“FFS!”, posted Ant Middleton, ex-soldier, banned businessman and potential Reform candidate for mayor of London on X at the weekend, along with the head-in-hands emoji.
Middleton was reacting to a story published by British Intel, a far right fake news factory, about residents being in uproar about migrants apparently eating “nearly all the ducks and geese” in Black Ash Park in Newport, South Wales. As proof, it illustrated it with a photo of one of said migrants walking down a street carrying such a bird.
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Except… oddly, one of the houses shown in the background has a US-style mailbox on a stand outside, which are not any more common in Newport than they are in the rest of the UK. Which is because, as a simple Google image search reveals, the picture was taken in Columbus, Ohio, back in 2024. The man was carrying the bird after apparently accidentally hitting it with his car.
Which, X being X, didn’t stop thousands of people reposting it along with a ton of racist bile, any more than Middleton’s 2013 conviction for unlawful wounding of a police officer or recent four-year ban from serving as a company director will prevent him from being Reform’s candidate in the capital.
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