Reform UK sees its sixth councillor suspended over racist rhetoric

Glenn Gibbons, the newly elected hard-right Reform UK councillor, has become the sixth to be suspended. This follows outcry over his violent remarks about Nigerians who he said the state should:

melt them all down and fill in the pot holes!!

Drawing stark parallels to the dehumanising rhetoric seen in Nazi Germany, Farage has attracted a bunch of abusive and morally bankrupt councillors to his billionaire-profiting party.

Sunderland councillor suspended from Reform UK after allegedly posting racist commentshttps://t.co/6FM87NlKuq

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) May 12, 2026

The fact the suspension was not immediate is notable. The fact that Gibbons was allowed to stand in the first place exposes Reform UK’s tolerance for racial abuse.

Would it be a stretch to say that Farage and his functionaries believe there is some merit to Gibbon’s disgusting suggestion?

Reform UK have still not suspended him:

Reform councillor called for Nigerians to be ‘melted’

Newly-elected Sunderland politician suggested they be used as ballast in the city’s potholeshttps://t.co/f4JFpFS5t6

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) May 11, 2026

We saw this was coming

These suspensions prove what said all along. The worst racists and domestic abusers have banded together. They have filled the ranks of a billionaire-funded party, against the backdrop of rising voter disengagement in England.

Gibbons’ suspension today was inevitable but should not have taken this long. Nevertheless, the public shaming and ousting of Gibbons and other Reform-ers is a move to be celebrated. We just hope the public at large wake up to the threat Farage and his party pose.

And needless to say, potholes, after all, are the direct result of poor public infrastructure, while tax-avoiding, greedy billionaires like Richard Tice, get of light … legal tax management they say.

Our own Willem Moore wrote a couple of days ago:

The exchange between Kuenssberg and Tice played out as follows:

Laura Kuenssberg: I want to ask you about your party. One of your new Sunderland councillors – so a man who was elected to represent Reform – suggested melting Nigerians to fill potholes. Is that person, who’s expressed those views, somebody you are happy to see represent Reform?

Richard Tice: Laura, this weekend we are celebrating our incredible successes.

We’re not sure we’d consider the local elections an ‘incredible success’ if we’d managed to get Gibbins elected.

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice is facing a mounting backlash after he failed to condemn one of the party’s new councillors who said Nigerans should be melted down to fill potholes”.

Tice was asked repeatedly in a series of interviews to disown the remarks by Glenn… pic.twitter.com/xeRVceyxz1

— The Daily Britain (@dailybritainonx) May 10, 2026

Some resigned to save face

Unlike Gibbons, others Reform councillors jumped before being pushed. One case in point as we reported yesterday is Stuart Prior who:

resigned from his post after less than a week in office. Prior gained notoriety after campaign group Hope Not Hate exposed his history of deeply racist social media posts.

As a very brief recap of his abhorrent comments, Prior:

• called white people the “master race” and stated that they have “larger brains”.
• celebrated the rape of two Sikh women in 2025, posting the comment “good, reap it”.
• described a video of a Palestinian man searching through rubble for his child as “hilarious”.
• responded “No one cares. Die” to a post about people using plastic bags instead of nappies in Gaza.
• said “Muslims are dirt”.
• claimed “There cannot be a genocide against Muslims. It’s only ever self defence against those rats”.
• stated that Black people like to ‘play the victim’ and complain about the slave trade.

Nevertheless, this was a pretty predictable outcome when electing a Reform councillor. Since 2025, 1 in 10 Reform councillors have either defected, been sacked or chosen to leave the party themselves.

No smoke without fire, after all

Featured image via the Canary