Reform councillor reposts call for Labour MP to be shot

We cover Reform UK a lot here at the Canary, and little would surprise us at this point. Saying that, politicians openly calling for MPs to be shot is a step up from what we’ve seen before:

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Natalie Fleet responded to the post as follows:

Regardless of political differences, Facebook dipshits shouldn’t be calling for MPs to be shot. We watched a man gun down Jo Cox on the street in 2016, and it would be grim to see a repeat of that. There is a real risk that could happen, though, with politicians themselves riling up voters like this.

One outlet phrased the incident like this:

Let’s be real, though; if you share a post calling for someone to be shot, then you are calling for that person to be shot.

Councillor Simon Evans has now responded with the following:

If Evans is telling the truth, what he’s saying is: ‘I’m a fucking idiot who will just share things without reading them or checking that they’re true‘.

In other words, whether he’s telling the truth or not, he’s clearly incompetent.

The account Reform Party UK Exposed said the following:

Reform UK’s Deputy Leader in Lancashire Simon Evans… has made a “sorry, not sorry if I caused offence” apology for reposting a post on Facebook calling for Natalie Fleet MP to be shot.

It’s not good enough. He let comments be posted, he had it there for a full day. She is a grooming and rape survivor.

A sincere apology would be resigning.

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They added:

This comment and this reply were still live this morning. He only took action when we posted.

His excuse is ‘I didn’t notice the text’.

Not good enough, this man is responsible for a £1.2bn Lancashire budget and he is claiming he didn’t notice what he was posting to Facebook.

Ridiculous.

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Violence

This is all happening at the same time that a Reform MP talked up the possibility of a civil war, and Nigel Farage threatened to bring ICE-style policing to the UK.

Reform really are a gruesome lot.

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