Reeve, meanwhile, came in for widespread mockery for his slip-up, which was posted on X.
One person wrote: ‘Seems totally legit, competent, and exactly the kind of person you want in charge of cleaning the streets and your children’s education.’
Another said: ‘Funny how the racist party has had to change its name so often. We now see it for what binds it together.’
Reeve, a longtime councillor for UKIP, was first elected to local office in the late 2000s, serving as a councillor in Cambridgeshire.
He was later the party’s leader on Huntingdonshire District Council and in the 2017 New Year Honours was even awarded an MBE, for services to community and local authorities.
A third commenter was more measured – though equally scathing – adding: ‘He’s right in a sense, UKIP is indeed here but with a different name & Reform councils are already going down the same path as UKIP did back in the day.
‘You would think people would learn, but they really don’t. More fool them, they deserve what they get.’
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