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UKIP stand by candidate over ‘Koran is worse than Mein Kampf’ slur

12:39pm Thu May 3rd

UKIP party bosses are standing by their candidate Dr Julia Gasper after Scrapbook exposed her sick claims that the Islam’s holiest book is worse than Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Despite claiming they do not support Gasper’s sick views, the party have refused to sack her, saying in a statement:

“UKIP does not share her view, nor do we support it. But we do support her right to hold those views.”

Complementing her Islamophobia with gay-hating, delusional Gasper has been telling anyone who will listen that she has received an implausible 200 death threats by email in the wake of an expose by Pink News. She claims she is under “police protection” — although Thames Valley Police have refused to confirm this.

Seemingly emboldened by her party’s absolutely unsupportive support for her hole-digging, Gasper carried on in the comments on Scrapbook’s post. Her tirade against “smears” included this brilliant gem:

“I have a D. Phil in literature from Oxford University … I know what I am talking about.”

This might seem counter-productive for a party with designs on the political mainstream — but remember this is party nutjob Roger Helmer defected to.

Defection rumour mill rumbles on as former MP quits Tories for UKIP

12:42pm Fri April 27th

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With UKIP currently riding high in the polls, David Cameron’s Eurosceptic pain shows no sign of abating – with a former MP defecting and a backbencher spending more time talking to Nigel Farage than whips would like.

Teresa Gorman, who served as MP for Billericay between 1987 and 2001, is backing UKIP in the local elections, and even signed the nomination papers of one of their candidates. Gorman was one of the John Major’s Maastricht rebels and the local leader of UKIP boasted that she had “been with them for some time”.

Potential UKIP sympathisers aren’t limited to former MPs either — counting some of the biggest names on the Westminster backbenches amongst their number. But Guido Fawkes’ recent roundup of potential defectors omits Angela Watkinson, who is rumoured to have been spending rather too much time with senior UKIP figures.

Watkinson could be Westminter’s strongest candidate to cross the floor, with her consistently anti-EU Commons record and her former membership of the (now banned) über-right-wing Monday Club. At the age of 70, she may have little to lose in defecting.

UKIP may well boast parliamentarians in both Houses by 2015.

Now UKIP recruit claims it is “dangerous” to let unemployed vote

2:06pm Wed April 18th

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After Scrapbook exposed sick comments from a UKIP councillor on banning unemployed people from voting, the party’s most high-profile new recruit has rushed to his defence, claiming Cllr Tom Bursnall “has a point”, going on to say it is “dangerous” to let unemployed people vote.

Having defected from the Tories, 23 year-old Alexandra Swann was the star turn at UKIP’s recent conference in Skegness — with party leader Nigel Farage proudly declaring that “the Swann has migrated”.

But appearing to agree with Cllr Bursnall, who as the former chair of Conservative Future is also a defector from the Tories to UKIP, she continued:

“allowing people to vote on how other people’s money is spent — if they dont contribute — is dangerous”

With these views, Scrapbook was unsurprised to learn that Swann idolises anarcho-Libertarian philosophers and is completing a PhD in social Darwinism.

Farage: EU will cause violent nationalism in Ireland

1:24pm Mon March 28th

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UKIP Leader Nigel Farage has predicted a return to violent, Irish nationalism.

In a remarkable aside, Farage speculated;

“Now they (Ireland) see themselves as no more than a province of this set of European Institutions….

“We will see Irish Nationalism and violence again because their identity and their democracy has been taken from them.”

Farage departed from his heavily practiced anti-EU speech during a question & answer session at the end of a speaking engagement at the University of Ghent in Belgium.

Quite why he distinguished between the potential for Irish violence and the other 26 member states of the EU is only for Farage himself to know.

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Norman Tebbit says vote for UKIP (again)

11:08pm Sun March 7th

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Tory curmudgeon Norman Tebbit has told the Politics Show that Conservative activists should be free to campaign against speaker John Bercow in Buckhingham. Numerous opponents are expected to join the fray despite convention that the speaker stands as an independent candidate unopposed by other parties. Tebbit has already rankled Tory high command with his coded endorsement for UKIP in the 2009 European elections.

Of course, the noble lord wouldn’t touch the (pro-European) former Tory MEP John Stevens with a bargepole. Who, then, could he possibly be endorsing?

Cough.