Reform UK Party head Nigel Farage won’t tolerate his Party’s candidates not pulling their own weight, and he wants them to know how seriously he takes it: candidates who don’t put in the effort or who express opinions contrary to Party dicta will be removed. And Farage means it, so he dropped York Central Parliament candidate Tommy Carkwell from the Party because Carkwell has been too lazy in campaigning, the York Press reports.
According to a spokesman, the Party officially notified Carkwell and another candidate they were being dropped on April 9th because they weren’t in touch with their voters, doing campaign events, and failing to keep in communication with Party leaders. “We can’t afford to have people doing nothing in an election year,” the spokesperson said. “They were inactive candidates and we need candidates who are active to give people the candidates they deserve.”
Efforts to reach Carkwell for comment on the Reform Party abandoning him were unsuccessful because Carkwell died on February 9th. “Reform was not aware that Mr. Cawkwell had passed away,” Reform UK spokesperson Gawain Towler said. “Naturally I am mortified that through ignorance I did not realize the reason for his inactivity. It must have been ghastly for his family to read about it in the way it was presented in the press.”