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. Anonymous

    1) ONE nation is predominantly white in Africa and why don’t you look into their history? Idiot.
    2) I agree, everyone is capable of bigotry and racism, but this is a UK issue.
    3) Other countries have racism issues, but lets deal with those later, huh?

  2. anonymous

    I correct myself over saying South Africa is predominantly white, it isn’t. Demographic mistake, just like Jason Lewis up there. I still believe Jason needs some history lessons.

  3. John Davis

    Let’s also discuss who are the actual customers of these disgusting Asian men sexually abusing and prostituting these girl…….British men, that’s who hand money to these low lives, 100’s and 1000’s of them, no one comes out of this clean, the Asian men or their British customers. It’s all horrendous.

  4. Ewan nown

    Labour Political Correctness brigadiers have pushed the last 30 years to reshape the perception of the British peoples thinking “RACISM” is the word Labour and all socialist push to shut people up Leon Trotsky used the term when the Red Army annexed every East European state into the Communist State of Russia so to justify the hostile take over of a individual nations ….And the Left in Britain are using the tried and tested method here in Britain and Europe to dire consequences …But true fashion the Socialists blame everyone else but themselves who created the mess with their Political Correct agendas.

    Lyrics of the “Keep RED Flag Flying High”

    The People’s Flag is deepest red,It shrouded oft our martyred dead,And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,Their hearts’ blood dyed its every fold.

    Chorus:So raise the scarlet standard high.Beneath its folds we’ll live and die,Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,We’ll keep the red flag flying here.

    Look round, the Frenchman loves its blaze,The sturdy German chants its praise,In Moscow’s vaults its hymns were sungChicago swells the surging throng.

    (chorus)

    It waved above our infant might,When all ahead seemed dark as night;It witnessed many a deed and vow,We must not change its colour now.

    (chorus)

    It well recalls the triumphs past,It gives the hope of peace at last;The banner bright, the symbol plain,Of human right and human gain.

    (chorus)

    It suits today the weak and base,Whose minds are fixed on pelf and placeTo cringe before the rich man’s frown,And haul the sacred emblem down.

    (chorus)

    With head uncovered swear we allTo bear it onward till we fall;Come dungeons dark or gallows grim,This song shall be our parting hymn.

    (chorus)

    (Left = commie, Right = Fascist both have red flags)

  5. Ewan nown

    Your mother of 84 years is from a time when being proud to be British was the norm that is not racist. The Leftist socialist have twisted it and now it seems that anyone from the old generation is racist when they are not so, …they would of help anyone in their day not like the selfish lazy indoctrinated generations of today with materialistic goals.

    Socialism believe in a stateless country and to do that have pushed the agenda of undermining every natural human desire to slag each European culture but to do so have set up the super state EU to help the socialist dream of utopia.
    #1. breakdown countries societies by PC lagle people point out their differences and them let each group fight amongst themselves.
    #2.Give them a push in doing so when the socialists dreams and agenda need them to progress their agenda.
    #3. Slag anything of the Countries culture values and their norms to help cause anarchy and sectarianism and division
    #4. Indoctrinate them with made up Po9litical Correctness and psychologically mess with their thought process, that way their suggestions will help to forge a new order and have people thinking the state knows best. (straight from the COMMUNIST/socialist handbook)

    #5. kepp this up for at least 20 years a generation that way peer pressure will form any counteraction of this indoctrine.

    #6. Tell the people they are now good that it is useless to try and go it alone and we need other the join up to make things good for our welling. Make rules and apply them without them noticing over a said long period …claim it human rights or equality reasons and they will nod yes. (an old salesman technique).

    #7. Now imply we need to unite and start to create a new order under the disguise of a trade deal and slow change this into a State to rule the individual nations = and now we are living in a socialist controlled state were the state comes first and you last.

    utopia and equality for all. NO LIBERTY.

    All because you opened your mouth and they said your Racist

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