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Reform UK has made an official complaint against Channel 4 amid a row over footage of one of the party’s canvassers.
Andrew Parker, a part-time actor who lists “secret filming” among his skills, was shown in a Channel 4 News bulletin using a racial slur against Rishi Sunak.
Nigel Farage has said he wanted nothing to do with Reform candidates who have been exposed as racists – but claimed the incident involving Mr Parker was staged, prompting Channel 4 to stand by its reporting.
Adam Richardson, the Reform secretary and a barrister, said he had also made a formal complaint to Essex Police on behalf of Mr Farage.
In his letter to the Electoral Commission, Mr Richardson said it was “entirely evident that Mr Parker was a plant within the Channel 4 News piece”.
“It is wholly unbelievable that by complete coincidence Channel 4 were performing an undercover investigation and by chance were paired up to go canvassing with a man who was pretending to be someone else, using a false voice and saying almost exclusively racist and bigoted remarks.
“The Channel 4 broadcast has clearly been made to harm Reform UK during an election period, and this cannot be described as anything short of election interference.
“It is entirely untrue that Mr Parker had any connection with Mr Farage as he details in the documentary, and has obviously attempted to use this fictional association to smear him in the national media and damage his campaign.”
When told Reform had reported Channel 4 to the Electoral Commission, Mr Parker said: “Good – I’m glad.”
Mr Parker declined to say whether he had been paid by Channel 4 to appear in the footage. The broadcaster denies that any payment was made. “It’ll all come out in the papers,” he told the PA news agency. “What’ll come out is the truth.”
A spokesman for Channel 4 News said: “We strongly stand by our rigorous and duly impartial journalism, which speaks for itself.
“We met Mr Parker for the first time at Reform UK party headquarters, where he was a Reform party canvasser. We did not pay the Reform UK canvasser or anyone else in this report. Mr Parker was not known to Channel 4 News, and was filmed covertly via the undercover operation.”
Andrew Parker, a part-time actor who lists “secret filming” among his skills, was shown in a Channel 4 News bulletin using a racial slur against Rishi Sunak.
Nigel Farage has said he wanted nothing to do with Reform candidates who have been exposed as racists – but claimed the incident involving Mr Parker was staged, prompting Channel 4 to stand by its reporting.
Adam Richardson, the Reform secretary and a barrister, said he had also made a formal complaint to Essex Police on behalf of Mr Farage.
In his letter to the Electoral Commission, Mr Richardson said it was “entirely evident that Mr Parker was a plant within the Channel 4 News piece”.
“It is wholly unbelievable that by complete coincidence Channel 4 were performing an undercover investigation and by chance were paired up to go canvassing with a man who was pretending to be someone else, using a false voice and saying almost exclusively racist and bigoted remarks.
“The Channel 4 broadcast has clearly been made to harm Reform UK during an election period, and this cannot be described as anything short of election interference.
“It is entirely untrue that Mr Parker had any connection with Mr Farage as he details in the documentary, and has obviously attempted to use this fictional association to smear him in the national media and damage his campaign.”
When told Reform had reported Channel 4 to the Electoral Commission, Mr Parker said: “Good – I’m glad.”
Mr Parker declined to say whether he had been paid by Channel 4 to appear in the footage. The broadcaster denies that any payment was made. “It’ll all come out in the papers,” he told the PA news agency. “What’ll come out is the truth.”
A spokesman for Channel 4 News said: “We strongly stand by our rigorous and duly impartial journalism, which speaks for itself.
“We met Mr Parker for the first time at Reform UK party headquarters, where he was a Reform party canvasser. We did not pay the Reform UK canvasser or anyone else in this report. Mr Parker was not known to Channel 4 News, and was filmed covertly via the undercover operation.”
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Reform appointed the reporter to the racist.
Ha ha ha, what's the chances the reporter got appointed to a racist amongst all of them canvasers he could have been placed with. |
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The kool aid drinkers will lap it up, like you.
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Christ, does Farage ever stop whingeing? Seeing as he's been a career politician for decades you'd have hoped he'd develop something of a thicker skin.
So used to just living in his little bubble of adoring fans he can't handle any scrutiny at all and can't wait to get his lawyers involved. What an embarrassment. |
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Hmmm. So engineering a fake racist story to be broadcast the day before Farage was scheduled to appear on QT, so that the establishment could organise a pile on to directly interfere with a general election is all fine with you?
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I have just been invited to appear on Laura Kuenssberg.
I’m refusing until the BBC apologises for their dishonest QT audience. Our state broadcaster has behaved like a political actor throughout this election. Full trump/bannon |
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Why is it "So engineering a fake racist story to be broadcast" instead of "So possibly engineering a fake racist story to be broadcast" for a man for whom fact and substance are most essential?
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Reform employed the racist
Reform placed reporter with racist A set up.... Ha ha ha Free tin foil hat with each pint of kool aid |
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Why is it "So engineering a fake racist story to be broadcast" instead of "So possibly engineering a fake racist story to be broadcast" for a man for whom fact and substance are most essential?
To believe these are all random incidences would be enormously stupid. The fake filming production co is run by a former Labour candidate, so it appears. At least three of the stooges on QT have already identified as liberalist plants. |
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Where can I read more about the QT liberalist plants?
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The first thing I would demand to see is all of the filming that led to nothing, ie no 1970s caricature racist.
Somehow, I suspect, there is none. |
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The internet edy. The internet.
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Any more specific help here?
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Will be fun seeing this play out, Farage got top banking heads on a stake, now it will be the posturing luvvies :)
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Be a man of fan and substance and help people learn beyond your one-liner on it.
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of fact and substance
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It's quite nice in this day and age, a time where we have so much info at our fingertips and have become so cold and cynical that there are still some people who will still totally follow and parrot some lines because their fave guy told them to. Takes me back to my primary school days. Nice.
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My Dad was a toolmaker, my wife works in the NHS.
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No help?
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Sounds like the guy involved will be in one of the sunday papers tomorrow. Will probably be quite informative. Not that some of us need any more information obviously.
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Found 3 more actors
Reform UK has withdrawn support from three of its parliamentary candidates as the racism row engulfing the party continues to grow. The party led by Nigel Farage is no longer supporting Edward Oakenfull, who is standing in Derbyshire Dales, Robert Lomas, a candidate in Barnsley North, and Leslie Lilley, standing in Southend East and Rochford, after alleged comments made by them emerged in the media. |
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Do you just want it to be true that they just happened to luck out fall upon this archaic defrosted caricature of a racist who just turned up at Farage's office, who just happened to be an actor, who just happened to be talking in his fake voice and not his usual voice, who just happened to be a specialist in fake filming, who just happened to have done prior work for C4. Who just happened to deny he was an actor when first asked. And this just happened to be broadcast the night before Farage's appearance on QT by the other state broadcaster.
Righty ho. |
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So where can I read more about the stooges?
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Do you just want it to be true that they just happened to luck out fall upon this archaic defrosted caricature of a racist who just turned up at Farage's office, who just happened to be an actor, who just happened to be talking in his fake voice and not his usual voice, who just happened to be a specialist in fake filming, who just happened to have done prior work for C4. Who just happened to deny he was an actor when first asked. And this just happened to be broadcast the night before Farage's appearance on QT by the other state broadcaster
Reform allocated the reporter to this canvasser. |
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Afternoon Charlie, good to see you've taken your sanatogen for the day.
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Oakenfull has been suspended after reportedly having written social media posts about the IQ of sub-Saharan Africans - which he told the BBC were "taken out of context".
Could have got it off betfair forum actors |
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Did you make the liberalist plant stooges up or why do you not want to talk about it all of a sudden?
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We look forward to all of the racist Labour candidates being suspended. The list is long, could take a while to be fair.
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Meanwhile, Lomas said black people should "get off [their] lazy arses" and stop acting "like savages", The Times reported.
Another actor, caricature of 70s racist, |
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Lilley, according to the newspaper, described people arriving on small boats as "scum", adding: "I hope your family get robbed, beaten or attacked."
Deffo posts on here as a 70s racist |
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Labour's Clacton Candidate Says He's Running "For Every Black And Brown Person" In UK
Here's a 2020's variety |
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Not suspended, unlike the ruk examples. Maybe keith needs more time.
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I demand that we find a non racist Reform supporter! Surely there has to be one somewhere?
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Sageform
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Eight Green Party Members Expelled in Alleged Gender Critical Purge
Eight members of the Green Party, including one former councillor, claim to have been expelled from the party for expressing gender critical views. This week, eight members received a letter notifying them of their expulsion from the party. The letter claimed they had broken a clause of the party constitution which prohibits members from campaigning for someone who is standing against a Green Party candidate. Seven of the eight members expelled had supported the campaign of Alison Teal, who was suspended from the Green Party in 2022 for arguing that sex is a biological characteristic which cannot change over time. She is now running as an Independent in Sheffield Central at the General Election. blimey, bbc would love this |
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Here's the plant, actor out canvassing for refuk in April of this year.
How on earth wasn't he spotted... https://x.com/heywoodrob31/status/1806744102504956103?s=19 Well camouflaged... |
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.https://www.youtube.com/live/74KB-9nHoqs?feature=shared&t=291
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Fitted right in, banter wise.
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