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:
It is deeply immoral to fund foreign aid with £1.8 trillion of debt & rising.Borrowing money from our children is plain wrong,ABOLISH IT NOW
— Godfrey Bloom (@goddersbloom) February 15, 2015
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’:
Don’t forget about step two of White Genocide: Genetic assimilation via forced integration http://t.co/t4YFoGtgAt — Harry Perry (@harryperry15) February 16, 2015
and has a rabid hatred of Islam:
the nazis; a warning from history-is there any difference between the islamic ideology and the nazis? — Harry Perry (@harryperry15) January 10, 2015
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.
Asian Muslims groom our white girls, now they rape our boys. Jordanian Paralympians commit sex offences. We need to reclaim our country — Ron Northcott UKIP (@RonNorthcott) August 22, 2012
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
293 Responses to “Is UKIP a racist party? These 15 comments would suggest so”
Ewan nown
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.”
Labour and the socialist leftist in the UK.
A foreigner comers to Britain kills a citizen here.
#1. the person is not vetted to enter the UK.
#2. That when he kills someone it is not is fault as they had reasons to commit this crime. (victim had reasons to be safe and live)
#3. The masses that Labour depend on emotional give out cry.
#4. Labour socialist leftist (SNP and Plaids too) justify this act and peer pressure starts “RACIST” is branded about.
A typical socialist reaction because they never take responsibility to they actions.
So this person who happens to come from abroad have enter the UK told it was NOT their fault they killed someone here and then. The socialist will pick out a labelled group and blame than for this persons actions.
We here it was the British its their fault as they had a imperial empire and this is the direct result. This person was poor and they are not in control of their action.
Actions are an individual act and they have consequences, but this does not help only that if hinders the socialist left agendas.
SEE THROUGH THEIR deceit and we will all live in harmony together.
Ewan nown
You cannot blame this old lady this is a life time of doctrine of the Labour party the once people part is now the well established political eleite all who are well paid.
The loyalty of the older generation are hard to break but the youth are naive and don’t hold to such things ….they will when grown up enough.
They will see their follies in supporting Labour.
What Labour have achieved for the working-man over the 100 years have been undone with in the last 20 years
Signing the EU treaty is one that have killed the workers rights and caused wage compression for all …but they will not blame themselves
They will make a economic issue into a racist one or I should say they tried to.
Flood of migrants changes the supply and demand of the work force more you have the cheaper the product and that is the labour from the worker.
Handy too as now Labour have created their supporter base, after all they are for (creating) poor.
SEE THROUGH THEIR deceit and we will all live in harmony together.
Revamped poster 1969 with the same theme as today just a new party with better workable policies that would of helped Britain back in the balck
Ewan nown
it is called forcing one groups values and culture on us …trouble is the Liebour party did exactly the same but the other way around in Libya and Iraq.
They pushed the west values and culture one them ” they are killing their own people ” “they are living in poverty”
“we need to do something about this” lets cause a war say it for their own good.
Same tactics their to change a people culture and they are doing it here causing resentment .
Playing groups against other groups (which they conveniently made up)
SEE THROUGH THEIR deceit and we will all live in harmony together.
Ewan nown
Labour funded officially and UN-offically UAF who cause more criminal damage and spread their brand of anti- fascism …which in itself is fascist and Hope Not Hate funded by the UNIONS who are affiliated with Labour party who also spread division and hatred within groups in society. That my friend is Racist bigotry and damn right hypocritical not the mention the PC word you socialist leftist made up xenophobic and BRITIAPHOBIC. ( you hate anything British in your own country)
These groups say they are for diversity and embrace peoples differences so why when 4 million people have a legitimate claim and point of view, that you and these self appoint righteous groups decide that the 4 million . Once most of these people voted the established political party’s including Labour they were not racist then, their diversity counted then but now are just racist, your diversity is not worth having.
For UKIP it is a Libertarian party = meaning that they respect everyone’s view including racist because they live her too and bigots meaning all Labourites are welcome …lol JOKE.
We don’t ;able you or put you in groups .
We don’t rub people noses in other people differences and cause animosity.
UKIP believe in the INDIVIDUAL not the collective/ group.
And the establishment and media cannot get their head around this because this idea is tried and tested and works …not like the ideology of socialism all theory and practices fails. This is the UK and Europe’s problem today
so please as a socialist explain why Russia the purist form of the teachings of Karl Marx are NOT a multicultural society only a one Party state.
Tell me why Russia don’t have the same problems as the west
“all white people are racists” Dianne Abbott
Like Asian white people come from different cultures and faiths but only socialist group people and tar them with the same brush.
This tactic is to divide and cause anarchy.
This tactic is inverted racism and inverted biguty and when use it makes the person a hypocrite
The New Labour party is the old 3 day week strikes crippling the country and the UK economy..energy blackouts Hard-line commie unions lead. 1970’s
SEE THROUGH THEIR deceit and we will all live in harmony together.
Poster 1987 who in Jeremy shadow cabinet.
Commies and traitors
comradeclaus
clearly the good proles of the left forgot about the 800 years of hellish moorish rule in spain, or the Chritophobic taxes that bankrupted millions of enslaved europeans (ie, evil racist whites) from Palmyra, to Alexandria to Morocco, to spain, portugal & beyond
do you know what became of those europeans once they ran out of money to pay the “infidel” tax? ask Lee Rigby, he can tell you! (there is not one family of whites alive, in the whole of north africa & the middle east that descends from the ancient whites of the Carthaginian, Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek & Roman, as they were ALL wiped out through genocide, even in anatolia, home to greeks even under the persian, had it’s whites butchered by the turkish invaders, who now aid isis)
or how about the tens of millions of innocent africans enslaved by muslims? the million murdered in south sudan, the 600000 murdered in Darfur. those alone had their lives taken by arabs in the past 20 years. Whites around the world grovel in shame for their past, yet muslims continue to murder rape & enslave africans without a shred of remorse