With the local elections fast approaching, Reform are doing everything they can to attract viable candidates. The problem is many of these candidates have proven so unviable that they’ve failed to even make it to the election. This was on full display with the following shortlisted candidate for the Welsh constituency of Bridgend and Vale of Glamorgan:
A man put at the top of Reform UK’s list for Bridgend and Vale of Glamorgan has stepped down after a picture of him performing a Nazi salute was published.
Nigel Farage had previously backed Corey Edwards after the photo emerged.
A Reform UK Wales spokesperson:
“Corey… pic.twitter.com/WqrDeet2CD
— Will Hayward (@WillHayCardiff) March 27, 2026
Since the above, a video has emerged of Edwards driving while swigging Bud Light:
If anyone was on the fence about the Reform UK #Senedd candidate Corey Edwards, that did the Hitler salute and resigned.
Here’s a video he took of himself drinking whilst driving. pic.twitter.com/J7CRCCdn4q
— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) March 28, 2026
We don’t know why anyone would choose to film this, but here we are.
They did Nazi that coming
The statement from Reform UK Wales read:
Corey Edwards has informed us that he is stepping down as a candidate for the Senedd election this May, citing issues with his mental health.
We wish him well for the future and hope his privacy can be respected at this difficult time.
The BBC provided further context on the image, noting:
A statement from Edwards appeared to suggest he had been both imitating the sitcom character Basil Fawlty as well as former Welsh international goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey, who was involved in a row over an alleged Nazi salute in 2019 which he denied at the time.
Edwards himself said:
There is a clear distinction between ordinary use of the appalling gesture, compared with me imitating a Welsh footballer’s use of it, or indeed Basil Fawlty’s walk
The problem Edwards has made for himself is that he didn’t just do a Nazi salute; he did a Nazi salute and then signed up Britain’s most successful far-right political party. Maybe he was joking when he did the salute, but why give him the benefit of the doubt? Especially when Edwards is far from the only person in the party who’s been accused of holding a fondness for Adolf Hitler.
On 22 November, the Guardian covered 20 individuals who’ve alleged that Nigel Farage has a “racist past”, with many of them describing antisemitism directed at one Peter Ettedgui. In Ettedgui’s own words:
[Farage] would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers […] I’d never experienced antisemitism growing up, so the first time that this vicious verbal abuse came out of Farage’s mouth was deeply shocking. But I wasn’t his only target. I’d hear him calling other students ‘Paki’ or ‘Wog’, and urging them to ‘go home’.
Speaking on the Edwards situation, Farage said:
It was a Fawlty Towers impression. Maybe we should ban the BBC, I don’t know
Why is Farage’s solution to everything ‘ban the BBC‘?
Reform — Failed candidates
Edwards is far from the only failed Reform candidate of the past week, with the party particularly struggling in Scotland:
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK loses its fifth Holyrood candidatehttps://t.co/c02gogY5yw
— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) March 28, 2026
As disastrous as some of these candidates have proven to be, it’s going to be hard to top ‘drink driving Nazi’ (although for legal reasons we should probably refer to him as a ‘hydrated Fawlty Towers enthusiast’).
Featured image via Reform Exposed
