Reform candidate accidentally reveals just how PREPOSTEROUS Nigel Farage’s party is

The general election campaign kerfuffle continues in full swing, and a flashy new three-word political slogan may have just dropped. One ‘high-calibre’ MP candidate all but belted out what could be the UK’s next big tryptic in a media interview: “stop the planes” anyone?

Unfortunately, the said candidate wasn’t referring to halting the racist Rwanda deportations. Instead, Reform Party flunky George Woodward, standing for Leigh in Greater Manchester opined on immigration at the border. What border immigration you might ask? The kind you find at the airport, apparently.

In fairness to Woodward, “stop the boats” was already taken.

Reform Party candidate’s airport awakening

In an interviews with the News Agents’ Lewis Goodall, a Reform Party candidate blurted out the most Reform statement yet this general election.

Goodall traipsed around Leigh, in Greater Manchester with Reform Party canvassers and MP candidate George Woodward. Woodward explained his newfound activism with Reform, but then detailed the most ludicrous political awakening origin story ever spilled to the media (probably).

Naturally, it started out where all Reform goons do – whining on immigration. Then, the story took an unexpected turn. He told Goodall that:

I had a moment last year, I was coming through an airport and I was at the arrivals, you know, the British border. And I was like, wow, you know, there’s a lot of people coming in here and we need to reexamine this.

That’s right, Woodward’s inciting incident was, as he put plainly, migration in UK airport arrival lounges.

Goodall, realising he’d struck comedy gold first simply responded:

What, at the airport?

After that, he pushed Woodward to elaborate, stating:

Lots of those are probably tourists, presumably. Or British people coming back from abroad.

Following this, careful not to say the quiet part out loud, Woodward said:

Some of them yeah. Some absolutely. Some not. So you can tell.

This sparked a comic furore on X:

George Woodward the Reform candidate was politicised by going to an airport and seeing tourists. https://t.co/L52SYtyMZj

— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 7, 2024

This Reform candidate seems to think airports are only used by “immigrants” https://t.co/b1mYM33TaR pic.twitter.com/Vc1uhllBsI

— confirmed cigarette (@philford) June 7, 2024

Damn foreigners coming over here, propping up the tourism economy https://t.co/ZvLjz0gdBz

— Gaia Vince (@WanderingGaia) June 8, 2024

He was at the British border. He’d been overseas.

He’s been the same thing in a foreign country that he’s whingeing about in the UK.

The lack of self-awareness is comical. https://t.co/cMW6rOThvN

— Ko ǝqɐƆɔW ǝʌǝʇS toku ingoa 🇬🇧🇮🇪(🇺🇸)🇳🇿 (@stevedownunder) June 8, 2024

People on X also pulled him up on his blatant racial profiling:

Reform candidate George Woodward says he felt immigration too high when saw so many people at the airport. (132 million people come to UK each year – inc tourists & residents. 3.5 million visas inc visitors 1.6 milllion are migrants, inc students). “Some are – you can tell” https://t.co/2VO03gLrzu

— Sunder Katwala (@sundersays) June 8, 2024

Bylines Network founder Mike Galsworthy and others also pointed out that it’s confirmation bias 101:

This video is a comically perfect example of “confirmation bias” – and should be shown in all schools as part of a course on political literacy.pic.twitter.com/CZ8hkKghlM

— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) June 8, 2024

What’s worrying about this clip is that it isn’t a sketch for a political satire show. If you are a racists you’ll find ‘evidence’ to justify you racism wherever you look https://t.co/sC7bO7xw5I

— Commie 🍾 ☭ ♀️ 💙 💙 ✌️☮️ 🇵🇸 (@ToryHatersRUs) June 8, 2024

Suckered by charlatans

Moreover, Woodward’s racism-mongering airport gaffe was one thing, but his reply to another question exposed him as the spiteful Farage-clone hate-goblin he is. Notably, Goodall conducted the interview with a lady out canvassing for Woodward.

In the clip the News Agents posted on X, the Reform canvasser leapt into a racist tirade. The Farage-fawning Wigan nan launched into the ol’ ‘Great Replacement Theory‘ rightwing conspiracist chestnut. That is, have you heard – with all this immigration, white British folks are gonna be a minority in a town near you soon?

Of course, the narrative is right out of the Farage playbook, with the rightwing wannabe MP peddling this bunk concept for years.

Throughout, Woodward looked gormlessly on. One poster on X thought she caught him squirming as the canvasser spoke:

Love @lewis_goodall usual calm questioning here. Reform’s candidate George Woodward looking embarrassed, as wannabe MP shouldn’t he be correcting these erm…claims? https://t.co/QSCNVzPQMZ

— Naomi deSouza (@naomi_desouza) June 7, 2024

Afterwards, Goodall pressed Woodward on his responsibility to “assuage” this “ethnic tension” and he replied that:

On occasion, yes, we have to disagree on little things like that. And on occasion, yeah, I do step in and correct them.”

Goodall proceeded to probe him, asking:

But you’re not worried about being outnumbered?

In a ham-faced, mask-slip moment Woodward told Goodall, “no” without skipping a beat. In other words, the Reform candidate doesn’t actually believe the racist drivel frothing out of his gammon leader’s mouth. Contrary, it appears, to some other Reform candidates.

That might be because, as some pointed out on X, the hard facts obviously show quite the opposite:

‘Across Leigh (Wigan), 92.6% of people identified with a White ethnic group’https://t.co/1gNftClStE https://t.co/rfcvMsQ8VP

— Bernadette Meaden (@BernaMeaden) June 8, 2024

And Woodward has a doctorate, didn’t you know? (Though Mr “at the airport” could have fooled me.)

Just to point out two things that I had to fact check. 1) This is real and not fake Dr George Woodward is the candidate for Reform UK and 2) Yes he is a Doctor. I hope in the same vein as Doctor Pepper or Doctor Dre because please tell me this guy didnt get a doctorate! https://t.co/L8O1Jh58wF

— Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social (@woodmally1979) June 8, 2024

However, the problem is – many of the party’s members evidently do believe it. Shamelessly, Woodward, like Farage, has been preying on this. In other words, Farage, the biggest grifter going, is inflaming this type of illiterate Islamophobic dross. Now, every white person in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland has a suckered relative like (totally not) racist nan from Wigan:

I don’t want to laugh or cry; I just feel sorry for her. Totally incoherent and inconsistent. Trying to find someone to blame for the failure of neoliberalism, and getting suckered by that lying charlatan Farage to latch on to Muslims.
Very sad. https://t.co/hczPqkxHYv

— Zac (@ZHDar) June 7, 2024

Former Green Party councillor Rosemary Sexton said it as it is:

4/ I too want my country back.

I want it back from politicians* who are happy to throw immigrants (and their families) under the bus to win votes; who by endorsing the narrative that “there’s too many of THEM” not only pander to racism but also encourage it.

— Rosemary Sexton (@DrSextonGreen) June 7, 2024

Reform racists clamouring for votes

Because ultimately, politicians spewing racist bullshit for votes and their loyal gutter-press is precisely why we have people like this hitting the campaign trail this election:

Show me the captured target group for RefUK & I’ll show you someone stoked on fear by misinfo, groomed to feel ‘special’ and now party to privileged facts the rest of us can’t access.
{See also, Brexit, antiV@x, anti-climate & cloud spray conspiracy folk & MAGA}
It works…. https://t.co/vEyEp0f305

— Daisy 🐟 #GTTO #SaveOurNHS (@Daisybelll) June 8, 2024

Nigel ‘my milkshake brings all cnuts to yard’ Farage spreads hatred & lies wherever he goes

His divisive cr*p generates ignorance & hatred from ordinary folk 👇 It won’t help them, but it’ll make him richer. #MoreInCommon with immigrants than Farage or Tice#Newsnight #itvnews https://t.co/STB3uStO4J

— Cass Blakeman ✍️📚 📖 #FBPE 🇪🇺 🌱 #SOSNHS 💙✊ (@WistfulCass) June 11, 2024

It’s seriously scary to see the scale of Islamophobia and the narrative that some of our politicians are playing to. https://t.co/t8UECVXMDP

— Miqdaad Versi (@miqdaad) June 8, 2024

Let’s just say it as it is: the canvasser and Reform UK candidate are bigoted and racist.

This is the result of a poorly regulated media and politicians who know that inflammatory remarks get them free PR to radicalise people. https://t.co/BMoq7R3hLo

— Alex Tiffin (@RespectIsVital) June 9, 2024

Time to get rid of Farage fan-blog ‘Gammon Britain News’ (GB News) now right? RIGHT?

This is both terrifying and sad. Nigel Farage taking advantage of poorly educated people through fear-mongering, Propaganda channels like GBNews should be shut down. We also need a proper press watchdog.

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) June 7, 2024

After all, stoking hate through fearmongering garbage is what trash politicians like Farage and Reform do best:

Terrifying just how indoctrinated people can become by looking at nonsense on the internet and listening to gibberish from people like Farage.

Scare them enough and they’ll vote for anything. https://t.co/Zv6Gp4fJG2

— Damon Evans (@damocrat) June 7, 2024

I think this is important. What this woman is saying is great replacement conspiracy theory – which has been pushed into the mainstream via activists like Robinson & Collett, so that people start to believe in “breeding rates” and white people being “minorities” https://t.co/NsSGDTTswI

— sianushka (@sianushka) June 8, 2024

Stoking hatred and sewing division

Some on X highlighted that it’s obviously Farage and his Brexit brigade that has fucked over poor communities the nation-over:

It’s a shame this woman doesn’t realise that the guy she thinks will save her – is the guy who’s caused the problems.

Having got his Brexit, Farage has seen what Trump is doing in US and is shamelessly copying it. https://t.co/LhpOq2rVAd

— Suffolk 🇪🇺 #FBPE #FBPPR #RejoinEU (@TimInSuffolk) June 7, 2024

We’re still waiting on those Brexit dividends Mr Farage. Of course, in reality, the UK public is actually thousands of pounds worse off a year.

Still, it hasn’t stopped his political vanity project from whipping up the racial division of the working class:

This is what happens when class consciousness has been hijacked by the far right and decent truthful education for everyone is lacking https://t.co/akTiPXoOox

— Leah Dionne (@leahdionne__) June 8, 2024

The incredibly sad thing is that the vast majority of these folks are ordinary working class. They’ve been absolutely corrupted by a section of the upper classes, who’ve monetised racism & xenophobia. Angry at all the wrong people. https://t.co/OvVQk96oGo

— Leo McGarry (@crossgatescynic) June 7, 2024

Call them out

However, some posters on X pointed out that the canvasser’s Isamophobic remarks shouldn’t just be swept under the rug either:

We spend so much time giving these people airtime but why don’t we call them out as racist. Thats all that matters. It is not ok to continually allow these horrific comments about Muslims to be aired for clicks and just dismiss them as stupid. https://t.co/n2WNxViHxq

— Adil Ray OBE (@adilray) June 8, 2024

I’m from Leigh originally. It’s a former mining town; there’s quite a lot of deprivation, quite a lot of poverty. People don’t have it easy. But there’s also quite a lot of the sort of horrendous racism seen here. And Leigh is 92% white. https://t.co/JKuDIubhmp

— Ben (@islandniles) June 7, 2024

Sadly, thousands of people up&down the country, knocking doors, casually pushing this racist vitriol.
This woman is proud of polluting a young persons head with hate…
We will see some of worst of Britain in the next few weeks. It is important we call it out, when we see it. https://t.co/wmiPkJUuoB

— Unleashing Me (@unleashing_me) June 8, 2024

In short, it’s easy to brush her rancid rant aside as a fringe viewpoint. However, if this interview proved anything, it’s that the UK still has a rotten, racist underbelly. And at this election, it’s everyone’s responsibility to call this out. If there’s one thing that should unite the nation, it’s kicking “at the airport” Woodward and race-baiting ‘bloke in the pub’ Nigey to the curb on 4 July.

Feature image via the News Agents – X