Are ukip supporters a bit thick ?

[chronic1]

Ukip mistakes Westminster Cathedral for mosque

Nigel Farage’s Ukip branch rebukes BBC for ingrained liberal bias in holding straw poll about leader in front of noted Muslim place of worship ... wait, hang on

Westminster Cathedral: not a mosque. Photograph: George Rose/Getty Images

Thursday 27 November 2014 13.14 GMT

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Nigel Farage’s local Ukip branch has rebuked the BBC for its ingrained liberal bias in holding a straw poll on the party leader in front of a London mosque. The mosque in question was Westminster Cathedral.

On Tuesday, The Daily Politics, the BBC show hosted by Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn, tweeted:

— DailySunday Politics (@daily_politics)

November 25, 2014

Has

@Nigel_Farage

got what it takes to be PM? See how the balls fall in

@reporterboy

film on Tue

#bbcdp

after 1200

pic.twitter.com/0rtIoW1KrK

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics)

November 25, 2014

UKIP now has two MPs and has been rising in the polls, but do people see the party as a serious political force...

http://t.co/dDhct2B7U6

As Daily Politics fans will know, @reporterboy is journalist Giles Dilnot, who conducts straw polls of public opinion using coloured balls.

The clip referred to showed him speaking in front of an ornate, domed, pink and terracotta religious building, and it seemed to irk the Ukip branch in South Thanet, Kent, where Nigel Farage has been selected as a candidate for the general election next year:

Ukip South Thanet’s tweet Photograph: UKIP tweet screengrab

Ukip South Thanet asked Dilnot for the location of the building; he replied with a link to Westminster Cathedral, adding: “Not sure you’ll find a mosque in there though.”

The branch later apologised:

Farage was asked about the mix-up on Thursday’s edition of The Daily Politics. “Well, the people’s army are not wholly trained,” the Ukip leader said. “They are enthusiastic volunteers, and volunteers make mistakes and that lady made a mistake.”

Actor and writer Alex Andreou responded to the initial mistake by tweeting images of buildings that were not mosques, using the hashtag #ThingsThatAreNotMosques:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/27/-sp-ukip-mistakes-westminster-cathedral-for-mosque

Edited November 28, 2014 by chronic1

[Joolz]

[the_pimp]

Yeah, coz you always get Latin written all over the front of a Mosque dont you

[stu914]

Whatever, its still a symbol of religious bullshit.......

[Guest bazzad9]

i think its a case of seeing what you want to see rather than being thick

im not saying there not though,how is a church any different anyway ,they are all places of worship whatever one you chose someone can complain

i think its seeing what you want to see and reading far to much into it ,its a nice building why not film in front of it

[Hughie Green]

“Well, the people’s army are not wholly trained,”

Pretty hard to train fuckwits.

[distracted]

too funny... they are buffoons

[cocojoe]

My Bro in law got hitched in there, what a crock of catholic shite that was.

[davelister]

There isn't a week goes by without them saying or doing something daft. It must be how the Americans felt with Bush around, just sitting and waiting for the next gaffe. At least we've not given these lot access to nuclear weapons

[Guest ANCB]

Control of the nuclear weapons? feck i wouldn't have trusted Bush with my TV remote....

(Copyright Billy Connolly)

[lasouris]

I've never been to Westminster cathedral. The above picture does to me far more resemble a Sultan's palace than the home of English & Welsh catholicism!

[Hiphip]

When folk get attracted to a certain mindset things get said which lead to ridicule;

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/27/ukip-lord-christopher-monckton-aids-gays_n_6231330.html?utm_hp_ref=ukip

Ukip's Former Deputy Leader, Lord Monckton, Has Some Jaw-Dropping Opinions On The Gay Community

The former deputy leader of Ukip has launched a bizarre attack on the gay community, saying homosexuals sleep with up to 20,000 people in their "short, miserable lives" and that they are to blame for AIDS.

Lord Christopher Monckton - who joined Ukip in 2009 as the party’s deputy leader and President in Scotland - said that for the LGBT community the "wages of promiscuity is deadly disease."

"It is now at last admitted, even in official circles, that HIV is chiefly a disease of homosexuals and drug-abusers and that a far greater percentage of homosexuals than heterosexuals do drugs," he wrote on the right-wing site WorldNetDaily.

His vicious rant was based on applauding an Australian councilwoman for "standing up to the LGBT lobby". Rosalie Crestani has "forbidden" the "promotion of homosexuality" after being "shocked by the official mortality figures for homosexuals" and was praised by Monckton.

"She proposes to circulate a memorandum to all councillors and staff giving them detailed statistics for promiscuity, prevalence of HIV and many other sexually transmitted diseases, and for the consequently short, miserable lives and high death rate of homosexuals," he said.

Monckton, who served as science adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, also made his feelings about gay marriage clear, querying: "Why have homosexuals – most of whose partners last as little as a few hours – been so keen to promote the lifetime promises of so-called ‘gay’ so-called ‘marriage’?

“The reason, of course, is that they cannot produce children, so they want to adopt them. Is this fair to the children? The answer is no," he said.

In his article, Monckton refused to refer to the gay community as LGBT instead referring to it as "QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM", or "QWERTYs" - referring to the keyboard layout of all the letters in the alphabet.

"That ought to cover every real or imaginary form of sexual deviancy they may dream up," he said.

According to the former Ukipper, "official survey after official survey had shown that homosexuals had an average of 500-1,000 partners in their sexually active lifetime, and that some had as many as 20,000.

"One wonders how they found time for anything else."

He has a point - if this were actually true it would mean that in order to sleep with 20,000 people a year, a gay man would need to sleep with 322 people a year from the age of 18 until they were 80. Which sounds exhausting.

But this number wouldn't work if you take Monckton's claim that gay people have a short life span into consideration.

So, for example, if a gay person were to live to just 55 and started having sex from the age of 16 they would have to have sex with 513 people a year - more than one person a day.

Monckton, who was sacked by Ukip leader Nigel Farage in November 2013 following infighting, is a hereditary peer who has been engaged in a long-running dispute for not inheriting his father's position in the House of Lords, due to the House of Lords Act imposed in 1999.

He's previously voiced his views on AIDs in a controversial 1987 article for The American Spectator, entitled "AIDS: A British View".

Here's a brief extract, where Monckton lays out his plan to tackle the disease:

"There is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month ... all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently."

This would involve isolating between 1.5 and 3 million people in the United States and another 30,000 people in the UK.

Cheers

[Guest ANCB]

A few musings of a UKIP voter....

The 'Ukip' Twitter account so offensive even Ukip are disowning it

A Twitter user posing under the banner ‘Ukip East London’ sent out a number of highly offensive, homophobic and bigoted tweets last night.

Claiming to be Richard Hamilton, the deputy chair of Ukip’s Bethnal Green and Bow branch, the account has disparaged gay marriage, claimed homosexuality is “anti-British” and decried homosexuality as a “symptom” of “cultural Marxism”.

The account user has said he “stands by his words” and that “the majority of us in Ukip feel the same way”. UkipEastLondon briefly trended last night as Twitter users responded angrily to the statements.

However, Ukip’s head office has strongly distanced itself from the messages and told i100.co.uk that the account is not from an official Ukip branch.

The UKIP East London Twitter account is not a UKIP account. We do not have an “East London” branch and nor would we in any way endorse the Tweets it has made. We have taken steps to report it to Twitter as both misleading and malicious.

• Ukip spokesperson

Edited November 28, 2014 by ANCB

[chronic1]

Lord Monckton, what a

[Degsy]

That UKIP East London account is a spoof right ? Surely it's not serious