But what Emma forgot to tell tell Reform UK before she stood before the election was that she she'd been convicted of assault about 4 months previously. You see, Emma is a she's a nightclub bouncer and uh she she hit some woman, a 60-y old woman apparently, and knocked her to the ground and was taken to court for it.

[00:00:47]But nonetheless, she's now serving on the council. And she's not alone. She's one of many many many counselors, reform counselors, new counselors who uh who for one reason or other have been forced to stand out or to resign or or whatever. And um and I'll just give you a list of just one or two and I'll tell you what they why they've resigned and you can have a look and see if you see any any any common theme. I I I can't myself. They all seem to be um quite different. There was for example Jay Cooper in Septton. He was a he he he was forced to resign over a post appearing to claim that the the Holocaust was a was was a hoax. Uh Steven Malddull in St. Ellens, he he resigned after it emerged that he'd he'd appeared in gay porno films on on the internet. Glenn Gibbings from Sunderland, he was suspended after saying Nigerians should be melted down and uh used to fill potholes. Uh Stuart Prior from Rockford and Essex, he resigned uh and had his membership revoked after uh racist Islamophobic remarks about about the master race. Ian Cooper from Staffordshire. He was the council leader. He he was investigated and later stripped of his membership after alleging racist and bigoted online post about migrants and about the Sari Khan.

[00:02:03]Lynn Dean from Newcastle underline. She was suspended after allegations of racist and discriminately online uh content. Paul Harrison, he was accused of sharing farright and Islamophobic uh content online as was Russell Cherry and Ivan Dabs. These are just a few. If you search uh search um uh reform UK counselors online, you and those who've been forced to stand out, you find there there just dozens of them. As I say, I don't see any common theme there, but some some people might think that some of them are possibly just a a little bit racist. A and when you look at the quality of these people and uh uh when you start to wonder about just how good some of these counselor counselors are, it doesn't take long to realize that they're a pretty second rate bunch. I mean to stand as a counselor for reform.

[00:02:53]I mean you have I mean the qualification really the only basic qualification is being stupid and uh all these people presumably think that that Nigel Farage has all the answers and if we can just get rid of the foreigners that everything everything will be all right and and there is a difference you know in being a a counselor from for for reform or any other party. If you're if you're standing for a local election for Labor or for Conservatives or Liberal Democrats or even for Greens, you've almost certainly been in the party for for years and years and you probably understand and know what you're standing for. If you're standing for reform, the party's only been around a couple of years. I mean, almost certainly what the reason you're standing is because you think Nigel Farage is the man who's going to he's going to solve everything as he did when we left the European Union. and you just think if you if you get get on board um everything's going to be fine.

[00:03:47]And uh I I I I suspect that there are an awful lot more uh counselors all over the country uh uh who were elected in this uh apparent landslide last month that uh that are also going to probably uh turn up and end up uh standing down for one reason or another.

[00:04:06]So that's the absolute grassroots of the of Reform UK and then you you need to look at uh you look at the the leaders the most important people you look at um the people in parliament and uh when you start to imagine because they you know reform now are still favorites to to win the next general election but if you look at the characters involved setting aside Farage for the moment I mean does anybody really think that they could run the government they're Well, mostly people who've defected from the Tories. I mean, Richard Ty, I mean, he's he'd presumably be the the John Checker despite the fact that he forgot to uh to pay £100,000 in corporation tax. A bit like the other grandandy who's joined reform Nadim Sahawi who forgot to pay three and a half million pounds in capital gains tax when he was Charles the exjerker and uh who would be a foreign sector braverman she she she knows how to deal with foreigners she just doesn't like any foreigners that's it she doesn't like any foreigners who've come to this country particularly just like her parents did and of course she's very well in with the Israelis she went off when she was in in um in the amazing cabinet. She went off to Israel without telling anybody, even without telling Theresa May and and and she met with Netanyahu and various other government ministers.

[00:05:28]Nobody knows quite what she was she was doing there.

[00:05:32]And uh she's a passionately passionately anti anti-immigration.

[00:05:37]Who'd be the home secretary? Honest Bob Jen. I he he's shown how he's he's up for stopping people not paying their their tube fairs. He's been on film, hasn't he? challenging people and and so on. And he's passionately anti-immigration. He's a guy who had all those signs and painted out the Mickey Mouse signs when he because he thought they were they were too friendly towards children, desperate children arriving in this country.

[00:06:04]And education, what will we have 30p Lee? I mean, he he's he's pretty smart.

[00:06:08]He knows he he knows all about sums because he he was able to work out you could you could easily make a a hot meal for 30 30 p. And I was thinking for health. I think they could probably bring back old widows and widen I mean she's she's pretty fiery and she knows what she's she knows what she's doing.

[00:06:26]Race relations I think probably um Sarah Poin I mean she uh she doesn't like black people. She hates seeing them in adverts on the television. So she could uh she could deal with deal with any foreign people especially the brown and and black ones.

[00:06:43]And there's a there's a Ysef. And what would he be? He'd be he'd be minister for looking down on people, I think. And there's Freddy Krueger. Well, he could be the new department for cooking or something. His mom could give him a hand. Um, but generally speaking, I don't really see them as being a very formidable uh cabinet. And uh if Labor having all this trouble running the country, I really can't see this this gang of second rate at defectors uh doing a better job.

[00:07:16]But um there's then the furer and I use that term. I mean it's German for for for leader. I don't in any way compare him with Adolf Hitler who who became very popular by identifying groups in his case the the Jews and and victimizing them and building a great following victimizing that minority. I mean that's not you I mean Nigel Farage talks a lot about how dreadful Muslims are but I don't think he's he's he's following on the same pattern as the gentleman with a mustache but uh Farage is the party you know if you try to imagine reform without Farage it's nothing I mean who would take over as leader can you imagine anyone taking any notice of Richard Ty or or uh honest h onest Bob or uh or or 30p Lee I they'd be laughed out of out of the out of the scene. But um I I I I I think um I think Farage is both the strength and the weakness of this party. This whole party is uh has is based around him and his campaigning his his uh his constant hectoring about how how everything would be so much better in this case get rid of foreigners.

[00:08:31]previously for years he hected about how everything would be absolutely fine if we could just leave the European Union and we've all seen the enormous benefits of having done that but um he's going on now he's he Muslims the ones he's really hates I think he um he's he's pushed it a bit too far and at the same time a bit like Trump he's he's a bit too fond of money and I think that um this 5 million pound gift that he he accepted from this guy in Thailand I think Um, I think that's going to haunt him. I think that's going to be his EP Epstein takes because I think he's going to keep getting asked about it. And reporters already know that he gets very very tushy when he's challenged on it. And I've seen a few interviews lately, although he's kind of disappeared from the scene for the time being, hoping it'll blow over, which it won't. But, uh, whenever he's asked about it, he gets really really very grumpy. and uh he he said to begin with this uh this £5 million for his for his security he's already said he can't go to his constituency and have surgeries because he is the one out of 650 MPs who wouldn't be safe and so he needed this £5 million as security and uh shortly after that he's saying now that it was a a gift it was a reward for for Brexit well if he's being rewarded for Brexit he's being paid5 million pounds of having got Brexit done. Is it actually a reward or was it a bribe? Was he bribed to do it? Was he bribed to to to to uh start Reform UK and to to lead it now?

[00:10:06]The whole thing absolutely stinks. And I think people are beginning to see through. I think people are beginning to see this man's a charlatan and a con man. And uh I I think he might have trouble recovering from this. I think he's going to be constantly pestered now. You know, he was challenged recently. I seen a couple of interviews in the last week or two about having said that um that reform would not put taxes up and on one occasion he was challenged by I think it was by someone on Sky I think but he was challenged about it Beth Riby and he said he'd never said it absolutely adamant you know how how how how adamant he can be he'd never never said it and then he was shown shown literature which beside his name he was saying just that that under reform taxes would not go up.

[00:10:56]And I think he's going to find it difficult to be constantly constantly monitored. And don't forget this that um it's 3 years to the next election. 3 years is a really really long time. It's time for either the the Tories or Labor to recover somewhat. Um but I think it's also time for reform to be very badly damaged. And I think people are, as I say, people are beginning to see through what a load of a load of nonsense a reform UK is. As I've said all along, they will never become the the next government. Even though their favorites are the bookies and uh and more than that, Faraj will never become prime minister. He he wouldn't want the job.

[00:11:36]He he likes he likes being outside shouting in rather than being in the center and being responsible. But anyway, that's a few thoughts of of mine. I'd be really interested to know what you think about it. So, please, if you would mind commenting if you haven't already uh subscribed, I'd be really really grateful if you do so. And uh and so until next week, um thank you for watching and bye for