Makerfield Reform candidate’s fascist links exposed after X account suspended

Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, has had his X account suspended. Shortly afterward, likely reasons why started to surface, particularly his links to a British fascist and his sharing of extremist right-wing content.

Ironically, Kenyon kicked off his campaign by praising his party for supposedly weeding out racists. He also moaned that Reform doesn’t allow him to speak his mind about the Russia-Ukraine war. There was a hint, though, that he disagreed with boss Nigel Farage’s opinion that Russia was provoked into it. The one thing on which Farage has not been wrong — stopped clocks and all that.

Makerfield candidate denies far right exists

Among the found items in Kenyon’s social media history is denialism that the far right even exists. A denial that he made as the far right was engaged in the 2024 race riots.

And as race rioters filled streets, Kenyon claimed that white people are being “assaulted en masse” by Muslims.

Evidenced links to fascists

Kenyon’s links to fascism are disturbing, if unsurprising in an Islamophobic Reform candidate and they’re not being exposed for the first time. Kenyon stood, coming second, in the seat in the 2024 general election.

At that campaign, Searchlight Magazine pointed out his social media links to the leader of the British fascist movement.

And even more recently, Kenyon shared — and contributed to — posts by extremist right-wing Islamophobe and ‘anti-feminist’ Carl Benjamin, who calls himself ‘Sargon of Akkad’. Not just Benjamin, but also white supremacist Peter Imanuelsen, and convicted race-hate instigator Wayne O’Rourke.

But as one commenter pointed out, on far right Elon Musk’s X, that’s not likely to lead to a suspension. It raises the question of what must have been bad enough for his Kenyon’s account to be paused.

As awful as these racist posts are, Lucy is right that they don’t seem enough to be the reason X suspended the account. The suspension hides what else might be there.

But the bigger question, at least as far as the by-election is concerned is this: will enough people in Makerfield care enough to vote against Robert Kenyon again? Or will such presumed and actual views attract enough people in what has become a Reform heartland in a nation plagued by emboldened racists to get him into parliament?

Featured image via X/ reformparty 

By Skwawkbox

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