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”
Mark Gerard
Why don’t you ask yourself the same questions you just asked, but in a different light:
Why do you see anything “non-white” as better, and why do you think that everything “white” is so incredibly wrong? I’m sorry to disappoint you, but English society and culture has ALWAYS been predominantly white, up until very recently when third world immigration levels started to rise dramatically. You’re only sixteen, so you don’t even have a memory of anything different. There is nothing wrong with a society and cultural that is predominantly white or mono-racial. It’s “whiteness” that you have a problem with, not racism. I don’t see you spouting the same multi-cultural nonsense about countries like Japan, China, India, or any country that has a non-white population. You see nothing wrong with Japan being full of east-Asians, or India being full of brown people, or Africa being full of black people. You only want to force your multi-cultural garbage on countries where the population is predominantly white, because in your mind, “whiteness” is synonymous with racism and therefore if something is “too white”, it’s a bad thing. You don’t have a problem with Africa being “too black”, or China and Japan being “too Asian”… do you? What’s wrong with Britain retaining its own parent culture and being a predominantly white society? Or the rest of Europe, for that matter?
The real problem here is that you’re actually a racist. Yes, I know you’re probably white, but you clearly have a problem with white societies and culture. Why?
Mark Gerard
All you’re saying is that Britain has a right to retain its own identity and that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this. What you’re saying is that you don’t believe Britain should be forced to become multicultural, and there’s nothing wrong with this. It doesn’t make you a racist. Nobody is claiming that Japan or China should become “multicultural” and that mass immigration should be forced upon them. Nobody is saying that Africa should become “less black”… or that Pakistan or India should become “less brown” – but they ARE saying that Britain, and the rest of Europe for that matter, should become less white. The reason these people think this way is because they have absolutely no pride of sense of value for their own heritage or culture, and have been programmed with politically correct, multicultural propaganda. But they’re only forcing this agenda on “white” countries, it’s only “white” countries they are trying to change the racial make-up of, and force multiculturalism on. This should tell you something about the left-wing in general – it should tell you that they are motivated by a deep sense of racial hatred against white people. Even if they are white themselves, they’ve still been programmed with this nonsensical view that “whiteness = racism”.
And it’s funny how they’re always the ones bringing up the issue of race in the first place. It’s like they’re obsessed with it, yet they claim to be colour-blind. Wanting to have sensible immigration controls is not racist and UKIP do not have racist policies. Also, their definition of “racism” is unreliable, because to them, it’s basically a kind of buzz-word, a meaningless insult that’s used to degrade and silence political opponents. The fact that you’ve been called a racist because you simply want Britain to retain its own culture and identity, and that you think immigration should be controlled should be proof enough of how absurd these people are. There’s nothing racist about anything you’ve said.
Also, I’m sick and tired of hearing this “your views are outdated” nonsense… it’s basically like saying that because we live in 2015 that we should basically throw all our values out the window and embrace the politically correct agenda. Anyone who opposes this is always labelled in the same way you’ve been labelled. I’ll get the same treatment for daring to make this comment. I’ll be called a racist as well, I’ll be told to “get with the times” and be reminded constantly that Britain is now a “melting pot” and get the same general left-wing nonsensical platitudes fired at me for daring to think this way. I’m so glad UKIP exist, because without them, people like us simply wouldn’t have a voice, nor would we be allowed one.
Mark Gerard
All you’re saying is that Britain has a right to retain its own identity and that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this. What you’re saying is that you don’t believe Britain should be forced to become multicultural, and there’s nothing wrong with this. It doesn’t make you a racist. Nobody is claiming that Japan or China should become “multicultural” and that mass immigration should be forced upon them. Nobody is saying that Africa should become “less black”… or that Pakistan or India should become “less brown” – but they ARE saying that Britain, and the rest of Europe for that matter, should become less white. The reason these people think this way is because they have absolutely no pride or sense of value for their own heritage or culture, and have been programmed with politically correct, multicultural propaganda. But they’re only forcing this agenda and propaganda on “white” countries, it’s only “white” countries they are trying to change the racial make-up of, and force multiculturalism on. This should tell you something about the left-wing in general – it should tell you that they are motivated by a deep sense of racial hatred against white people. Even if they are white themselves, they’ve still been programmed with this nonsensical view that “whiteness = racism”.
And it’s funny how they’re always the ones bringing up the issue of race in the first place. It’s like they’re obsessed with it, yet they claim to be colour-blind. Wanting to have sensible immigration controls is not racist and UKIP do not have racist policies. Also, their definition of “racism” is unreliable, because to them, it’s basically a kind of buzz-word, a meaningless insult that’s used to degrade and silence political opponents. The fact that you’ve been called a racist because you simply want Britain to retain its own culture and identity, and that you think immigration should be controlled should be proof enough of how absurd these people are. There’s nothing racist about anything you’ve said.
Also, I’m sick and tired of hearing this “your views are outdated” nonsense… it’s basically like saying that because we live in 2015 that we should basically throw all our values out the window and embrace the politically correct agenda. Anyone who opposes this is always labelled in the same way you’ve been labelled. I’ll get the same treatment for daring to make this comment. I’ll be called a racist as well, I’ll be told to “get with the times” and be reminded constantly that Britain is now a “melting pot” and get the same general left-wing nonsensical platitudes fired at me for daring to think this way. I’m so glad UKIP exist, because without them, people like us simply wouldn’t have a voice, nor would we be allowed one.
Mark Gerard
Why don’t you ask yourself the same questions you just asked, but in a different light:
Why do you see anything “non-white” as better, and why do you think that everything “white” is so incredibly wrong? I’m sorry to disappoint you, but English society and culture has ALWAYS been predominantly white, up until very recently when third world immigration levels started to rise dramatically. You’re only sixteen, so you don’t even have a memory of anything different. There is nothing wrong with a society and culture that is predominantly white or mono-racial. It’s “whiteness” that you have a problem with, not racism. I don’t see you spouting the same multi-cultural nonsense about countries like Japan, China, India, or any country that has a non-white population. You see nothing wrong with Japan being full of east-Asians, or India being full of brown people, or Africa being full of black people. You only want to force your multi-cultural garbage on countries where the population is predominantly white, because in your mind, “whiteness” is synonymous with racism and therefore if something is “too white”, it’s a bad thing. You don’t have a problem with Africa being “too black”, or China and Japan being “too Asian”… do you? What’s wrong with Britain retaining its own parent culture and being a predominantly white society? Or the rest of Europe, for that matter?
The real problem here is that you’re actually a racist. Yes, I know you’re probably white, but you clearly have a problem with white societies and culture. Why?
Mark Gerard
There is no control over immigration, hence why it’s an issue – we have no cap on the numbers coming, nor can we do anything about it. As members of the EU, we are virtually powerless to control immigration or actually enforce proper immigration policies. That’s simply a fact that you’re choosing to ignore, because it’s convenient for you to do so.