Nigel Farage insists that UKIP is not a racist party. So why does it attract so many racists?
After one of his councillors was filmed saying she had a ‘problem with people with negroid features’, UKIP leader Nigel Farage stated today that:
“I haven’t seen the film but she is alleged, and she confirmed to us, that she had made a series of racist comments that is at odds with what we stand for.”
Rozanne Duncan may have been expelled from the UKIP, but scandals like this are no longer an exception to the party rule. Here are 15 other times that ‘racist comments’ have come from the heart of UKIP:
1. Last May UKIP member Ken Chapman, hoping to be elected to Amber Valley Borough Council in Derbyshire, wrote the following post:
“islam is a cancer that needs eradicating multiculturism does not work in this country clear them all off to the desert with their camals that’s their way of life.”
2. UKIP was forced to sack newly elected councillor Dave Small after just six days, when Facebook posts from 2012 surfaced, including this:
“I visiting the city of Birmingham recently and felt like a foreigner in the city of my birth, all around me I could hear the sound of jabbering in an alien voice … we also have the Pakistani’ and the Somali’s. Tell me Mr Cameron Why? the men wear their Pyjamas.”
3. In 2013 UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom famously said that the UK should stop providing aid to ‘bongo bongo Land’, and that the aid was being used to buy designer sunglasses and Parisian apartments. He may have toned down the language, but this Tweet from 15 February shows that Bloom hasn’t changed:
It is deeply immoral to fund foreign aid with £1.8 trillion of debt & rising.Borrowing money from our children is plain wrong,ABOLISH IT NOW
— Godfrey Bloom (@goddersbloom) February 15, 2015
4. Last year UKIP was forced to distance itself from local council candidate James Elgar after the discovery of tweets like this:
#ThingsAsianBoysDo groom and rape underage white girls, stab and rob innocent old white people, bomb innocent white people #EctEctEct [sic]”
Elgar’s father insisted that his son ‘came home at 10.30 pm with a curry’ the day the story broke.
5. Last April UKIP suspended Andre Lampitt, the star of its European Election TV campaign, after he tweeted:
“Most Nigerians are generally bad people… I grew up in Africa and dare anyone to prove me wrong.”
6. After comedian Lenny Henry said there should be more black and ethnic minority people in creative industries, candidate William Henwood said that Henry should move to a ‘black country’.
7. Joseph Quirk, former UKIP candidate for Boldon Colliery Ward on South Tyneside Council has shared anti-Semitic material claiming that Jewish Bankers financed Hitler, Soviet Communism and 9/11. There’s also this from November:
“Well, I reckon dogs are more intelligent, better company and certainly better behaved than most Muslims.”
8. Gerard Batten, UKIP’s chief whip and immigration spokesman, believes that all UK Muslims should sign up to a special code of conduct, and wants mosque building to be banned.
9. Camden UKIP chairman Magnus Nielsen made headlines after describing Islam as ‘organised crime’. Now standing for Hampstead and Kilburn, Nielsen says that his ‘great aim’ is to licence mosques. Asked if he would prescribe the same for Jewish and Christian places of worship, he said that this would not be necessary.
10. Former Offerton councillor Harry Perry’s Twitter feed is astonishing. As well as prolific sharing of material about the ‘sin of feminism’ and the ‘disease’ of homosexuality, Perry is obsessed with the idea of ‘white genocide’:
Don’t forget about step two of White Genocide: Genetic assimilation via forced integration http://t.co/t4YFoGtgAt — Harry Perry (@harryperry15) February 16, 2015
and has a rabid hatred of Islam:
the nazis; a warning from history-is there any difference between the islamic ideology and the nazis? — Harry Perry (@harryperry15) January 10, 2015
11. Plymouth UKIP candidate Ron Northcott believes that premier league football teams should be limited to two foreign players. His Twitter account is a treasure trove of bizzare anti-Scottish (‘jock’) bile and calls to reclaim the country.
Asian Muslims groom our white girls, now they rape our boys. Jordanian Paralympians commit sex offences. We need to reclaim our country — Ron Northcott UKIP (@RonNorthcott) August 22, 2012
12. After the death of Nelson Mandela, West London UKIP member David William Griffiths wrote in the members-only forum that some people were ‘intended by nature’ to be slaves. Meanwhile Pamela Preedy, secretary of UKIP’s Redcar branch, questioned why Mandela’s death had received so much coverage since he ‘had nothing to do with Britain’.
13. Newport East candidate Donald Grewar was forced to resign last month after he apparently backed a post by the EDL, calling for ‘no surrender to militant Islam or political correctness’.
14. Diane James is UKIP MEP for the South East of England and has said that Romanians are naturally associated with crime:
“On 1 January 2014 the floodgates will open for Bulgarian and Romanian citizens [to come to Britain].
“We are not just talking about pressure on services from immigration but also, and I have to say it, the crime associated with Romanians.”
15. In 2013, the then Stourport-on-Severn councillor Eric Kitson was questioned by police after he shared anti-Muslim cartoons on Facebook. In one particularly memorable post he said of Muslim women: ‘Hang um all first then ask questions later.’
Ruby Stockham is a staff writer at Left Foot Forward. Follow her on Twitter
293 Responses to “Is UKIP a racist party? These 15 comments would suggest so”
paulina
all religions and nationalities deserve the same things we all live in the same world we are all equal
Lola
Why is everyone trying to defend them by saying they aren’t racist but they’re discriminating ONLY on religion? They said sooo much BS about Asians/Africans. Plus, your religion USUALLY comes with your race. MOST (don’t get me wrong, there are some who aren’t) Africans are Christian and Muslim, some are Atheists. MOST Asians are Muslim/Hindu/ or Buddhists, some are Christian and some are Atheists. MOST British and English people are Christian/Atheist (meaning those who haven’t migrated here recently). So obviously you don’t see the politicians speaking crap about Christianity or not having a religion because that is what they are!! You can’t lie and say what they’re saying is OK…it’s not. I’m going to get a ton of comments for my assumptions but I’ve traveled a lot and that’s how I see it. I did capitalize most.
Landscape
Lean wolfeson, you’re talking bollocks. I certainly understand English.
Ukip a joke, well certainly a better one than you.
I keep demanding trade be ended and borders closed? What garbage are you running on about there? I’m not demanding anything.
Ukip want trade to be fair with all the world, not just biased to the EU, Ukip want border controls, not to close them.
Ukip want all people from around the world to have to go through the same process if they want to migrate here. Is that wrong, to want to treat all the people from around the world the same way?
Gorging on the poor, dreaming of their corpses. Mate, you need some professional help.
You do realise that mass immigration makes poor people even poorer? It just supplies a massive work force for big business so they keep costs down and only big business corporations make loads of money?
You do realise mass immigration is social engineering designed to lower the standards of living for the majority while propping up the elite?
Do you also know that mass immigration is an unsustainable policy?
You are aware I assume that the worlds resources are limited. That there is not enough to go round even now.
Migrants from poorer countries moving to richer ones become higher level consumers of resources. The resources are finite. The quicker they are consumed the sooner it all goes tits up. We need policies that slow resource consumption, not encourage it.
Our only chance is to give science a chance to come up with a solution. The more time we can give them, the better.
Try and use your brains and see beyond the obvious and look a little deeper.
ollie
Why does opposing foreign aid make you a racist? Stupid annoying article
Guest
Lord Blagger, keep whining about grammar because you have no actual argument.
You keep making up nonsense, as you try and deny your anti-trade, pro-isolation stance. UKIP want to smash the trade treaties and have less trade, period, and to smash the doors shut on the 99%. That some easing might be possible years down the line won’t help, after the economy collapses.
You keep saying that you want to reject the 99% from crossing the border, no matter where they come from. Including the British, of course.
That you say that using the truth means you want to “professionally” send thugs round to beat me up is a clear indicator of the sort of society you want, as you demand that the poor have less and less resources to live on, so you can gorge.
UKIP policy is rabidly anti-statistics, let alone science, as you demand I not think and instead espouse your simplistic firebrand hate of trade anf the Other, as you run away from talking with people with other views like the coward you are. Can’t RISK other kinds of thought breaking into your mind, after all!