Monthly Archives: April 2010

April 8, 2010 · 4:00 pm

The Wiffen of Racism from UKIP in London

The Chair of UKIP in London Paul Wiffen has expressed these views on multicultural London:

“You Left-wing scum are all the same, wanting to hand our birthright to Romanian gypsies who beat their wives and children into begging and stealing money they can gamble with, Muslim nutters who want to kill us and put us all under medieval Sharia law, the same Africans who sold their Afro-Caribbean brothers into a slavery that Britain was the first to abolish.”

UKIP’s usual different standards of conduct have been applied. Paul Wiffen has been temporarily suspended as Chair of London, but remains their Parliamentary candidate in Ilford South and also a candidate for Redbridge Council. One can only imagine what he says in private. I love UKIP’s logic here, he is suspended from expressing his views to fellow UKIP members, but they are quite happy for him to talk to ordinary voters.

Paul Wiffen is not the brightest tool in the shop. The 2001 census showed that 55% of the Ilford South electorate was non-white. Paul Wiffen has “worked closely“ for UKIP London MEP Gerard Batten making videos for him. (He is pictured with Gerard Batten, Paul is on the left with Gerard Batten third from left). Gerard has made no comment so far. Would that be because Paul posts adoring twitters about Gerard?

On 3rd March he wrote “Express reports immigrants will do anything 2 get 2 UK http://bit.ly/cNisCn but #UKIP MEP Gerard Batten has the answer.”

Not keen on multicultural women too on December 13th 2009….”What exactly r Paula Buonadonna’s qualifications 2 b on The Politics Show? Not her dancing! Multi-cultural female-only shortlists @ BBC now?”

On November 18th 2009 he expressed the wish “2moro have 2 decide if I will still stand in Ilford Sth @ GE or switch 2 Barking & Dagenham (500yds down road) 2 give Griffin a bloody nose.”

I can see why Paul thought he was best placed to take the racist vote away from the BNP’s Nick Griffin!

I predict he will lose his deposit, but UKIP should immediately remove him as a Parliamentary and Council candidate and kick him out of the Party.

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· 2:26 pm

Friends of Cyprus Report

It is again my pleasure to publicise the annual Friends of Cyprus report. 68 pages of news and anaysis I have a few spare copies which I will be happy to post to anybody who contacts my office. Many thanks to Mary Southcott for all her work in putting this together.

When I look at my blog statistics I am sometimes surprised at the popular posts. In the last year my most viewed post is lmy May 2009 posting Warning Do Not Buy Property in Northern Cyprus. Over 3,000 people have come specifically to that post (rather than just generally visiting my blog or website) or entering via other posts. Even now 20-30 people come to that link every day.

I cannot know for sure why people visit this post or what action they take as a result. However, I like to think that if only a few have used it to help them come to a view on a potentially large investment then this blog has not just propagated my views, but it has served my constituents as well.

As ever I am hopeful that this year will bring a settlement in Cyprus.

Chris Grayling for Europe portfolio?

I hope you had a good Easter break. I took the opportunity to do a little spring cleaning and clearing out.

One of the blasts from the past I found was my first newsletter as a MEP in Spring 2001 before Labour’s second landslide. After 9 years it is strange how little things have changed. My headline article said…

“Tory MEPs Forge Links With Far Right

UKIP the UK Independent Party has been behaving even more erratically than usual in the last few months. With the defection of one of its MEPs and the unprecedented criticism by its founder, Alan Sked in the Spectator recently one would think that the Conservative Party would at least wish to be seen to distance themselves from a Party whose published aims include trying to woo BNP supporters.

Yet the Tories seem unconcerned by this, demonstrated by attempts to bribe UKIP into not standing candidates in seats where this would be detrimental to the Conservative Party. More worrying is the behaviour of 11 Euro sceptic Tory MEPs who are forging links with Italian extreme nationalist party Alleanza Nationale.”

How little some things change. UKIP erratic, that’s situation normal after a decade of seing them in action. UKIP losing a MEP, that’s become such a regular event I sometimes wonder whether UKIP members hold sweepstakes on who is likely to leave next with Nikki Sinclaire the latest departure.

What strikes me now as naive is my thinking “that the Conservative Party would at least wish to be seen to distance themselves from a Party whose published aims include trying to woo BNP supporters.” Over the last decade the Conservative Party in Europe has moved steadily rightwards and this has culminated in them leaving the traditional centre right European Peoples Party to found their own ECR group with various far right parties across Europe. The 11 Eurosceptic MEPs have won

With the election called Europe should be a bigger issue. The Conservative record in Europe demonstrates a record that deserves the “nasty party” label. When Chris Grayling was caught out on gay rights he was only expressing views that Conservative MEPs in Europe tolerate on a daily basis. (Incidentally I stayed in a wonderful gay owned Bed & Breakfast for Labour Party Conference at Brighton last year – I wonder what happens when the Conservatives come to stay, do they have people checking out on the first night?) David Cameron has been allowed to say nothing when he should have sacked or demoted Grayling. The Conservatives still treat gay people as second class citizens. If Chris Grayling had been supporting the rights of Bed & Breakfast owners to not allow black people to stay he would have been instantly vaporised politically. Gay people, oh we’ll just ride that out say the Tories and hope it goes away. The obvious job for Chris Grayling has to be the Europe Portfolio, you just know that Chris Grayling would feel so much more at home with the Conservative Party’s Polish partners homophobic views.

The Conservatives will be keen to keep Europe off the General Election agenda. Despite a vocal minority, whenever Europe is voted on in General Elections the majority of British people consistently support pro-European parties. They recognise we live in a complex interdependent world and want to work with our European neighbours, not isolate themselves. I predict that the majority of the popular vote will favour pro-European parties again.