Tom Pickup is one of Reform UK’s Lancashire County councillors. In November 2025, he was exposed for being a member of a WhatsApp group which was calling for genocide against Muslims. In February, the party quietly reinstated him, and has now promoted him to a new position: He’s also reactivated his account. Blocked us of course because @TomPickup is a bigoted snowflake. pic.twitter.com/GOxtVGdrkQ — Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed) June 3, 2026 Reform — “Tactical” Comments in the WhatsApp group Pickup was a member of included: Calls for a “mass Islam genocide”. The suggestion that Keir Starmer “needs a fucking bullet”.…