"Hoax" "Illuminati" "WEF" "Scam" - At Least 30 Reform UK Candidates Are Documented Climate LIars
At least 30 Reform UK candidates have posted material or made statements that cast doubt on the validity of human-induced global heating, a Guardian analysis can reveal. A suite of the party’s prospective parliamentary candidates have publicly cast doubt on the existence of the emission-caused climate crisis.
Their social media posts often claim that warnings of anthropogenic warming are a “hoax” or “scam”, and many include conspiracy theories about how the “climate change narrative” can be attributed to the World Economic Forum, “globalist elites” or “the Illuminati”. Analysis of Reform candidates’ social media profiles for the Guardian has shown that, over he last two years, more than two dozen have shared material that denies human-induced warming. Some of the candidates sharing these messages are projected to win in their constituencies.
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The official Reform UK Basildon & Billericay Facebook account promoting the campaign of Stephen Conlay, tipped to beat Conservative chair, Richard Holden, reposted one message denying that human carbon dioxide emissions affect the climate and another which claimed that global heating would be beneficial. Sean Matthews, polling as the leading candidate in Louth & Horncastle, said on X that “manmade CO2” had “nothing” to do with the climate crisis. Rupert Lowe, the former MEP projected to win in Great Yarmouth, said: “The cult of climate change marches on with no definitive evidence to support or deny the factual accuracy of their assertion.”
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Leslie Lilley, standing in Southend East and Rochford, posted a flow chart on X suggesting that Unesco and environmental groups were under the control of “the Illuminati”. He later shared a video endorsing the same conspiracy theory on Facebook.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/01/at-least-30-reform-candidates-have-cast-doubt-on-human-induced-global-heating