UKIP reveals its bigotry

Submitted by Matthew on 3 December, 2014 - 10:39 Author: Kate Harris

The former deputy leader of UKIP, Lord Christopher Monckton, has said that gay men have “20,000 sexual partners” and “lead miserable lives”.

While he is obviously a total clown, he is also a hereditary peer and used to advise Margaret Thatcher. It is worrying that someone who still has some power, and used to have a lot, would say such blatantly absurd garbage about LGBTQ people.

Nigel Farage has distanced himself from Monckton by asking: “How many other parties have an MEP who describes himself as ‘spectacularly homosexual’ and a ‘great big screaming poof’? David Coburn MEP’s words – not mine!”

The same David Coburn MEP described same sex marriage proponents as “equality Nazis” “... trying to give Christianity a jolly good kicking ... it’s false bollocks, the lot of it.”

“It’s just for some queen who wants to dress up in a bridal frock and in a big moustache and dance up the aisle to the Village People.”

The same David Coburn MEP allegedly called Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson a “fat lesbian”.

Monckton’s comments were not out of the blue. In 1987 he said, “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.”

“All those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently.”

Farage has not addressed these comments, and worked with Monckton until last year.

This, together with Coburn’s vile remarks, shows the true face of UKIP. UKIP is not for equality.

It is opportunistically accepting of some LGBTQ people but cannot represent us or our interests in any real sense. 

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