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Reform mayoral candidate threatens UK journalist, Matt Kennard, for exposing Israel

Independent journalist Matt Kennard has drawn attention to the anti-journalistic actions of Reform candidate Chris Parry:

Once again, it’s evidence Reform isn’t an alternative to the establishment — it’s simply a continuation of it.

“Just desserts”

Kennard, an independent journalist who former Financial Times reported, shares his professional bio in his book The Racket: A Rogue Reporter VS the American Empire:

While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse’s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home.

Parry, meanwhile, a former rear admiral, is the candidate Reform has put forward for the mayor of Hampshire. As the Independent reported:

[Nigel] Farage has stood by Chris Parry, 72, after he suggested that deputy prime minister Mr Lammy, who was born and brought up in London, should “go home” to the Caribbean where his “loyalties lie”.

But despite being widely condemned, Mr Parry has now defended his original comment, posting on X (Twitter): “Well, home is where the heart is. That’s the point.”

So, what did Kennard post that led to Parry demanding an “intrusive search”?

Just evidence that Britain is helping Israel violate its ceasefire:

This should be an “are we the bad guys” moment for Parry, although we doubt he possesses that level of self-awareness given the above. It also can’t help that he looks like the corpse of Frankenstein’s monster…Oh, and this is his Twitter bio by the way:

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Ironic, considering he sees Kennard doing something and immediately thinks ‘this guy needs to be searched‘ — before wiping his brow and adding ‘intrusively‘.

Kennard highlighted other interactions with Parry too:

Here’s the tweet which prompted Parry to call for Kennard’s arrest:

‘Incitement to violence’, for pointing out the guy ordered the bombing of civilians — many of them children.

And here’s the ‘just desserts tweet’:

This is especially bad as he isn’t just defending an ongoing genocide; he’s defending Keir Starmer. Reform voters will be horrified when they see this one.

Or maybe they won’t — after all, if this is the quality of candidate they have, maybe they have no taste whatsoever.

As Kennard himself notes:


Featured image via Declassified

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.