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Reform UK candidate says Britain should have stayed neutral in WW2

Bexhill and Battle candidate Ian Gribbin claimed Britain should have ‘looked after its own people’ instead of fighting Nazi Germany

June 10, 2024 13:12
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A Reform UK spokesman has said it is “probably true” that Britain would have been better off had it remained neutral during the Second World War.

The claim comes after the BBC revealed that the party’s Bexhill and Battle parliamentary candidate had argued that the UK should have declined to fight Nazi Germany.

Writing online in 2022, Ian Gribbin said: "Britain would be in a far better state today had we taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality…. but oh no Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people."

Ian Gribbin, standing for the Reform party in Bexhill and Battle[Missing Credit]

In another comment, he added: "In Britain specifically we need to exorcise the cult of Churchill and recognize that in both policy and military strategy, he was abysmal."