Farage + Fawkes = Violence Hypocrisy

The perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog, now overseen by “Lord” Ross Kempsell, were in their element last Friday, talking up the far right for all they were worth, while jeering at those rotten Labour people who were, of course, total poo. This version of the far right was Reform UK, and their Oberscheissenführer Nigel “Thirsty” Farage.

Violence? What violence?

“Reform Kicks Off Runcorn & Helsby Campaign With Amesbury Sucker Punch Letter … Reform Running Punchy Runcorn Campaign” leered the Fawkes post, going on to proclaim “Reform is out of the traps early with a new letter campaign across Runcorn and Helsby. The party has gone for two visual elements: A massive picture of Nigel and a snapshot of sitting MP Mike Amesbury ‘allegedly’ thumping a constituent”. All first name friends, eh?

There was more. “The expectation is of course that a by-election is inbound”. They think that Mike Amesbury is going to go to jail for a significant stretch, do they? And that on the back of previous Fawkes headlines “‘Frodsham Bruiser’ Amesbury Suspended” and “Helsby Hellraiser’s Greatest Hits”.

But then a problem enters: this is yet another example of The Great Guido using the same tactics as their fellow members of the press establishment, choosing not merely what to publish, but what not to publish. And when it comes to Reform UK and gratuitous violence, the Fawkes massive are likely to end up in one of those Very Difficult Positions.

That’s because James McMurdock, the Reform UK MP not as well known as Farage, Richard Tice (he’s not very nice), Rupert Lowe, and 30p Lee Anderson, and who is sitting on a majority of just 98 votes in the constituency of South Basildon and East Thurrock, has a past which does not sit well with his usual smiling bonhomie. Because it includes domestic violence.

Ross Kempsell, sorry, "Lord" Ross Kempsell

This from the Guardian: “The Reform UK MP James McMurdock was apparently detained as a teenager for repeatedly kicking his then girlfriend, it has emerged, despite him previously claiming she was hurt after he pushed her …[he] spent 21 days in a young offender institution after kicking the victim ‘around four times’ in an incident outside a nightclub in Chelmsford when he was 19”. Who hasn’t confused pushing and kicking in the past?

And there was, once again, more. “Later in July, the mother of his former girlfriend told the Mail that the new MP was ‘a monster’ who had ‘left marks on her body’, saying: ‘It took two security guards to pull him off her.’” Reform supporters have been busily passing it off as a youthful indiscretion.

And yet more. “According to a copy of the court register extract, the magistrate explained that McMurdock was given a custodial sentence that ‘was not suspended in light of serious nature of the offence’. Such an offence ‘requires immediate punishment’, the extract said, adding that a pre-sentence report appeared to show a ‘lack of willingness to comply’”.

Before The Great Guido joins the “20 years ago” chorus, perhaps Stanies, Kempsell (sorry, “Lord” Kempsell) and their pals could explain why it would have been OK for Farage’s pals, but whatever Rachel Reeves may or may not have been employed to do 20 years ago is fair game to dig up and rake over again and again and again, ad infinitum, and indeed ad nauseam.

The Fawkes rabble are stinking hypocrites. But you knew that already.

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