2) Ukip’s Nasty Friends

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You perhaps shouldn’t judge a person by their friends, but the company one keeps certainly is a factor we should consider before welcoming a party to the throne. As mentioned above, lots of people might plan to vote for Ukip because they don’t like other politician’s cosy relationships with big business. But once you look at the fools these guys keep close you’ll have to think again.

Among Farage’s pals are the xenophobic and right-wing Italian Northern League, part of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group, which Farage chairs. Umberto Bossi (below), its founder, once called for illegal immigrants to be shot.

Farage knows the Italian Northern League are a bit dodgy, he had to expel Mario Borghezio (one of its MEPs) from the group last year after racist comments about Cécile Kyenge, Italy’s first black minister. Mario said Kyenge should be a “housekeeper” rather than a minister and worried that she would impose African “tribal traditions” on Italy.

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Mario isn’t a nice man at all. He thought that Anders Breivik’s ideas were “excellent”. When Mario aired this offensive insight into his maniacal mind Farage knew he’d gone a bit too far and asked him to apologise; Mario wouldn’t apologise, and this is what flowed from his filthy gob instead:

Long live the Whites of Europe, long live our identity, our ethnicity, our race… our blue sky, like the eyes of our women. Blue, in a people who want to stay white.

Ukip is also pals with the True Finns who are keen on giving immigrants armbands so they can be identified by police easier. Seriously. The holocaust overtones are terrifying.

On a smaller, more local scale Ukip also seems to attract racist bigots and nutjobs. In itself that shouldn’t be a reason not to vote, but come on, it kind of is, you have to ask yourself why the guy in one of their adverts last year — Andre Lampitt — was suspended for Tweeting that Islam is Satanic and that Africans should be left to “kill themselves”. And he’s their poster boy.

On that note let’s not forget David Silvester (below), the Ukip councillor who blamed the winter floods on gay marriage, and William Henwood who said Lenny Henry should emigrate to “a black country”.

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Godfrey Bloom, who served Ukip for 5 years, needs a mention too; his rabble rousing “BongoBongo Land” speech is but one of his many, many awful gaffs. The daft racist:

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There is such a depth of idiocy that I am having to force myself to stop reeling off embarrassing Ukip quotes. I’ll end this section with a quote from one of their members, Jan Zolyniak:

The evidence is quite clear that the percentage of homosexuals who molest children is very high and cannot be dismissed.

OK, OK, one more. This is from Paul Wiffen who used to be a Ukip London chairman:

You leftwing 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 (but you still want to apologise for!).

Don’t worry though, Wiffen was suspended… oh but then he was selected as Ukip’s London North East candidate for the London assembly in 2012.

You see? Even when someone is obviously venomous and retarded they still keep them in the fold.

But what about the main man Mr Farage himself? Click next slide for more on the man of the moment’s not-so-humble upbringing.