http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukips-top-...ge-godfrey-bloom-david-silvester-more-1433098 Looking at this website, there's some terrible things being printed about these good honest folk who just want Britain leaving to "UK" people: 1. David Silvester, who called homosexuality a "spiritual disease", said: "Since the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, the nation has been beset by serious storms and floods. One recent one caused the worst flooding for 60 years. The Christmas floods were the worst for 127 years. Is this just global warming or is there something more serious at work?" Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom making controversial remarks Godfrey Bloom had the whip removed in 2013 after calling female Ukip members "****s" 2. In an investigation led by the Sunday Mirror, Dr Julia Gasper said: "As for the links between homosexuality and paedophilia, there is so much evidence that even a full-length book could hardly do justice to the *subject." 3. Speaking on the same issue, Ukip member Jan Zolyniak claimed: "The evidence is quite clear that the percentage of homosexuals who molest children is very high and cannot be dismissed." 4. Douglas Denny, of the Bognor Regis branch in West Sussex, said homosexuals have "leftie, neo-commie followers". He said: "I just wish they would keep their *homosexual nature and practices to *themselves and stop trying to ram it down my throat telling me they are 'normal' when they are not." 5. It wouldn't be a complete list without the wisecracking Godfrey Bloom. The Yorkshire and Humber MEP had the whip removed in September 2013, after a recording emerged of him joking that a group of Ukip women who did not clean behind their fridges were "****s". Related Nigel Farage Explains Why Women Are 'Worth Less' Than Men #UkipWeather : Twitter Hits Back After Ukip's David Silvester Blamed UK Floods on Gay Marriage Ukip Suspends David Silvester for Gay Marriage Comments 6. In August, Bloom came under fire after referring to countries that received government aid as "Bongo Bongo Land". He claimed that UK aid was being spent on fighter planes in Pakistan, as well as luxury sunglasses. He said: "How we can possibly be giving £1bn a month, when we're in this sort of debt, to Bongo Bongo Land is completely beyond me." 7. Stuart Agnew, Ukip MEP for the East of England, suggested that women lacked the ambition to succeed because children got in the way. Following the footsteps of Bloom, he argued: "If you look at the people who get degrees more, women get them and they are getting the jobs in the workplace but for various reasons they don't have the ambition to go right to the top because something gets in the way. It's called a baby." UKIP leader Nigel Farage UKIP leader Nigel Farage said women were "worth less" than men in business 8. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World At One in August, Stuart Wheeler, party treasurer, said women were "nowhere near as good as men" at chess, bridge and poker. 9. Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader said women with children were "worth less" than men in the financial sector. He claimed women with children were responsible for their own reduction in pay if they have children – because they take maternity leave and become less valuable to their businesses. 10. Farage also prioritised lower economic growth and a poorer Britain over an increase in migrants in the UK. "The social side of this matters more than pure market economics," he said. Disgraceful
Cheers I was going to dredge all that stuff up last night but really couldn't be arsed. BNP lite. There's nowt wrong with being concerned with the impact of immigration but UKIP are just exploiting this and some elements of the working classes for their own ends. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
Ok so you've now proven that 7 or 8 UKIP candidates have made some bad, and some appalling, statements or have some very bad ideas over the last year or so. I'd agree. From a party with 120 seats and counting. And established 4 years ago. They will slowly clense the party of the more radical or idiotic. Their growth is almost unrivalled in recent uk politics. They will attract some barmpots! But on those examples all UKIP members are racist or homophobic or mysoginistic? That's something a UKIP member would do. In your eyes.
Ah but it's not just the odd member. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ugly-face-ukip-sunday-mirror-1531879 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
The mirror and the daily mail.... Both articles are poorly written alarmist attempts to smear all candidates. What actual percentage of UKIP members are guilty of holding racist or homophobic views? When someone can tell me that, compared to the other parties, and held up against the national average then I will begin to agree or disagree that they are more or less so than anyone else. Highlighting these examples doesn't prove all members, or even a majority, are racist.
The problem is they are arguing for something that all racists want. And they need their vote as much as people with non-racist concerns over immigration, meaning they use language and arguments to appeal to racists. And if you resort to that it is always going to be difficult to argue you are anything else.
I gave you the Mirror and the Mail for two sides of the political spectrum. Let's be honest you can't smear ***** can you... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
No the articles mentioned don't prove that all UKIP's members are racist does seem to indicate that racism and sexism are endemic. If you court the BNP vote as they clearly do it's unsurprising they attract racists. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD