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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Sat 21 Mar 05:43
Reform launched their candidates for the Scottish elections on Thursday.
As usual Mr Soundbite made a tw@t of himself on stage - telling a heckler to “Go and get a hair cut. Probably don’t have a job either. Go get a job”…….whilst speaking to a room full of people at the conference rather than at a job…….
And then came the suspension of a candidate for financial misconduct…along with numerous other vetting issues with candidates….heres some below….
Lord Offord said it was "done in a former life before she was a member of Reform.
"We have to not take offence at every moment in time." "We are not stopping people from standing for Reform just because they might have said something fruity in the past". - when speaking about Senga Beresford for Dumfries.
The Courier reported that Stirling candidate Rachael Wright, from Auchterarder, spread rumours about asylum seekers moving into a former school in Perthshire.
It also said Fife North East Linda Holt called former First Minister Humza Yousaf a "grandstanding Islamist moron" and said "he`s not British".
Offord said: "We have brought in 80% of candidates who are not politicians, they are real people with real lives who said real things in a past life.
"This was said before she was a candidate and she wasn`t even a member of the party at this time.
"We have all made comments in the past but the problem with this modern world is everything is written down and remembered.
"We need to be more realistic about the fact real people say real things. Now she is a candidate she will be held to higher standards."
And this is all before looking at their manifesto…
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Topic Originator: DBP
Date: Sat 21 Mar 11:50
Are they calling themselves reform Scotland?
I’m surprised given their pro British, pro union beliefs they would go down that road at all, let alone allow themselves to be accused of being nothing more than a Labour style branch office
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