“Perhaps send him to Auschwitz for a shower.”
That post, published at 4:58am on 26 April 2020, came from the Twitter account @sdeardenmcp. The account belongs to Stephanie Marie Dearden, Reform UK’s candidate for Tooting Broadway ward in the Wandsworth local elections on 7 May 2026.
The post was a reply to a tweet about a Muslim migrant accused of assault in Germany.
The Auschwitz post was not isolated. On 13 July 2020, Dearden was told by another Twitter user that five million Muslims had fought against Hitler in the Second World War, 1.5 million of whom died doing so. Her reply: “Very poor figures, should have been 5m” with the hashtag #BanIslam.
A pattern of posts
The screenshots, captured from the live @sdeardenmcp account in April 2026 before its suspension, document posts from 2020 to 2024 directed at multiple communities.
On 13 March 2020, in reply to a Piers Morgan tweet about coronavirus, Dearden posted: “Actually the biggest threat is the islamification of the free world. Wake up before its too late. WWIII or #CoronaVirusUpdate will help stomp it out. #BanIslam.”
On 6 March 2020, she posted about Sadiq Khan’s election as Mayor of London: “Isnt that how @SadiqKhan got the @MayorofLondon Job? You know they all vote how the Imam dictates, and the women have to obey or else?” with the hashtags #LiberatedWomen and #IWD2020. Later the same day she posted about Khan and “Muslim areas” in London: “I wonder if @MayorofLondon Londonistan Mr @SadiqKhan is endorsing these Muslim areas in the ‘Not So Great Britain’…#LondonIsOpenForTerrorists.”
On 5 April 2020, Dearden replied to far-right commentator David Vance: “Import third world scum produces even more scum. Time for National Service.” with the hashtags #Scum and #Parasites.
On 2 May 2020, replying again to a David Vance post captioned “Disgusting behaviour” alongside an image of a man on the street, she wrote: “Black immigrant again i see, add so much to our communities NOT” with the hashtag #Scum.
On 17 May 2020, in reply to a post about migrants crossing the Channel: “As more vermin invade our shores with their aweful third world beliefs and ways, its time to call in pest control @ukhomeoffice.”
The most recent post and the vetting question
The most recent documented post is from Facebook, not Twitter. On 13 February 2024, Dearden shared a graphic on her Facebook account reading “BAN ISLAM / Stop the Islamification of Britain” over a Union Jack image with a mosque in a prohibition circle.
The post was made just over two years before the election, and approximately 14 months before her formal nomination as a Reform UK candidate in April 2026.
Reform UK’s sole Wandsworth councillor, Cllr Mark Justin, described the posts as “abhorrent” and said they had “no place in our party or in public life.” Writing to Putney.news, he added:
“Language used in these posts is completely unacceptable, and we offer a sincere and unreserved apology to anyone offended by her comments.”
In 2024, Nigel Farage publicly pledged that Reform candidates would be rigorously vetted following problems identified during the 2024 general election campaign. We asked Reform UK whether it was aware of these posts when approving Dearden as a candidate, what vetting process was applied, and whether the posts are consistent with that pledge.
A Reform UK spokesman made it clear that the party does not approve of these comments and that these posts were being investigated. They did not say whether Dearden would remain as a candidate, and did not address the vetting question.
The platform’s verdict
The @sdeardenmcp Twitter account has been suspended by X. The platform’s message reads: “Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.” The suspension was confirmed on 27 April 2026.
No archived version of @sdeardenmcp exists on the Wayback Machine.
How this came to light
The screenshots were provided to Putney.news by a reader. We independently verified the account identity before publication and viewed all screenshots directly.
The cross-platform username @sdeardenmcp appears on both Twitter/X and Instagram. The Instagram account, which is public, shows Dearden’s display name and geo-tags activity to Tooting and Wandsworth. A photograph from September 2025 places Dearden at the Reform UK campaign launch at Le Gothique on Wandsworth Common, wearing a “Make Britain Great Again” cap and Trump t-shirt, alongside confirmed Reform figures and a candidate lanyard with her name visible. The same picture appears on her banned Twitter account.
Putney.news attended and reported on that same launch event. We noted at the time “enthusiastic cheers for some of the speakers’ less palatable comments about Muslims.”
Dearden is named Stef Dearden on the official ballot paper and Stephanie Marie Dearden on the election agents register.
The ward and the vote
Tooting Broadway is a three-seat ward. Reform UK is standing three candidates: Dearden, Stewart Foster, and Claire Kennedy. The election takes place on 7 May 2026.
Voters in Tooting Broadway can find more information about all candidates and how to vote at putney.news/election/.
Editor’s note, 30 April 2026: Following publication, Stephanie Dearden submitted a comment to this article stating that the posts documented above are not hers, that her account was hacked, and that she was banned from Twitter/X around 2016 and unable to post after that date. Putney.news stands by its verification of the @sdeardenmcp account identity, which is documented in the story above. The posts in the archive span from 2020 to 2024 — four to eight years after the claimed ban. Ms Dearden was contacted for comment before publication. The email did not bounce. No response was received before the deadline.
Is that the face of white supremacy?
Having never had the pleasure of actually meeting Ms Dearden in person, the photograph would perhaps suggest she has not been a stranger to lifes many vicissitudes.
That some of her fellow londoners decide to worship a god via the Muslim faith is irrelevant to the performance of our economy.
Whist I wish her well, I would urge anybody considering lending their support and vote to reconsider.
Will you press Reform UK for a statement on what action they have taken to deal with this appalling behaviour? It is quite something to get thrown off X nowadays.