Reform councillors suggest they’d vote for Jimmy Saville

Two of Reform’s Wigan councillors have been pictured with a sign that reads “I would rather vote for Jimmy Saville than Labour”. The problem with that statement is it implies the people standing by it would vote for Jimmy Saville. The problem with that is the fact that Saville was a notorious paedophile:

Reform UK’s #Makerfield campaign team for @RobKenyonReform, including 2 Wigan councillors Gemma Painter and Lilian Rogers.

Photo ops with Jimmy Saville jokes.

Sick.@reformparty_uk and Kenyon, anything to say?

Share this, make sure everyone in Makerfield sees it. pic.twitter.com/GHT3TFWCHj

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) June 15, 2026

Reform ignore crimes of Jimmy Saville

Here at the Canary, we’ve been as critical of Starmer as anyone. Arguably, we’ve been more critical, because we’ve been pointing out his flaws and deceptions since before he became Labour leader.

As bad as Starmer is, he’s clearly not worse than Jimmy f*cking Saville. You could argue that Starmer’s position as PM gives him a greater ability to cause damage, but that argument falls down when you’re saying you’d vote for Saville to replace him.

While Saville has once again become something of a joke, this man was a serious offender. 450 people accused him of sexual abuse. 82% of the victims were female; 80% of them were children. Saville used his position as a children’s entertainer to get away with this, as well as his connections within the media and charity sectors. He was a plague on this country, and no one should forget that.

Reform politicians have tried to paint themselves as the party which will tackle ‘grooming gangs’. Farage and his underlings told us the other parties don’t take the issue seriously, and yet here they are laughing about the most prolific sexual abuser of the past century.

And another pic.twitter.com/r5HNSZlFP9

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) June 15, 2026

“Reform Will Fix It’

This isn’t the only time that Reform has shown an unusual interest in Saville. In March this year, the party decided to borrow the dead paedophile’s ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ catchphrase:

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled at the launch of Reform UK's London local election campaign pic.twitter.com/QCshvLKvU0

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) March 28, 2026

Even some of their far-right supporters took issue with this, which is presumably why they’d later drop the catchphrase:

Reform will 'fix it's a bit Jimmy Saville esque if you ask me, but they are putting out the right message. https://t.co/Gz5HozCc3o

— ARAMINTA 🦁🇬🇧 (@Glasvirgin) March 26, 2026

Reform’s cynicism around abuse doesn’t end there either. As we’ve reported:

• Grooming gang victims demanded an apology from Farage after he spread lies about them.
• Farage said it would be wrong to ban Twitter even though its AI was at the time producing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

There’s also this:

A man is judged by the company he keeps. pic.twitter.com/vOZLwzKTje

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) October 28, 2025

If you’re unfamiliar with Andrew Tate, here’s a video of him explaining the techniques he used to traffic women:

Here he admits in more detail to tricking women, giving them the false impression of love, and using a "bottom bitch" for manipulation for the sole purpose of putting them in front of a camera and making money off of them.

Deception and exploitation. This is human trafficking. pic.twitter.com/XtS6uU2E5g

— Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet (@ApostateProphet) June 23, 2023

Unsurprising

Given all of the above, it’s not surprising that a Reform supporter would rather vote for Saville than Starmer. If anything, it seems like some people who support Farage just wouldn’t have a problem with Saville full stop.

These are not people who take abuse seriously, and as time goes on, that couldn’t be more obvious.

Featured image via Twitter