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. jjwspencer

    Come on, you are a muzzie aren’t you?

  2. QZC

    There are a large number of people who vote UKIP who say things like “I’m not racist but…”

    They are racist and don’t know it.

    If you say you do not like muslims, then yes, you are racist. I don’t care if Islam is not a ‘race’. As far as you are concerned it is, since muslims come from so many countries and races that if you think you can neatly bucket them and make sweeping statements like that yes, you are effectively racist.

    UKIP has some sensible policies but they are appealing to a certain group of people who are racist but don’t know it. A group of people who think being PC is a crime. Political correctness has brought about some of the most important changes to the modern world. I am from a generation that, when we were young, called homosexuals ‘f@ggot’ and made fun of disabled people. Stand up comics used to make fun of them. It was in the media and no one thought anything of it. Now I know better – and, hopefully so do you, and it is because of political correctness.

    White people – some of you don’t realise you are racist, just like I didn’t realise I was a homophobe. Don’t get blinded by media. You think that you are thinking better than everyone else and that the world is going crazy and that you are the only sane person who can see through all the rubbish – but you are the ones with the view tainted by the media. They love to show you mug shots of a Muslim rape gang member on the front page. It sells more papers that showing a white paedophile in a suit quietly going out to Bangkok every year to do his ‘business’.

    If you want to vote UKIP for their policies then I understand, and there are some quite sensible ones. But if you are voting UKIP because you have something against immigrants, then bear in mind that immigrants are not all here to use up the state benefits. A vast number of them hugely qualified, paying more taxes than you, and doing important jobs, and ones that you just don’t have enough qualified English people for. Indeed, the NHS would fall apart without them.

    If you just believe in ‘sensible immigration control’ then I get it and I understand. Just make sure of your motives.

  3. Clive Christian

    Er Sharia law perhaps?..changing laws changes culture..ergo…oh and before You say it only applies to Muslim’s that is not what Muslims want..they want it across the board. To be honest I am sick of the word racism..it just get’s on my nerves hearing people using childish one word insults to debate a point. It is noticeable how emotive words conjure up more anger and hatred. Why do anti racists continually hand wring …as if white’s are responsible for all the ills in the world? We have a culture that now discriminates against White’s and in particular the white poor. For instance I detest the use of the term ‘White trash’..a racist term if ever there was one. Do anti racists complain? No..because anti racism has become corrupt. What started out as a noble cause has been undermined by a raft of extremists. Anti racism is about fairness. It’s not about immigration as it is common sense to control borders to protect ones culture. When mass immigration changes society to a level where we are so disparate we cannot communicate or form social bonds….that society eventually falls into anarchy. As someone who grew up poor and has lived in relative poverty due to illness and I can assure You in 100 years a group of people will be hand wringing over why we let the homeless live in squalor and let super rich non doms pay no tax. According to research we have 10 million people in the UK who are unwaged at working age..British people…they want work but are trapped in a benefit system that hammers them if they try to work. Personally I think this is all divide and rule. It’s what the people who really pull the strings want. A new era of universal slavery facilitated by people who couldn’t see that slavery is worse than the ‘neo racism’ that supposedly exists..but only in the minds of Men. Sorry is that sexist? Common sense people!

  4. Clive Christian

    So certain types of human being are scum are they? Hitler thought that….You are a contradiction..a paradox..and Your rationale holds no credence..but You are most certainly not scum..nor trash..nor any other inflammatory one word, one syllable response.

  5. bee

    Never voting ukip

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