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I’m going to start a thread of some of the far right candidates in the May 6 elections.
First, anti-Muslim bigot Anne-Marie Waters standing for For Britain in the De Bruce ward in #Hartlepool, as profiled here by @hopenothate https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2021/04/30/who-is-anne-marie-waters/">https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2021/04/3... HT @FFRAFAction
First, anti-Muslim bigot Anne-Marie Waters standing for For Britain in the De Bruce ward in #Hartlepool, as profiled here by @hopenothate https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2021/04/30/who-is-anne-marie-waters/">https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2021/04/3... HT @FFRAFAction
Waters claims to be standing for the local people of Hartlepool, but just a couple of years ago she stood in Lewisham for UKIP. I profiled her then:
http://brockley.blogspot.com/2015/04/anne-marie-waters-ukip-bigotry-comes-to.html">https://brockley.blogspot.com/2015/04/a...
http://brockley.blogspot.com/2015/04/anne-marie-waters-ukip-bigotry-comes-to.html">https://brockley.blogspot.com/2015/04/a...
Another For Britain candidate, Alex Merola, is standing in a by-election in East #Barnet. Holocaust denier Ingrid Carlqvist spoke at their conference and they want to ban kosher and halal meat.
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/far-right-for-britain-movement-candidate-standing-in-east-barnet/">https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/far-right... @lmharpin/ @JewishNewsUK
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/far-right-for-britain-movement-candidate-standing-in-east-barnet/">https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/far-right... @lmharpin/ @JewishNewsUK
And now a far right candidate standing for a mainstream party. Andrew Walker, Tory candidate for Blackburn with Darwen Council, is a Tommy Robinson fan who thinks it’d be cool to stab Jeremy Corbyn. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/19262166.blackburn-darwen-election-candidate-fire-facebook-posts/">https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/1926...
Nigel Farage’s party, now named Reform UK, has a bunch of extreme candidates. Padmini Nissanga, standing in Sheppey, Kent, once said Remainers should be literally executed and is an another anti-Muslim bigot who thinks Enoch Powell a “great man”. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/i-am-not-racist-202116/">https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbo...
In Baddesley in Hampshire, the Reform UK candidate is charming Andrew Peterson, who thinks Muslims caused Covid and the Jews are behind the vaccine. See @hopenothate: https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2021/04/26/reform-uk-cranks-and-bigots-back-on-the-ballot/">https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2021/04/2...
Reform UK also have some pretty cranky candidates in Scotland: https://twitter.com/dlivingstone/status/1385951153905717249">https://twitter.com/dlivingst...
Staying with Scotland, George Galloway’s weird new party All For Unity no longer has full-on Tommy Robinson fan and anti-black racist Jean Mathieson standing... https://www.thenational.scot/news/18670227.candidate-george-galloways-party-exposed-racist-backs-tommy-robinson/">https://www.thenational.scot/news/1867...
...but it does have ex-Tory Linda Holt, who thinks the official Covid stats are a lie https://www.thenational.scot/news/18702402.alliance-unity-candidate-linda-holt-scottish-government-inflating-covid-19-cases/">https://www.thenational.scot/news/1870...
...along with a host of other extremists as profiled in this thread: https://twitter.com/dlivingstone/status/1387502264483557378">https://twitter.com/dlivingst...
