The Ukip candidate for Kent Council Council has provoked outrage after publishing a manifesto that called for disabled foetuses to be aborted, free euthanasia for the over-80s and the deportation of 'riff-raff.'

Geoffrey Clark came under heavy criticism after insisting mothers should be forced to undergo "compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Downs, Spina Bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, could render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family. "

John Sullivan, a UKIP party candidate, up for election next week, has made a series of anti-gay Facebook comments, including congratulating Russia for banning gay Pride, and comparing gays to termites
John Sullivan, a UK councillor candidate congratulated Russia on banning gay Pride marches and claimed regular exercise in schools can prevent homosexuality.

He recommended Victorian style regular physical exercise be reinstated in schools as it apparently causes releases of tension which prevents homosexuality.

So it's lack of exercise that causes homosexuality, is it!!! Who knew?

*Edit* Geoffrey Clark is a burden on the state, and anyone who he inflicts his crappy view on. Abort him, I say.

Must be true. Who's ever heard of a physically fit homosexual.

I didn't realise that old farts like those fellas still existed. They should be in a nature reserve where we can study them and try to understand their ways.

hugorune wrote:
You could make a scary, exciting film about starting a theme park of them. Get Spielberg to direct. All the hair-raising things that could go wrong, like someone accidentally enabling them to speak where the visitors can hear what they're saying.

How does Victorian and modern day exercise differ, is it just the moustache?

oioioi wrote:
The tache is the important factor, I think. Nothing says 'I like girls' more than a big handle-bar moustache.

Some of them are saying quite different things now they are in politics than their actual views.

Ken Clarke did say something amusing about UKIP today:
Wow, imagine that in a political party!

hugorune wrote:
But...

Nigel Farage has dismissed revelations about the controversial views of some Ukip representatives as simply "teething problems", after photos emerged of one local election candidate making a Nazi salute and clenching a knife between his teeth.

As Thursday's local elections approach, Ukip candidates have come under intense scrutiny. On Monday the party suspended Alex Wood, who was hoping to secure a seat on Somerset County Council, after he admitted posing for the photos posted on Facebook

The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage has described protesters who confronted him in an Edinburgh pub as 'fascist scum'.

Mr Farage had to be given a police escort through an angry crowd as he tried to take his party's anti-EU message to Scotland.

A hostile demonstration then started outside the pub, to shouts of “racist, Nazi scum” and calls for Mr Farage to “go back to England”. The demonstrators appear to have been mainly young, left-wing supporters of Scottish independence.