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davidgillon) wrote2015-01-27 10:22 pm
davidgillon) wrote2015-01-27 10:22 pm
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UKIP, you couldn't make it up - number 187 in a continuing series
Latest *headdesk* on the UKIP front is a parliamentary candidate found to have posted online that gays are 'fascist perverts' and 'paedophiles':
The article is in Pink News, so their focus is understandable, but I think a mainstream news organisation might have led with the fact that he was posting online in the forums of the BNP's website, and defending the EDL when he made the remarks.
This is someone who has supposedly been through UKIP's enhanced background checking to ensure he's never been a BNP supporter or the like. If it misses something as blatant as him posting on the BNP website, then you have to wonder just what sort of an enhanced checking process they've come up with - I'm picturing something along the lines of those forms they hand out on US-bound flight asking if you're entering the country for the purpose of the overthrow of the state, cos they always work....
UKIP candidate: Gay people are ‘fascist perverts’ and ‘paedophiles’
The article is in Pink News, so their focus is understandable, but I think a mainstream news organisation might have led with the fact that he was posting online in the forums of the BNP's website, and defending the EDL when he made the remarks.
This is someone who has supposedly been through UKIP's enhanced background checking to ensure he's never been a BNP supporter or the like. If it misses something as blatant as him posting on the BNP website, then you have to wonder just what sort of an enhanced checking process they've come up with - I'm picturing something along the lines of those forms they hand out on US-bound flight asking if you're entering the country for the purpose of the overthrow of the state, cos they always work....
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