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Emrys

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3. Here's one who's still standing
Tue Jul 2, 2024, 11:13 PM
Jul 2024

Robert Smith (no, not that one) in Orkney & Shetland:

Reform UK general election candidate claimed Nicola Sturgeon should be 'shot' in vile outburst

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/reform-uk-general-election-candidate-33151066


The Record (not an SNP-supporting organ) reports social media posts by Smith that include from 2016 “Since the great David Attenborough legitimised calls for political leaders to be shot, why not start with this bitch?”, calling JK Rowling a "wild bitch", Christine Lagarde the “head bitch of the globalists”, Ursula von der Leyen a “silly bitch”, and just for variety, Guy Verhofstadt and Alastair Campbell “c***s” (I don't think he used asterisks).

Here's his election address, which reads like the sort of manifesto the media publish after a mass murderer's been apprehended:



People have observed that it's light on the overt racism, which might be explained by the demographics of the islands, whose islandness might also explain the lack of slurs against "boat people".

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