Ukip member in election broadcast suspended over racist tweets

[muriel_volestrangler]

The inevitable clown cavalcade of UKIP candidates for this year begins:

Andre Lampitt said Ed Miliband 'not a real Brit', 'most Nigerians are bad people' and Islam is an 'evil organisation'

The UK Independence party has suspended one of its five supporters chosen to appear on its first European election broadcast after it emerged he had posted a series of racist and Islamaphobic tweets that also condemned Ed Miliband as "a Pole" and called for Africans to be left alone to kill themselves.

The election broadcast featured builder Andre Lampitt criticising eastern European immigration. He said: "Since the lads from eastern Europe are prepared to work for a lot less than anybody else, I've found it a real struggle." In common with the other Ukip supporters featured on the broadcast Lampitt is not named.

After the tweets came to light, a Ukip spokesman said: "We are deeply shocked that Mr Lampitt has expressed such repellent views. His membership of the party has been suspended immediately pending a full disciplinary process."

Lampitt's offensive and potentially unlawful tweets have been posted in the past few months. He describes Islam as a Satanic religion and claims Nigerians are bad people.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/24/ukip-member-broadcast-suspended-racist-tweets

[shenmue]

1. Ha ha!

Busted.

[Prophet 451]

2. I'm surprised he was suspended

UKIP = British Teabaggers.

[LeftishBrit]

3. "We are deeply shocked that Mr Lampitt has expressed such repellent views

I'm not really shocked any more. When so many candidates and activists have expressed 'repellent' views, this is telling you something about the current leadership.

First time I've heard Miliband described as a 'Pole' (so am I, then!); but I have suspected for a long time that some of the more vicious personal hostility to Ed Miliband on the Right includes regarding him as one of those untrustworthy furriners, and a joo at that! Mind you, some of the same types of people objected to Gordon Brown's being Scottish.

[non sociopath skin]

4. Does ANYONE really buy UKIP's "deep shock" any more?

Come on, guys, admit it.

This is your MAINSTREAM.

And, yes, I have little doubt that much of the Right's antipathy to Ed Miliband is anti-semitic. That "funny-looking" is a dog-whistle if I ever heard one ....

The Skin

[T_i_B]

5. Another one here...

Who has long since ceased to be shocked by how dreadful UKIP are, the dreadful people they attract, or the inevitable reaction when one of them gets caught out.

To be honest, I think a lot of UKIP voters won't be put off by such scandals, and part of that is down to how utterly disillusioned so many people are with the 3 main parties.