Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice was furious at Keir Starmer this week, accusing the prime minister of using his Labour conference speech to actively encourage violence against his boss Nigel Farage.
“He literally used the word ‘arms’, ‘take up arms and attack, go for the enemy’,” he told Sky News. “I mean, just the most extraordinary language. If we used that sort of language against our political opponents, I mean, we’d have had the police knocking on our doors, for Heaven’s sake. It’s just outrageous.”
And it certainly is extraordinary – had Starmer used phrases like ‘arms’ and ‘take up arms’, something he didn’t do once in an hour-long speech. The closest thing to ‘arms’ was ‘wind farms’, which Tice equally dislikes, but isn’t the same thing.
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“It’s literally what he said on [sic] his speech, he said ‘take up arms against the enemy’,” lied Tice further. “He gave licence to Antifa yesterday to take up arms,” he added, accusing the prime minister of being in cahoots with an organisation which doesn’t actually exist.
Still, presumably Tice is similarly furious at Elon Musk, who did literally call for violence against political opponents when he spoke via video link at Tommy Robinson’s far-right march on London last month?
“There’s a difference between free speech and inciting violence,” harrumphed the Reform man.
