UKIP are worryingly visible at the moment as I’m sure you can’t have failed to notice. They are being taken ever more seriously and that, for me, is terrifying. I thought I would collate some of the bizarre, depressing and offensive things they’ve said, just so people can be clear that they are not a serious political party.
Farage, everyone’s least favourite beer drinker, is used to his party members saying things that make themselves, and him, look like grade-A divs. His defense is always the same – a few bad apples are ruining it for the rest of the party.
But, from the following quotes, it’s clear that it would be difficult to find even a single edible apple amongst their fetid selection of putrefying old fruit…
Silvester (suspended from Ukip in January) called homosexuality a “spiritual disease”, and declared that
…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?
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.
Gasper is clearly on the ball. She also said that some homosexuals prefer sex with animals. Forward thinking at its best.
Just FYI her doctorate isn’t in medicine, obviously, it’s in English Literature. She has since quit the party under a hailstorm of rebuke.
Ukip member Jan Zolyniak (and he is just a member so this perhaps isn’t very fair to quote him, but it caused a right fuss at the time so it’s worth a mention) claimed:
The evidence is quite clear that the percentage of homosexuals who molest children is very high and cannot be dismissed.
Douglas Denny, of the Bognor Regis branch of Ukip, said homosexuals have…
…leftie, neo-commie followers… 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.
The Yorkshire and Humber MEP – Godfrey Bloom – said that a group of Ukip women who didn’t clean behind their fridges were “sluts”. Much more from him coming up…
Godfrey Bloom is a fairly prolific dipstick when it comes to unbelievable quotes. You may remember him referring to countries that received UK aid as “Bongo Bongo Land” – that statement is a genuine display of open mindedness if ever I heard one. He also claimed that aid was being spent on fighter planes in Pakistan and sunglasses. Yes, sunglasses.
Here’s another of Bloom’s bloomers on the smoking ban:
The maniacal anti smoking Adolf Hitler I suggest would not dare, had he won the war in 1945, to invoke such a rule on English gentlemen.
Bloom on the mourning after Diana’s death in 1997:
Weeping and bawling reminiscent of an Arab nation at a state funeral where the culture demands heart on sleeve behaviour on such occasions. That the British had come to this made me deeply embarrassed… I sincerely hope never to see the like of it again.
Bloom on anti-hunt protesters:
The foam flecked, snarling, class warrior, bed sit dwellers who sit knitting balaclavas and surfing porn on the net.
More from the Bloomster on NHS waiting list beefs, this guy is a goldmine:
If everybody had to pay a crisp £5 note for the benefit of an appointment, only returnable if the visit was actually merited, you would find that you could cut waiting times and the numbers in waiting rooms and free up doctors to actually help people who have a serious problem.
Ukip is part of a group known as Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD), Farage is co-leader with Lega Nord’s Francesco Speroni (above). Speroni isn’t Ukip per se, but I think it’s fair to tar Ukip with their white as snow brush. He described the madman mass murderer Anders Breivik as someone whose “ideas are in defense of western civilisation.” Mario Borghezio (below), another member of the group also said that some of Breivik’s ideas were “excellent”.
Farage knew that this was a tiny step too far and asked Borghezio to apologise. Borghezio didn’t even pretend to say sorry he went on a mad rant which included this terrifying splurge:
Long live the Whites of Europe, long live our identity, our ethnicity, our race… our blue sky, like the eyes of our women. Blue, in a people who want to stay white.
This spurred Ukip to leave EFD… oh no, hang on a minute, they’re still part of the EFD. Great.
Farage, in an interview with Andrew Marr in January 2013 said…
Ukip is the only UK party to explicitly ban BNP members from joining
… I think she doth protest too much?
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Stuart Agnew, Ukip MEP for the East of England, let this belter out of the bag:
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.
…it’s not particularly offensive in the grand scheme of Ukip-isms, but it’s still pretty moronic.
Farage defends his stance on banning the burqa in certain public buildings:
I can’t go into a bank with a motorcycle helmet on. I can’t wear a balaclava going round the District and Circle line.
Farage after a no-show at an event in Wales, blaming immigration for his tardiness:
It took me six hours and 15 minutes to get here – it should have taken three-and-a-half to four. That is nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a population that is going through the roof chiefly because of open-door immigration and the fact that the M4 is not as navigable as it used to be.
Farage being interviewed on Fox News, talking balls about Islam in Britain:
So wherever you look you see this blind eye being turned and you see the growth of ghettos where the police and all the normal agents of the law have withdrawn and that is where Sharia Law has come in
If you were in any doubt as to whether Ukip had well measured ideas and a firm grip on stats and figures Ukip peer Lord Pearson nails it…
The Muslims are breeding ten times faster than us… I don’t know at what point they reach such a number we are no longer able to resist the rest of their demands.
I would have put a “LOL” at the end of that if it wasn’t so frighteningly insane. (PS: he looks like Dracula.)
UKip has one MEP of the female persuasion left – Marta Andreasen – and she threatened to leave after painting Farage in a slightly poo-brown shade, she called Farage an “anti-women Stalinist dictator” whose view is that “women should be in the kitchen or in the bedroom”.
Andreasen’s comments come off the back of these sorts of Farage nonsense nuggets:
Lap dancing? Don’t have the time these days, but I used to go to them. Like it or not, they are a fact of life. You are talking about normal behaviour there. Everyone does it.
And talking about infidelity…
Well, we’re all human. There is a big difference between that sort of thing and being really bad.
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Here’s another from an apparently intoxicated Bloom:
no employer with a brain in the right place would employ a young, single, free woman.
Brilliant. And Farage’s response to this line?:
Dear old Godders! Godfrey’s comment [as above] has been proved so right.
Geoffrey Clark really pushed the envelope and got himself sacked with this irredeemably bad quote:
Compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Down’s, spina bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, could render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family.
If someone was writing a comedy sitcom about idiots in politics they wouldn’t dare write something as awful as that, no one would believe it possible.
I like this next one, because it was said whilst talking on BBC Radio 4. It wasn’t an accidental late night tweet or an overheard conversation, this guy knew he was being recorded and just thought it was OK to say these sorts of things. He said that women are…
nowhere near as good as men…
…at chess, bridge and poker.
To be fair, he’s probably right, women have got better things to do. But it’s just the fact that he said it on air without even the slightest idea that someone might be up in arms.
Farage once said that 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.
Janice, enchanting wench that she is, has recently found herself in the spotlight thanks to some pretty tasty financial faux pas. The official einquiry will find out for sure if fiddling her expenses is AOK or not. If you recognise her name it’s because she called a Thai lady (who is also a UKIP member(!?)) a “ting tong”. How erudite:
In a TV interview, yes, on the TV, not recorded secretly from a private bunker, Duncan said the following, shortly after declaring she wasn’t a racist:
The only people I do have problems with are negroes…
Wow. Sugar coat that. Rozanne Duncan did end up getting fired from UKIP but that hasn’t stopped her hitting the news again recently with her hate-filled mantras.
There’s plenty more on the old internet but I think that will do for now… and it’s worth remembering that these are the quotes made in the public domain. Just imagine what goes on behind closed doors.
So if you find yourself even partially agreeing with anything that Ukip stands for, you still shouldn’t vote for them. Ever. They are unanimously mental. Farage will continue to sack those representatives that accidentally expose the mad things they think are true, but the problem is, Ukip’s ethos attracts divs, and it always will.
