Not surprised Fulham admires an avowedly racist party and an avowed racist, considering his penchant for British nativism.
Nigel Farage (UKIP MEP since 1999, leader of the UKIP group of MEPs in the
European Parliament since 2004; former UKIP Chairman, 1998-2000 and cofounder, UKIP) told former UKIP leader Dr Alan Sked “We will never win the
nigger vote. The nig-nogs will never vote for us”, according to Dr Sked.
Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP MEP since 2004) wrote in the Daily Express: “They
[Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so… then racist I must be –
and happy and proud, to be so”
In December 2003, he discussed what he called “bleating blacks and Asians” in
Britain, asking “Why don’t they stop whining and get a life?”
4
In the unrest following the Iraq war, Kilroy-Silk also went on record saying that
“the orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than
the absence of restraining troops. And to think that good, decent, law-abiding
young British and American men and women laid down their lives to liberate this
thieving mob”.
5
Discussing Britain’s rise in HIV infections, he wrote “The indigenous population is
not responsible... It is the foreigners that we have to focus on”.
Dr Richard North (UKIP’s former Research Director in the European Parliament,
Brussels from 1999-2003) described our Spanish neighbours as “rag-arsed dagos” in
a BBC TV documentary video, The Enemy Within , which UKIP has described as “a
perfect tool for converting the sceptical… and showing at branch meetings”.
1
Peter Watson (Chairman, UKIP North Dorset branch) distributed anti-Semitic
messages via e-mail, including one remark that read “Jewish merchant bankers [are] responsible for the ills of England”.
11
The party refused to take any action
when Labour MEP Gary Titley brought it to their attention.
12
Frank Maloney (UKIP’s candidate in the 2004 London mayoral election), visited
Whitechapel in May 2004 and subsequently complained: “Barely anyone speaks
English and to look around you would think you are in a different country”.
13
(It
was this remark that led Mayor Ken Livingstone to conclude, “UKIP are the British
National Party in suits”.)
Reigate Grammar School banned a planned political meeting on its premises after
it judged UKIP’s website to be “racist and offensive”.
14
A UKIP leaflet circulated in
South Derbyshire during the 2004 European elections expressed the view that the
rest of Europe is ruled by “barbarians”.
1
Robert Kilroy-Silk MEP has suggested that paratroopers should “herd the
immigrants together” and dump them on a “slow boat to – wherever”.
17
Dianne Carr (UKIP parliamentary candidate at the 2001 general election and a
BNP candidate at the 2004 European elections) believes that “the EU is turning
England into individual regions and bringing in asylum seekers and alien people
and putting them in certain areas right across the middle of Britain and trying to
turn it into an Islamic state”.
18
Andrew Moffatt (UKIP parliamentary candidate in Beaconsfield at the 2001 general
election and member of the Young National Front, 1977-79) declared at a UKIP
meeting in Beaconsfield: “Speaking personally, we should put a complete halt to all
asylum seekers.”
19
A UKIP national leaflet published during the 2004 European elections depicted
hordes of foreigners invading Britain via the Channel Tunnel, with the slogan
“Great Britain – standing room only”.
2
Michael Nattrass (UKIP MEP since 2004; UKIP Deputy Leader since 2002; former
UKIP Chairman, 2000-02 and former NEC member of the far-Right New Britain
Party and NBP parliamentary by-election candidate in 1994) has said: “I’m not
interested in sensitivities [on immigration issues], I’m interested in being British”.
2
Frank Maloney (UKIP candidate in the 2004 London mayoral election) commented
that he would not be campaigning in Camden because there are “too many gays”.
He said “I don’t want to campaign around gays… I don’t think they do a lot for
society”. Protesting that he was not homophobic, Maloney then added “In public
let’s live a proper moral life – I think that’s important”.
23
They hate women too.
Godfrey Bloom (UKIP MEP since 2004) has notoriously declared: “No selfrespecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a
lady of child-bearing age”. He applied for a place on the Women’s Rights
Committee of the European Parliament, saying “I am here to represent Yorkshire
women who always have dinner on the table when you get home. I am going to
promote men’s rights”. He wanted to deal with women’s issues because “I just
don’t think they clean behind the fridge enough”.
3
Mr Bloom later said that employers should not “waste” money training pregnant
staff, and added “Women don’t need protection nowadays – they’re the ones ruling
the roost”.
3
Godfrey Bloom MEP has called for the abolition of the Equal Opportunities
Commission, calling it “an anachronism”.3