Is UKIP a racist party? These 15 comments would suggest so

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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:

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’:

and has a rabid hatred of Islam:

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.

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

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293 Responses to “Is UKIP a racist party? These 15 comments would suggest so”

  1. Fed Up

    Please help me understand why White social workers let them get away with it. Please help me understand why Jimmy Savile (white) was allowed to rape [white] kids by his [white] politician mates, in fact why have [white] politicians been having these weird orgies where they rape underage boys and girls?

  2. Windymac

    You could do this with any party and you know it. Especially Labour. You’re despicable.

  3. Daithi097

    And ? Every time people ask why, you call us Racist. So why are you whining when your attitude has caused people to reject you ?

  4. BritainWillBecomeAFlop:)

    I find it so funny how most of you think UKIP isn’t racist. You know what I think? Britain will be a flop if these racist cunts get the power, why’s that? Well, all the ‘pure’ British people I know are either sluts or don’t know how to write a simple sentence properly. English is my second language and I am am an A grade student, what about the ‘pure’ British ones? Apart from one or two the other’s are expected at the least an E. Had a guy complaining about his mum being unemployed but when I asked what qualifications she had he said “she dropped out of school”, so if you really think about the only reason why immigrants are taking your jobs its because many:
    * dropped out of school
    *got pregnant at 13
    *failed their GCSEs
    If you really think when the immigrants leave you are going to have the best job ever think again. Most immigrants have taken the jobs such as cleaners because you were too good for that; you won’t be trusted with no ones life idiots.
    Just because Japan succeeded into becoming one of the best countries don’t think UK will. Japanese people have the brains whereas ‘pure’ British are useless. What do you see on TV? Faye in Coronation Street pregnant, Cindy pregnant and so was Perry in Hollyoaks, shows a lot about this country. You can reply but don’t expect an answer back and if you are going to complain about my informal use of language don’t bother because that’s what ‘pure’ British use anyways and I might get deported so you don’t have to worry about me 🙂

  5. Imigrant

    Iam polish since 10years in britan constantly working.Got 2 kids and working wife. We do not take any benefits and dont live in council house. My family pays taxes and is feed up with putting us in bad light.
    Uk should:
    – get rid of benefits totaly. Inc british and muslim that dont work and have 2 or more holidays in spain every year ,get drunk every day and blame people like me for everything while dont even think to find a job.
    – close boarders for criminals

    That will end stupid talks about imigration and will show who is after making britan better place!
    70% of voters dont work and dont want to…. Who is paying for those people? What do they do for UK? Dont say that they cant find work because imigrants as its a nonsens, british people come to my workplace for 2days and they bored of working! Once again who is paying for their layzines????

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