Reform mayoral candidate threatens UK journalist, Matt Kennard, for exposing Israel

Independent journalist Matt Kennard has drawn attention to the anti-journalistic actions of Reform candidate Chris Parry:

This guy is now the Reform candidate in an upcoming mayoral election

For over a year, he's been agitating for UK authorities to detain/arrest me for doing journalism exposing British participation in the Gaza genocide

He's a former senior Royal Navy officer. Reform are a danger https://t.co/EKkKsnrw9e

— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) December 20, 2025

Once again, it’s evidence Reform isn’t an alternative to the establishment — it’s simply a continuation of it.

“Just desserts”

Kennard, an independent journalist who former Financial Times reported, shares his professional bio in his book The Racket: A Rogue Reporter VS the American Empire:

While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse’s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home.

Parry, meanwhile, a former rear admiral, is the candidate Reform has put forward for the mayor of Hampshire. As the Independent reported:

[Nigel] Farage has stood by Chris Parry, 72, after he suggested that deputy prime minister Mr Lammy, who was born and brought up in London, should “go home” to the Caribbean where his “loyalties lie”.

But despite being widely condemned, Mr Parry has now defended his original comment, posting on X (Twitter): “Well, home is where the heart is. That’s the point.”

So, what did Kennard post that led to Parry demanding an “intrusive search”?

Just evidence that Britain is helping Israel violate its ceasefire:

This guy needs an intrusive search if he tries to enter the U.K. https://t.co/uKU9Go6Xb4

— Chris Parry (@DrChrisParry) February 8, 2025

This should be an “are we the bad guys” moment for Parry, although we doubt he possesses that level of self-awareness given the above. It also can’t help that he looks like the corpse of Frankenstein’s monster…Oh, and this is his Twitter bio by the way:

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Ironic, considering he sees Kennard doing something and immediately thinks ‘this guy needs to be searched‘ — before wiping his brow and adding ‘intrusively‘.

Kennard highlighted other interactions with Parry too:

Calling for me to get my "just desserts":https://t.co/fpfnQw1soR

— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) December 20, 2025

Here’s the tweet which prompted Parry to call for Kennard’s arrest:

If you are in the U.K., you need to be arrested for incitement to violence. https://t.co/AZBsPQ52mw

— Chris Parry (@DrChrisParry) July 19, 2025

‘Incitement to violence’, for pointing out the guy ordered the bombing of civilians — many of them children.

And here’s the ‘just desserts tweet’:

I hope this traitor gets just desserts. https://t.co/Muftr7lUrl

— Chris Parry (@DrChrisParry) July 27, 2025

This is especially bad as he isn’t just defending an ongoing genocide; he’s defending Keir Starmer. Reform voters will be horrified when they see this one.

Or maybe they won’t — after all, if this is the quality of candidate they have, maybe they have no taste whatsoever.

As Kennard himself notes:

Reform is apparently okay with its candidates – former senior military officials at that – threatening journalists for doing reporting they don’t like

They are sure to form the next government. Buckle up

— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) December 20, 2025

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