A rugby league fan forum account linked to Reform UK’s Makerfield byelection candidate Robert Kenyon wrote that women cannot “ref, drive or give directions,” declared “I’m sexist, sorry but I am,” described English women as having “fat bellies and odd shapes pushing a pram at 16 in their PJ’s” and said he would rank higher as a pundit than a female presenter because he had “won the Champions League with Accrington Stanley on FIFA Career Mode.” Reform’s response was to call the posts “locker room banter” – the exact phrase Donald Trump used in 2016 after a tape emerged of him boasting about groping women.
The account on the RLFans rugby league forum, posting under the username ‘post,’ links itself to Kenyon through multiple references: the user states their Twitter handle is @robkenyon1 and the account promotes Kenyon’s published book, The Blood Waltz. The posts date from the 2010s and 2019.
What the posts said
The forum posts paint a consistent picture. Writing in the 2010s, the account stated: “Women can’t ref, drive or give directions.” In the same period it declared: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am.”
On the subject of women’s bodies, the account wrote: “European women…all have really good figures and are good looking.” It contrasted these with English women, who it said “don’t care” and “just walk around with their fat bellies and odd shapes pushing a pram at 16 in their PJ’s.” In response to a post containing images of women, the user wrote: “Wouldn’t get me off any of those with a bazooka.”
In 2019, responding to a discussion about women presenting matches on Sky Sports, the account wrote: “The women on the panel’s aren’t up to the job and only there to tick a box” and described Women’s Super League players as “no where near the standard” to commentate on games.
In a now-deleted 2019 post on X under @robkenyon1, the user also suggested they would “rank higher” than a female presenter and former player because they had “won the Champions League with Accrington Stanley on FIFA Career Mode.” The presenter in question had professional broadcast and playing experience. The comparison required no elaboration.
The ‘locker room banter’ defence – and its precedent
Reform UK’s response to the Independent’s investigation was: “These comments, which are little more than locker room banter, were made more than a decade ago – well before Rob was in politics. We simply don’t care about establishment hit jobs. We fully back Rob and are confident he will be an excellent MP for Makerfield.”
The “locker room” framing carries a specific political history. In October 2016, Donald Trump deployed “locker room talk” after a tape from 2005 emerged in which he boasted about groping women without consent. The phrase became shorthand for a specific argument: that degrading speech about women in informal settings should not be held against the speaker in professional or political contexts.
The Trump comparison is not incidental. As we reported in our Vorderman piece, Vorderman specifically noted that Reform wants to abolish the Equality Act – which would scrap workplace discrimination protections, equal pay rights and maternity leave – and that Farage has described Andrew Tate as “an important voice for young men.” The deployment of the Trump “locker room” defence is, in that context, a direct continuation of a political lineage rather than a coincidental turn of phrase.
What Labour said
Anna Turley, MP and Chair of the Labour Party, was direct. “Nigel Farage needs to urgently explain why he’s happy for a man who proudly admits he’s sexist to represent the people of Makerfield. Robert Kenyon’s comments on women are degrading and an insult to the women and girls who live and work in Makerfield. Nigel Farage needs to stop selecting people with such retrograde views from standing for public office for Reform. The only way to stop Reform’s toxic politics from taking hold in Makerfield is to vote for Labour’s Andy Burnham on Thursday 18 June.”
The accumulating picture
The RLFans posts are the latest addition to a documented pattern that now spans multiple accounts and platforms. As we reported in our full Kenyon deleted accounts investigation, Hope Not Hate and Byline Times have previously published findings from two separate deleted social media accounts linked to Kenyon, including riot disinformation during the Southport murders, COVID conspiracy theories, calls for waterboarding, and his comment about a degrading sexual post directed at Carol Vorderman: “He’s only saying what we’re all thinking.”
Vorderman, as we reported in our Vorderman response piece, said: “He’s not just being a lad, he’s being a disgusting online abuser who became a Reform councillor three weeks ago.” She also raised Farage’s photograph with Tate, Reform’s stated intention to abolish the Equality Act and the undisclosed conviction of their MP James McMurdock for assaulting his girlfriend.
Reform has consistently backed Kenyon through each revelation. The initial response to his neo-fascist Facebook connections, as we reported in our original Kenyon piece, was to deny the screenshot existed, be provided with it and then not respond. The response to the riot disinformation was that the posts were before he entered politics. The response to the Carol Vorderman comment was that he lacked “polish.” The response to the RLFans posts is “locker room banter.”
The byelection is on 18 June. Farage has not commented on the latest revelations.
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