It’s no surprise we are seeing vigilante groups on Britain’s streets, warn Reform women who dub themselves ‘Farage’s Fillies’
It is ‘no surprise’ we are seeing vigilante groups on Britain’s streets, Reform UK’s newest MP has said.
Sarah Pochin said groups of British men are ‘mobilising themselves into guardian angel-style street patrols’ due to the threat posed to women’s safety by immigration.
The Runcorn and Helsby MP made the comments at a female-only Reform press conference today, led by the party’s senior women who have dubbed themselves ‘Farage’s Fillies’.
Reform’s only female MP said Labour is overseeing a ‘betrayal of our women and girls’ due to its failure to stop asylum seekers with ‘medieval views’ about women arriving on small boats.
She said: ‘It’s no wonder that we’re now hearing about groups of concerned British men mobilising themselves into guardian angel style street patrols.’
Reform’s first female MP Sarah Pochin, who won May’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election, said it is ‘no surprise’ we are seeing vigilante groups on Britain’s streets
She praised ‘street patrols out there to protect their daughters, their girlfriends, their wives, even their mothers’ and added: ‘And why wouldn’t they be when we hear that these illegal migrants are loitering around schools, around parks, men with deplorable attitudes towards women.’
Ms Pochin claimed the problem posed by migrants arriving on small boats was a ‘national security’ issue and threatens the safety of women and girls.
She said: ‘The inconvenient truth for the left is that the culture of men from predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan is one that holds a medieval view of women’s rights.
‘Women are at risk of sexual assault and rape from these men, hundreds of young men who arrive in this country, housed in our communities, who undoubtedly become sexually frustrated, have a warped view of their right to sexually assault women.’
Her comments came at a press conference for Women for Reform as the party seeks to attract female voters concerned about immigration in what has been dubbed a ‘march of the mums’.
Also speaking at the press conference was Laila Cunningham, a Westminster councillor who recently defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK.
Laila Cunningham, a Westminster councillor who recently defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK, said the party stands with ‘every vigilante mum out there’
The mother-of-seven – a former CPS prosecutor – explained how she was labelled a ‘vigilante mum’ after tracking down muggers who targeted her children as she said that ‘Britain is now lawless’.
Ms Cunningham said: ‘Our country has changed – I remember a time when calling the police meant they would come. Now, when my kids were robbed, the police told me there weren’t enough resources to send someone.
‘I had to do the dangerous legwork myself over many weeks to catch the criminals. I risked my life and the press called me a vigilante mum.’
She added that Reform stands with ‘every vigilante mum out there’ and: ‘For every parent who feels sick with worry when their kids leave the house, for every parent who has been looked down on, ignored, insulted or worse silenced.’
Labour criticised Reform UK leader Nigel Farage for opposing the Online Safety Act and Crime and Policing Bill, which includes measures designed to tackle violence against women and girls.
A spokesman added: ‘If Farage’s Party wanted to be taken seriously when it comes to tackling the scourge of violence against women and girls, they wouldn’t have tried to block Labour’s new laws to crack down on perpetrators of such vile criminality and get justice for victims.’
