Woke mob targets Nigel Farage and Reform UK over 'support for Vladimir Putin'
It is in response to remarks by Farage during a BBC Panorama interview before the General Election that actions by the Western World had provoked Putin by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastwards and the war could have been avoided.
Nigel Farage and Reform UK are facing a planned demo by woke campaigners amid claims of being "Vladimir Putin apologists".
Veteran left-wing activist Peter Tatchell announced today he will bring an "alliance" or pro-Ukrainians, MPs and human rights defenders to protests outside the party's HQ in south-west London tomorrow.
The Peter Tatchell Foundation said in a press release that UK-based Ukrainian organisations, Ukraine solidarity campaigners and trade unionists would be in attendance.
The release said: "We have called a protest at the HQ of Reform UK tomorrow to protest the apologetics for Putin and Russia by Nigel Farage and Reform UK."
The demo appears to be in response to remarks by Farage during a BBC Panorama interview before the General Election that actions by the Western World had provoked Putin by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastwards and the war could have been avoided, prompting widespread criticism.
It added: "The protest has been prompted by the election to Parliament of five Reform UK MPs. The organisers are concerned that Reform UK provides a new opening for Russian propaganda and political influence – as well as for a wider far-right politics.
In a joint statement signed by Labour MPs including John McDonnell and ASLEF union leader Mick Whelan, they state: "Farage repeats Putin’s lie that Russia’s war on Ukraine was provoked, echoes Kremlin disinformation used to justify the invasion and occupation of Ukrainian territory and disparages and undermines Ukraine’s resistance.”
Mr Tatchell said: “Reform UK are apologists for Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. They are undermining Ukraine’s self-defence and siding with the dictatorship in the Kremlin.”
There was criticism of Mr Farage by Tory Mps after his comments.
Former Conservative Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who did not stand in the election, said he was like a "pub bore we've all met at the end of the bar".
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Conservative former Home Secretary James Cleverly said Mr Farage was echoing Mr Putin's "vile justification" for the war and Labour branded him "unfit" for any political office.
Farage refused to back down but insisted he was not an “apologist or supporter of Putin”.
Writing in the Telegraph newspaper, in an article entitled “The west’s errors in Ukraine have been catastrophic. I won’t apologise for telling the truth”, after the onslaught, hee said the “political establishment” had been echoing a “slur” about him.
He wrote: “I am not and never have been an apologist or supporter of Putin. His invasion of Ukraine was immoral, outrageous and indefensible. As a champion of national sovereignty, I believe that Putin was entirely wrong to invade the sovereign nation of Ukraine."
Reform UK and Mr farage have been contacted for comment.
