News yesterday indicates that star of Ukip’s latest political broadcast has been suspended from the party after claiming Ed Miliband is “not British”.
In what is being billed as a major embarrassment to Nigel Farage, Andre Lampitt, a Zimbabwean decorator and kitchen fitter who appeared in the party’s television broadcast, posted a string of "repellent" messages online.
Amongst his claims are Africans should “kill themselves off”, Islam is “evil” and Nigerians are “bad people”:
Mr Lampitt, who describes himself as “Born British in Rhodesia” and speaks with a Zimbabwean accent, was filmed on a building site wearing a hard hat in Tuesday’s television broadcast.
He warned EU migrants are undercutting natives’ wages, saying: “Since the lads from Eastern Europe are prepared to work for a lot less than anybody else, I've found it a real struggle.” He was wearing the shirt of his company, Kamina Kawena Services.
Messages on his Twitter account described the Prophet Mohammed as a “pedo” and say Islam is “an evil organisation respecting a prophet who was a pedo [sic].”
He said Ed Miliband, the son of a Jewish refugee, is “Polish and not British”.
One message read: “Miliband is not a real Brit. I hope he never gets to be PM! He was only born here.” He added: “I believe in being British. It is earned through generations of existence not through birth.”
Another message read: “I was born and grew up in Africa. Please leave Africa for the Africans. Let them kill themselves off.”
Another said: “Most Nigerians are generally bad people.” Another message said: “Enoch Powell was right!”
UKIP of course have moved quickly to disassociate themselves from this individual but really it is a bit late. This is not some random member who has gone off the rails but somebody who was singled out to be the face of UKIP on a party political broadcast.
Alas, I suspect that even this latest faux pas will have little impact on Farage's bandwagon in the lead up to the 22 May poll.
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