This is the best summary I could come up with:
Eight Reform UK candidates have made a wide range of offensive remarks online about women in the past, the BBC can reveal.The remarks include disparaging comments about the murdered MP Jo Cox, former Prime Minister Theresa May, and a black reality TV contestant.The comments were posted between 2011 and 2023.Reform UK and the candidates involved have all been approached for comment.Earlier this week, the party said it planned to sue a company it hired to vet potential MPs.
Mr Cole deleted this comment after being approached by the BBC.You can see a full list of candidates for the Harwich and North Essex constituency here.Andrew Banwell, the candidate for Thornbury and Yate, referred to Mrs May on X as “Merkels Bitch”.Angela Merkel formerly served as German chancellor, with her tenure overlapping with Mrs May’s time in Downing Street.You can see a full list of candidates for the Thornbury and Yate constituency here.Malcolm Cupis, the candidate for Melksham and Devizes, accused women dancing in a music video posted on Youtube of "behaving like a gutter slut" and referred to one woman as a "malignant old hag".Mr Cupis told the BBC he stood by his comments.He said of the music video: “This disgusting performance should not be available to… children.
It demeans girls and encourages misogyny in boys.”“’Gutter sluts’ is actually nothing in comparison to what the performers describe themselves as,” he said.He told the BBC the "hag" comment was an "intemperate" warning against someone else's use of social media.
You can see a full list of candidates for the Houghton and Sunderland South constituency here.Ian Gribbin, the candidate for Bexhill and Battle, who we previously revealed had written that the UK should have stayed neutral in World War Two, posted a series of comments on the UnHerd website which included saying: “Right now all men pay for all women: we pay 80% of tax and you take out 80%.
The evidence from repeated psychologically testing is that women are appalling at taking criticism.“Modern feminism belongs in the sewer of self hate from which it came: you say it yourself, you’re all jealous of the perceived freedoms of men.”You can see a full list of candidate for the Bexhill and Battle constituency here.
This week, the party threatened to take legal action against Vetting.com - a company it hired in April at a cost of £144,000 to vet hundreds of would-be candidates.
The original article contains 971 words, the summary contains 399 words. Saved 59%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!