Reform UK MP Condemned For Claiming There Are Not Enough White People In TV Adverts

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<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68fd1469180000e251fe4413.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Sarah Pochin with Reform leader Nigel Farage and fellow MP Lee Anderson." data-caption="Sarah Pochin with Reform leader Nigel Farage and fellow MP Lee Anderson." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />Sarah Pochin with Reform leader Nigel Farage and fellow MP Lee Anderson.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>A <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/reform-uk/">Reform UK </a>MP has been condemned after she claimed there are not enough white people in TV adverts.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/sarah-pochin/">Sarah Pochin </a>said it “drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”.</p><p>The Runcorn and Helsby MP said she blamed “the woke liberati that goes on inside the arty-farty world”.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/labour-party/">Labour </a>have called on <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/nigel-farage/">Nigel Farage </a>to condemn his party colleague over her remarks.</p><p>Pochin was appearing on Talk TV when a called called Stuart rang in to ask whether Reform would “look at the representations of the demographics of TV and public advertising”.</p><p>He said: “We’re getting to the point where adverts don’t represent what this country looks like and the positive demonisation of white people, just portrayed as criminals or inadequate.” </p><p>Pochin said: “I think Stuart’s absolutely right. It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people who are anything other than white.”</p><p>When presenter Peter Cardwell asked her w
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