A REFORM UK activist who campaigns with top party figures joined the racist rioters in Glasgow on Tuesday and has claimed that “Jews" are trying "to dilute our Protestant stock and shatter the Union”, The National can reveal.
Grant Calder, a Reform UK member who has regularly been pictured with the party’s deputy Scottish leader Thomas Kerr, was photographed on Buchanan Street steps on Tuesday evening holding a “White Lives Matter” banner.
On the steps in central Glasgow at the same time were members of the fascist group Patriotic Alternative. Disorder then broke out as racist masked gangs associated with the demonstration attacked people “because of the colour of their skin”, according to Police Scotland.
In response to First Minister John Swinney calling the violence “unacceptable”, Reform activist Calder said he had “zero regrets and zero sympathy for yesterday’s events”.
He added: “I won’t be condemning any participants or apologise. I stand fully by everyone who turned out and would do again.”
Elsewhere on his social media – where he has many pictures with leading Reform UK figures including Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, and Kerr – Calder has launched diatribes against Jewish people.
On September 7, 2025, he wrote on Facebook: “Jews are forcing us to swallow hordes of migrants, flooding land with the dregs of the world to dilute our Protestant stock and shatter the Union.”
He went on to say that “Lundys [traitors] cheer Israel, the supposed ‘ally’, while their Jewish kin orchestrate the migrant tsunami that’s drowning Protestant Ulster in alien faces? Traitors!”
Four days earlier, on September 3, 2025, Calder shared a picture of himself alongside Farage, Tice, Kerr, and other Reform UK politicians at a campaign event in Scotland. “Britain is broken, but Reform UK has the plan to make Scotland thrive again,” he wrote, urging people to sign up to the party.
Calder, who describes himself as an “unapologetic ethno-Christian nationalist and Unionist”, was also photographed alongside Kerr at the election count in Glasgow on May 8.
A second picture, uploaded on the same day and apparently taken at a post-election event, showed Calder with Kerr and Kim Schmulian, another Glasgow Reform MSP.
Calder wrote: “The dream team well done Thomas and Kim.”
In another image from May 8, Calder is holding a clip board, suggesting he may have been a Reform official helping to observe the election count.
The Reform activist’s profile image on Twitter/X shows him alongside Tice, Reform UK’s depute leader, while both give a thumbs up.
Other pictures uploaded to social media show Calder at events with Kerr in October 2025, April 2026, and June 2025.
He is also a member of the fringe group Knights Templar International, a flag of which he was pictured in front of at the disorder in Glasgow. On a Facebook post about a Knights Templar International protest, Calder wrote: "With white birth rates plummeting, we face extinction as a race. Join us to protect every life and preserve our heritage!"
Reform UK did not respond to a request for comment on the activist or his links to Kerr.
Scottish Greens MSP Patrick Harvie said: “Reform and their toxic policies have already contributed to unleashing a wave of hate, and in some cases violence, towards migrants and people of colour, simply for being migrants or their skin colour.
“Their shameful and constant demonisation of New Scots and racialised communities has contributed to people being targeted, intimidated and abused while empowering the thugs who are doing it.
“Mr Kerr and his party must be held accountable.”
Kerr himself has faced accusations of having spread racist rhetoric.
Speaking in Holyrood on Wednesday, Glasgow Labour MSP Paul Sweeney said that “some members of this parliament have sought to fan the flames of this division with continual talk of ‘strangers’ and calls for further protests tonight”.
He added that parliament “has a duty to calm tensions in this country and not inflame them, and to be reminded that their first duty is to their constituents and the people of Scotland and not American neo-Nazis on social media”.
Scottish Justice Secretary Neil Gray said he “fundamentally and completely” agreed with Sweeney.
Kerr has frequently used the word “strangers” to refer to people who have immigrated into Scotland.
On Tuesday, he accused the Scottish Government of “prioritising strangers over Scots”, and in May, he spoke about “allow[ing] these dangerous unvetted strangers into our country with open borders”.
