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Social media platform X is becoming a very “unpleasant” and “dangerous” place, Nigel Farage has said in a swipe at former friend Elon Musk.The Reform UK leader said his party’s ethnic minority candidates had received “utterly appalling” online abuse as they prepared for May’s elections in Scotland, Wales and English councils.

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00:00We don't really care if people are men or women or black or white or whatever they are or what
00:05their chosen preferences are.
00:07We really want to judge people for who they are and what they can do, such is our belief in
00:13meritocracy.
00:13But I would add, I would add, that the online abuse on X, the online abuse on X that our
00:21minority candidates are receiving is utterly appalling in every way.
00:25And if it was happening to any other candidates from more established parties in the sense of their age, you
00:31would all be in total uproar.
00:34And I've not heard a single person comment on it. It really, really is bad.
00:39And X is now becoming, X is now becoming a very unpleasant and very dangerous place.
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