A Reform UK councillor has been suspended by the party over a number of vile social media posts he shared.
Sheffield councillor Nathaniel Menday shared pictures of swastikas, Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf and other far right iconography like the Sonnenrad, or ‘sun wheel’, on a now deleted X account.
Other posts saw Menday claim the UK has a “subhuman underclass” and describe people the UK as being ‘fatter, uglier and poorly dressed’ when compared to those in continental Europe.
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Since the posts were uncovered and shared by the Sheffield Star, Menday has been suspended by Reform, just five days after he was elected as Sheffield City councillor for the Woodhouse ward at last week’s local elections.
Reform have said Menday’s posts habve brought the party “into disrepute.”
“Reform UK does not support such comments,” a spokesman told the Star.
Labour councillor Minesh Parekh said Menday was “clearly unfit for public office and should do the decent thing and resign.”
The Sheffield City councillor said his election shows Reform UK’s vetting processes are an “absolute joke.”
Before the local elections, the Times had reported that Menday once described the Nazis as “real visionaries.”
The publication reported that Menday also previously described himself as an “ethno-nationalist” and encouraged the use of white supremacist symbols.
Since the local elections, a number newly-elected Reform councillors have already left their posts.
Earlier this week, Reform councillor Stuart Prior resigned from two councils over claims he shared racist posts on social media.
He has been expelled from the party.
Meanwhile, another Reform councillor up in Merseyside has quit the party this week over comments he made last year in which he claimed the Holocaust was a “hoax.”
Jay Cooper was elected to represent the Bootle West ward on Sefton Council in Merseyside at last week’s local elections, winning 705 votes.
But last year, Cooper shared an article about the fatal shooting of US commentator Charlie Kirk, writing: “Heartbreaking. Murdered for having an opinion.”
When someone in the comments wrote: “Hitler had an [opinion] too; did he deserve to die?”, Cooper said he did not agree with the murder of innocent people, but that the Holocaust was a “hoax” and “propaganda”, the Liverpool Echo reports.