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. wasd

    he is a cunt

  2. BlueCat57

    It is good to see that the state of education in the UK is as dismal as it is in the US.

    1. The grammar and spelling in some of the items written by and in response to the UKIP are horrible. Has no one heard of spelling and grammar checkers? They are easy to use even with smart phones and web browsers.

    2. Nobody seems to know what “multiculturalism” really means and what the logical results of espousing such a philosophy are. Do a search for “multiculturalism vs pluralism” and you will find that you want your society to be pluralistic not multicultural.

    3. Everybody assumes that everybody knows what the word “racist” means. The words you are looking for are BIGOT and prejudice. Muslims are not a race they are members of a religion. You can be prejudiced against a member of that faith or be a bigot because of their distinct religious garb, but how can you be a “racist” for disliking Muslims when they are made up of every “ethnic” group on the planet? Just not logical. Simple, basic logic is not taught in the UK or the US. Look up the comment of the Uncle in “The Chronicles of Narnia” on the subject of logic. See Wikipedia for an explanation of Race (human classification) as it is used in the term “racist.”

    While it makes me feel better that the state of education is as dismal in the rest of the world as it is in the US (Don’t get me started on how biased and invalid statistics about education are.), it gives me concern for MY future. Who is going to work THEIR butts off to pay for MY cushy retirement like I worked MINE off to pay for THEIR worthless education?

  3. Rossnhoj Rossnhoj

    Ruby Stockham Englander, Britisher, Irisher,Scottisher, STIRRER

    Blonde FairSkinned maybe blue eyes and very something but not of history ,

    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it
    cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
    for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst
    those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
    heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a
    traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face
    and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of
    all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the
    night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that
    it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the
    plague.”

    –Marcus Tullius Cicero

  4. AKL9

    UKIP are a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic, old, fear mongering, fascist, fuckers who are just scared of migrants. That’s what they are, don’t say I am WRONG BECAUSE IT’S THE TRUTH and I bet some of you out there are so deluded by their lies you can’t see the bullshit these people are spreading. YOU, YEAH YOU THE UKIP SUPPORTER READING THIS RIGHT NOW? you’re thinking I am lying, but I am not. What about when the ukip deputy leader Neil Hamilton said Muslims are destroying our country, send them back home! or when Nigel Farage called the EU president a wanker back in 1999? NO!!! it’s covered up by people like you with the IQ of a cornflake. Plus, in 2003 UKIP got 160,000 in donations. only 18,000 went to the actual party. You muppets are being controlled, it is going to nigel farage in some private bank account. I am Asian and I would never vote ukip or tory because right wing politics is irrational and thuggish. if your not racist ukip, why is 99.4% of your party white, while 0.6% is not? call that equal? FUCK YOU ALL UKIP SUPPORTERS!!! FUCK YOU.

  5. AKL9

    How’s labour racist? UKIP are the ones where police were called in over a racism scandal where 5 UKIP councillors assaulted a muslim girl who was homeless. you damn dirty Nazi pig

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