Reform UK drop Ginny Heathcote Ball, their prefered candidate for Rutland and Stamford Constituency at the next general election. She has now been replaced by Chris Clowes.
Reform UK have found Ms Ball's many public comments posted on social media were too racist.
Here are a few: She told British-born BBC radio presenter Nihal Arthanayake should leave the UK. In a post responding to a Telegraph article from November 2023 in which Arthanayake questioned the lack of diversity at his workplace, Ball wrote: “Well emigrate to a black only country #simples.”
In another post, she suggested that British media personality Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu should be deported. In a separate message discussing the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece, she said the UK “should give all immigrants back to their countries.”
When Paulette Hamilton was elected as Birmingham’s first black MP, she wrote “Staggered it is still called The black country …. or perhaps not”?
Hope Not Hate CEO Nick Lowles described Ball’s posts as “exceptionally racist and extreme”
She is well known locally in the world of Antiques, horses and more recently estate agency.
