Reform's defence of your right to tweet 'controversial' opinions only extends to their ideological friends

On the one hand, Reform UK heavily promote and feature Lucy Connolly at their annual conference - a lady who was arrested and plead guilty to stirring up racial hatred via her offensive tweets.

But they’re only this kind of “free speech advocates” when it suits them. As soon as its not someone whose views agree with at the vibe of the Reform higher-ups it’s a totally different story.

Regarding Abd el-Fattah, who has also been found to have produced some very offensive tweets, which he has since apologised for- well, in that case, he wants to go beyond merely arresting him, instead desiring to remove his British citizenship and deport him. Even though there would seem to be no legal basis for doing so whatsoever:

The Conservatives and Reform UK have both suggested the activist should be deported from the UK for the posts and have his British citizenship revoked, even though the law does not appear to provide grounds for either action. Nigel Farage has promoted a petition for people to sign in favour of deporting Abd el-Fattah to Egypt.

It’s yet another example of Reform and some of their ideological allies' hypocritically switching their views on some of the fundamental tenets of British society - law and order - depending on whether they like the person concerned.