A Reform UK candidate has said that “girls should be aware that promiscuity is not attractive” and that women cannot “behave in the same way” as men, in the latest controversial comments from Nigel Farage’s party.
In an interview with iJames Gunn, who is based in Oxford West and Abingdon, also repeated controversial claims around Covid-19, including a suggestion, without evidence, that vaccines could “get something very nasty into a body”.
Asked about Mr Farage’s comments, in which the reform leader praised misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the “exposed”, and for giving boys “maybe a bit of confidence at school”, Mr Gunn said Tate “isn’t my role model” and he “didn’t know much about him.”
But when questioned about comments Tate had made, including that women who are no longer virgins are “used goods”, Mr Gunn replied: “I think girls need to be aware that promiscuity is not attractive to young men, or even old men. They learned from feminism that men and women can behave the same way and I’m sorry, but that’s not true.”
Since December 2022, Tate has been charged in Romania with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. He denies all charges.
Mr Farage has previously praised the British-American kickboxer, who poses with fast cars, guns and cigars, for defending “male culture”, although he has also acknowledged the influencer had gone “over the top” and said some “pretty awful” things.
In response to Mr. Gunn’s comments, Reform Chairman Richard Tice said i: “That’s just childish nonsense. No one’s interested in that, dammit.
“On the thousands of doors I’ve knocked on, no one talks about how much sex women have compared to men. They talk about immigration, the cost of living and the need for something new in politics.”
Discussing the Covid pandemic, Gunn supported former Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, who was expelled from his party after comparing Covid-19 vaccines to the Holocaust.
In December 2022, Mr Bridgen called for a “complete suspension” of Covid jabs based on what he described as “robust data of significant harm and little sustained benefit”. This went against the overwhelming evidence, from a number of different independent research teams, which found the benefits far outweighed the known harms.
For example, two new but exceptionally rare side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine – a neurological disorder and inflammation of the spinal cord – were discovered by researchers in the largest vaccine safety study to date. The study of more than 99 million people from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand and Scotland confirmed how rare known vaccine complications are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines are still ‘much greater are then the risks’. ”.
Mr Gunn said he supported the former Conservative MP’s efforts to open up the debate on the Covid vaccine. He said he was deeply concerned about the Government’s “absolute determination to ignore the excess deaths and to ostracise Andrew Bridgen and discredit him as much as possible”.
He added: “I think he [Mr Bridgen] I can be extremely proud of his work as an MP and I think it is a shame that the other MPs did not support him.”
Discussing how he felt the NHS had ‘overreacted’ to the lockdown, Mr Gunn said: ‘We have many people who have unexplained increases in cancer and heart problems, which the government is refusing to investigate.
“I’m working with Andrew Bridgen, it’s time to look at it. I think I know where it comes from, but I don’t have any evidence because the government doesn’t want me to have any evidence.
“I’m very concerned about that. I am very concerned that the government is not taking responsibility for this.”
Mr Gunn said he believed healthy people should not have been quarantined during the lockdown, adding: “It is much easier to get something really nasty into a body, past the immune system through an injection, than it is for a random virus, if indeed it was a random virus.”
The reform candidate went on to suggest that the US was involved in the creation of the Covid virus. He claimed that Dr Anthony Fauci – who served as the US president’s chief medical adviser during the pandemic – had admitted that the virus was created as a result of “gain of function” research that he had approved and outsourced to the Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.
Gain-of-function research is a process by which an organism, cell, or microbe is genetically modified to acquire a new function.
Dr Fauci has dismissed the theory that the Covid virus leaked as a result of US-funded work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, telling Congress in June: “I have always said, and will say now, that I am open to the origins of it [of Covid-19] is.
“But the only thing I know for sure is that the viruses were funded by the NIH [National Institutes of Health]phylogenetically, cannot be the ancestor of SARS-CoV-2.”
Mr Gunn claimed: “There is a lot of evidence that it was a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan that could improve the function of the equipment.”
Mr Tice backed Mr Gunn’s claims about Covid vaccines, saying: “He’s talking about serious stuff here. About lockdowns, about excess deaths, about the harms of vaccines.
“We believe there should be a full public inquiry into the vaccines, but this is all being covered up. Cancer diagnoses have skyrocketed since the pandemic.”
However, experts have pointed out that many cancers went undiagnosed during the pandemic, due to the disruption of healthcare and testing during that period. This led to a spike in late diagnoses after the pandemic ended.
Mr Tice claimed: “Most people now accept that this was a laboratory leak from Wuhan and that it was essentially a man-made virus. It was a conspiracy that it came from the wet markets.”
Asked whether he also supported Mr. Gunn supported that the laboratory research in Wuhan was US-funded, Mr. claimed. Tice: “That claim is not denied by the US. That is public. The US funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, basically to keep it at bay.”
The Reform Party was in renewed rebellion on Thursday night after Channel 4 released footage of campaigners using a racist slur and suggesting migrants should be used as ‘targets’.
Mr Farage has sought to distance himself from the comments, in which a campaigner used a racist term to describe the prime minister, saying he was “appalled” by the “appalling sentiments” expressed.
The Reform Party did not respond to a request for comment.