Reform councillor accused of using fake account to attack critics

James Hill is a former Tory councillor from West Northants. According to him, Reform UK councillor John East has been caught maintaining a fake account to do battle in Facebook comment sections:

This needs to be investigated fully.@BBCNorthampton @ChronandEcho @NNjournalism @NadiaLincoln @NLiveRadio pic.twitter.com/ngrN6w3aj8

— James Hill (@cllrjameshill) April 27, 2026

While it’s not confirmed, Hill certainly makes an interesting case.

Mike Oxlong = Reform?

The controversial account uses the handle ‘Mike Oxlong’. For those of you who are reading this aloud, you probably just realised this name sounds a lot like ‘My Cock’s Long’. Regardless of who’s running the account, then, we can say for certain they’re some sort of mature genius.

In the video posted by Hill, Oxlong is responding to a local media post about two Reform councillors leaving the party to become independents. Oxlong’s response reads:

don’t worry, the real truth about these two will come out in time.

For now, though, while the police are investigating one of them, the party is not likely to say too much.

So either Oxlong knows something about the local Reform group’s inner workings or he’s a fantasist.

Next, Hill shows that Oxlong has 64 friends – two of which are Reform UK councillors. Beneath Oxlong’s name is the following message:

Heart of gold, nerves of steel, knob of butter

For reference, an obsession with penises is known as ‘phallophilia‘.

The key piece of evidence presented by Hill is that Oxlong recently updated his cover picture. The uploaded image pictures three men: the first is unidentified, the second is Nigel Farage, and the third is John East. The implication, then, is that East accidentally uploaded this image to his side profile instead of his main account.

In the second video uploaded by Hill, Oxlong’s cover picture has changed to an image of a cat. This video was presumably taken after the first, because Oxlong is now friends with a third councillor.

Certified oddball behaviour

If East is operating a second account to argue with people on Facebook, he’s certainly not the first middle-aged man to do so. There are actually many weirdos behaving like that on Facebook, which is why all the younger users abandoned it years ago.

Operating side accounts would definitely be odd and unsettling behaviour for a politician. As we’ve reported, though, it would hardly be the worst thing that a Reform councillor has done: