This Reform UK candidate’s reaction to crowds arriving at an airport is today’s most WTF thing
The Reform UK candidate for Leigh and Atherton, George Woodward, may just have secured the Most Ridiculous Reason for Standing for Parliament Award, with this anecdote he told to Lewis Goodall of the News Agents podcast.
Brace yourself – it’s a doozy.
@thenewsagents Reform UK at arrivals #politics #uk #reform #farage #election #sunak #starmer #vote #uk #news ♬ original sound – The News Agents
“I had a moment last year I was coming through an airport. It was the arrivals, you know, the British border. And I was like wow, you know, there’s a lot of people coming in here. And we need to re-examine this.”
“What, the airport? Lots of those were probably tourists, presumably, or British people coming from abroad.”
“Some, absolutely. Some not. So, you can tell.”
Twitter/X got wind of it.
Haha. Reform. pic.twitter.com/Oy5Uma4SEe
— Chris Paul (@ChrisPa00061749) June 7, 2024
There was a sudden outbreak of facepalming.
1.
“I joined Reform because I saw people at airports getting off planes …” https://t.co/YbaabhDw9a pic.twitter.com/2DZ0DMFdsA
— Rob B (@RobBfromDerby) June 7, 2024
2.
Reform have managed to do what I thought was impossible – make Jonathan Gullis look like an intellectual giant by comparison. pic.twitter.com/rBOtPhYNpb
— Parody Rishi Sunak (@Parody_PM) June 8, 2024
3.
This is a bang on comedy sketch about the idiotic xenophobia within th- [presses finger to ear piece] ah no, sorry, this is the actual Leigh and Atherton Reform candidate. https://t.co/QH6n2RHgEA
— Mitten d'Amour (@MittenDAmour) June 8, 2024
4.
Did I voice this over? pic.twitter.com/vkQIW91f03
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) June 8, 2024
5.
Todays’s entry for ‘the thickest thing a parliamentary candidate has ever said’ is in.
— Brendan May (@bmay) June 8, 2024
6.
Also, this country has way too many giant Toblerones. https://t.co/KMkrfIjBGQ
— Andrew Dawson (@ADawsonBros) June 8, 2024
7.
"join in next week when this Reform candidate protest outside legoland in response to their increasing amount of small boats"
— Clifford K (@holte) June 8, 2024
8.
George Woodward the Reform candidate was politicised by going to an airport and seeing tourists. https://t.co/L52SYtyMZj
— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 7, 2024
9.
I simply cannot pic.twitter.com/kAKuYBbHfY
— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) June 8, 2024
10.
We’ve all been there. Standing at passport control, looking at the people around us in the queue, thinking ‘every one of these people is a jihadist invader trying to implement sharia law in Leigh!’
— Damon Evans (@damocrat) June 7, 2024
11.
CRYING with laughter at this. He saw people entering the country at an airport and it radicalised him. Surely you must be genetically engineered to be this stupid. It can’t be naturally occurring. https://t.co/FgsPpcoKmJ
— Peter Marshall (@marshall_proEU) June 8, 2024
12.
Wish I'd written this. https://t.co/GGWLVju1UY
— HENRY MORRIS (@mrhenrymorris) June 8, 2024
13.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Where do they find these fucking morons. pic.twitter.com/6VfoLGIfQd
— Sarah (@kokeshimum) June 7, 2024
14.
Hello village, we've found your idiot https://t.co/H7n1lc4oRl
— Matt #FBPE #JoinAUnion (@Mattladd1) June 8, 2024
Plot twist, he can’t be as stupid as he appears –
According to the Reform website, this guy is some sort of doctor as well. I had to check if this was real, because it seemed like a parody of a Reform candidate. https://t.co/5VtEHvsUoX
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) June 8, 2024
George (or Ronnie, as he was previously known) is not only a doctor, but is a doctor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. That’s the branch that includes rocket science.
The longer version of that conversation is in the second part of this New Agents clip. The woman in the first part, who intends to vote for Dr George Woodward, will have you shaking your head, too.
“This country is dead. Sharia law is king.”@lewis_goodall went door-knocking with Reform Party activists in Andy Burnham’s former constituency, Leigh, in Greater Manchester.
Full episode out on Sunday pic.twitter.com/e2HgsQ1doR
— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) June 7, 2024
Thoughts and prayers for Leigh and Atherton.
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