It has been said many times before that UKIP are the BNP for middle class people who aren't openly racist, but harbour those sort of thoughts, and it appears that this may actually be true.
The Telegraph reports that Paul Wiffen - the London UKIP chair and PPC for Ilford South - has been suspended from any party positions (but still allowed to campaign for UKIP in his constituency) for this racist rant on the website Community Care...
Britain is full, you prat! Even your scummy, illiterate Grauniad admits it!
In the circumstances, I think "get lost" is positively polite. "Go forth and multiply" elsewhere would be my wording.
You left-wing scum are all the same, wanting to hand our birthright to Romanian gypsies who beat their wives and children into begging and stealing money they can gamble with, Muslim nutters who want to kill us and put us all under mediaeval Sharia law, the same Africans who sold their Afro-Caribbean brothers into a slavery that Britain was the first to abolish (but you still want to apologize for!)
Worry about where we are going to live and grow food, you wanker, not the UKIP policy that might just save your worthless skin!
I shouldn't be surprised that this sort of idiocy has emerged from UKIP, but this is a colossal mistake just before an election.
Digging deeper it seems surprising that this story first broke in Hugh Muir's Guardian diary almost a week ago yet it took until today for the Telegraph and BBC London News to pick it up. Muir commented that...
The end came quickly. We rang Ukip, and though he seemed quite defiant when we rang him, they last night suspended him from any party position with a view to disciplinary proceedings. He was a character. But he hardly seemed very nice.
Still the question remains, if UKIP aren't a racist party, why aren't they stopping him standing in Ilford South and why isn't any of this on their website.
Perhaps the funniest part of the whole this is his apology...
Explaining what sparked his outburst he said: “I was very surprised to see such a party political piece on a website called Community Care, and when I read the lies about Ukip being a racist party, I just saw red and fired off an angry email.
So he saw someone saying that UKIP were racist, and proceded to prove them right... some things are beyond satire.
Hello Martin,
ReplyDeleteI wrote the blog that so incensed Paul Wiffen. As it happens, I didn't call Ukip racist, although I did describe its policy on asylum as cynical. He would have everyone believe otherwise. It was only after Wiffen posted his inflammatory remarks that subsequent visitors to the blog questioned Ukip's race equality credentials.
Mike
Thanks for the clarification... I think it's even more beyond satire, that he saw some invisible person calling UKIP racist and then proceeded to write a racist comment.
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