Reform Candidate Blames ‘Nigerian Scammers’ For Racist Posts On His Twitter

The Reform candidate contesting the Blackfen & Lamorbey seat in Bexley, southeast London, has come up with an A+ excuse for the racist Tweets on his X account.

Graham Holland claims the racist posts were the work of Nigerian scammers who hacked his account.

Holland, 81, is accused of reposting claims that Muslims were “training their kids how to kill your kids” and that “muslims are aiming to take over our country”.

The retired Foreign Office worker, 81, told the Mirror: “I was scammed… And what happened was it was from Nigeria. And I have a colleague who does all my PC work… he got on to it, he traced it back to Nigeria. But also the scammers who did the PC, also took over my Twitter page, or X as it is now. And they sent the two nasty, and they were nasty, the two nasty posts that came out of the Twitter account.”

Asked to clarify whether he was saying the tweets were not reposted from his account or that someone had control of his account, Holland claimed: “Someone had control of my account and sent them out from my account.”

Questioned on who had control, he replied: “The scammers from Nigeria.”

Pressed on why they would target him, a nobody, Holland claimed: “I imagine the same reason they target everyone else, to try and use your account to make money…”

Not sure “I didn’t post those racist things, it was foreigners” is quite the argument Holland thinks it is, although I guess it’s pretty on-brand to claim that foreigners stole his job of being a racist.

Just incredible that he thinks this is even halfway believable. “My mate said it was Nigerian scammers – you have to believe me!”. Too funny.

At time of writing, the result of the Blackfen & Lamorbey seat in Bexley is still pending. We’ll have to wait and see whether he gets the gig, despite his dodgy social media history.

In general though, things are looking good for Reform thus far.