It relates to her being sued for libel and slander by Sir Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, John Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne, and Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, over a speech she made in 2014 about the Rotherham child abuse scandal.
The High Court heard she alleged that each of the MPs knew details of the exploitation but chose not to intervene.
Today Ms Collins appeared at a private hearing at Hull County Court to discuss a demand for payment issued by the MPs’ lawyers. It is understood the MEP had requested the demand was set aside but this was not agreed at the hearing.
A spokeswoman for Ms Collins said the judge has now ordered an examination of her assets and that she will face bankruptcy proceedings if it is found that she cannot make the payments owed.
It came after Ms Collins alleged the three Labour MPs in the South Yorkshire town knew about the notorious child abuse scandal but did not intervene because of political correctness, cowardice, or selfishness.
Sir Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, John Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne, and Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, sued Ms Collins for libel and slander over the speech, which she gave at Ukip’s conference in September 2014. At the time, it was a month after a report found about 1,400 children in the area had been abused between 1997 and 2013.
Ms Collins argued it was a political speech which did not contain any allegation of fact but expressed an opinion to the effect that the MPs were likely to have known sexual exploitation was a serious problem in the area.
But Mr Justice Warby ordered her to pay a total of £162,000 damages to the MPs and £196,000 in costs.
She appeared at at Hull County Court for a further private hearing on Monday after she did not meet a 21-day deadline to pay the damages and an interim payment of £120,000 costs.
It is understood the MEP had requested the demand for payment issued by the MPs’ lawyers was set aside but this was not agreed at the hearing.
A spokeswoman for Ms Collinssaid the judge has now ordered that an examination of her assets should take place before June 8. The spokeswoman said she will face bankruptcy proceedings if it is found that she cannot make the payments owed.
A further court hearing will take place at the Royal Courts of Justice in London later this year to discuss how she intends to pay.
Ms Collins was advised by her lawyer not to comment after the hearing on Monday but said no orders for costs had been issued during the proceedings.
Following the London hearing in February, the MPs said the case had been “delayed and dragged out time and again by Jane Collins’ repeated attempts to evade justice”.
The joint statement read: “She has run out of places to hide and the judge said in no uncertain terms that her behaviour since proceedings began has been unreasonable and offensive.
“Ms Collins could have admitted her mistake, withdrawn her remarks and apologised to us.”
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having studied Ukip’s 24 year history and commented on it, exposing its corruption, dishonesty, stupidity and serial failures for 20 years, firstly with news eMails, then with the rise of the blog and web sites also you tube, and laterly Twitter, I have commented regularly in this public domain.
This single site has an archive of almost 3,000 relevant postings, I can confirm that the comments below by Douglas Carswell are in many ways right, though I believe he over estimates the relevance of both Nigel Farage and Ukip wildly.
Ever since Nigel Farage joined Ukip shortly after its inception he has manipulated and angled his way to protect his leadership – even when he left the party and was in negotiations with the BNP he had his eye firmly fixed on leading a political party.
Nigel from time to time put in or permitted puppet leaders such as Roger Knapman and Malcolm Pearson although throughout he remaioned the defacto leader and even when the party had a leader in its own right as with Alan Sked and Michael Holmes, he was working behind the scenes to unseat them, as with the overthrow of Michael Holmes and the theft of the records – largely blamed on his tame sewer rat the odious and duplicitous liar Mark Croucher, who did his dirty work for him.
One major reason for Ukip’s collapse has been Nigel Farage’s perpetual hollowing out the uipper echelons of the party to ensure no one of any consequential ability was ever in a position to put an alternative point of view forward for disscussion – individuals who were trying to clean up the party and force it to act ethically, transparently and as a democratic entity such as Dr. David Abbott, Dr. Eric Edmonds, Richard Suchorzewski, Nikki Sinclaire and the like.
Some may well recall when Nigel Farage and his sycophantic cronies like Douglas Denny, David Bannerman, Mark Croucher, Mick Mcgough and tyheir odious ilk orchestrated his own equivalent of Crystal Nacht and the Reichstag Fire to purge the party of anyone of competence, qualification and integrity who might expose him or offer an alternative view point.
Nigel Farage achieved his aim and having hollowed out any pretence at skill or structure Ukip was left under his absolute control, but that had its own drawbacks not least of which was the limited skill base. Ukip was very clearly doomed in the long run
Even individuals of such stunning mediocracy as Patrick O’Flynn, Suzanne Evans, Diane James, Stephen Wolfe and the like were either fortced out or forced to the margins and idiots and incompetents were elevated around the glorious leader! Just look at the low grade of MEPs the party has presented over the years, there have been almost none of any merit or ability.
Nigel Farage has ensured the party has been utterly dependent on him and that he has been the unchallenge leader – little wonder that aws he has tried to broaden his wings and feed his ego on a different platform Ukip has withered and died.
It is clear to the informed, and Douglas Carswell touches on the fact that Nigel Farage had very little to do with achieving BreXit in that he points out that had Farage had a pivotal role with his new found, if very suspect, new best friend and banker Arron Banks and had they been in the BreXit lead team during the Referendum it is almost a certainty that the vote would have gone the other way and David Cameron would be leading the Tories in a lack luster campaign to subsume Britain in every aspect of the evils of the EU and the opportunity of liberty, democracy and self determination on a global stage for these United Kingdoms would have been lost for at least a generation, or until the EU collapsed under a frontal onslaught from China via open border policies and Britain may well have become just a footnote in history.
Now at least Britain has an opportunity to thrive with its own unique values of independence and liberty via taking a lead with BreXit which in the long run will not only benefit Britain but also force change and some common sense on what is left of the EU, helping to bring to a close this era of external influence via Chinese money and Russian manipulation of the ambitions of some of the dangerous elements of Nationalism such as we have seen with the denigartion of Britain and unlikely sources of finance via RT and Russian brides with hidden political doweries!
Ex-UKIP MP Douglas Carswell blames Nigel Farage for party’s collapse
‘If Ukip had been in charge of the Leave campaign, I believe David Cameron would still be PM and we would have voted to Remain’
Nigel Farage has only himself to blame for Ukip’s collapse as a political force, the party’s former MP Douglas Carswell has said.
Mr Carswell, who quit Ukip before announcing he would stand down as an MP at the 8 June election, said the party’s former leader put voters off with “angry outbursts” over immigrants.
His comments came after a disastrous set of local elections for the eurosceptic party, which lost more than 100 councillors and won only a single seat on Thursday.
Leader Paul Nuttall acknowledged the party had lost large numbers of supporters to Conservatives, but insisted it had a “great future” so long as it could “stay on the pitch and hold its ground”.
Voters would come back in droves once Theresa May starts to make compromises in Brexit negotiations, he said.
But the near-wipeout prompted millionaire former donor Arron Banks to declare Ukip “finished as an electoral force” under its current leadership.
Mr Carswell and Mr Farage have long been at daggers-drawn, with the former Ukip leader accusing the party’s first elected MP of working to undermine it.
Ukip is finally dead – and the Tories battered us all while killing it
Writing in The Mail On Sunday, Mr Carswell said his defection from the Tories and subsequent victory in the 2014 Clacton by-election marked a highpoint for Ukip which was later set back by Mr Farage’s outspoken comments.
“Ukip alone offered the chance of change. But we blew it,” he said.
“We won almost 60 per cent of the vote in Clacton by talking about GPs, not just immigration. In Rochester, we won by reaching out beyond our base.
“But rather than learn from that, Nigel Farage reverted to type.
“On the day we triumphed in Clacton, the then Ukip leader majored on migrants with HIV.
“Then he managed to end up in an argument about mothers breastfeeding in public, before making rude noises about Romanians.
“Why? Far from having a strategy, we seemed to be driven by whatever came out of Nigel’s mouth.”
Mr Carswell claimed David Cameron was keen to debate with Mr Farage on TV because he believed it would ensure the Leave side lost the EU referendum.
The former Clacton MP said: “If Ukip had been in charge of the Leave campaign, I believe David Cameron would still be PM and we would have voted to Remain
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Ukip do themselves no favours do they – here is their General Election candidate for Wyre Forest constituency, clearly MP material ;-(
I guess it will actually make little difference as with 3% support across the country and the collapse they have experienced in the local elections as Ukip’s pro BreXit Tory voters return to their natural home, it is more a certainty than just unlikely they will get anyone elected.
UKIP reveal their challenger for Wyre Forest seat in snap General Election
George Connolly. Picture from Wyre Forest UKIP Facebook page
WYRE Forest UKIP has announced George Connolly will stand for the party in the district in this June’s snap General Election.
In statement on their Facebook page, the party said they were delighted to announce Mr Connolly would be their candidate in June.
George Connolly, who lives and works in the area, now wants to help shape Wyre Forest post-Brexit.
He said: “I am the only candidate in Wyre Forest who on June 23, campaigned for Brexit.
“Sixty-four per cent of the Wyre Forest constituency voted to leave, I will be their voice in the House of Commons if elected.”
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Shame of Ukip’s ‘rampant rabbi’: Candidate in sex role-play scandal with woman he met on bondage site won’t even shake female rivals’ hands ‘on religious grounds’
Shneur Odze, 36, is accused of playing out a disturbing ‘sexual fantasy’
He met an office worker through a bondage and sadomasochism website
Odze bombarded her with sexually explicit text messages after meeting on site
Rabbi has previously refused to shake hands with female political opponents
Revelations will be a further blow to Ukip’s floundering General Election campaign under new leader Paul Nuttall
When confronted at his home in Salford by the Mail on Sunday he said: ‘It’s my sabbath, I’ve just got out of bed. You can call my agent’
Published: 22:05, 29 April 2017 | Updated: 22:27, 30 April 2017
Ukip’s Shneur Odze, pictured, is in the race to become the Mayor of Manchester – but he secretly met a 25-year-old office worker through a bondage and sadomasochism website
A married rabbi standing for Ukip in the mayoral elections has been having an affair with a woman he met on a bondage website.
Shneur Odze, 36, who faces former Labour Cabinet Minister Andy Burnham in the race to become the Mayor of Manchester, is accused of playing out a disturbing ‘sexual fantasy’ with the young woman.
Odze, who The Mail on Sunday revealed earlier this month had burned a ‘bible’ and posted the pictures of the event on social media, met the 25-year-old office worker through a bondage and sadomasochism website.
The rabbi is a senior member of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher sect and has previously refused to shake hands with female political opponents on ‘religious grounds’.
But according to the woman he met on the bondage site, he:
Bizarrely posed as a Roman Catholic priest in his online profile, styling himself ‘His Worshipful’ and ‘The Right Reverend’;
Indulged in disturbing sexual role play games;
Bombarded her with sexually explicit text messages and begged her to join him in a threesome with another woman he had met online;
Sent sexually explicit texts on the Sabbath;
Told her his name was Simon, and never revealed who he really was, or that he was married.
The revelations will be a further blow to Ukip’s floundering General Election campaign under new leader Paul Nuttall.
Since last summer’s Brexit vote, and the departure of former leader Nigel Farage, Ukip’s core voters have flocked back to the Conservatives.
The woman, who we are calling Cassie, told The Mail on Sunday that she was contacted by the rabbi, who has four daughters, last November via Fetlife.com.
The site has been described as ‘like Facebook, but run by the kinky community’.
In a profile headed ‘His Worshipful’, Odze borrowed a stock image of a handsome young priest reading a prayer book and announced: ‘I have been into various aspects of BDSM for a number of years now, alibi [sic] more off than on. Over that time I have tried a great deal and enjoyed even more.’
He added: ‘It’s about a voyage of self-discovery, fulfilling that inner void, living for the moment…’ He signed off: ‘The Right Reverend.’
Mr Odze, pictured right, a former law student, is a confidant of former party leader Nigel Farage, pictured left
Cassie, who describes herself as ‘submissive’, said Odze drove from his home in Salford to her flat in York for their first encounter.
‘He told me in a text to open the communal door and the one to my flat. When he came in, he put my wrists and ankles in plastic handcuffs and blindfolded me,’ she claimed. ‘He also hit me across the buttocks for all the times I’d forgotten to call him Sir.’
What happened thereafter will be inexplicable to most people, but Cassie offers her own explanation.
She said her condition had been described to her by doctors as ‘compulsive self-destructive sexual behaviour’.
She and Odze had consensual sex, and despite her misgivings about him, she agreed to meet him on three further occasions: twice at her flat, and once in nearby Harrogate, where they had sex in his car.
Cassie said she discovered Odze’s real identity when she googled his mobile phone number which took her to his Ukip Facebook page.
She claimed he appeared to be possessive and controlling from the first time they met. ‘To a certain degree, this was part of our role-playing,’ she said.
‘I had to call him Sir every time I spoke to him, which was fine, although it got ridiculous after a while. If I was being good he would address me as angel, but if I questioned him or answered back, he would call me a “whore, b**** or c***”.
Mr Odze bizarrely posed as a Roman Catholic priest in his online profile, styling himself ‘His Worshipful’ and ‘The Right Reverend’
In a profile headed ‘His Worshipful’, Odze borrowed a stock image of a handsome young priest reading a prayer book and announced: ‘I have been into various aspects of BDSM for a number of years now, alibi [sic] more off than on’
‘He told me from the start that he wanted our relationship to be exclusive, which I was fine with, but then he kept pestering me to have a threesome.’
In another, seen by The Mail on Sunday he referred to having a threesome and Cassie responded: ‘Thank you Sir but the two of us should be fine if you’re happy with a single bed but a threesome wouldn’t work. x.’
Cassie said she was shocked when she saw that Odze was presenting an image of himself as a happily married pillar of the community.
‘He had lied to me, by telling me he wasn’t married and he’s lying to the people he wants to represent by pretending to be something he’s not. It is hypocritical,’ she said.
In 2014, when he stood for Ukip to be an MEP, Odze refused to shake the hands of rival female candidates on religious grounds.
In the same year, after former Minister for Civil Society, Brooks Newmark, sent explicit texts to a person he thought was a young woman, Odze was forthright in his denunciation.
The woman, who we are calling Cassie, told The Mail on Sunday that she was contacted by the rabbi, who has four daughters, last November via Fetlife.com (stock photo)
He tweeted: ‘Whilst I feel sorry for Brooks Newmark’s family. To get the privacy they so deserve & he so craves, I’ve one sure tip, simply resign!’
Odze was a Conservative councillor in London before marrying Chava Kessler, who stood unsuccessfully as a Tory candidate in Bury in 2004.
The rabbi tweeted the images of a burning book after saying he had found a ‘missionary bible’ – which has anti-Semitic connotations – at his synagogue. He later apologised for any offence and removed the photos from Twitter.
A former law student, he is a confidant of Mr Farage and Mr Nuttall. When confronted about the latest allegations last night, Rabbi Odze opened the front door of his terraced home in Salford to say: ‘It’s my sabbath, I’ve just got out of bed. You can call my agent.’
The Mail on Sunday then made it clear that the allegations concerned ‘your activities on Fetlife and your relationship with a 25-year-old woman’. He replied: ‘I’ve no idea what you’re talking about.’
A Ukip spokesman said: ‘This is a personal matter for Mr Odze. He has broken no law, and therefore we have no comment to make.’
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yet again Ukip makes the perfect error – it would be hard to find a more stupid and badly led organisation – little wonder their support, after their crass failures in the BreXit Campaign, they compound their problems by encouraging their racist lunatic fringe, mostly due to the utter incompetence of their leadership over the years! Not just their individual leaders but the callibre of those placed on their NEC and put in place as staff and in the chain of command.
Ukip under fire for choosing candidate who called Islam evil
Selection of Anne Marie Waters, ex-depty leader of far-right group Pegida, reveals ‘grubby, true face’ of party, says Tim Farron
Anne Marie Waters attends an ‘Islam kills women’ rally and protest in Westminster last year. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
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Ukip has been accused of “grubbing around in the gutter” for votes after the party selected a parliamentary candidate who has described Islam as evil.
Anne Marie Waters, an activist from the anti-Islam Pegida movement, has also praised the far-right leaders Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders.
It follows Ukip’s decision to campaign on banning the full-face veil and sharia courts. The move by Ukip’s leader, Paul Nuttall, to focus his party on an “integration agenda” – which also calls for mandatory medical checks on schoolgirls at risk of female genital mutilation – has prompted some disquiet among senior figures.
The decision was also condemned by the leaders of the Liberal Democrats and Greens, who said Waters’ selection showed Ukip was embracing hard-right politics in an attempt to gather votes in the wake of the EU referendum.
Waters, who will stand in Lewisham East in south London, takes a robust attitude towards not just radical Islamism, but the religion as a whole, which she described in a tweet last year as “evil”.
She was deputy leader of the UK arm of Pegida, the German-formed far-right and anti-Islam group partly set up by Stephen Lennon, who, under the name Tommy Robinson, founded the English Defence League street organisation.
“Whether it is politically correct or not to say it, people are concerned about Muslim immigration,” she says. “They are concerned because Islamic culture does not fit with ours, and it is our culture that is being sacrificed. They are concerned that their children are at risk of rape and sexual abuse.”
Waters regularly tweets similar views, and has written articles for the hard-right website Breitbart praising Wilders and linking Muslim immigration to rapes and sexual assaults.
A Ukip spokesman said: “Anne Marie Waters has been selected as a candidate for Lewisham East, where she will work hard to promote the party and gender equality.”
However, a party source said Waters’ candidacy still had to be approved by the national executive committee, which would meet on Friday.
Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, said: “Once again the mask is slipping from Ukip and revealing the nasty, grubby, true face of the party. This is why they are constantly rejected by voters, because what they stand for is genuinely un-British.
“This party seems desperate to grub around in the gutter for every single vote, and shame on them for it.”
Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green party, said after the Brexit vote Nuttall’s party was “desperately scrabbling around for relevance and seem to have settled upon attacks on Muslims and promoting fringe far-right politics as their new home.
“By selecting candidates from the extreme right, they expose themselves as the bigots they really are and utterly undermine any claim they have to stand up for ordinary people. Ukip are no patriots – they are reactionaries wrapped in the Union Jack.”
Waters is not alone within Ukip in expressing such views. After the Westminster terrorist attack last month, one of the party’s MEPs, Gerard Batten, who is Nuttall’s spokesman on Brexit, blamed the attack on Islam, which he called “Mohammedanism”.
Batten wrote: “It is a death cult, born and steeped in fourteen hundred years of violence and bloodshed, that propagates itself by intimidation, violence and conquest.”
At the same time, Victoria Ayling, who finished second for Ukip in last year’s Sleaford and North Hykeham byelection and is believed to be seeking selection for the Boston seat, retweeted a false claim that Muslims had been seen celebrating in Birmingham, Bradford, London and other cities after the attack. When challenged, she refused to disown the tweet.
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fortunately Anthony Joshua and Klitchko conducted themselves with greater dignity with their audience of 90,000 than Ukip was able to do with 1% of the attendees!
Scenes of chaos as two women fight at Ukip rally after one ‘accuses 62-year-old of being drunk’
A woman is heard shouting “You’re not going to attack me,” and “there was no need for that, no need whatsoever” as footage of the brawl is posted on Twitter
Two women were caught on camera fighting at a UKIP rally after one allegedly accused a 62-year-old of being drunk.
Three people ended up on the floor with others crowded around trying to break up the mayhem in Hartlepool – just before a demo which was set to be attended by UKIP leader Paul Nuttall.
Paul Nuttall has now reportedly cancelled his speech in Hartlepool as a result of the fight.
BBC reporter Richard Moss tweeted a video of the fight, saying: “Just to add to the chaos as we wait for @paulnuttallukip a fight has broken out between two women in Hartlepool. Neither from UKIP .”
One woman is heard shrieking: “You’re not going to attack me,” before adding “there was no need for that, no need whatsoever.
“Look at what you’ve done. I’m 62 years old.”
A fight broke out at a UKIP rally in Hartlepool (Photo: London News Pictures Ltd)
Women ended up on the floor during the chaos (Photo: @BBCRichardMoss/Twitter)
A fight broke out at a UKIP rally (Photo: @BBCRichardMoss/Twitter)
Another shouts “why did you punch her” before the first woman yells: “I didn’t punch her. She’s accused me of being drunk and I’m not drunk. I’m 62 years old.”
She continues: “Look at the state of my legs. How dare you do that to me.”
Another woman says: “I live in Hartlepool and I have a right to say what I want to say.”
People can be seen trying to break up the fight, as one man is heard calling the police to alert them to the incident.
UKIP have been approached for comment.
People tried to help break up the fight (Photo: London News Pictures Ltd)
The scenes unfolded just minutes before UKIP leader Paul Nuttall – who wants to ban the burqa – gave a speech kick-starting the general election countdown.
Three demonstrators wielding Stand Up to Racism placards burst into the King George V suite at London’s Marriott County Hall hotel yesterday morning.
They were bundled out by security guards – but minutes later there was a second set-to between UKIP staff and a woman from Somaliland wearing a hijab.
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not only does Ukip have a near industrial propensity for stupidity, but now with no credible leader it seems not only Party leadership candidates get in fist fights and their MEPs are repeatedly under investigation for fraud one , Tim Aker, has been under investigation for the rape and sexual assault of numerous young women (some very young!) see:
I Understand Ukip’s MEP Tim (Timur) Aker Has Been Questioned! The full story so far + UPDATES can be found if you CLICK HERE .
Ukip’s endless involvement in racism, such as that of Gerard Batten, which manifests in his constant extreme anti Islamic behaviour, which I feel sure is based on his own Bronze Age superstitions and influenced by his Filipino wife who would have been raise under the aegis of Cardinal Sin the leader of the Catholic Church in the Philipines where there has always been conflict between the two superstitions.
The endless outbursts from so many Ukip members, candidates and members of their leadership from their onetime leader Malcolm Pearson’s outrageos anti Muslim ranting, as covered with accuracy in a double page spread in the News of The World, to the party links with the BNP, Lega Nord, EDL and other extreme groups has did little to help the party’s long term survival or even credibility in the BreXit Campaign, which they did so much to put at risk.
The overt racism of members was such that it even gave credibility to the utterly spurious claims of Nazi style behaviour by Alex Wood in both the Mirror and the Daily Mail which I covered at CLICK HERE & also HERE together with a copy of The Mirror’s apology for their poorly reasearched and false allegations against him.
However to have Gerard Batten endlessly carrying on with his knee jerk reaction is far from helpfull and you will note that due to lack of leadership ability Paul Nuttall seems not to have a clue what to say – all rather similar to the days when Geoffrey Titford as nominal leader failed to act for a considerable time over the fact that his office was being used to produce anti Islamic tracts and publicity, including a pamphlet accusing Mohammed of being a paedophile, completely out of the context of history!
It is of course true that most of the various Bronze Age Gods that were invented have a lunatic fringe of extremism, Muslims do not bear the exclusive blame for such behaviour – consider the huge number of killings in the name of so called christianity, as with the Inquisition, Jones Cult, Waco, German death camps which were all founded on religious superstitions!
Ukip MEP’s ‘death cult’ remarks spark new Islamophobia row
Party leader Paul Nuttall refuses to say whether he agrees with views of Brexit spokesman Gerard Batten
Gerard Batten said non-Muslims should fear Islam, which he called ‘Mohammedanism’. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
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Ukip is facing renewed criticism over its attitudes towards Islam after it emerged that one of its senior MEPs said non-Muslims should have a “perfectly rational fear” of the faith, which he described as a “death cult” steeped in violence.
The Liberal Democrats and Greens described the comments, written in a blogpost by Ukip’s Brexit spokesman, Gerard Batten, as “hateful” and “the gutter of British politics”.
Asked twice about the issue at the launch of Ukip’s election campaign on Friday, the party’s leader, Paul Nuttall, declined to say whether he agreed with Batten’s views.
Ukip’s stance towards Islam has been in focus since Monday, when the party announced what it terms an “integration agenda”, including a ban on full-face veils and compulsory medical checks for girls seen as at risk of female genital mutilation.
Paul Nuttall after the Ukip campaign launch on Friday. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Later in the week the party adopted as a candidate an activist from the anti-Islam Pegida movement, who has praised the far-right leaders Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders and described Islam as “evil”.
Speaking at Friday’s campaign launch, Nuttall said the candidacy of Anne Marie Waters would be considered by Ukip’s national executive committee. But he did not answer questions about the views of Batten, an MEP since 2004.
In the post on his personal blog written after last month’s terrorist attack in Westminster, Batten said Islam should be referred to as “Mohammedanism – the cult of Mohammed – because that is what it is”.
He continued: “It is a death cult, born and steeped in 1,400 years of violence and bloodshed, that propagates itself by intimidation, violence and conquest.”
Batten wrote: “The terrorists are the vanguard of Mohammedanism. They set out to cow the non-Mohammedan population, so that the ‘moderate Muslims’ can get on establishing sharia courts, forcing halal food in school and works canteens, and making the authorities look the other way regarding criminal activities for fear of being called racist and Islamophobic.”
Saying that a phobia was a fear without a rational base, Batten said: “A normal non-Mohammedan should have a perfectly rational fear of ‘Islam’.”
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The Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said: “[Nuttall] must stop turning a blind eye to this blatant Islamophobic language and make clear it will not be tolerated.
“Ukip’s lurch towards Islamophobia is a desperate attempt to stay relevant after Theresa May has taken over their hard Brexit agenda. This kind of hateful language has no place in a UK political party.”
Caroline Lucas, the Greens’ co-leader, said: “Ukip’s descent into the gutter of British politics is continuing. Their leadership and spokespeople have lurched even further to the right as the Tories do their Brexit work for them.
“The deep prejudice within this hollowed out party is being exposed – and the Green party will continue to challenge this bigotry every time it rears its ugly head.”
Asked about Batten’s comments, Nuttall instead defended his party’s Islam-focused policies, saying these were “somehow perceived as being anti-Muslim”.
He continued: “Actually, it’s all about equality. It’s all about breaking down barriers. It’s all about integrating people into society.”
The start of the event was interrupted by protesters, who shouted that Ukip was racist. Asked later whether this was the case, Nuttall said: “No, they’re not right. It’s disappointing that certain people in politics don’t want to debate. What they want to do is shout people down.”
Batten, who has previously said he has a policy of not talking to the Guardian, was contacted for comment.
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on the one hand we see Ukip utterly failing to control and manage a small, ill educated claque of overt racists, whose outspoken views at all levels in the party have severely damaged their credibility both in the long term & short term – it has been the idiocy of the likes of Malcolm Pearson, Tony Bennet, Gerard Batten and their ilk that has provided the cloak of respectability for racism by a small fringe of ill informed and self serving idiots in the party.
They also provided the opportunity for charlatans to leap on a poster of migrants streaming into Europe, a picture which had previously been used widely in the mainstream media, yet the fools in Ukip’s racist fringes had given the opportunity for accusations the party was using a racist poster!
Similarly various party activists of particularly the extreme left wing seem to utilise stuctures like Hope Not Hate to act as their attack dogs to try to damage Ukip’s message amongst their followers, in the fear Ukip could grow to replace bot the Lib Dems and much of Labour in the long run – foolishly all such action gives rise to is increased publicity for Ukip.
Just as manipulating and providing a cloak of respectibility to the more extreme Muslims gives rise, as a direct result of such as Hope Not Hate, to arm the Jihadist movement by pointing out and magnifying the actions of a few idiots in Ukip!
That organisations like Huffington Post are thus enabled to post material world wide, such as they have, does Britain’s position little good globally, yet they are making the actions of a lunatic fringe on both sides of the superstitions’ divide seem like the norm, when in fact you will find that more people have been murdered by Irish criminals in their rivalry, or even by British armed Police together with those who have died suspiciously in custody than have been killed by so called Jihadists in recent years!
On Friday I joined other Stand Up To Racism campaigners at the launch of UKIP’s election campaign. This followed Paul Nuttall’s announcement that, among the rest of their anti-migrant and Islamophobic agenda, UKIP would campaign to ban the Burqa.
This call has nothing to do with defending women’s rights. It has everything to do with UKIP demonising the Muslim community, just like in France last year when politicians campaigned to ban the Birkini.
Why should anyone have the right to tell Muslim women what to wear? UKIP and their kind are constantly targeting people who just want to get on with their lives. It shows the nature of their party, it shows their racism.
We were ejected from the press conference, quite forcefully, when we raised what we thought was the problem with UKIP’s agenda.
I thought it was important that we protested. UKIP are not just an ordinary party. They want to cause division, they want to scapegoat people because of their religion. I went to their election launch to show that we won’t simply stand back and let them get away with it.
In recent months, in the wake of the EU referendum we’ve seen a spike in the number of hate crimes in the UK.
Among the victims have been a number of Muslim women. My friend Nahella Ashraf, another Stand Up To Racism activist was attacked in a chip shop last January in Hammersmith West London, where a man attempted to rip off her hijab.
The kind of statements made by Nuttall and UKIP lay the ground for these attacks by making us a target. They legitimise the idea that Muslims are an “enemy within” rather than just ordinary people.
UKIP are in a mess. In their desperation to win votes UKIP are echoing the even nastier rhetoric we hear from the fascist Marine Le Pen. Donald Trump has targeted American Muslims with his attempted “Muslim ban”. We are not going to allow that kind of thing to happen here, whatever Nuttall and UKIP think.
It’s obviously not just UKIP that have targeted the Muslim community. The Tories Prevent agenda has been all about criminalising Muslims and intimidating our community into silence.
It was the ex-Tory leader David Cameron who had the cheek to describe Muslim women as “traditionally submissive”, well we’re not!
I think it’s time we got organised against the racism aimed at Muslims, against migrants and against refugees. Whether you are a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, a trade unionist or a student we all need to stand together against division.
I’ve been working with Stand Up To Racism on their “Keep racism out of the election” campaign, more here. I was one of the speakers at the 30,000 strong Stand Up To Racism demo in March, on UN anti-racism day, supported by the TUC. And I’m speaking at this Tuesday night’s (2 May) Unite Against Fascism meeting on Le Pen, Trump and the rise of racism – 7pm, at Conway Hall Event page here.
I’m not going to keep quiet while racists organise.
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so it looks as if theThe Infighting has moves up a gear in Ukip with an over threat by Nigel Farage, who is still clearly the defacto leader of Ukip, to his puppet placement Paul_Nuttall that ‘if his long term supporter and bagman Paul Nuttall fails to achieve what Nigel Farage himself failed to do in 23 years, mostly in leadership or with puppets like Roger Knapmann, Malcolm Pearson and the like – Paul Nuttall is finished’.
Nigel Farage is threatening Paul Nuttall with the boot if he fails to get MPs elected to Westminster when he stood himself 7 times and never came anywhere near election and the only GE achievement was to have the Tory defector Douglas Carswell hang onto his Tory support as an MP who was Ukip by name but NEVER toed the Ukip line.
After Paul Nuttall’s humiliating defeat in Stoke how can you expect to get this sad little man with his faux CV and implusible claims to lead anything much more complex than a rubber duck on a string around a bath!
So Paul Nuttall has effectively been given his marching orders boots and all – what then? Will Nigel Farage, who is still Ukip’s leader in the EU and effective leader on a defacto basis in the UK be returning as leader or will it just be an embarrassing list of nebishes – I have a feeling Tiny Tim Farron will be looking for a job too so perhaps he will consider leading Ukip for a few weeks as a succession of others have!
Already Ukip’s candidates for the May election are reduced by at least half relative to the last time and just who do they have who has the stature or competence to be an MP? They are bereft of leadership, have no backer or even backers of any note and have a bunch of largely squabbling clowns as MEPs – I should also remind you that they are still under investigation over 100s of £1,000s of fraudulently squandered public money – possibly even £Millions by both OLAF and now I understand the British authorities, corrupt as they have been proven to be in the past, relative to Ukip, are also investigating.
I gather Ukip is under suspicion of links to Russian funding and there is even talk that they may well be involved with Trump staff not just in Russian funding but also under investigation relative to the Rico Act – The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law!
I do tend to believe that Paul Nuttall is not alone in being way out of his depth!
Nigel Farage piles the pressure on Ukip leader Paul Nuttall by giving him just SIX WEEKS to prove himself – or face being booted out the top job
Mr Farage said the General Election will be a verdict on the party’s leadership
His warning comes after a period of bitter in-fighting and electoral flops in Ukip
Mr Nutall has said the party hopes to win a handful of sets on June 8
UKip could be on its fourth leader in a year if Mr Nuttall is ousted
Published: 09:53, 20 April 2017 | Updated: 10:35, 20 April 2017
Nigel Farage has piled the pressure on Ukip leader Paul Nuttall by warning he has six weeks to ‘prove himself’ in the top job or face being booted out.
The MEP said he would ‘work closely’ with and ‘support fully’ the man who holds his old job, but warned the General Election would be a verdict on his leadership.
It means the crisis-hit party could get its fourth leader in less than a year if Mr Nuttall fails to make good on his pledge to win a ‘handful’ of seats in the June 8 election.
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Nigel Farage has warned that Paul Nuttall has just six weeks to prove himself as Ukip leader or face being ousted form the top job
And Mr Farage said he is still deciding whether to run for Parliament for an eighth time.
Asked about his verdict on Mr Nuttall’s leadership, told BBC’s Radio 4’s Today programme this morning: ‘He’s got six weeks to prove himself, hasn’t he?’
He added: ‘Paul has walked into this job and I guess he’s probably been shocked at how tough it is.
‘But he now realises exactly what he’s facing and I think he’ll come through very strongly.’
Mr Nuttall has faced fierce criticism amid bitter in-fighting in his party.
He was left personally humiliated when he failed to be elected to the ‘Brexit capital’ of Stoke-on-Trent earlier this year after running a scandal-hit campaign.
Meanwhile, Mr Farage said he is still mulling over whether to stand again in South Thanet when Britain goes to the polls this summer.
But he insisted that he would win if he threw his hat in the ring, saying:’I think I would, yes,’
He said he will make up his mind in the next couple of days.
Mr Farage has been making the most of his time since stepping down as Ukip leader. As well as striking up a close friendship with US President Donald Trump he has been posting holiday snaps, including this one of him catching Bluefin Tuna in the Adriatic Sea
He said: ‘I haven’t decided yet. I have got to weigh it up.
‘I’m still leading a group in the European Parliament where, of course, ultimately there will be a veto over the whole Brexit deal and where the negotiations will take place over the next two years and I’ve got to weigh up where am I best to be in terms of having an impact on Brexit and perhaps warning the British public that it’s not going in the direction it should be.’
Mr Farage suggested he lost in South Thanet in 2015 ‘perhaps in circumstances that weren’t entirely fair but we’ll let the Crown Prosecution Service decide about that’ following claims the Conservatives breached election spending limits.
The CPS is said to be considering bringing charges against 30 people over the elections expenses scandal.
The former Ukip leader insisted voters should back his party to ensure there was a ‘strong’ voice holding Theresa May to account.
‘This Prime Minister gives fabulous speeches,’ he said. ‘She uses words and phrases that I have been using and have been condemned for 20 years.
‘It all sounds wonderful. When she was home secretary, remember, she was going to reduce immigration. Did she? Not a bit of it.’
Ukip is fourth in the polls, lagging behind the Lib Dems. Leader Paul Nuttall says he wants to win a handful of seats in the vote
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At the turn of the year, the SKWAWKBOX revealed that UKIP was under investigation by the European Commission’s anti-fraud unit OLAF for huge alleged fraud of up to €20 million – and in relation to child pornography allegations – an investigation on a far larger scale than the already-proven charges pictured above.
This was dismissed by some at the time as ‘fake news’, but a month later some of the mainstream media ‘broke‘ news of the investigation as well.
One of the witnesses in the investigation recently contacted OLAF for an update on their investigation and received a reply that hints that the initial scope of inquiries may gave become even larger:
While, rightly, carefully couched in language to protect the presumption of innocence, the email does give away some significant information and hints at potential interesting developments.
OLAF’s investigation was originally scheduled to report on 12 February this year, but the email confirms that it is still continuing. This would suggest that investigators have found a lot more relevant evidence than they were anticipating – and perhaps that UKIP are not co-operating, which fits with reports alleging that various offices were shredding documents in a panicked attempt to destroy evidence.
The investigator also mentions ‘possible ensuing investigations‘ as a reason for her refusal to give a more substantial update.
An investigation that is still ongoing a full two months after its report was due – and a hint of further investigations spinning off from it. This may suggest that the investigation into UKIP has opened up questions about the wider extreme-right network across Europe.
This would fit with reports received by this blog, but not yet substantiated, that the raid on Marine le Pen’s Front National headquarters in France was in some way connected to the UKIP investigation:
Certainly the reason given for the raid – an investigation into ‘fake jobs’ – bears a strong resemblance to the allegations against UKIP, which include claims that salaries were claimed for non-existent staff as well as for employees engaged entirely in non-qualifying work for UKIP.
A wider investigation would also fit neatly with the recent ‘disarray‘ of the right-wing, UKIP-led Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europefollowing the walk-out of its Executive Director, after the group was found guilty by the EU of ‘misspending’ over €500,000 – including a significant amount on Nigel Farage’s 2015 attempt to be elected as an MP.
Discussions with this blog’s sources are ongoing and the SKWAWKBOX has also contacted Ms Fober to arrange a conversation about the state of the investigation and its wider links, which may yield further useful information after the Easter break.
Let us also remember that Ukip’a new, so called, leader Paul Nuttall has actually conceded the fact that he squandered £99,000 on his failed ambition to get elected in Stoke – in the by-election for a seat at Westminster as an MP – a challenge he totally failed to achieve, largely due to his personality and a string of PR disasters which led many amongst his electorate to believe he was utterly untrustworthy, lacked leadership ability and was most probably an outright and deliberate liar.
It is also worthy of note that Ukip has no financial backer of any consequence and the £99K or at least a substantial part of ity may well also have been sourced illicitly from the public purse via the EU!
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I am NOT a WARMIST
I do NOT believe the IPCC Climate Propaganda re Anthropogenic Global Warming
I AM strongly opposed to the subsidy or use of failed technologies eg. WIND TURBINES
I AM IN FAVOUR of rapid research & development of NEW NUCLEAR technologies
I see no evidence to trust POLITICIANS at any level or of any persuasion
I do NOT believe in GODS singular or plural, Bronze Age or Modern
I value the NHS as a HEALTH SERVICE NOT a Lifestyle support
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial or GBH rape.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial, terrorist, mass or for pleasure murder.
I believe in a DEATH PENALTY for serial gross child abuse including sexual.
I do NOT trust or believe in armed police
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