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. Benedict

    The comments here are fucking insane. People say the same shit where I live too. “Islam is this, Islam is that, they’re trying to bring in sharia law, halal is bad etc”. Firstly, i do not believe the majority of Muslims want sharia law brought into legislature in England, Europe, America or Australia. Secondly even if they did, why would they be allowed to do so? Is there a Muslim party anybody can tell me about with the seats to even get into power? Let alone win an election and be sworn Into government? Even if this were the case and they did try to pass this sort of change I am certain the other parties would move to block any such attempt and shortly after would move for a vote of no confidence. That is of course in the massively unlikely event such a thing happened.
    So why all this bullshit about sharia law? Any retard can see it’s never gonna happen.

  2. Patrick Nelson

    …and what exactly is my attitude?

  3. madasafish

    I am a realist unlike you whose solution “for these organized abuse gangs is sentence their members to death and hang them.” is impossible to carry out.

  4. Patrick Nelson

    Who knows what the future will bring.

  5. Thomas Evans

    1. UKIP member?
    Really? Are we really scrutinising former members of political parties?
    Have members of other parties been scrutinised the same way?

    So 1 person out of 50,000 posts something inappropriate. He is got rid of.
    But hey use it as an example anyway.

    If UKIP hadn’t got rid of him it would be worth questioning. They did though.

    2. Actually he was suspended the day of his council election win.

    The fact he was got rid of is proof UKIP have a zero tolerance policy toward racism and further proof that they are NOT racist.

    3. Left the party at the end of 2014 as he was removed from position within UKIP.

    4. Yes. One of the media/political parties went through his timeline over year after conducting a campaign of reviewing ALL UKIP’s candidates.

    This such campaign was never applied to any other party or its candidates.

    But hey… Seems very fair huh?

    Oh and he was sacked. Article forgets to mention that.

    5. So he was suspended?

    Further evidence of zero tolerance policy.

    6. …and was removed as a UKIP member.
    Again the author of the article forgets to mention this conveniently.

    7. “Joseph Quirk, former UKIP candidate for Boldon Colliery Ward…”

    Former… So got rid of then?

    8. He is entitled to his opinion.
    Considering the instances of Islamic extremism and unlawful events taking place within the UK and people leaving the UK to fight for terror organisations. I would say he is entitled to his opinion.

    It isn’t however UKIP policy.
    FYI. Islam isn’t a race.

    9. See answer to 8.

    10. “Former Offerton councillor Harry Perry’s Twitter feed is astonishing…”

    …and has nothing to do with UKIP.
    As you said… “Former”…

    11. …and?
    The American football league implements a similar system?

    12. No mention of him being removed as a UKIP member.
    Also another random member… Hardly newsworthy.

    13. You don’t see militant Islam as a problem? Political Correctness and the fear of being accused of racism was what lead to 1,400 young girls being raped in Rotherham.
    But of course… Left wingers never learn and you hammer home any constructive or needed criticism as “racism” as you do in this article leading to increased risk of events like Rotherham happening again?!

    14. See attached picture.

    Simple fact of the matter is Romanian crime is a issue in the EU member states.

    15. “In 2013, the then Stourport-on-Severn councillor Eric Kitson was questioned by police after he shared anti-Muslim cartoons on Facebook.”

    And was promptly sacked by UKIP!

    291 cases of Councillors and PPC’s at the Labour Party, Lib Dems and Conservatives committing unacceptable acts from January to April. Yet this article only highlights 15 going over 3 years at UKIP.

    http://nopenothope.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/291-liblabconsnp-councillors-their.html

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