The Labor candidate for Clacton, who is up against Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, once described white tears as his “favourite drink”.
Jovan Owusu-Nepaul was selected as the Labor candidate for Clacton in April this year, just under a month before the general election was called. Previously the indoor chair London constituency of Lewisham DeptfordOwusu-Nepaul he claimed he has “Fantastic memories of day trips to the constituency for children's holidays and eating fish and chips on the beach.”
In an interview with BBC News, the Labor candidate said he opposes the “politics of gimmicks” so effectively played by the Conservatives and their strong rival in the polls, Nigel Farage. Instead, he wants to campaign on the issues that “affect local people” and make a “positive case”.
However, his earlier posts on a now-deleted Twitter account show a very different side of the candidate. While studying at Goldsmiths University in London and an active labor activist, Owusu-Nepaul insulted a significant number of his potential future constituents.
Maliha Reza, another London-based Labor activist, and collaborator of the Huffington Posttweeted in December 2019 that “going into 2020, [she was] will continue to talk about how to address racism and about the fact [she drinks] the white man cries regularly.” In response to Reza, Owusu-Nepaul said yes his “favourite drink”.
A closer examination of Owusu-Nepaul's deleted Twitter account shows that he complains of a lack of focus on non-white philosophers in his career in politics, describing himself as “anti-fascist”, claiming Twitter was “exhausting for non-white people” and identify as part of the “Wakanda Diaspora”.
Clacton is one of the “whitest” constituencies in the UK. More than 96% of the local population is white, which is 15 points higher than the national average. Only 5% of residents were born outside the country, with the national average closer to 17%.
Owusu-Nepaul has been promoted by a number of left-wing personalities on X, including broadcasters Marina Purkiss and Carol Vorderman, as a candidate to back to ensure Farage is not elected to the seat.
A survey carried out by Survation in January this year before Farage announced he was to stand for the Essex seat revealed that if he chose to do so, could potentially win the constituency with 37% of the vote.
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