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Woman beating ex-Reform MP was at far-right Pink Ladies event

On Sunday 22 November, the anti-migrant Pink Ladies group met in Chelmsford. On their website, the Pink Ladies note they’re ‘partnered’ with the Womens Safety Initiative. Strange, then, that some of them would pose with ex-Reform MP James McMurdock, who was infamously convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend:

Grim from Reform, grim from the Pink Ladies

Following the 2024 election, it was revealed that ex-Reform MP McMurdock was jailed for beating his then-girlfriend when he was 19. McMurdock had claimed he’d simply ‘pushed’ her, but the Times revealed he’d kicked her around. As they also highlighted:

His previous conviction came to light when the victim’s mother accused him of having “left marks on her body” and said that “it took two security guards to pull him off her”.

While it’s important to believe that individuals can reform and become better people, that doesn’t mean they’re suited to positions of influence. Obviously it would be difficult for most women to trust a man who battered his girlfriend. For some, however, a shared hatred of migrants is enough to ignore all that.

The aforementioned Women’s Safety Initiative is run by Jess Gill:

Gill is the weirdo far-right activist who’s famous for pretending she’s never had a curry and thinking that ‘deportation’ is the solution to every problem:

Despite having once said on national TV that she’d just as soon have pizza as Christmas dinner, Gill is now attempting to rebrand herself as a Christmas absolutist:

Disgraced TV presenter Mike Graham also spoke at the event:

As we reported, Graham was sacked from TalkTV after he posted a racist post to Facebook. Graham claimed he was hacked, but then he refused to engage with the investigation, and now he’s claiming all foreigners are rapists, so yeah – we think it’s likely he made the original Facebook post.

Disgraceful

We’re not sure if it was a prerequisite, but it’s notable that all three of the guests we mentioned are disgraced in some fashion (and at least two of them Reform supporters). As we’ve seen at home and abroad, there is a benefit to growing a movement around the dregs of humanity, and it’s that you can’t cancel people who are completely outside of considerations like ‘shame’, ‘dignity’, and ‘compassion’.

Featured image via James McMurdock

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.