Campaigner for Nigel Farage says 'migrants should be shot' in undercover footage
27.06.2024 - 22:25
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Reform UK canvasser on Nigel Farage's campaign has been filmed saying people who arrive by small boats should be 'shot' and using racist language about Rishi Sunak.
Undercover footage recorded by Channel 4 News shows Reform UK activist Andrew Parker saying the party should “kick Muslims out of mosques and turn them into Wetherspoons ”. He also said that army recruits should use asylum seekers crossing the Channel as "target practice".
Mr Farage said he is "dismayed" by the comments, and said Mr Parker will no longer be working on his campaign in Clacton, Essex, the Mirror reports.
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Describing how he'd deal with people coming by small boats, Mr Parker told an investigator: "Get the young (Army) recruits there, yeah, with guns on the f****** beach, target practice. F****** just shoot them."
And the footage also shows him encouraging a paramedic to deny oxygen to patients if they are “any of that f****** lot”. He described Islam as a "cult".
Mr Parker said: “We’re f****** kicking all the Muslims out of the mosques and turning them into Wetherspoons.“ And in the same conversation he used a sickening racist term to describe Mr Sunak.
Giving advice on bringing up migration on the doorstep he told the investigator: “The immigration thing, use the word ‘illegal’. Emphasise ‘illegal’ especially if you open the door and there’s a bunch of p****.”
George Jones, who has been running events for Mr Farage's campaign, told the undercover investigator that Clacton was chosen because it is "proper England". He said: "Not like in London when you’re a foreigner in your own country, and if you say ‘hello’ to someone they look like they're about