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  "path": "/uk/2026/05/12/reform-uk-sixth-councillor-suspended/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T20:47:33.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.thecanary.co",
  "tags": [
    "Analysis",
    "Opinion",
    "UK",
    "Local Elections 2026",
    "racism",
    "Reform",
    "Maddison Wheeldon"
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  "textContent": "Glenn Gibbons, the newly elected hard-right Reform UK councillor, has become the sixth to be suspended. This follows outcry over his violent remarks about Nigerians who he said the state should: melt them all down and fill in the pot holes!! Drawing stark parallels to the dehumanising rhetoric seen in Nazi Germany, Farage has attracted […]\n\nBy Maddison Wheeldon",
  "title": "Reform UK sees its sixth councillor suspended over racist rhetoric"
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