Reform council leader torn apart over ‘childish’ comments about the Green Party
Reform’s George Finch said he wouldn’t go to Green Party conference as Green supporters ‘smell’
Reform has been accused of lacking seriousness after George Finch, the party’s youngest councillor and the leader of two councils, said in an interview that the Greens “smell”.
Speaking to The Mirror at Reform conference at the weekend, Finch said he wouldn’t attend Green Party conference “because they smell” and “they just need febreeze everywhere”.
The 20-year-old leader of Warwickshire County Council and Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council began by saying that he would be interested in going to other party conferences to see what they are like.
He then said: “But they’re all boring. The Lib Dems, I just wouldn’t want to go there. The Greens, they just need febreeze everywhere because they all smell.”
Finch added that Reform “was a great conference”, adding that the party is doing “a great job” and “it’s going to be a great few years for us”.
Reacting to the video, which has had almost 190,000 views so far, one X user wrote: “Rather go where people smell over somewhere you get hit over the head with a walking stick and your hair pulled, which is what happened at Reform’s jamboree.”
Another commented: “Bit rich coming from a party whose own conference featured undercover footage exposing dodgy US cash, an active police investigation into violent assaults, and Lee Anderson rattling a tin for the attacker. We all know which party truly stinks.”
Others suggested that Finch’s comments prove Reform is “unserious” and not ready to govern.
One said: “Only a child says “they smell”. Reform are not serious people.”
“More proof that Farage has no control over his Party. This is not a serious political outfit,” another added.
Reform’s conference this year was overshadowed by footage taken by investigative journalists from Verbatim. The undercover footage showed Nigel Farage, Reform’s former head of policy, James Orr, and Farage’s senior aide, Dan Jukes, plotting about how an American businessman could bypass electoral law and donate £500,000 to Reform.
Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward
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