Arnold Tabor - Reform UK candidate for South Elmsall and South Kirkby on Wakefield Borough Council | Reform Watch

Recorded incident

1 April 2026

Category: xenophobia

Location: South Elmsall and South Kirkby, Wakefield

Arnold Tabor, Reform UK candidate for South Elmsall and South Kirkby on Wakefield Borough Council, left comments on YouTube under the account “Fluffy McSpankins” proposing a “huge walled workhouse city” for migrants with “no pay only a roof over their head and 2 meals a day”. He also called for lethal action against migrant crossings, writing that the UK should “sink the boats and show we are heartless”. His online comments include expressions of admiration for Oswald Mosley and suggestions to use war and economic exploitation to “crush their birthrates” in Africa. These statements were identified during an investigation that collected screenshots of the YouTube replies attributed to his account.

Tabor urged military to attack migrant boats and "cover it up"

30 April 2026

Category: offensive

Arnold Tabor, a Reform UK candidate in Wakefield, publicly urged the military to attack migrant boats at sea and "cover it up", writing that the UK needs to "sink the boats and show we are heartless". In separate posts he proposed placing refugees in a "huge walled workhouse city" with "no pay only a roof over their head and two meals a day", conditions the report likened to slavery. The comments, surfaced in HOPE not hate's April 2026 audit of Reform's candidate list, advocated extrajudicial killing and forced labour but did not lead to his removal from the party's ticket for the 7 May 2026 elections. Reform had publicly promised its vetting was "the best in the country".