Reform UK suspends councillor over Nazi imagery posts

Nathaniel Menday, a newly elected Reform UK councillor representing the Woodhouse ward on Sheffield City Council, has been suspended from the party pending an investigation into now-deleted social media posts on X that included Nazi imagery and derogatory comments about people in the United Kingdom.

Menday secured victory in the local elections last week with 1,987 votes, defeating Labour's Danny Allsebrook by more than 1,000 votes. The suspension, announced Wednesday, followed reports of posts in which he shared images of a swastika flag, Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, and the Sonnenrad symbol. One post praised the architects of Berlin's Olympiastadion, built for the 1936 Olympics under Nazi Germany, calling them "real visionaries." Another described people in the UK as "fatter, uglier and poorly dressed" compared to those in continental Europe, adding, "On top of this we have a disgusting, almost subhuman underclass of people bringing the place down." Additional posts suggested Jewish people in the West bore responsibility for antisemitism due to their support for open borders and expressed support for eugenics and dictatorships over democracy.