"Nigel Farage is emboldening attacks on people of colour, according to a journalist allegedly subjected to racial slurs by a Reform UK council leader who the party has been forced to expel. Broadcaster Sangita Myska, whose long career in British journalism has included presenting shows for the BBC and LBC Radio, said she was told by former Staffordshire council Ian Cooper that she was English only in your dreams, because of her south Asian heritage."
"He had also been accused of calling Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, a narcissistic Pakistani and of claiming migrants were intent on colonising the UK, destroying all that has gone before. Cooper also allegedly attacked the British-born lawyer and women's right activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu. In a social media post three years ago, he appears to have said: Dr Shaga Bing-Bong."
"A post to Myska from Cooper's X account in April, read: You are neither ethnically, culturally or historically English. Your diaspora isn't NW European. All you have is a piece of paper entitling you to British citizenship. Sarah Edwards, the Labour MP for Tamworth, said the social media posts displayed deeply disturbing white supremacist views. Sangita Myska: Reform UK is a private company and it's the chief executive that will set the culture and that person is Nigel Fara"
Reform UK expelled Staffordshire councillor Ian Cooper after revoking his membership amid allegations of racist and xenophobic social media posts. Broadcaster Sangita Myska said Cooper told her she was 'English only in your dreams' because of her South Asian heritage. Cooper allegedly called London mayor Sadiq Khan a 'narcissistic Pakistani' and claimed migrants sought to colonise the UK and destroy existing culture. Posts also allegedly mocked lawyer and activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, telling her to 'F' off back to Nigeria.' Cooper allegedly wrote that no foreign national or first-generation migrant should sit in parliament. Labour MP Sarah Edwards described the posts as deeply disturbing white supremacist views.
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