Reform councillor for Sheffield Woodhouse under investigation for Nazi tweets

Nathaniel Menday, the newly elected Reform UK councillor for Sheffield Woodhouse, has been suspended from the party over his history of white-supremacist social media posts. The far-right party is now investigating the councillor’s posts, “which have brought the party into disrepute.”

The only problem? The Times had already published on Menday’s bigotry weeks before the election. However, Reform only suspended him after the Sheffield Star uncovered another slew of bile, including a post on Twitter stating:

Compared to many continental countries people here are fatter, uglier and poorly dressed.

On top of this we have a disgusting, almost subhuman underclass of people bringing the place down.

Self-identified ‘ethno-nationalist’

On 22 April, more than a fortnight before the elections, the Times wrote that:

Nathaniel Menday, standing for Reform in Woodhouse, Sheffield, has called himself an “ethno-nationalist” and encouraged the use of white supremacist symbols. Last October, he asked a fellow Sheffield United fan to add a sonnenrad “sun wheel” emblem to a flag — a symbol widely used by neo-Nazis.

In January 2024, he shared a picture of Berlin’s Olympiastadion and wrote: “Whichever group of people built this must have been real visionaries!” The stadium was built by Nazi Germany to host the 1936 Olympics and designed by Albert Speer, the munitions minister who was convicted at the Nuremberg trials of crimes against humanity.

Likewise, Menday also blamed “Jewish people in the West” for the antisemitism they suffer because they “overwhelmingly favour open borders.”

In spite of Menday’s vile support for white supremacy being known well in advance of the polls, he nevertheless received 1,987 votes. By comparison, Labour’s Danny Allsebrook – the second-place candidate – received just 890.

‘I am not antisemitic’

When the Times approached him for comment before the elections, Menday stated that:

I am not antisemitic nor do I have any Nazi sympathies.

I have flirted with what could reasonably be referred to as ‘far-right ideology’ but ultimately I have come to reject its core tenets.

I am passionate about my country but I am and always have been motivated by love, not hate.

Sure, you were calling people a “subhuman underclass” out of love.

On top of all this, the Sheffield Star published further records of Menday’s bigotry on 13 May:

You’d tell us if you’re a Nazi, right?

Back in April, BBC Essex asked Nigel Farage if his party had vetted its local election candidates. The Reform leader stated that:

I know that our candidates will be held to a higher standard than any of the other parties.

That’s because we are the challengers. We are the ones taking on the establishment. Yet we have done a good, thorough professional job.

On 11 May, when yet another Reform councillors resigned over his rascist posting history (noticing a pattern?, the Canary wrote that:

That “thorough professional job” raises an important question. That is, did Reform know about Prior’s disgusting comments and not care, or was Farage simply lying?

Importantly, thanks to Nathaniel Menday, we now have an answer: it’s both! Regarding Menday’s disgusting tweets, a Reform spokesperson said:

Cllr Menday has been suspended from Reform UK pending investigation after he failed to declare social media posts which have brought the party into disrepute.

Reform UK does not support such comments.

So, we now know that the party’s idea of a “thorough professional job” boils down to asking ‘Are you a white supremacist? You have to tell us if you are?’ Likewise, it’s obvious that the party didn’t care about Menday’s self-identified ethno-nationalism, because – again – that was already well publicised.

Reform UK are a party of disgusting bigots. This alone should be enough reason to avoid them, but on top of that its MPs and councillors don’t do their fucking work. These far-right jackasses are a danger, pure and simple, and the UK will spend the next election cycle learning the truth of that statement.

Featured image via the Canary