当该党议员们躲藏起来时，却是落选的补选候选人马特·古德温来为其辩护。那是一只不出声的狗。在周日晚上《ITV》曝光了改革党内广泛存在的种族主义和厌女症之后，你可能会以为其中一位议员会在周一早上上节目为党的名誉辩护，试图说服观众真正的问题在于那些记者无法克制自己不去调查改革，而不是该党的偏执已经根深蒂固。
While the party’s MPs went into hiding, it was left to its failed byelection candidate Matt Goodwin to defend it It was the dog that didn’t bark in the night. After Sunday night’s ITV exposé of widespread racism and misogyny within Reform, you might have expected one of its MPs to have taken to the airwaves on Monday morning to defend the party’s honour. To try to persuade viewers that the real problem lay with the journalists who couldn’t stop themselves from investigating Reform rather than the fact that the party’s bigotry was endemic.
然而什么也没发生。每一位改革党议员都另有安排。太忙了，忙着吃早餐。 Nigel Farage 也没动静。连 Robert Jenrick 都没发声。也许他几天前就意识到自己已经摔得粉碎，才说这只是生活中的一件小事——生活的小小谜题之一。“Honest Bob” 说：“BBC 里满是恋童癖，改革党内满是种族主义者，没什么大不了的。每个组织都有自己的十字架要背负。”
Instead, we got nothing. Every Reform MP was otherwise engaged. Were too busy having breakfast. Nothing from Nigel Farage. Nothing even from Robert Jenrick. Maybe he realised he had crashed and burned a few days earlier by suggesting it was just one of those things. One of life’s little mysteries. The BBC was riddled with paedophiles and Reform was awash with racists, said Honest Bob. No big deal. Every organisation had its crosses to bear.