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Brexiters peddled ‘nationalistic pish’, said Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate
UK NewsPolitics•May 27, 2026 at 5:38 PMNational

Brexiters peddled ‘nationalistic pish’, said Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate

By Peter Walker Senior political correspondent•The Guardian - UK News

Robert Kenyon castigated Brexit as an economically self-harming project on rugby league forum in 2016Reform UK’s candidate for the Makerfield byelection has castigated Brexit as an economically self-harming project promoted by politicians who “peddled the nationalistic pish”, raising more doubts about his commitment to Nigel Farage’s signature achievement.The comments by Robert Kenyon, unearthed on a defunct rugby league forum and first reported by the Telegraph, follow the emergence of another post in which he said people would be wrong to assume he had voted for Brexit. Continue reading...

Robert Kenyon castigated Brexit as an economically self-harming project on rugby league forum in 2016

Reform UK’s candidate for the Makerfield byelection has castigated Brexit as an economically self-harming project promoted by politicians who “peddled the nationalistic pish”, raising more doubts about his commitment to Nigel Farage’s signature achievement.

The comments by Robert Kenyon, unearthed on a defunct rugby league forum and first reported by the Telegraph, follow the emergence of another post in which he said people would be wrong to assume he had voted for Brexit.

Continue reading...

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