Ukip’s LGBT chair qus due to party's lack of ‘gay-iendly tone’ | UK Inpennce party (Ukip) | The Guardian

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• MY APPOTMENT PROV WE’RE A DIVERSE PARTY, SAYS UKIP’S GAY PUTY LEAR
• UKIP’S LGBT CHAIR QUS DUE TO PARTY'S LACK OF ‘GAY-IENDLY TONE’
• INTRODUCG BRA'S FIRST UKIP-ENDORSG GAY PUB
• ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TEA PARTY CAN'T STOP BASHG {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYJUNE 2, 2014/9:23 AMBY DAN AVERYJUNE 2, 2014 / 9:23 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TEA PARTY CAN'T STOP BASHG GAYS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-06-02T13:23:23.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-06-02T13:23:23.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE UNED KGDOM INPENNCE PARTY (UKIP) IS ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TEA PARTY—A POLIL FACTN THAT ATTRACTS EXTREMISTS WHO THK MASTREAM NSERVATIV HAVE GONE SOFT. EVEN UKIP LEAR NIGEL FARAGE REFERRED TO AS "BRA'S TEA PARTY." (IRONIC, NSIRG THE ORIGAL BOSTON TEA PARTY WAS A PROTT AGAST BRISH LE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHILE UKIP'S MA PLATFORM IS PULLG BRA OUT OF THE EU, THE PARTY HAS A LONG TRACK RERD OF EMBARRASSG ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS: ONE UKIP NDIDATE, JOHN SULLIVAN (RIGHT), CLARED THAT PHYSIL EXERCISE WOULD PREVENT YOUNG MEN OM TURNG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON A "TRADNAL BRISH GROUP" FACEBOOK PAGE, SULLIVAN WROTE THAT THE VICTORIAN ERA, "REGULAR PHYSIL EXERCISE FOR BOYS... RELEASED TENSNS AND TH AVOID HOMOSEXUALY—WHICH THE VICTORIANS ABHORRED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SULLIVAN, WHO RAN FOR GLOUCTERSHIRE CY UNCIL EARLIER THIS MONTH, LATER THEORIZED THAT SHOOTG ONE GAY MAN WOULD TURN OTHERS HETEROSEXUAL: “I RATHER WONR, IF WE SHOT ONE 'POOFTER' (GBLT WHATEVERS), WHETHER THE NEXT 99 WOULD CI... THAT THEY WEREN'T [GAY] AFTER ALL?" HE POSTED ON FACEBOOK. "WE MIGHT THEN NCLU THAT 'S NOT A MATTER OF GEICS, BUT RATHER MORE A MATTER OF TN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE ALSO TWEETED "WELL DONE" WHEN THE RSIAN ERNMENT ENACTED A BAN ON GAY "PROPAGANDA," CLUDG PRI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SULLIVAN LOST HIS ELECTN—THANKFULLY—BUT HE'S HARDLY ALONE: PL FORRT, A UKIP NDIDATE LIVERPOOL, CLARED THAT GAY MEN ARE “TEN TIM MORE LIKELY” TO BE CHILD MOLTERS THAN “NORMAL MEN." ROGER HELMER, REPRENTG UKIP THE UPG NEWARK BY-ELECTN, PARED MARRIAGE EQUALY TO CT AND SAID HOMOSEXUALY WAS "NOT A LIFTYLE WORTHY OF VALID EQUAL RPECT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HARRY PERRY, WHO WAS DUE TO REPRENT UKIP OFFERTON, TWEETED THAT DAVID CAMERON WAS A “GAY-LOVG NUT SE” AND CLAIMED GOD “HAT” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERRY WAS EVENTUALLY SPEND BY THE PARTY, BUT UKIP HAS ACCEPTED FUNDG  OM GREEK SHIPPG TYON DEMETRI MARC, WHO HAS SAID GAY PEOPLE ARE PABLE OF LOVE AND THAT 'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR HBANDS TO RAPE THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TORY-TURNED UKIP UNCILOR DAVID SILVTER EVEN CLAIMED DAVID CAMERON ED THE FLOODS THAT VASTATED ENGLAND LAST WTER BEE HE MPAIGNED FOR MARRIAGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERHAPS MOST BIZARRELY, DAVID COBURN, UKIP’S NEWLY ELECTED MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOR STLAND, OPPOS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AS THE PRODUCT OF “NEO-RIGHT” ACTIVISTS—EVEN THOUGH HE'S GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN AGA, GAYS THE PARTY ARE AN STRANGE LOT: PETER LELLO, NNG AS UKIP’S MAYORAL NDIDATE LEWISHAM, SOUTHEAST LONDON, WAS ARRTED ON MAY 15 FOR SEXUALLY ASSLTG A HOMELS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YOU MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO DISMISS THE BIGOTS AS THE LUNATIC GE, BUT UKIP OUTPERFORMED THE THREE MASTREAM PARTI—CONSERVATIV, LABOUR AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATS— THE RECENT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTNS, WNG 24 OF THE UK'S 73 SEATS. UKIP HAS ALSO HAS HAD THREE MEMBERS THE HOE OF LORDS AND ONE SEAT THE NORTHERN IRELAND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND ACRDG TO THE GUARDIAN, UKIP'S PERFORMANCE THE 2013 LOL ELECTNS WAS THE "BIGGT SURGE FOR A FOURTH PARTY" ENGLAND SCE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SUDNLY THE TEA PARTY DON'T LOOK QUE SO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

MY APPOTMENT PROV WE’RE A DIVERSE PARTY, SAYS UKIP’S GAY PUTY LEAR

UKIP’s first gay puty lear today urged LGBT Londoners to jo the party, spe qutns over the views held by new lear Pl Nuttall on same-sex Assembly member Peter Whtle, who was appoted puty by Mr Nuttall yterday, said his own promotn to Ukip’s top ranks proved the party was diverse and that allegatns of homophobia were “ridiculo” the former mayoral ndidate admted he did not know where outspoken Right-wger Mr Nuttall currently stood on equal marriage or sex said: “I am a social liberal. People say the thgs about but we have two people on the London Assembly, myself and David Kurten, I’m a gay guy, David’s a black guy. [My appotment] mak me the most senr gay polician terms of lears.

” Mr Nuttall, who was elected to succeed Nigel Farage wh 62 per cent of the vote, is a 39-year-old Catholic who last year backed the church’s opposn to same-sex once scribed a urt se brought by two gay men who were nied a bed a guthoe as “a plete joke” Whtle said: “There’s been a broad spe of views on gay marriage, I don’t know que what Pl’s attu is to , he said que some time ago, I don’t know whether ’s changed or whatever but for what ’s worth I am perfectly pro gay marriage.

UKIP’S LGBT CHAIR QUS DUE TO PARTY'S LACK OF ‘GAY-IENDLY TONE’

“When to gay marriage I thk the party totally accepts that, ’s not even an issue for any more. Ukip’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr group chair has rigned over ncerns that the party’s learship has failed to “set a gay-iendly tone”.

INTRODUCG BRA'S FIRST UKIP-ENDORSG GAY PUB

I stepped down om my posn as founr-chairman of LGBT* Ukip, and rigned my membership of Ukip, due to disillnment of policy directn and dissatisfactn at the failure of the learship to set a gay-iendly tone.

Booker, who ns a hydrotherapy pool Peterborough, will be replaced by Flo Lewis, while the party’s parliamentary ndidate for Normanton, Ponteact and Castleford, Nathan Garbutt, will ntue as the group’s ’s rignatn jt before the start of the party’s sprg nference Margate on Thursday Nigel Farage told Fox News that mosqu Bra have been filtrated by crimal hate preachers, and warned that relig mori need to unrstand the law of the ’s LGBT group – which oppos same-sex marriage on the grounds of relig eedom – spoke out agast ments ma by the party’s uncillor for Henley-upon-Tham, David Silvter, who argued that heavy floodg January 2014 was bee of the ernment’s plans to legalise gay marriage. “I wre wh perverse trigue as to why you have chosen to blame the bad weather on gay marriage, g the Bible as the pot of reference for your theory, ” the letter his public Facebook page, Booker scrib his polics as “classil liberalism”, wrg that he is dited to “small central ernance, more lolised power (yay, power to the people! For several years, the party attempted to distance self om homophobic views often exprsed by s reprentativ, but lear Gerard Batten has lnched a new manifto that swgs the party’s directn heavily agast LGBT+ rights.

ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TEA PARTY CAN'T STOP BASHG {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYJUNE 2, 2014/9:23 AMBY DAN AVERYJUNE 2, 2014 / 9:23 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TEA PARTY CAN'T STOP BASHG GAYS","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-06-02T13:23:23.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-06-02T13:23:23.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE UNED KGDOM INPENNCE PARTY (UKIP) IS ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TEA PARTY—A POLIL FACTN THAT ATTRACTS EXTREMISTS WHO THK MASTREAM NSERVATIV HAVE GONE SOFT. EVEN UKIP LEAR NIGEL FARAGE REFERRED TO AS "BRA'S TEA PARTY." (IRONIC, NSIRG THE ORIGAL BOSTON TEA PARTY WAS A PROTT AGAST BRISH LE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHILE UKIP'S MA PLATFORM IS PULLG BRA OUT OF THE EU, THE PARTY HAS A LONG TRACK RERD OF EMBARRASSG ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS: ONE UKIP NDIDATE, JOHN SULLIVAN (RIGHT), CLARED THAT PHYSIL EXERCISE WOULD PREVENT YOUNG MEN OM TURNG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON A "TRADNAL BRISH GROUP" FACEBOOK PAGE, SULLIVAN WROTE THAT THE VICTORIAN ERA, "REGULAR PHYSIL EXERCISE FOR BOYS... RELEASED TENSNS AND TH AVOID HOMOSEXUALY—WHICH THE VICTORIANS ABHORRED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SULLIVAN, WHO RAN FOR GLOUCTERSHIRE CY UNCIL EARLIER THIS MONTH, LATER THEORIZED THAT SHOOTG ONE GAY MAN WOULD TURN OTHERS HETEROSEXUAL: “I RATHER WONR, IF WE SHOT ONE 'POOFTER' (GBLT WHATEVERS), WHETHER THE NEXT 99 WOULD CI... THAT THEY WEREN'T [GAY] AFTER ALL?" HE POSTED ON FACEBOOK. "WE MIGHT THEN NCLU THAT 'S NOT A MATTER OF GEICS, BUT RATHER MORE A MATTER OF TN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE ALSO TWEETED "WELL DONE" WHEN THE RSIAN ERNMENT ENACTED A BAN ON GAY "PROPAGANDA," CLUDG PRI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SULLIVAN LOST HIS ELECTN—THANKFULLY—BUT HE'S HARDLY ALONE: PL FORRT, A UKIP NDIDATE LIVERPOOL, CLARED THAT GAY MEN ARE “TEN TIM MORE LIKELY” TO BE CHILD MOLTERS THAN “NORMAL MEN." ROGER HELMER, REPRENTG UKIP THE UPG NEWARK BY-ELECTN, PARED MARRIAGE EQUALY TO CT AND SAID HOMOSEXUALY WAS "NOT A LIFTYLE WORTHY OF VALID EQUAL RPECT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HARRY PERRY, WHO WAS DUE TO REPRENT UKIP OFFERTON, TWEETED THAT DAVID CAMERON WAS A “GAY-LOVG NUT SE” AND CLAIMED GOD “HAT” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERRY WAS EVENTUALLY SPEND BY THE PARTY, BUT UKIP HAS ACCEPTED FUNDG  OM GREEK SHIPPG TYON DEMETRI MARC, WHO HAS SAID GAY PEOPLE ARE PABLE OF LOVE AND THAT 'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR HBANDS TO RAPE THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TORY-TURNED UKIP UNCILOR DAVID SILVTER EVEN CLAIMED DAVID CAMERON ED THE FLOODS THAT VASTATED ENGLAND LAST WTER BEE HE MPAIGNED FOR MARRIAGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERHAPS MOST BIZARRELY, DAVID COBURN, UKIP’S NEWLY ELECTED MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOR STLAND, OPPOS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AS THE PRODUCT OF “NEO-RIGHT” ACTIVISTS—EVEN THOUGH HE'S GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN AGA, GAYS THE PARTY ARE AN STRANGE LOT: PETER LELLO, NNG AS UKIP’S MAYORAL NDIDATE LEWISHAM, SOUTHEAST LONDON, WAS ARRTED ON MAY 15 FOR SEXUALLY ASSLTG A HOMELS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YOU MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO DISMISS THE BIGOTS AS THE LUNATIC GE, BUT UKIP OUTPERFORMED THE THREE MASTREAM PARTI—CONSERVATIV, LABOUR AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATS— THE RECENT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTNS, WNG 24 OF THE UK'S 73 SEATS. UKIP HAS ALSO HAS HAD THREE MEMBERS THE HOE OF LORDS AND ONE SEAT THE NORTHERN IRELAND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND ACRDG TO THE GUARDIAN, UKIP'S PERFORMANCE THE 2013 LOL ELECTNS WAS THE "BIGGT SURGE FOR A FOURTH PARTY" ENGLAND SCE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SUDNLY THE TEA PARTY DON'T LOOK QUE SO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

)But while UKIP's ma platform is pullg Bra out of the EU, the party has a long track rerd of embarrassg anti-gay statements: One UKIP ndidate, John Sullivan (right), clared that physil exercise would prevent young men om turng a "Tradnal Brish Group" Facebook page, Sullivan wrote that the Victorian era, "regular physil exercise for boys... Released tensns and th avoid homosexualy—which the Victorians abhorred. "Sullivan, who ran for Glouctershire cy uncil earlier this month, later theorized that shootg one gay man would turn others heterosexual: “I rather wonr, if we shot one 'poofter' (GBLT whatevers), whether the next 99 would ci...

That they weren't [gay] after all? ”He also tweeted "Well done" when the Rsian ernment enacted a ban on gay "propaganda, " cludg Pri celebratns.