Sunday 23 June 2024

Taken Out Of Context?

 
Thinking of voting for Nigel Farage's Reform UK party?
In an interview, the BBC's Nick Robinson asked the party leader why his party attracts candidates with: 'really extreme and unpleasant views' which Farage answered was due to: 'candidates being stitched up in the most extraordinary way with quotes being taken out of context'.
Quotes taken out of context such as Simon Moorehead, standing in Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West, who wrote on X about the murdered politician Jo Cox that she: 'was a dreadful woman, with bad ideas".
Maybe Mark Cole, the candidate in Harwich and North Essex, who said in a Facebook post that he: 'Accidently switched on to X-Factory. The only thing worth watching is the black bint.... whoever she is.'
Then there is Malcolm Cupis, the candidate for Melksham and Devizes who accused a women dancing of 'behaving like a gutter slut' and John Edwards, the candidate for Southampton Test, referred to women appearing on Love Island as 'thick tarts' and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson as a 'gobby bird'.
Ian Gribbin, the candidate for Bexhill and Battle, said that the UK should have stayed neutral in World War Two and 'Modern feminism belongs in the sewer of self hate from which it came: you’re all jealous of the perceived freedoms of men.'
Emmett Jenner, the candidate for Ynys Mon, who answered a post about girls who are growing up today can achieve anything they want' with 'Like fertilising eggs & providing Y chromosomes.
Yep, can see how their own words could be taken out of context. Oh wait...