Objectifying women, peddling conspiracy theories and calling for violence: Makerfield Reform candidate’s SECOND deleted account exposed

By Paul Kershaw and Sarah Hadley

On a deleted social media account, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Makerfield parliamentary by-election, Rob Kenyon, made creepy comments about women, peddled baseless conspiracy theories, and called for a method of torture prohibited by international human rights law.

After Rob Kenyon was announced as Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate earlier this week, it was swiftly revealed that an old Twitter account of his had been suspended. On it, he expressed support for Donald Trump, referred to an “invasion” of asylum seekers (who he described as “illegal enemies”), and criticised government funding to protect Mosques. 

Now HOPE not hate can reveal a second deleted account which belonged to Kenyon, and share some of the archived posts from it. 

Our analysis of these posts presents a concerning picture. As well as making creepy comments about women, using crude language and calling for violence, he promoted baseless conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Here’s what Kenyon had to say:

Conspiracy theories

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Kenyon peddled baseless conspiracy theories. He suggested the media “were complicit” in “global tyranny” when responding to a post by Peter Sweden, a far-right influencer with a history of Holocaust denial; replied to someone who said the Covid vaccines “help a lot” by commenting, “What a load of crap”; and compared Covid vaccination policies in Australia to Nazism.

The Reform candidate additionally questioned whether the election of Justin Trudeau – who served as prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025 – was “rigged” and pronounced, “He can fuck right off”, in response to the chief medical officer Sir Chris Whitty urging people to get the Covid booster vaccine in February 2023. Kenyon told people to “take vitimins [sic]” and “stop having boosters”. 

He also believes that climate change is “a middle class problem” and asked whether schools will be “teaching about the ice age and that the world has been getting warmer since then”. In December 2021, he suggested making the conspiracy theorist Neil Oliver a government minister.

Women, gender and sexuality

In several creepy posts about women, Kenyon suggested he would “love to smell & lick” Carol Vorderman’s “arsehole”, said he loves how female rugby players “handle their knockers”, and wrote: “If it’s not tits and arse or rugby its politics.”

The Reform candidate also explained that he had been blocked from the Sky Sports Rugby League Twitter page because he “said something about womens [sic] rugby”, suggested Labour are “the party for trannys”, and wrote, “What does his dick taste like,” in response to a man commenting on a rugby player’s “guns”.

Calls for violence

As well as promoting conspiracy theories and making derogatory comments about women, Kenyon has called for violence. On 5 April 2020, before he started promoting Covid conspiracy theories, Kenyon declared that someone eating chips on a beach should be waterboarded – a method of torture which is prohibited by international human rights law. 

Two days prior to that he wrote that Richard Branson should be hanged, along with other businessmen, for accepting furlough money to pay their workers as lockdown kicked in.

More bad news for Reform

These latest revelations are yet more bad news for Reform’s parliamentary candidate for Makerfield, and his party leader Nigel Farage. Kenyon has already faced controversy for concerning social media posts in the wake of the 2024 summer riots and engaging with far-right influencers online. 

We now know that he also likes to objectify women, promote conspiracy theories and call for forms of violence which breach international human rights law. Kenyon is totally unfit to represent the people of Makerfield.