Police confirm Reform wasted its time with tweet complaint

Greater Manchester Police has announced that it will be taking no further action on Reform UK candidate Matthew Goodwin’s complaint about a Labour party tweet. Goodwin had claimed that a post by Labour misrepresented him and breached electoral law. Goodwin’s pearl-clutching disgusted even right-wing hack Dan Hodges:

Next time anyone in Reform bangs on about policing tweets remind them of this… https://t.co/sGjChMy3ZW

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) January 29, 2026

Goodwin’s party boss Farage has his own record of hypocrisy, having promised to stop people doing, if he ever gets into power, exactly what Goodwin did — trying to intimidate people for social media posts:

I don’t think enough is being made of this insane turn of events by Reform UK.

This is from the very same source in 2024, talking about how Allison Pearson’s police tweet investigation had been dropped.

With a handy contribution from Reform UK leader — Nigel Farage.

“Farage… https://t.co/pcwis6PQZ6 pic.twitter.com/k6fD3PUXMW

— Don McGowan (@donmcgowan) January 29, 2026

Farage’s deputy Richard Tice is no stranger to hypocrisy — and no better on this particular form of it:

Tice will be happy pic.twitter.com/vwiW1RJMun

— Sebastian Coe (@SEBdotCOEdotUK) January 29, 2026

And the party’s supposed aversion to prosecuting hate speech was also exposed this week when Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch attacked new Tory-to-Reform defector Suella Braverman:

There’s this also, and the case Anderson won for someone telling him he was a wa***r.. they hate free speech https://t.co/6q08reFzpa

— Just Laurie (@Birax) January 29, 2026

Braverman herself was no better, at least by the supposed robust free speech standards her new party claims to champion:

Very disappointing that it has come to this.

A false and defamatory statement has been made by the @Conservatives about me.

No private or public apology has been made to me.

And there has been no acceptance that it was false.

Disgusting behaviour by a once great party. https://t.co/6arEwRcSmt

— Suella Braverman (@SuellaBraverman) January 29, 2026

Horrors and hypocrites the lot of them — including Keir Starmer and his lackeys who are always trying to out-fash the fash.

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