Newly-elected Woodhouse councillor Nathaniel Menday said UK has a “disgusting, almost subhuman underclass of people bringing the place down”
Nathaniel Menday was named the Reform UK councillor in Woodhouse(Image: Andrew Dowdeswell / Yorkshire Live)
A Reform UK councillor has been suspended from the party less than a week after winning a landslide local election for tweets sympathising with Nazis and calling some people in the UK “subhuman”.
In social media posts on a deleted X account, Nathaniel Menday, who won a local election in Sheffield by over 1,000 votes, said the UK has a “disgusting, almost subhuman underclass of people bringing the place down”.
As first reported by the Sheffield Star, Menday posted pictures with Nazi symbols, said a dictatorship “with the right man in charge will always be a better way of governing than democracy”, and celebrated the Nazis in other posts. One picture shows a swastika flag and an SS uniform in a room.
Reform UK confirmed today (Wednesday, May 13) the party has suspended Menday.
A Reform UK spokesman said: “Councillor Menday has been suspended from Reform UK pending investigation after he failed to declare social media posts which have brought the party into disrepute. Reform UK does not support such comments.”
Menday was elected as Woodhouse representative for Sheffield City Council just last week. He secured 1,987 votes in the ward, more than double any other candidate. Labour’s Danny Alan Allsebrook came second with 890 votes.
A controversial candidate, social media posts exposed before the election showed Menday had compared Nazis to “visionaries”, described himself as an “ethno-nationalist” and admitted he has flirted with far-right ideologies.
He was not expected to be the Reform UK candidate for Woodhouse, and campaigning members of the party in the area admitted they had never met him just days before the election.
Sheffield Liberal Democrats leader Martin Smith wrote to John Hesketh, leader of the local Reform UK group, earlier today, demanding that Menday be suspended from the party. Several political leaders had called for Menday’s suspension before the election. Menday had apologised for bringing Reform UK “into disrepute”.
When asked about suspending Menday previously by the Yorkshire Post, deputy leader Richard Tice said “we’re all human”.
Yorkshire Live has contacted Menday for comment.
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