Travis_Bickle Said some things about ’white man’s tears’ being his favourite drink. Reform supporters are going to town on it on social media.
Unfortunately for the lad, who may well be a sterling human being, I suspect he's been thrown the position for the optics more than anything, and as a bone thrown for his previous work for the party - I think maybe they're hoping Nigel will say something racist that they can get mileage out of. If the seat was seen as remotely winnable for Labour there'd be a middle aged male WASP pushed forward as candidate.
I say all this as much for the towns demographic as for Labours issues with diversity.