Reform finally suspend racist campaign manager

Earlier this month, Manchester’s the Mill published a story highlighting racist comments from a Reform campaigner. The man in question was Adam Mitula, and the party has finally suspended him. The question is what took them so long?

Revolting Reform

The Mill noted that Goodwin has actually surrounded himself with far-right activists. They argue that this is at odds with how Nigel Farage has historically operated:

Nigel Farage has always been at pains to distance his party from known far-right groups. He’s been publicly critical of Tommy Robinson on many occasions, and as UKIP leader he banned ex-British National Party members from running for his party.

Farage is pretty far to the right, obviously, but there’s always a further right. Most recently this manifested with the creation of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Party.

According to the Mill, Adam Mitula was the most problematic of Goodwin’s team:

Mitula’s output, posted on social media, includes his suggestion that “60-70%” of transgender people are paedophiles, the fact he would “never touch a Jewish woman”, and his use of the n-word. Meanwhile, discussing the number of people who died in the Holocaust in July 2024, he appears to try and play down the statistics, writing: “6 million polish [sic] people including some Jews. They always use Poles to make up the number. And on top of it they claim Poles were killing. Just sick.”

The Mill also highlighted the following tweet:

The Mill noted that Goodwin may not have been aware of the above. This was ten days ago, however, so Reform have certainly known about it since then. Despite this, it seems it took them until now to get rid of Mitula.

Here’s what the Mill said on 23 February:

And Reform’s former campaign manager in Tameside, Adam Mitula, is reclining on a poolside sun-lounger as we speak, perhaps enjoying a daiquiri, after the party quietly suspended him following our reporting on his history of anti-semitic and racist tweets, in a piece which used research by Hope Not Hate.

And here’s what BBC North West said today:

One of Reform UK’s campaign team in the Gorton and Denton by-election has been suspended after racist comments made on social media.

Adam Mitula, the party’s interim campaign manager, used an inappropriate word on X, and appeared to suggest the Jewish community had inflated the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust.

He says his comments have been taken out of context and he claims he was defending the Jewish community.

‘Defending’, he says.

Sure, pal.

Just like we’re defending you now when we say “get wrecked, bozo”.

At odds

As we reported yesterday, Farage seems to have abandoned Matt Goodwin following a series of scandals. And when we say ‘abandoned’, we’re saying that quite literally, because big Nige is literally on the other side of the world:

Farage is trying to create a Goldilocks political movement in which everyone is just racist enough. The problem is reactionary politics demands constant lurches to the right, and that’s going to make Reform impossible to hold together as a mainstream political project.

Featured image via The Mill