Racist Reform Activist Filmed by Channel 4 is an Actor
The Reform activist filmed by Channel 4 using a racial slur about Rishi Sunak while campaigning in Clacton has turned out to be an actor who is well-spoken but specialises in ‘rough voices’ – though the activist and Channel 4 have denied that he was a plant. Isabel Oakeshott broke the story on TalkTV this morning. She said:
You know, there was bewilderment within the party yesterday, as to who this guy was. The party was certainly familiar with some of the other characters and there’s no excuse for any of the languages that they used, but the worst language – the most egregious comments – were from Andrew Parker who is really not a player within the Reform Party. So it’s just very, very murky.
He bears a remarkable resemblance to an actor whose details can be quite easily found on the internet. You can use software recognition that gives a 99.9% confidence rate that they are the same people – a professional actor, and crucially, this professional actor specialises in so-called ‘rough voices’.
So if you’ve been to his show reel his rough voice is exactly the same as the voice of the character in the on the Channel 4 undercover documentary. An urgent investigation is now underway.
If it turns out that this character was a paid actor or even acting in a voluntary capacity for whatever their reasons, you know, maybe they have a political agenda. I don’t know. If that turns out to be the case. Then there will be hell to pay for the production company and Channel 4.
Reform leader Nigel Farage tweeted:
Andrew Parker was the man that made the astonishing racist comments that have given us so much negative coverage. We now learn that he is an actor by profession. His own website says he is “well spoken” but from the moment he arrived in Clacton he was doing what he calls “rough speaking”. This whole episode does not add up.
Farage adds that Parker initially lied to the Telegraph about being an actor: “When the Telegraph spoke to Andrew Parker earlier he denied being an actor. He has now admitted that was not true. What else is he being untruthful about?”
Oakeshott retweeted a clip posted by James Sutherland showing Parker’s ‘rough voice’. Sutherland writes: “Here’s a clip of Andrew Parker, the actor featured in Channel 4’s footage making racist remarks to voters. In the first part of the video you can hear his natural voice. He then does what he calls his ‘rough voice’, which is how he spoke in the C4 footage. Hit job? You decide.”
Oakeshott notes that Parker lists “secret filming” as one of his “special skills”.
Parker himself has apologised and claimed he was “goaded on”.
Andrew Parker said he made the comments, recorded by undercover reporters, “in the heat of the moment”.
Mr. Parker also confirmed claims that he was a part-time actor but said he got involved with Reform U.K. after contacting the party himself and volunteering to do leafleting because he believes in its message.
He said he had not told the party that he was an actor.
Mr. Parker said: “Of course I regret what I said. Christ, I’m not a racist. I’ve had Muslim girlfriends. It was typical chaps-down-the-pub talk.”
Asked whether he would like to apologise, he said: “Of course I’m sorry. They were off-the-cuff things that everyone says.”
He said he had “a lot of Pakistani friends” and “Muslim friends”, and that he was “sick to death” of being asked about the footage.
Parker’s comments were quite extraordinary – some of which were made to a member of the public on the doorstep:
Giving his view on Muslims and what the party would do with mosques, he said: “Sick mate. Sick m—-f—–”, adding: “It’s a cult. I tell you what, if you don’t know about Islam, it is the most disgusting cult.
“We’re f—— kicking all the Muslims out of the mosques and turning them into Wetherspoons.”
In the same conversation, Mr. Parker said: “I’ve always been a Tory voter but what annoys me is that f—— p— we’ve got in. What good is he? You tell me, you know. He’s just wet. F—— useless.”
Talking to a prospective voter on the doorstep, Mr. Parker is also heard expressing his views on how to stop the boats, suggesting Army recruits should carry out “target practice”.
A spokesman for Channel 4 denied that Parker was paid or previously known to the production team:
We strongly stand by our rigorous and duly impartial journalism which speaks for itself. We met Mr. Parker for the first time at Reform U.K. party headquarters, where he was a Reform party canvasser. We did not pay the Reform UK canvasser or anyone else in this report. Mr. Parker was not known to Channel 4 News and was filmed covertly via the undercover operation.
Oakeshott admits – though with obvious incredulity – that it could just be a coincidence: “Yes, sure, it’s theoretically possible that Channel 4 just *happened* to strike gold by finding a horrendous racist who just HAPPENS to be an actor who just HAPPENS to specialise in the same ‘rough voice’ used in the undercover footage and just HAPPENS to be a Reform supporter. It’s possible!”
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From those remarks I would not conclude that this man is a “racist” – not in what I think is the true/original definition of the word. He doesn’t like Sunak and described him in somewhat disparaging terms but that doesn’t mean he hates everyone of Sunak’s race. The remarks about mosques are more blanket in nature but Islam is a religion not a race.
He’s just acting in the channel 4 thing.
Quite possibly, but that doesn’t change my view. The article is littered with the word “racist”, used by both the DS writer and various other people quoted. I don’t think what he said constitutes “racism”. But the term is now meaningless. Another lost battle.
Racism doesn’t exist in Britain at all. How many ppl do you know who go out on a Friday to attack ppl who look different?
I expect there are a few people who lump entire races together, but not many. Most “racism” is just people noticing general, typical differences and possibly having some general preferences. Very few people are daft enough to believe that those differences apply to everyone from a given race.
As for Friday night attacks, from my experience any excuse is good enough for someone who is looking for trouble.
It’s entirely natural to “lump entire races together”, for Pete’s sake! That’s the whole point. God made them, and He doesn’t need humans to tell Him that He made a mistake, and needs humans to “fix” it for Him by mixing all the races together into Global Slaves.
Healthy Tribalism, preferring to live and work among people of your own tribe and race, is how mankind managed to survive for thousands of years.
It’s certainly natural to draw general conclusions from specific observations, yes. But I don’t think it’s natural, logical, desirable or realistic to deny that within a “race” you will find a wide variety of individuals, of which some will have characteristics you find appealing and some less so. In my definition, racism is insisting that “all people of race X are stupid or violent or whatever”, just because on average more of them are (in your opinion, or based on your view of the evidence) than some other race – that’s simply idiotic in my mind and I don’t think many people really think like that. If you observe that people of race X are more violent, for example, you may give them a wider berth partly based on race and this seems logical and not racist, but if you then see evidence that those individuals pose no threat to you, you change how you see them and how you behave towards them, based on the evidence.
As far as tribalism goes, I tend to agree – at a societal level, I think we are better off with relatively monoracial and monocultural societies/countries.
One of the ancient Greek philosophers would agree with your final sentence. He said that democracy only works in small, ethnically homogenous societies.
I expect there is a lot of truth in that – once you get people voting en bloc on racial and/or religious lines, you are in trouble – and that is where many rich world countries are heading, some are already there in part.
I suspect the incidence of black on white violence is greater than white on black. I’m sure our police commissioners could release the figures.
Then again…
Of course it exists here, and everywhere, as is perfectly natural.
But you are right that very little white-on-black violence exists in Britain, or anywhere in the West. It’s all the other way round. For example, gang rape was almost unknown in the West before the Third World Invaders swarmed in.
As for me, I agree with the following “Great Quote from the Public”:
“I always stand for white folks first, because no one else will.”
He was pretending to be that man (AKA acting). He may have those beliefs or he may not, but it is not legitimate to draw conclusions about him from what his character said.
Would you believe that Warren Mitchell was a bigot just from his portrayal of Alf Garnet?
He may have been acting. I don’t know and for the purposes of my point I don’t think it matters. Taken at face value, I am not sure what he said amounts to “racism”. He got Sunak’s race wrong anyway – arguably rude but rudeness and racism are not the same thing. But I will stop now because the battle about the word “racism” was lost long ago.
He didn’t “get Sunak’s race wrong”, because the people of Pakistan & Bangladesh are just Indian Subcontinentals occupying territory carved out of India only about 70 years ago. That’s why the Indian Caste System of the Hindus also exists in Muslim Pakistan & Bangladesh.
He only got the area wrong.
‘India’ is an European construct. Prior to so-called Indian independence, it didn’t really exists. Minus a few minor territories occupied by other European power, there were the remnants of the Mughal Empire (formally abolished after the Indian mutiny) plus various other theoretically independent principalities which were all satellite states of Britain. These got replaced with a Muslim-majority state (Pakistan plus Blangadesh, called East Pakistan at that time) and a Hindu-majority state (India). The Indian province of Jammu and Kashmir is disputed territoriy India and Pakistan fought a couple of wars over it. It’s even pretty easy to find out (via the Internet) that there are still Sikhs who believe the right to self-determination of the peoples should also extend to them and that Punjab should really be Khalistan as it was historically their state.
We know about the Sikh claims, because they use any excuse to join marches about anything in order to wave their “Khalistan Flag”, using Britain as a base for their claims for independence from India, and hoping no one will notice that their flag is named after Kali-Allah the Moon Spider Goddess of Death, also known as the “Mother Goddess of All India”, worshipped by Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists & Muslims.
Different names, same bug.
Well I suppose so if you take the epithet he used to mean people from that region rather than people from Pakistan. There are a lot of ethnic groups in that area. According to the internet, Sunak of of Punjabi descent, and yes there are Punjabis in Pakistan. However I believe Sunak is a Hindu, whereas most Pakistanis are Muslim.
That’s because the actor is not familiar with the Partition of India, or with the Hindu Billionaire shoehorned into No. 10 without the consent of the British people, by forcing all other candidates to stand down, thereby preventing even Tory Party members from voting. He swore his faux oath of office on the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, written by an Elephant God called Ganesh, whose dad is the God of Destruction named Shiva/Satan (dancing statue at CERN), Toyboy of the Moon Spider Goddess of Death KaliAllah.
Yes, really.
I certainly agree the way he became PM was dodgy – more of a disgrace/travesty than a farce.
P stands for Punjab, A for Afghanistan, K for Kashmir and I for Sind – (stan for land) an acronym adopted in 1920s/30s as I understand it to group those provinces together as they had large muslim populations and to agitate for their rights.. We should all know this, why don’t we all know this? An acronym that has turned into an anacronym i.e. forgotten.
Brilliant find! Do you realise that it means we can all use the descriptive term “P.A.K.I.” without fear of being falsely accused? I’m going to add it to my list of “Great Quotes from the Public”.
In Sickness & In Health….Great comedy. It is on one of my channels regular, only, very late at night, wonder why! “The views expressed bla bla at the time, might offend”.
Rev Simon Sideways the Trucker with some interesting insights — He thinks Farage is not to be trusted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBZi_-ynddQ
Whilst Davey, Sunak and Starmer are bastions of trust of course.
Put not yr faith in princes, all you can do is vote least worst.
That’s good enough for me. I always take any random opinion on the internet at face value, and change my beliefs to fit it.
I watched some of his videos, until certain things he said gave him away as a Globalist subversive, leading people astray by pretending to be something he is not.
I have never thought of him as a Globalist, seems I’ve rattled a few feathers. Yes Farage is far better than the Uniparty but, he could become ‘captured’ like in Italy. Remember how he was during Lockdowns, how he treated Steyn, calling Fox “not a team player”….So tell the truth and you are not team player. Don’t shoot the messenger here but I’ve given a few examples off the top of my head.
We don’t mean to shoot the messenger, just to warn people not to trust the message.
My only worry about Nigel is he will pull the same “stand down” stunt that he did in 2019 to support Boris.
I’m sure he can’t be that stupid though can he?
That’s what I’ve been afraid of, too. Or that he will pull a “Bait & Switch”, standing down himself after the election to enable the “Deputy Leader” from Pakistan to take over as Reform leader. I hope not.
Or even Tice again. Pro war & pro jab. But he has since altered his view on the latter. Can’t be trusted.
I have great respect for Richard Tice, because he valiantly kept the whole Reform Party going while Nigel was pondering what to do. I think his new position as Chairman is perfect, because he has the organisational skills to keep it all running smoothly in the background, while Nigel is the front man so popular with the people, as Smudger points out in his comment below.
Tice and Isabel Oakeshott make a great team, as she has proven with these bombshell revelations about the actor. I hope Reform will welcome back the ex-BNP members, the Football Lads Alliance, Lawrence Fox, Andrew Bridgen, Tommy Robinson and Nick Griffin as allies, because together, together, together they are stronger than the Communist Subversives who have taken over the country.
The whole tide is turning…everywhere.
Nigel will be off like a shot if he doesn’t get elected to Westminste. If he is elected Reform will prosper and he will love it as long as someone else shoulders the running of the Reform Party and he has a trustworthy and efficient private secretary and political advisor. Farage is a salesman not a details man (bit like Bunter, but hopefully more honest) thus he must have some trustworthy people around him.
As for standing down for Bunter if he leads a new Tory Party – didn’t Bunter and Cummings run rings round Farage after he foolishly trusted Bunter in 2019? Surely he can’t be that daft to trust any Tory including Mogg, Braverman, Badenoch, Patel, Davis, McVey, Truss and Baker – none of them can be trusted.
That is a superb summary of the whole situation, with none of the feeble tendency to drift back towards trusting those Tories you listed, or any Tory, or compromising or “merging” with them. I’m so glad Richard Tice has stood resolutely firm against any of that.
If they want to join Reform, they can.
Channel 4 should be closed down. The guy is about as authentic as mock Tudor.
What a wonderful description of the “Reverend Sideways”!
“The guy is about as authentic as mock Tudor”. I must add that to my long list of “Great Quotes from the Public”.
…or, mock crab!
Yes! 🙂
He went into Mike Reid mode. A cockney bruiser!
This has all the finger prints of the CIA on it. They are becoming very sloppy these days.
I thought the CIA did earmarks, not fingerprints.
Explain??
“The [Hunter Biden] laptop has all the earmarks of Russian involvement…”
I’ve been wondering what earmarks were ever since. Hallmarks maybe. Fingerprints fine. But was there was on the laptop or what?
Well done for noticing that peculiarity of the English language! I just looked it up in an Etymology Dictionary, which said this:
“mid-15c., from ear (n.1) + mark (n.1). Originally a cut or mark in the ear of sheep and cattle, serving as a sign of ownership (also a punishment of certain criminals); it is recorded from the 1570s in the figurative sense of “stamp of ownership.”
Earmarks??? What are earmarks, when they’re at home?
Well you might see them to show a feral cat has been spayed. (not sure if that’s relevant though).
Oh, thanks for that interesting snippet— never heard that one before. Yes, it is relevant!
Does anyoneone believe that the people voicing sptting image puppets were saying what they believed on telly, or was it parody. The truth of what happened will be forgotten in a couple of days, but yet again Farage is the story at the top of the news.
Clever PR if you ask me.
There we go. That is the sentence that lets me know this guy is a plant. Unless you’ve managed to spend your life in a 70’s skinhead bar then that “chaps-down-the-pub talk” line is complete BS. There is only one demographic that think that’s how others think – Guardian-reading, far-left, socialist morons.
Don’t seem to be able to find a clip of his comments, if he was a genuine Reform representative and out leafleting, then why did he not use his ‘natural’ voice? Paid plant per chance?
Well done to Reform Party member Isabel Oakeshott for realising the truth about this set-up, and for alerting Nigel and the whole country. When I read about this Parker character elsewhere, I thought of all the “Fake Nazi plants” that have been sent to infest every patriotic party for decades, awaiting their chance to get photographed by the media giving a Nazi salute, or making extremist remarks, or beating people up, in order to discredit the English Defence League, or the BNP, or the Football Lads Alliance, or even UKIP, and now the Reform Party. How convenient for Sunak that he was singled out, and can now milk it for public sympathy, just like the Nigerian woman. I do, however, think that Reform are wrong to conduct a Witchfinder General’s Inquisition into the candidates, even at this late stage, to punish anyone with connections to the British National Party, even more than a decade ago. Who else were patriots supposed to vote for back then, anyway? Who else was trying to defend the human rights of the Indigenous English, Scots, Welsh & Northern Irish back then? And why should they be punished now, while teeming hordes of hostile aliens who… Read more »
Here’s a photo of Raymond Saint, the Reform candidate for Basingstoke hunted down by the Witchfinder General and thrown out for being a member of the BNP over a decade ago. As some commenters noted, it would have been an important, refreshing change to have an actual tradesman, Raymond Saint being a former plumber, not from Oxbridge, representing local people in Parliament, as it was in the old days, instead of all the endless parade of elite lawyers and wannabe judges in Parliament now.
Reform UK withdraws support for MP candidate whose name appeared on leaked list of BNP members | Daily Mail Online
“Leaked list”— who leaked it, I wonder?
The Reform leaders should have let the people decide, instead of taking away the only patriot, leaving the people with no one to vote for, just like UKIP did. What are the people of Basingstoke supposed to do now?
And the people of North West Essex, whose popular Reform candidate St.Clair-Armstrong was also kicked out? Handing unearned victory on a plate to the “Chosen” Globalist Nigerian Woman.
Reform UK candidate forced to quit over ‘unacceptable’ blog posts and BNP support – Mirror Online
Julian Assange actually published the BNP membership list around 2008, and he was wrong to do that because many people were, as you say, bewildered by New Labour changing the face of their communities. But glad he is free.
Thanks for that interesting bit of information— I did not know that.
And yet Harriet Harman’s name on the membership list of the Paedophile Information Exchange did nothing to prevent her political rise, and she’s still in Parliament to this day, unless recently resigned.
Yes, Assange was freed by Biden’s deal with Sunak, and the very next day Tommy Robinson was arrested in Canada (by Biden’s deal with Sunak and Trudeau?). Remarkable coincidence. Tommy is still being held in a kind of “hotel arrest”, his passport confiscated, and unable to complete his speaking tour of Canada or to return home to Britain, with no indication of how long he will be forced to stay in Canada. Very convenient, getting him out of the way until after the UK election…
Yet another depressing reminder of the debased state of our culture. That anyone would do such a thing and the idea that journalists concocted this. If nothing else it will further reinforce the tendency to reject the mainstream once the truth comes out. And then this childish ‘ooh look what he said’, as if it counts for anything. Everyojne has uttered racial slurs at certain moments. Just like most womeh have said that all men are bastards when they been aggrieved. Who gives a toss. This is just normal human behaviour. Obviously it isn’t logical or coherent because it isn’t supposed to be.
Parker does not appear to be from the Clacton arera. It stretches credulity that he would travel to Clacton, Nigel Farage’s prospective constituency, in order to stuff leaflets through doors.
What exactly does ‘does not appear” to be from the Clacton area mean? If somebody supported Farage and Reform so much that they wanted to get involved in campaigning for them, and lived anywhere near Clacton, they’d be more likely to go to Clacton to help than go to help in a constituency which has some no-hoper nobody Reform candidate. Thus I’m sceptical about your assertion that “It stretches credulity that he would travel to Clacton”, I think it’s quite plausible that he would.
He’s probably a bit of a nutter, rather than a Channel 4 set-up. Reform can’t be blamed if some racist chooses to come along to help, all they can do is take action when it’s discovered that the person is racist, which they have now done.
Take the prize for the most naive post ever. Why was he using an acting voice and not campaigning as himself? Do you think Justin Trudeau in black face is a black slave too? He is playing the part of a cardboard cut out working class racist clearly and anyone not seeing that is wilfully blind.
What if someone said the same about Christians and churches? Say, “The CoE is stuffed full of f***ing paedos and we should f***ing kick them out of the churches and turns these into Wetherspoons!”
[Unfortunately, my ability to be vulgar in English is somewhat limited.]
Would this draw a similar reaction?
21.18 Friday night as I write this and the Daily Telegraph headline says ‘Farage still has questions to answer over racist’.
It’s hours now since Nigel unmasked the Channel4 undercover scam.
This is how the MSM manipulates opinion of the uninformed.
Yes, and one news article I read today quoted Nigel as justifying abandoning so many Reform candidates for any connection with the British National Party by declaring that he wants “nothing to do with anyone who is racist”. I wonder what he would say about this: Report: Trudeau Admin Prioritized Rescuing Afghan Sikhs over Canadians from Taliban, Failed Both (breitbart.com) “According to three military sources who spoke with the Globe and Mail, [SIKH] Sajjan intervened after the Canadian military decided its top “operational priority” was to rescue Canadian citizens from the chaos unleashed by U.S. President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.” “[SIKH] Sajjan stepped in and moved a group of 225 Afghan Sikhs to the top of the list and actively participated in their rescue, relaying “local information and other details about the Sikhs” to Canadian special operations forces.” “Our leadership was furious. They were very upset,” one special forces officer said of the order to rescue Sikhs first. “There was such furious anger that the last 24 hours were solely dedicated to getting the Sikhs out.” “[SIKH] Sajjan’s effort to rescue the Sikhs failed because “the frightened Afghan Sikhs left the rendezvous point shortly before Canadian soldiers arrived to take… Read more »
Great quote from the public:
“POLITICIANS SHOULD HAVE NO OPERATIONAL AUTHORITY TO INTERFERE ONCE THE MILITARY HAS BEEN GIVEN ITS OBJECTIVES.”
This should be written into law by our Parliament.
Anyone seen the film “V for Vendetta”?
He sounded like the “Lewis Prothero” character – a far-right party propagandist.
If you know, you know. His whole rant was overacted.
To me this incident is reminiscent of a staged-for-press event during the BLM protests in London in June 2020, clearly intended to increase public support for BLM but, to me after a bit of digging, bearing “all the earmarks” of an intelligence-led psyop.
So in this case, I say forget rogue actors, Channel 4 or left-wing film-makers as such, and consider it as an Establishment-organised hatchet job. Far-fetched? Remember Russiagate.
There was no Lockdown Police for those marches. Another PsyOp that passed most of the public by.
Good film with a bit of Beethoven 9th or 7th symphony.
If this man’s acting career isn’t finished as a result of this episode, you may firm-up this theory about him.
Well the page that Guido highlighted with his career highlights on seems to have been deleted so perhaps you’re right.
Unless they want to make Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 2.
Turn all msm off, don’t read msm newspapers, magazines because they all serve NO PURPOSE.
I disagree. The mainstream media do have a useful purpose, because they have many news stories on different subjects that alternative media do not cover. It’s always worth having a trawl through them in case a gem pops out.
As Richard D Hall mentioned in an article in The Light, propaganda from the MSM can be true. When you are not aware of why they are pressing certain News stories, then a true story can become propaganda.
Good point. And it all helps us plebs struggling to figure out what the heck is going on!
The main parties must be getting very worried to stoop this low!
Channel 4 shooting themselves in the foot once again. Can’t have many toes left. The effect on Reform ratings shows…..an increase. Hilarious, the left in a right old panic.