Reform UK’s newly elected councillors are being probed over their praise of far-right thug Tommy Robinson and for promoting claims there are ‘far too many Muslims’.
Sharon Collings and Victoria Rhodes were both elected to Havant Borough Council last week – the only two council seats Reform won in local elections across England.
But they are both now being investigated by party officials amid claims the pair’s social media activity shows they are ‘not fit for public life’.
In a dossier of their historical posts, seen by MailOnline, Ms Collings was revealed to have called for ‘respect’ to be shown to Robinson – the former leader of the English Defence League.
She hailed him as ‘an incredibly brave man’ while, in another Twitter post, she told the convicted criminal to ‘keep up the good work’.
In her own social media activity, Ms Rhodes liked a post describing Robinson as ‘a very switched on and concerned citizen’, and another stating there ‘are far far too many Muslims in this country’.
Last month, Ms Rhodes wrote on Twitter that she doesn’t visit London anymore because ‘it’s become a third world cesspit’.
Reform UK candidate Sharon Collings was elected to Havant Borough Council at last week’s local elections
Ms Collings and Victoria Rhodes were the only Reform UK candidates to win council seats in last week’s local elections across England
Reform has already been forced to sack or suspend a host of election candidates after their offensive social media posts were exposed.
Ms Collings’ Twitter account is now deleted but an archive of her posts has been kept in a five-page dossier and can be found in cached internet pages.
This revealed how she attacked prominent female Labour politicians by using the derogatory term ‘bint’, boasted about calling a mixed race child ‘chalky’, and repeatedly shared posts by Robinson.
Ms Rhodes only has a few followers on Twitter but is a regular commenter on the platform and promoter of other users’ posts.
Last month, she liked a post suggesting a group of black and Asian public figures should be deported to Rwanda, and another by a Britain First figure claiming that London was ‘unrecognisable’ and ‘ruled by foreigners’.
She has also been a regular critic of the Archbishop of Canterbury, branding him ‘Satan reincarnated’ and accusing him of ‘demonic ramblings’.
When London’s King’s Cross station shared a Ramadan message on a departure board in March, Ms Rhodes branded the Islamic hadith as ‘mumbo jumbo’.
Ms Rhodes liked a post describing Tommy Robinson as ‘a very switched on and concerned citizen’
The Reform councillor also liked another post stating there ‘are far far too many Muslims in this country’
Last month, Ms Rhodes wrote on Twitter that she doesn’t visit London anymore because ‘it’s become a third world cesspit’
Ms Collings’ Twitter account is now deleted but an archive of her posts has been kept in a five-page dossier and can be found in cached internet pages
Ms Collings called for ‘respect’ to be shown to Robinson – the former leader of the English Defence League
The Conservatives lost control of Havant Borough Council last week as they shed 17 councillors.
The Tories retained only 13 seats on the south coast council, with Labour picking up 10 seats, the Liberal Democrats seven, Green Party four, and Reform two.
Ms Rhodes was elected in the Leigh Park Hermitage ward, while Ms Collings was elected in Leigh Park Central & West Leigh.
A Tory source told MailOnline: ‘If this is the quality of individual Reform wants elected then they clearly are not a serious political party.
‘Not only are their candidates not fit for public life, but any vote for Reform is a vote for Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer.’
A Reform spokesman revealed an investigation into Ms Rhodes and Ms Collings had been launched after MailOnline approached the party about the pair’s social media posts.
He said: ‘We’ve launched an investigation into both. There’s one tweet that is particularly egregious that we need to go into.
‘We feel that we have been very serious when it comes to people saying things on social media and acted quickly and acted decisively. But natural justice does require that we talk to them.’
The spokesman suggested they needed to speak to the councillors as it was ‘very hard to know the context’ of the social media posts.
‘One doesn’t know if somebody was being wound up a treat and responded foolishly, yes, but responded in a fit of anger against somebody specific,’ he added.
