ANNA TURLEY: ‘Reform candidate row exhibits celebration comfortable to show a blind eye to rank misogyny’
Labour’s Anna Turley says ‘the litany of evidence is mounting by the day, showing why the people of Makerfield deserve so much better than Reform’s candidate’ Robert Kenyon
Nigel Farage has failed to take action after criticism of unearthed social media posts by Reform’s by-election candidate Robert Kenyon(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)
Locker room banter.
That’s the pathetic and insulting excuse Nigel Farage’s Reform has used to try and shake off degrading comments made about women by their candidate in the Makerfield by-election.
Farage and his team aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. At every turn, they completely fail to stand up for women. In fact, Robert Kenyon – who wants to be Farage’s latest right hand man in Parliament, has openly admitted that he is a self-described sexist.
That’s who Farage wants in Westminster voting on laws that will directly affect the lives of women and girls across Britain. He is completely unfit for office.
Reform want to brush this latest scandal off by making you think this is just them “straight talking”. Let’s be completely clear: it’s not. It’s a political party that is now openly happy to turn a blind eye to rank misogyny and actively wants you to vote for someone who has made completely unacceptable and derogatory comments about women.
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It’s an insult to the women and girls who live in Makerfield, and if it’s not challenged, Farage knows he’ll be able to get away with this elsewhere too. We simply can’t let that happen.
This is just the latest controversy to hit Reform’s campaign in Makerfield. Robert Kenyon has proven he is far from being an ordinary bloke.
He pushes dangerous and divisive rhetoric that Farage and Reform seem to thrive off. Farage’s key adviser, Danny Kruger, failed to defend Kenyon’s past comments at the weekend yet the party still seems to think he’s fit to be a Member of Parliament.
However, the litany of evidence is mounting by the day, showing why the people of Makerfield deserve so much better than Reform’s candidate.
While Reform continue to be mired in scandal and defend the indefensible, Labour’s Andy Burnham has been running a positive campaign right across the constituency, speaking with voters about their local concerns and making clear he will always work to bring communities together, rather than divide them.
On Thursday 18 June, let’s send Reform packing and elect Andy as Makerfield’s Labour MP.
