Wannabe Reform UK councillor Stuart Prior has been exposed for a series of horrendous and alarming tweets.
A Reform candidate has launched an appalling racist tirade, even declaring white people “the master race”. Stuart Prior, standing in Essex in next week’s local elections, hit out with a slew of hateful comments just months ago.
The property company director appeared to celebrate Punjabi and Sikh women being raped, suggested black people had smaller brains and branded Muslims “rats”.
His extreme comments, made on a X, previously Twitter, account under his name, was revealed in a joint investigation with the Mirror and anti-racism group Hope Not Hate (HnH).
The 54-year-old was confronted by the Mirror at his detached property in an Essex village with a dossier of evidence, but denied being a racist.
On his “master race” tweet, Prior claimed: “I don’t recall that at all, blimey.” And in reference to his comment about black people’s brains, he said: “Goodness me, that is not me, 100 per cent not.”
And reading back his tweet saying “good” and “reap it” in reference to women being raped, Prior said: “No, this isn’t me.”
Prior’s X account is believed to have been deleted earlier this year. He is standing in Rayleigh West in a bid to win a county council seat, as well as in Sweyne Park and Grange, part of Rochford District Council.
HnH’s director of research Joe Mulhall said: “Of all the racist and extreme Reform candidates we’ve found, Stuart Prior is one of the worst.
“In the local elections, Reform are hoping to do well in Essex, the county in which Nigel Farage is an MP, and have been projected to win the Council. Reform’s decision to select Stuart Prior shows, however, that the people of Essex deserve far better.”
Prior’s tweets mark the latest blow for Farage’s party and its vetting standards. Last month, the Mirror exposed a series of Reform candidates’ views including one for being a fan of notorious fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
In response to a tweet questioning whether white women should be allowed to wear braids, Prior wrote in December: “As the master race, they can do as they please.”
In October, Your Party MP Zarah Sultana tweeted referring to a woman of Punjabi heritage being raped in a racist attack and a Sikh woman suffering the same fate, adding: “These horrifying attacks show how racism and misogyny feed each other – fuelled by the rise of fascism and hate.” Prior reposted the tweet, writing: “good.reap it”.
In November he suggested white people had bigger brains than black people. A user shared pictures of white athletes on the floor next to their black counterparts standing, writing: “But how did they manage to colonize us?”
In response, Prior wrote: “Larger brains. Google which race has the smallest brain…. Then, once you have that answer, Google whether brain size dictates intelligence in humans.”
The same month, Prior declared: “There cannot be a genocide against Muslims. It’s only ever self defence against those rats.” Reacting to a video of a black man apparently being disruptive on a tube train, in October Prior used a racial slur.
In response to a tweet referencing the Huntingdon knife attack, Prior wrote in November: “If this was caused by another third world invader, then this country needs a purge. From North to South and from East to West.”
When put to him by the Mirror that he had identified his house by sharing a picture of his dog by the window, Prior confirmed he had one of the animals, adding: “I don’t recall these tweets…”
Another image he posted of a Union flag shows part of his property. Read a tweet in which he had referred to immigrants as a “cancer”, Prior said: “This looks likely something that’s been kind of created against me.” Reform said it was “looking into” Prior’s posts.
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