How the media created Reform

I would like to hear what the protesters said/shouted out before I pass judgement. I noticed a large number of people recording the incident on their phones so it should not be too difficult to release a full account.

I'm not fixating on this one incident at the conference. I think about why Reform has suddenly grown to be such a comparatively large party. What gap are the other parties not addressing?

Labour refuse to acknowledge the reasons why Reform are so popular so they are doing their best to discredit them. They must think we are too stupid to realise.

A picture of the man with the stick/crutch who also assaulted the blonde woman, just seconds before he and the other man in the picture push/knock a dark-haired woman to the ground.

Video:

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Farage should have called it out- if he had a clear view. Not good imo!

MaizieD

I don't think that you're likely to see this on the mainstream media.

A woman protestor being assaulted as she is removed from the Reform conference.

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Oh yes that is bad. Those men at the front grabbed her, then those pensioners at the back getting stuck in.
Definitely want arrested for assault.
That girl must have been terrified.

Nandalot

My goodness, I cannot believe I have read some posts by apologists for the behaviour of the attackers. Have you seen the video? I call being totally surrounded by a large group of people, while the ones at the front are pulling your hair and hitting you with a crutch is a distinct case of mob assault. Some clear footage so I hope the attackers are dealt with.

I don’t think anyone has stuck up for them Nandalot!

Plevey08

I thought Farage encourages free speech?

I thought he was all for the protection of women?
He certainly has enough donations for the security he says he needs.
He is despicable. And they are the typical Farage supporters? God help us.

Yes there was no need for the pensioners to get stuck in as plenty of security showed up.

My goodness, I cannot believe I have read some posts by apologists for the behaviour of the attackers. Have you seen the video? I call being totally surrounded by a large group of people, while the ones at the front are pulling your hair and hitting you with a crutch is a distinct case of mob assault. Some clear footage so I hope the attackers are dealt with.

It is indefensible as Graphite's post makes clear.
The only positive is that he is 'being hoisted by his own petard'.

Incidents like this were bread and butter to the trans activists against women. It was very rare that anyone raised the slightest concern. The movement was supported by all political parties. I am afraid I dont particularly trust this sudden concern for womens safety.

I would hardly call it a mob attack- just a couple of heavy handed pensioners.

More than one women was attacked. There is a variety of footage online of several attacks showed from different angles showing the mob brutality. One thing you can be sure of nowadays is that people will capture events on their phones.

One of the women assaulted has given an interview to LBC. She explains she protests at conferences and other events - as she had every right to do - but says this was by far the worst assault she has ever experienced, conducted by members of the public and security guards.

She describes being pulled in every direction, had shown the interviewer the bruises she has sustained, had her hair stood on by security guards while others tried to lift her, and was lifted by her hair so her weight was suspended from it. That would have been very painful. This was deliberate brutality and illegal.

She’s a very slight, slim women. A couple of security guards could have dealt with this without the brutality.

Meantime, Farage stood on the stage exhorting the mob to chant, Boring, boring, boring!

Please don't try to defend what happened here.

I thought Farage encourages free speech?

I thought he was all for the protection of women?
He certainly has enough donations for the security he says he needs.
He is despicable. And they are the typical Farage supporters? God help us.

nanna8

I think the media love it, quite sickening really. Serve them right if Farage gets voted in as PM ( sure he won’t,though, despite their efforts )

You never know, I thought KS would be there to the very end, but that wasn’t to be.
Anything can happen in the world of politics.

I think the media love it, quite sickening really. Serve them right if Farage gets voted in as PM ( sure he won’t,though, despite their efforts )

I’ve watched that clip back, there is no way NF could have seen what was taking place.
For a start it’s dark, it’s right at the back.
He’s just heard that woman heckling which has made him laugh.
I would hardly call it a mob attack- just a couple of heavy handed pensioners 😳

JenniferEccles

Well wasn’t that entirely predictable?
The Reform Party’s Annual Conference and along with the other protesters is an hysterical woman screaming, shouting and waving her arms around causing so much trouble that she had to be removed.

Then lo and behold there’s an accusation of an assault.

Yet another set up.

The very existence of the Reform party has certainly rattled a few cages!

Don't know if she was hysterical? She was definitely assaulted.

Well wasn’t that entirely predictable?
The Reform Party’s Annual Conference and along with the other protesters is an hysterical woman screaming, shouting and waving her arms around causing so much trouble that she had to be removed.

Then lo and behold there’s an accusation of an assault.

Yet another set up.

The very existence of the Reform party has certainly rattled a few cages!

MG55

This man hit the heckler with his walking stick.
On the video you can see him and the woman next to him grabbing at her.
I could also see someone pulling the heckler’s hair before security dragged her away.
Disgraceful mob behaviour!

I hope they’re prosecuted for assault as it was an unprovoked attack.
The Women’s Suffrage movement demonstrated in a similar way for the right for women to vote and their voices to be heard.

This man hit the heckler with his walking stick.
On the video you can see him and the woman next to him grabbing at her.
I could also see someone pulling the heckler’s hair before security dragged her away.
Disgraceful mob behaviour!

Perhaps the other parties are boring with nothing new to offer. Reform give the journalists something to write about and it is their Conference.

West Midlands Police have recorded the incident as number 924-050926 so we shall see what happens.

Yes. It is in part the failure of the other parties to listen to views of the electorate with which they disagree, which has allowed Reform to flourish.
Note; not necessarily agree with the views,, but listen

So much easier to blame the Press, particularly the Daily Mail, as we saw on here recently.

I don’t think you can blame the media for UKIP, the Brexit party or Reform.

I know where I’m pointing the finger though. 👉

AGAA4

The fact that Farage found this appalling attack funny says a lot about how he feels about the safety of women.
Those men should be arrested for assault.

It was another woman as well from what i could see 😳