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Ukip Scotland’s Chairman Arthur Misty Thackeray has been Charged With Sexual Offences & is To Answer To The Courts for his lewd behaviour!
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Former UKIP chairman denies sex offences
The former chairman of UKIP in Scotland has appeared in court, accused of a string of sexual offences.
Arthur Misty Thackeray, 55, denies 12 charges spanning eight years between October 2007 and December 2015, involving 12 different women.
The offences are said to have occurred at his Glasgow home, at 1 St Colme Street, Edinburgh and “elsewhere”.
UKIP Scotland leader and MEP David Coburn’s office is at the same address in the capital.
One of the charges is an alleged breach of the peace by making sexual remarks over the phone to a woman and her 14-year-old daughter and telling them he was watching a “sexually explicit video”.
Another is behaving in a threatening or abusive manner “likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm” by repeatedly contacting a woman and “causing” her to believe he was outside her home and watching her.
Image copyrightGOOGLEImage caption: Some charges are alleged to have taken place at the office address of MEP David Coburn.
The other 10 charges are for allegedly “communicating indecently”.
These include contacting women by telephone, “uttering sexual remarks” and “directing sexual questions” at some of them, as well as causing some to believe he was watching adult material while talking to them.
He is also accused of causing another woman to believe he was watching her and causing her to hear “sexual noises”.
His lawyer Jackie White withdrew from acting due to problems with legal aid and the court appointed another lawyer when the case was called at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday. The case was continued until a later date.
Mr Thackeray stood down temporarily from his position in UKIP when the allegations came to light in January.
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Ukip’s Glasgow Chairman Sarah Devenney Quits on the eve of elections! Bringing up the rear so far, in the long list of Ukip Scotland office holders, her decision was clearly stated to be on the grounds of a bad experience with the undemocratic Ukip Scotland!
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Gasgow’s most recent Chairman Sarah Devenney has quit the party, here is her resignation letter/statement to whom it may concern:
I’m very passionate about campaigning for Brexit, believing that the democratic deficit within the EU is wholly unjust and prejudicial and that reclaiming UK sovereignty will allow Brits to rebuild our society and economy. Brexit is why I joined UKIP.
However in my brief period with UKIP, I have come to feel that the internal democratic deficit of the party has inhibited the ability of Scottish branches to campaign for Brexit. I am not alone: the majority of UKIP’s Scottish Chairmen are likewise minded.
It is three full years since Scottish members were allowed to elect a Scottish committee and two and a half years of ‘Special Measures’.
Members of UKIP’s NEC, some of whom are presently Assembly candidates in Wales, must be asked whether the democratic deficit – Special Measures – in Scotland prevails with their backing. Also, why were Welsh members deserving of a ballot on candidates and Scots not? Can these decisions be linked with Farage’s recent dismissal of a petition signed by 5 out of 8 Scottish Chairmen as “totally and utterly irrelevant”?
I expect the party to respond with a personal attack, when instead it might recover some credibility by addressing the constitutional points raised. “Just a handful of disgruntled critics” is no longer going to cut the mustard as a retort. The Scottish electorate won’t be taken for mugs.
I’m a democrat through and through. Perhaps unlike a good number of NEC members, I won’t negotiate on democracy or choose to suspend it when it suits. So I feel that UKIP is not the vehicle to achieve a Brexit vote. Together, we the people can achieve a victory over the establishment on June 23rd, without giving UKIP a greater vote share in this week’s regional elections.
I hereby quit the party.
I will continue to very actively campaign for Brexit and I welcome Scottish patriots, regardless of party affiliation, to join me. Please visit
UKIP official quits party due to ‘democratic deficit’
Aidan Kerr Aidan Kerr
3 May 2016Glasgow UKIP chairwoman Sarah Devenney has quit the party through a public statement on Facebook.
David Coburn: The party’s Scottish leader has faced criticism from UKIP activists. Peter Byrne / PA Archive/Press Association Images
A UKIP official has quit the party over an alleged internal ‘democratic deficit’.
Sarah Devenney, who was the party’s Glasgow branch chairwoman, is the latest UKIP activist in Scotland to leave the party in recent months. In a post on the Glasgow branch’s Facebook page, Devenney cites the party’s emergency “special measures” as one of her reasons for quitting.
She said: “I’m very passionate about campaigning for Brexit, believing that the democratic deficit within the EU is wholly unjust and prejudicial and that reclaiming UK sovereignty will allow Brits to rebuild our society and economy. Brexit is why I joined UKIP.
“However, in my brief period with UKIP I have come to feel that the internal democratic deficit of the party has inhibited the ability of Scottish branches to campaign for Brexit. I am not alone: the majority of UKIP’s Scottish chairmen are likewise minded. It is three full years since Scottish members were allowed to elect a Scottish committee and two and a half years of ‘special measures’.
“Members of UKIP’s NEC, some of whom are presently Assembly candidates in Wales, must be asked whether the democratic deficit – special measures – in Scotland prevails with their backing. Also, why were Welsh members deserving of a ballot on candidates and Scots not? Can these decisions be linked with Farage’s recent dismissal of a petition signed by five out of eight Scottish chairmen as ‘totally and utterly irrelevant’?”
She continued: “I expect the party to respond with a personal attack, when instead it might recover some credibility by addressing the constitutional points raised. ‘Just a handful of disgruntled critics,’ is no longer going to cut the mustard as a retort. The Scottish electorate won’t be taken for mugs.
“I’m a democrat through and through. Perhaps unlike a good number of NEC members, I won’t negotiate on democracy or choose to suspend it when it suits.”
The party’s democratic decision making in Scotland was stopped in 2013 after a row over candidate selection for the 2014 European Parliament election. These have not be relaxed since meaning that UKIP’s candidates for Thursday’s Scottish Parliament elections were chosen by the UK wide national executive committee.
As David Coburn is the party’s leader in Scotland he has a seat on the executive committee making him the only Scottish representative on the decision making body.
UKIP has dismissed the criticism from activists as “careerist egos” and that politics is “better off” without them.
A party spokesperson said: “Without UKIP there would not be an EU referendum, so the argument we are not a vehicle for Brexit is clearly ignorant nonsense, and the fact that someone that doesn’t understand that simple idea is leaving the party is hardly bad news for us.
“Perhaps if the Chairman of Glasgow had actually done anything in the campaign rather than just be bitter that she wasn’t chosen to top the list, she would have discovered that growing number of Scots will support UKIP this year.
“As soon as she knew she had not been selected as number one on the list, she decided not to stand and seemingly did no campaigning, so no one in the party will be taking lessons from her in acting in the best interests of UKIP or the Brexit campaign.
“With that in mind, it seems that the process that prevented her getting the top spot on the list was very effective in separating the wheat from the chaff.
The spokesperson continued: “Anyone that leaves in the last week of a campaign, is not and possibly never has been interested in the cause, nor their fellow candidates or the party, they are just out to cause damage.
“This is all about their private careerist egos, that frankly politics would be better off without.
“They don’t like the fact that UKIP is now attracting people from the left as well as the right, we are not an annexe of the Tory party, and some of them don’t like that.”
Chair of UKIP’s Glasgow branch quits party claiming there is a ‘democratic deficit’ in Scotland
UKIP MEP and leader in Scotland David CoburnPeter Swindon, Group Investigations Writer / @PeterSwindon
The chair of UKIP’s Glasgow branch has quit the party claiming there is a “democratic deficit”.
Sarah Devenney, 37, follows several other high profile UKIP members to walk away in recent weeks.
Many are unhappy about a decision to allow the party’s leader in Scotland, David Coburn MEP, to pick Holyrood candidates.
Democratic decision-making functions in Scotland were suspended by the London-based party hierarchy in 2013 during a period of infighting.
These so-called “special measures” meant that members were not asked to vote for their chosen Scottish Parliament candidates.
Read more: Former UKIP aide says David Coburn is Scotland’s answer to Austin Powers
Coburn previously said publicly that Holyrood candidates would be selected and ranked by an assessment team led by UKIP director Paul Oakden, so that the MEP could “avoid any accusation of bias”.
But it was revealed in March that Mr Oakden contradicted Coburn in a subsequent email to party members which stated that the National Executive Committee “have determined that the UKIP Leader in Scotland should devise a list, including candidate rankings for each region of Scotland.”
Mr Coburn later denied that he was involved in the process and insisted he was “not imposing anyone on anyone”.
However, an email from party chairman Steve Crowther – uncovered on Sunday – confirmed that Mr Coburn was indeed given control, and then placed himself top of UKIP’s regional list in the Highlands and Islands.
Read more: UKIP candidate warns party on ‘brink of disintegration’ in Scotland
Ms Devenney said she joined UKIP because she is “passionate” about campaigning for the UK to leave the European Union but now believes UKIP is “not the vehicle to achieve a Brexit vote”.
Writing on the UKIP Glasgow branch Facebook page she said: “I have come to feel that the internal democratic deficit of the party has inhibited the ability of Scottish branches to campaign for Brexit. I am not alone: the majority of UKIP’s Scottish chairmen are likewise minded.
“It is three full years since Scottish members were allowed to elect a Scottish committee and two and a half years of special measures.
“Members of UKIP’s NEC, some of whom are presently Assembly candidates in Wales, must be asked whether the democratic deficit – special measures – in Scotland prevails with their backing.
“Also, why were Welsh members deserving of a ballot on candidates and Scots not? Can these decisions be linked with Farage’s recent dismissal of a petition signed by 5 out of 8 Scottish chairmen as ‘totally and utterly irrelevant’?
“I expect the party to respond with a personal attack, when instead it might recover some credibility by addressing the constitutional points raised. Saying it is just a handful of disgruntled critics is no longer going to cut the mustard as a retort. The Scottish electorate won’t be taken for mugs.”
Former aide to David Coburn and Glasgow branch secretary, Robert Malyn, who quit UKIP on Sunday, backed the move by the chair of the Glasgow branch – the largest in Scotland which could now be dissolved.
“Until the democratic deficit in UKIP Scotland is addressed, UKIP will never gain the popular support that it needs to grow,” said Mr Malyn. “The party in Scotland needs to be taken out of the shackles of special measures, otherwise UKIP is damaged goods and not fit for purpose.”
Former vice chairman of UKIP Scotland Malcolm Mackay, who quit the party in 2014, added: “I resigned over these same issues two and a half years ago. I would like to fully support Sarah Devenney and all of those who, like the Glasgow chair, stand up for the principles she espouses in this resignation.
“UKIP is not Brexit and the Brexit campaign is not UKIP, and David Coburn MEP is neither.”
The Scottish arm of the anti-EU party has been beset by splits in recent months. Holyrood candidate Euan Blockley quit in March and only yesterday the chairman of the Edinburgh branch, Alan Melville, who tops UKIP’s Lothian list, said the party in Scotland is close to “all-out civil war”.
David Coburn has dismissed the criticism as “a lot of tosh”.
many believe that Nigel Farage’s support for BreXit is in the main a kiss of death to the Leave-The_EU Campaign, with his undeniably racist immage as he centers his efforts on inciting racial hatred aimed at immigrants – he is in the position that on certain issues a mild whisper from him becomes a violent shout amongst his fan club in Ukip, a position of responsibility he has never failed to abuse for his own glory and enrichment!
Cash and immigrants are as insignificant to most who might have voted to Leave-The-EU as his other two mantras revolving around drink and smoking as he promotes his libertine life style as some sort of role model for the weak and gullible.
If you thought Nigel Farage & Ukip’s actions were damaging to the Leave-The-EU cause they are nothing to the well publicised and bitter squabbling in Ukip especially north of the border where Farage’s henchman the loud mothed bufoon and Ukip MEP David Cameron is dragging the Leave Campaign into the ill informed, bullying and boorish gutter he seems so at home in!
Scottish ‘Vote Leave’ launch descends into farce as Ukip roll up
Scottish ‘Vote Leave’ launch descends into farce as Ukip roll up
Tom Gordon, Scottish Political Editor
THE launch of the official EU Out campaign in Scotland descended into farce yesterday, after the organisers turned away Scotland’s only Ukip MEP for trying to speak uninvited.
The Vote Leave campaign refused entry to David Coburn after he pitched up at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow and threw a strop when he was told he couldn’t take part. One witness said Coburn had been “furious” at the snub.
However, the Remain or In side also had its problems on the first weekend of the EU campaign, after former Tory chancellor Kenneth Clarke said David Cameron “wouldn’t last 30 seconds if he lost the referendum”.
Despite the Prime Minister telling MPs last week that he would stay to negotiate the terms of the UK’s withdrawal if there was a Brexit vote, Clarke said that scenario was “just farcical”.
“We’d be plunged into a Conservative leadership crisis, which is never very edifying,” he said, adding the Tory party would have a “devil of a job” to come together again, however the vote goes on June 23.
London Mayor Boris Johnson attacked Cameron for “shamefully” spending £9.3m of public money on a pro-EU leaflet for every UK household, saying the 14-page document was “not sufficiently absorbent for the purposes” to which some people might like to put it.
Johnson, also criticised Barack Obama for “hypocrisy” ahead of his visit to the UK this week, when he is expected to support Cameron’s call to stay in the EU.
He said the US President had a “perfect right” to comment, but added it was “absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty” when they “would never dream” of sharing theirs with the EU or anyone else.
Speaking in Washington, Chancellor George Osborne said it was the “overwhelming view” of foreign governments and international bodies like the IMF and Nato that the UK should stay in the EU, and warned Brexit could mean higher mortgage rates.
In Glasgow, Scottish Vote Leave director Tom Harris said Coburn had “invited himself to be one of the speakers” at its launch, and threatened to be disruptive when he was refused.
Harris said: “If he wants to get involved in the campaign, I am happy to discuss that with him. But I am not going to be pressurised into giving him a speaker spot at the last minute.”
Coburn said he had gone “to wish them well and offer my shoulder to the ecumenical wheel as the established lead voice and only Pro-Brexit elected representative in Scotland. I did then offer to speak at the event, as I thought having someone the Scots had actually elected speaking would help rebalance the event. My offer was declined.”
At the event, Harris claimed pro-Brexit SNP, Labour and Tory candidates in May’s Holyrood election feared speaking out on Europe because they were being “gagged” by their parties.
He said: “A lot of them just don’t want to rock the boat and draw attention to themselves. I know there are candidates standing for the Scottish Parliament who feel as I do, that we should be leaving the EU on June 23. But they are inhibited by their own party’s [Remain] line on the EU, and don’t want to say anything publicly at least until May 5, and possibly not even after that. That is fundamentally undemocratic.
“It is absolutely essential that we have the opportunity to grill our candidates and get an honest answer from them on whether or not they will actually vote themselves to leave or remain. It is not enough to say it is a separate election from the referendum.” Also speaking, Tory Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said the EU was “unreformable” and primarily a political project to create a “country called Europe”.
Villiers said Britain joined in 1973 in an “admission of defeat” that the country was facing “chronic decline”, but it was now time for “self-governing democracy” to return.
“I fundamentally believe we are better off, safer, more secure, more prosperous if this country is outside the EU,” she said, claiming Brexit could mean better export deals on whisky.
The Out campaign’s efforts coincided with the SNPs’ two MEPs launching the ‘The Wee Bleu Book’, a voter-friendly guide to the EU and the the case for staying in it.
The 64-page tract is available free from the scotlandineuope.eu website. There is also an initial print run of 2000 hard copies. Authors Alyn Smith and Ian Hudghton said they wanted the book to become the go-to resource for the EU referendum.
Smith said: “My focus, obviously, is the Holyrood election but as I’ve been travelling the country there is no denying that EU stuff is being talked about, so this website is available to all as a resource to get the real facts out there.
“There’s a lot of nonsense spoken about the EU, and it’s important not to be distracted from the fact that EU membership is entirely in our best interests and the SNP is enthusiastically backing a Remain vote for the right reasons.
“While it has been produced for SNP activists, I hope the book reaches wider. At least on paper, Scottish politics is broadly united that our best interests are remaining in the EU so while every party will be doing their own thing, if anyone wants to use this I’m delighted.”
With an avg. 1.2M voters per MEP & Britain having only 8%, if united, say. The EUropean Parliament has no ability to make policy and has a Commission of unelected bureaucrats, thus clearly the EU is not even a pretence of being a democracy; yet The EU & many of its vassal States are willing to slaughter people in Sovereign States to impose The EU’s chosen brand of democracy on them!
The imposition of a Government and policies upon its vassal regions such as the peoples of Greece shows just how far from being a democracy the EU is.
There will be little or no change in Britain’s economic position, when we leave the EU, using a better negotiated & updated version of the ‘Norway Model’ as a stepping stone to becoming a full member of the Eropean Economic Area, where all will benefit, as we secure trade relations with the EU’s vassal regions, with an EFTA style status and can trade and negotiate independently on the global stage, as members of The Commonwealth and the Anglosphere.
One huge benefit will be that we can negotiate with bodies like the WTO, UN, WHO, IMF, CODEX and the like, directly in our own interest and that of our partners around the world in both the Commonwealth and the Anglosphere at large; rather than having negotiations and term imposed by unelected EU bureacrats and their ionterpretation of the rules handed down as if they were some great achievement by the EU.
The greatest change and benefit will be political, as we improve our democracy and self determination, with the ability to deselect and elect our own Government, with an improved Westminster structure, see >Harrogate Agenda<.
How we go about the process of disentangling our future wellbeing from the EU is laid out in extensive, well researched and immensely tedious detail see >FleXcit< or for a brief video summary CLICK HERE
Richard Lucas’ Resignation As A Ukip Candidate With Reasons! There are many other such examples if you CLICK HERE
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Richard Lucas, former Ukip Scotland Candidate, quits the Party – giving his reasons both on Facebook and in a letter published in The Scottish Herald CLICK HERE with a picture of the unctious oaff David Coburn the Ukip MEP and general embarrassment who has done such harm to the party particularly in Scotland!
Bye, Bye UKIP. I’ve resigned. Dishonest, disreputable and incompetent leadership in Scotland. Letter in The Herald today:
“For last year’s General Election, UKIP Scotland held a manifesto launch event but never published a manifesto! This staggering feat of incompetence stands unequalled in Scottish electoral history.
Their manifesto published today includes many policies with which I agree, but I will not be voting for UKIP.
David Coburn routinely fails to disguise his lack of intelligent policy awareness behind a curtain of bluster and bravado. His deliberate repeated mispronunciation of Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh’s name in multiple ways at a hustings was the first of a catalogue of offensive, childish and disreputable remarks that he has made in his short time as an MEP for Scotland.
His immediate associates in the party seem happy to endorse his antics at every turn, offering spurious excuses as necessary. This blind loyalty has now been rewarded with a top spot on a regional list in the coming election in several cases.
I urge anyone attracted to UKIP’s policies to consider carefully whether they wish to give a platform to David Coburn in the Scottish Parliament. I also recommend research into the UKIP lead candidate in a region before voting for them. Mr Coburn insists that they were chosen on merit. When you see them in action, you might doubt that, or you may conclude that David Coburn’s judgement on what constitutes a good candidate differs from your own.
The efforts of myself and others to reform UKIP in Scotland from the inside have failed, as the central party officials ignore all concerns raised and back Mr Coburn to the hilt.
I want a right of centre, Eurosceptic, socially conservative party to succeed in Scotland, but I am not willing to sacrifice basic standards of decency and integrity to achieve it.
Richard Lucas Formerly of the UKIP Edinburgh and Lothians Branch Committee UKIP Candidate for Edinburgh South West, General Election 2015″
Euan Blockley a Ukip Candidate in Scotland Quits Over Claims Of Corruption At The Top!
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although Scotland is in a state of flux with both Labour & Tories out of favour it is clear that the SNP have made complete fools of themselves.
Imagine just how dire a position Scotland would be in if the Scots had been foolish enough to take the advice of The SNP and vote for Indipendence – the debt already accrued, as a result of the collapse in oil prices, would have condemned Scotland to pennuary for generations to come.
This is just the situation Ukip Scotland should be in a position to exploit to make significant gains in the rapidly approaching elections – however due to crass incompetence, an indisputable level of utter incompetence from its leadership team and endless sqabbling due to poor leadership skills and lack of direction – just at the time when they should have stood every chance of getting 10, 20 or even 30 seats on Scotland’s EU Regional Council of Hollyrood it is likely they won’t get a single place!
UKIP in Scotland rejects claim of vote ‘stitch-up’
30 March 2016
Image captionEuan Blockley claimed the party leadership “stitched up” the process
UKIP in Scotland has defended its procedures for selecting Scottish parliamentary candidates as being “democratically accountable”.
It followed criticism from Euan Blockley, who had expected to top one of the UKIP regional lists for Holyrood in May.
Mr Blockley has alleged that the process was “stitched up” by the party leadership to favour their friends.
He told BBC Scotland that he has left the party as a result.
At 18 years old, Mr Blockley would have been one of the youngest candidates standing in the election.
He said: “I’ve ripped up my party’s membership card. The party has ‘stitched up’ the party lists – and it goes all the way to David Coburn – the NEC etc – giving list places to their cronies.
“It was meant to be a democratic process, when the lists would be chosen by the party members – that’s what we were promised.”
Although he believes he would have been placed second on a regional list, Mr Blockley said he was horrified by the way UKIP in Scotland carried out the process.
He added: “It’s a country club – all the placements are being handed out to friends – at the expense of good candidates.”
UKIP has insisted the selection of candidates was carried out properly.
Scottish leader David Coburn said: “The final pool of candidates and their position on any list is agreed by a ballot of the party’s National Executive Committee.
“The NEC is elected by the party membership and is therefore democratically accountable to the party membership.”
Ukip’s Obesse David Coburn, Ukip’s leader in Scotland, In a Row Over Food Banks, displays his political incompetence!
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UKIP boss quits party after Scottish leader bans him from food bank because ‘no one in this country is going hungry’
07:09, 12 FEB 2016 UPDATED 07:09, 12 FEB 2016 BY DAVID CLEGG
UKIP buffoon David Coburn claimed food banks were ‘left-wing propaganda invented by the Labour Party and the SNP’ and ordered Cailean Mongan to stop helping out.
Cailean Mongan and David Coburn in happier times
A SENIOR UKIP official has quit the party after Scottish leader David Coburn banned him from helping a food bank.
Coburn demanded Glasgow branch vice-chairman Cailean Mongan stop a planned charity drive because “no one in this country is going hungry”.
The buffoon MEP also branded food banks “left-wing propaganda invented by the Labour Party and the SNP ”.
His furious outburst came after Mongan, 39, and other Glasgow branch members decided to support their local food bank in the run-up to Christmas.
Mongan was stunned when other UKIP members reacted angrily.
And the final straw came when Coburn tried to ban the drive.
Mongan, who has also quit as a Holyrood candidate, said in his resignation letter: “Almost straight away the branch was attacked on Facebook by Caroline Santos (chair of Argyll and Bute) who objected to the branch helping the working poor.
“I strongly disagree with Mrs Santos on these issues. On December 6, I was telephoned by David Coburn who instructed me the collection was not to go ahead as ‘no one in this country is going hungry’ and food banks ‘are left-wing propaganda invented by the Labour Party and the SNP’.”
Mongan, who is from Chester but has lived in Glasgow for 12 years, said last night he was “disgusted” by Coburn’s attitude to the poor.
PA/David Cheskin
David Coburn, pictured with UKIP leader Nigel Farage. He said: “This attitude of the top brass in UKIP Scotland is portraying an unacceptable image of the party and turning support away from UKIP in Scotland.”
Coburn was also slammed by Scotland’s leading provider of foodbanks, the Trussell Trust.
They pointed out that party leader Nigel Farage backed plans to invest in food banks in last year’s UKIP general election manifesto.
Trussell Trust Scotland manager Ewan Gurr said: “Our doors are open to elected representatives, including Mr Coburn, to meet with us and see for themselves the dignified, confidential and supportive service we provide.”
PA Mr Coburn doesn’t believe there is a need for food banks. Coburn – who has a long history of idiotic comments – last night confirmed he had blocked the food bank drive.
He claimed he did not totally disagree with food banks but added: “I’m afraid we didn’t see eye to eye with this chap.
“We wanted to do a collection for soldiers – good Scottish lads – who are fighting in places like Afghanistan. He saw it differently. There was a difference of opinion and he’s left.”
SNP MSP Sandra White said: “This letter contains very serious allegations, exposing the poisonous views at the heart of UKIP. Their toxic policies and lack of understanding of Scotland’s priorities rank among the many reasons why voters in Scotland continue to reject them.”
Coburn previously caused controversy by referring to an SNP minister as “Humza Yousaf, or as I call him Abu Hamza”. Hamza is a radical cleric jailed in the US for supporting terrorism.
Ukip Scotland Chairman Arthur Thakaray Embroils Ukip In A Sex Pest Scandal and has to quit!
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I guess it is fair to comment that Ukip are not alone in having sex pests and sex offenders in their ranks – we are all too well aware that politics is, like show business, riddled with such offenders.
However I can think of no instance where someone so seniour in any other party has been arrested since Jeremy Thorpe in the old Liberal Party – which has subsequently all but dropped out of sight with no MPs, no MEPs and just a few councillors of little note left.
For Ukip to have its Scottish Chairman arrested is significant – even if Ukip is all but insignificant and little more than an embarrassment north of the border!
Ukip has been pretty much a disaster in Scotland since Heather Conyngham was dispatched to Scotland with virtually no resources and dependent on her personal skills to drag Scotland into existence for Ukip. Then Ukip Scotland had the embarrassment of internal feuding, the incautious move of permitting Tom Wise to part fund the operation from his expenses/allowances as an MEP in the East Midlands, not to mention a period under the charmanship and lead of the implausible and scattly Christopher Monkton culminating one would have hoped with the embarrassment of Ukip’s list man David Coburn being elected as an MEP.
Ukip even had a period as a party supporting that scoundrel Robert Green long after he had been exposed as a fraud promoting the fantasies surrounding Hollie Greig CLICK HERE
As if to add insult to injury now their chaiman has been forced to stand down under investigation as a sex pest!
Even Nigel Farage’s forays over the border have proved fairly catastrophic, having annoyed the locals to such an exptent he had to be rescued (unsurprisingly from a pub) by the police!
Ukip’s Scottish chairman steps down after facing six sex call charges
Thackeray, 55, faces six charges under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act.
He is charged under a section which says it is an offence “to send a sexual verbal communication to another person without their consent”.
Police detained Thackeray on the morning of Friday, January 22. It’s understood he spent the weekend in the cells.
Thackeray then appeared in private at Glasgow Sheriff Court on the Monday. He made no plea or declaration and was granted bail.
He is expected to return to court at a later date. Prosecutors have a year to bring him to trial.
Thackeray has been a prominent figure for UKIP in Scotland in recent years.
He stood as his party’s candidate for Glasgow East in last May’s general election, coming fourth with 1105 votes.
And he appeared in a BBC Scotland “leaders’ debate” 10 days before the poll, taking on Labour’s Kezia Dugdale, Stuart Hosie of the SNP, Tory Annabel Goldie, Jo Swinson of the Lib Dems and Green MSP Patrick Harvie.
He has now stepped down as UKIP Scotland chairman while the criminal case is resolved.
Asked about Thackeray yesterday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: “I’ve heard about it. I’m not going to comment.” He then put the phone down.
A UKIP spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment on an ongoing case.
Thackeray wasn’t at his modern home in Springboig in Glasgow’s east end yesterday. A neighbour said he was often away and added: “When he’s here he doesn’t answer the door anyway.
“He doesn’t say much. He sometimes turns up in a car with a woman.”
Thackeray used to run a group of security and investigation companies. And in 2014, he admitted UKIP had spied on their opponents in Scotland.
He said the party hired private detectives during the referendum campaign and used Polish immigrants to infiltrate anti-UKIP groups.
Groups thought to have been targeted include Radical Independence and Unite Against Fascism.
Opponents called the tactics sinister but Thackeray said they would “definitely” be used again in the general election campaign.
He also claimed to have gone under cover for the party himself. He said: “As someone who’s done a lot of covert work, it was nothing.”
Police said: “A 55-year-old man has been arrested and detained in connection with alleged offences under section seven of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009. A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal.”
Ukip’s MEP David Coburn their leader in Scotland Drags Ukip’s Reputation In The Gutter with his bullying and boorish behaviour.
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anyone who believes that Ukip’s leader in Scotland David Coburn is anything other than an ill mannered, odious, ignorant boer can readily disabuse themselves by accessing his interview on TV on the night of the Scottish devolution vote.
On that night David Coburn made a fool of himself and Ukip with his ill informed bullying and abusive comments, judging by his florid and sweating appearance alcohol fueled in a manner that brought Ukip into disrepute.
At the time, although David Coburn had been elected as Ukip’s MEP in Scotland, based on the votes obtained by Ukip in Scotland rather than any personal support, David Coburn boasted of being domicile in London and had no home or residency in Scotland.
Ukip MEP David Coburn banned from Wikipedia indefinitely
Online administrator blocks user account of ‘David Coburn MEP’ over attempts to alter article about the Ukip politician 69 times in six days When contacted by the Guardian, Coburn said he had started editing the Wikipedia page after spotting mistakes on it.
When contacted by the Guardian, Coburn said he had started editing the Wikipedia page after spotting mistakes on it. Photograph: Ken Jack/Demotix/Corbis
David Pegg and Helena Bengtsson
Wednesday 29 April 2015 14.15 BST Last modified on Wednesday 29 April 2015 15.22 BST
Ukip politician David Coburn has been indefinitely banned from Wikipedia after attempting to alter an article about himself 69 times in six days.
The ‘David Coburn MEP’ user account was blocked by an administrator at the online encyclopedia last month after repeatedly trying to make edits to the website’s article on Coburn, who has a reputation for making controversial comments.
Coburn, the Ukip MEP for Scotland, told the Guardian he had directed one of his staff to make the changes in order to clear the page of “garbage” and “nonsense”.
“David Coburn MEP” began altering the page on 1 April this year, removing a passage stating that Coburn had allegedly muddled the name of SNP candidate Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh repeatedly during the 2014 European parliament campaign.
Sheikh had accused Coburn of calling her “Pashmina, Jasmine and Tamzin before eventually settling on a combination of ‘love’, ‘dear’ and ‘honey’,” and that she had found the remarks to be sexist and possibly racist. At the time, Ukip’s Scottish chairman denied Coburn had repeatedly mispronounced Sheikh’s name, saying he had only mispronounced it once. Coburn told the Guardian that Sheikh’s allegation was “nonsense”.
Three minutes after Coburn removed the passage it was reinserted by another user. One minute later, Coburn removed it again. European parliament urged to act over Ukip MEP’s ‘Islamophobic insult’ Read more
These were the first of dozens of changes over the following six days encompassing a number of factual disputes, including whether Coburn lived in Edinburgh or London, whether he attended the High School of Glasgow or a high school in Glasgow, and whether he had said ever stated he would “work closely with the so-called London elite” (Coburn says he did not). He also repeatedly tried to add a statement that there was “no material difference” between civil partnerships and gay marriage to his article.
The MEP’s edits were interpreted by other users as breaching one of the site’s rules on conflicts of interest, defined as when users alter articles to make them more favourable to themselves.
Wikipedia also prohibits users from engaging in “edit wars”, in which different users repeatedly delete each other’s contributions. During one particularly intense dispute, Coburn was accused by another user of getting into an edit war with himself and repeatedly deleting his own changes.
Coburn left a number of notes on the website complaining that other users were disregarding his own account of his life.
“I am David Coburn MEP – I am aware of where I live – I live in Edinburgh – I am also aware of where I went to school & which University I attended – there are several people changing the facts and they need to stop,” he wrote. Nigel Farage: the English are biggest victims of racism because of Scots Read more
He later added: “Apparently I dont know where I live nor which school I attended or the University I attended – is there anything else you would like to update me on?” and suggested he would complain to Wikipedia about people editing his article maliciously.
The account was first blocked for a limit of 31 hours (“after many, many warnings” according to one administrator) but later blocked indefinitely. Advertisement
When contacted by the Guardian, Coburn said he had started editing the page after spotting mistakes on it, but that he had stopped after getting bored.
“I hear it gets changed all the time. Personally I don’t give a damn what people write about me. People write the most colourful things about me and I’ve got the hide of a rhino and I don’t really give a damn,” he said.
“I’m sure its all wee cybernats who’ve got nothing better to do with their time and they should actually be out getting a job.”
Asked if he had followed through on his threat to complain, Coburn replied: “Did we complain in the end? Did I bother? I can’t remember. I don’t think we could be bothered. I think I’ve got too much on my plate. It’s one of those things I meant to do and never bothered.”
Asked about specific changes, he said that it was a month ago and he did not remember the details of what was changed.
“It was done by one of my people. I don’t know how to press the buttons to make it work. I was telling them what to do. If there was garbage on there I told them to take it off,” he said.
IF you are in any doubt of the unpleasant nature of David Coburn and Ukip’s contempt for Scotland in appointing him as their leader in Scotland consider this series of informed Tweets:
#David_Coburn didn’t ‘act like a noxious bully’ #Ukip‘s ‘Scotland leader IS a both ‘Noxious & a ‘Bully’ A VILE CREEP
Greg_Lance-Watkins added,
Folded Towel XCI@hassanaliahmed
The top brass of UKIP’s Scottish branch showed up to a church-organised, constituency #GEC2015 hustings and behaved like noxious bullies.
David Coburn’s performance as an MEP in the EU is relatively mediocre rating 45th out of the British MEPs and 124th out of the 751 MEP total!
For more detail from the EU CLICK HERE
It is my opinion that the crass and boorish behaviour of David Coburn since his election as an MEP and leader of Ukip in Scotland has done more harm to Ukip, particularly in Scotland than even his predecessors such as Christopher Monkton ever did or even that done by the outspoken Zionist based racism of Malcolm Lord Pearson or the superstition based racism of Gerard Batten!
Ukip In Further Turmoil incl. Janice Atkinson’s Fraud which is just another measure of the unprofessional behaviour of the Nigel Farage cult.
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by no means is Janice Atkinson the only unprofessional crook amongst their MEPs and racism, dishonesty, corruption and boorish behaviour of the Nigel Farage cult is all too clearly documented.
Ukip suspends Janice Atkinson the party’s candidate for Folkestone and Hythe
19 March 2015
by Gareth Arnold
Ukip has suspended Janice Atkinson following allegations of a “serious financial nature.”
Nigel Farage has told KentOnline the allegations relate to an incident at the Ukip Spring Conference in Margate earlier this year.
He said: “There is quite a serious allegation that a receipt that was submitted was not all it should have been.
Janice Atkinson has been suspended
“We treat these things very seriously so we have acted quickly – some may say harshly – so we will have to wait and see.
“I’ve had so many difficulties over the years with people but one thing I’ve learnt is no party has a monopoly on people who do things wrong – not that I’m pre-judging this case.
“We treat these things very seriously so we have acted quickly – some may harshly – so we will have to wait and see” – Nigel Farage
“It’s as much about how you deal with it and we have shown we deal with this kind of thing very quickly.”
Mrs Atkinson has had the party whip removed while investigations continue.
A Ukip party spokesman said the party was “incredibly disappointed with Ms Atkinson, who appears to have exercised extremely poor judgment”.
He added: “The party has acted swiftly and immediately and, just as we showed when we suspended another MEP for financial irregularities, we always maintain a zero-tolerance attitude towards acts of this nature.”
Ukip leader Nigel Farage
Stig Abell, managing editor of The Sun, tweeted that the suspension followed an investigation by the newspaper.
The Sun reported tonight that it had secretly filmed a member of her staff plotting to make a ‘substantial bogus expenses claim.’
KentOnline’s political editor Paul Francis understands it relates to a lunch the MEP hosted at a Margate pub during the spring conference.
Atkinson has courted controversy in the past, most recently when she referred to a Thai constituent as “a ting tong from somewhere.”
Vince and Fa Munday, Picture: BBC South East
The offensive comments about Fa Munday, a mobile food seller from Ramsgate, were picked up by a BBC South East microphone.
Mrs Munday’s husband Vince, who had been a Ukip member, described the insult as ‘outrageous, rude and offensive.’
In December it was reported that she owed her ex-husband more than £2,000 in child support.
Guido hears that suspended MEP Janice Atkinson was told by UKIP’s legal team this morning that there was nothing they could do for her and that she had better get criminal representation very quickly. Apparently Section 6 of the 2006 Fraud Act was the topic of breakfast discussion this morning…
With thanks to Peter for the picture – Should I put it up 3 times Janice <|;-o))
Lets not forget that a Group event, such as a women’s freebe meal has to be pre-approved to make it claimable against EU expenses, and with Kirsten Farage involved even Janice Atkinson is not so stupid as to have her staff ‘boost’ the receipt value from around £50 per head to £150 per head without approval/clearance! This does sound terribly like this was normal practice for Ukip, but having been caught on film by The Sun, Ukip are left with little option but to denounce Janice Atkinson as the sacrificial goat!
If this were just an isolated case of Ukip corruption and turmoil one might be justified in moving on and considering it an aberration but fraud in one form or another is endemic within Farage’s cult.
However with revolt over the odious ex Tory, ex <|;-o) ?
Victoria Ayling – with members refusing to campaign for her.
A Ukip candidate quitting as a result of the sordid David Coburn’s recent racist comments and vile behaviour in Scotland:
Scots-based UKIP election candidate quits amid claims of sectarianism
A prominent Scots-based UKIP candidate has quit the party claiming it is riddled with religious bigotry and racism north of the border.
Jonathan Stanley, who has contested elections in his home city of Edinburgh, said: “This sectarian and racist filth in Scotland needs cleaning up. It is a great threat to the Eurosceptic cause and civil society.”
The surgeon had been UKIP’s Westminster candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria.
His decision comes after a tumultuous week for the party in Scotland with it sole elected representative, MEP David Coburn, under fire for comparing a Scottish Government minister with convicted terrorist Abu Hamza.
Following allegations he also deliberately mispronounced another Asian SNP member’s name he was branded an “ignorant racist” by Glasgow Labour MSP Patricia Ferguson and even condemned by UKIP’s first MP Douglas Carswell.
He added: “I have given my full resignation to the party because of the issues happening in Scotland. If I can’t represent the party I need to leave it. I am standing back from this now. Let other candidates get on with it.
“I would have been representing the UK in the UK Parliament. That needs to be for a party that tackles sectarianism and racism across the UK.
“The people deserve a candidate who is either an independent of committed to the party. It is more honest if I resign.”
Colin Rudd, UKIP agent on Cumbria, said the move was a “bit of a disappointment” less than two month before the election. He admitted it was a blow a month and a half before the May 7 election.
Mr Stanley also cited issues with UKIP’s MEPs in the north of England and the party’s handling of health issues.
He added: “The people of the seat deserve a candidate who either starts as an independent or is committed to a party; it is more honest to resign.”
To view the original article CLICK HEREStuart Agnew still seemingly under investigation by OLAF for fraud with his chum David Bannerman who quit as a Ukip MEP to rejoin the Tories, he confessed to on camera for the Times.The overtly racist anti Islamic behaviour, publications and comments of liars like Gerard Batten or for that matter Nigel Farage’s puppet the dishonest and untrustworthy Malcolm Pearson.
The list goes on and on and as I always cautioned the higher up the tree the monkey climbs the more you see its @rse as the public, competitors, opponents and the public scrutinise them more closely. This would seem to have led to something of a collapse in growth in the last month or two and even the Greens have now overtaken them in membership!
Ukip has peaked, but no one wants to admit it – Nigel Farage now resembles every other politician
Suzanne MooreThe Ukip leader has traded on his outsider status, but the nearer we get to the election the more he is playing the game he said he wouldn’t play Nigel Farage If Nigel Farage loses in Thanet, it is all over. Wednesday 18 March 2015 20.00 GMT Last modified on Thursday 19 March 2015 00.05 GMT I am not sure that giving up alcohol works for everyone. Sure, some people feel a lot better, find it easier to get up in the morning and point out that their skin is glowing. But look at Nigel Farage. What did a dry January do for him? Now often pictured without the obligatory pint and fag in hand, he has become a somewhat diminished presence in the media. Lacking his naughty props, he looks like every other politician, only with a strangely retro wardrobe.
Looking like every other politician is the worst thing that can happen for Farage, who trades on his “difference” and his “telling it like it is” outsider status. Yet the nearer we get to this listless election, the more he is playing the game that he said he wouldn’t play. To speak of him and his party as insurgents is like calling Prince Harry a republican. Ukip peaked a while back, though the pretence that it hasn’t lingers. Farage has knocked back rumours of ill health by saying that, as he has survived cancer, a car accident and a plane crash, his health might indeed not always be 100%. Even his enemies must concede his physical courage and stamina.
But something else is going on that feels rather desperate. His book, The Purple Revolution, has been shunted out, and, amazingly, is nothing to do with Prince. It is being serialised in the Telegraph, a newspaper that is read largely by elderly Tories who may be to the right of the party and tempted by Ukip, but are not in the seats that Ukip needs to win.
When the book came out, invites to the launch do said: “All conversations are to be considered off the record.” This is exactly the strange kind of political control-freakery that Farage has always rallied against. He has gone on about free speech and being straightforward. Yet now he has entered the world of journalists favoured with briefings, the cliques, and the nooks and crannies of the Westminster elite that are responsible for so much of the political disengagement that he is said to champion. Advertisement
Much of his appeal has been based on his presentation as an outsider, despite his public school and City trader background. This manifested itself in gaffes, contradictions and regurgitated rants about political correctness gone mad. And smoking. His supporters lap this up, but the nearer he gets to power, the slicker he gets.
What worked a year ago does not quite work now. His trip to America just before he addressed his troops at Ukip’s spring conference in Margate could have been him sussing out some new career opportunities, for it is in no way guaranteed that he will a get a seat. If Farage does not win South Thanet, and that’s a real possibility, then Ukip as we know it is finished. He will stand down as party leader. A politician such as Douglas Carswell will take over, a man who has interesting ideas on democracy but just doesn’t cut it in the populist stakes.
There has been a complete disjuncture between the huge focus on Farage and the number of seats Ukip will end up with – three, possibly four: Clacton; Boston and Skegness; Thurrock and maybe South Thanet. It would have to do very well to win any others, such as Great Grimsby, Great Yarmouth and Rochester and Strood. This may seem unfair if the party’s share of the vote hovers around 14%, but even that is down from a year ago. Ukip’s supporters may feel aggrieved that we don’t have proportional representation, but that’s one thing they can’t blame on immigration.
Once in power, its MPs will ally with the Tories. Nothing it has promised its constituents, from banning immigrants’ children from state schools to an exit from Europe, is likely to happen. A handful of its MPs will not stop globalisation.
What Ukip has done is push the Tories to the right and given a voice to many disaffected voters, but a political force grounded in disenfranchised resentment can only fizzle out when faced with the realities of governance. Business leaders don’t want to leave Europe. Blaming immigration for every ill cannot produce workable policies. The real issues of the day – housing, low wages, widening inequality – are not answered in any way by Ukip’s overtly weird and racist “senior moment” attitude.
Where Ukip has won, though, is with the media, because it is now considered one of the four main parties. Farage is a creature of an age when personality trumps policy. This is why, if he loses in Thanet, it is all over. His message in the constituency that “only Ukip can win” has seen the Tories pouring more resources into their campaign as part of a decapitation strategy.
Farage may get a second wind, but watching him now, I sense him moving towards the exit. I grant that this may be wishful thinking, but something makes me believe he is looking at a future elsewhere. We may well end up with a coalition between the party of entitlement and the party of disgruntlement that leaves Farage lurking around, no longer calling the shots. Perhaps then he can claim for the first time to be genuinely “outside”.
You may also wish to consider the new book Nigel Farage had commissioned about himself in a desperate bid to garner a few extra votes for himself and his cult, but though the previous books he commissioned from Mark Daniels (now sadly dead) were met with humour in the style of Mark’s writing the eviceration of his latest offering is withering CLICK HERE
Little wonder, I guess, that the general assumption of the informed is that Farage is more likely to receive a hammering from many sources in the next 50 days and it is unlikely that his cult will get any seats or at best a relatively insignificant 3 or 4 with both Farage himself and Mark Reckless being the deciding factor that MIGHT take them over Douglas Carswell + one fluke to a meagre 4 that would have no influence or position in Government and may well find itself leaderless!
This all comes at a time where clearly the party is under not just the expected attack of rivals but collapse from within brought about by poor selection, incompetent leadership, lack of any understanding of how to get out of the EU, no responsible ethical EU eXit and survival strategy and when principle backers like Paul (the Yorkshire Dwarf) Sykes have gone abscent and apart from a bizarre piece of self publicity and a promise of a mere £100K on TV, Stuart Wheeler would seem to be on the verge, or is it in the middle of, substantial financial losses on his shares in his old spread betting company which once earned him £90M on its sale, which seemingly is in not just some financial troubles but also seemingly has fallen foul of the regulatory bodies having bet on the Swiss currency staying pegged to the EUro!
Ukip’s Overt Racism Manifest In Scottish Region, as Ukip’s leader in Scotland is manifestly anti Islamic but I tend to think his PC beliefs would not be as complacent were he branded ‘a boorish fat old faggot’!
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This is by no means the first time this odious oaf has made a fool of himself, displaying his ignorance, ill manners and vile personality dragging Ukip’s already much befouled reputation into the gutter with him – many will remember his vile and boorish behaviour on TV on the night of Scotland’s referendum to destroy these United Kingdoms and plunge its people into abject misery based upon the greed of a few at the top and the bitter failure of an already large Scottish social underbelly already failing and of course their one viable potential source of income other than subsidies, that being a volatile oil price!
Clearly David Coburn is not the only such odious an individual amongst Ukip’s leadership team and their staff
nor is David Coburn the only member of Ukip’s leadership with an extremist racist track record
Nigel Farage’s own indifference to the needs and feelings of those of Asian and African ethnic origins being hidden in cowardly and devious terms as ‘colour blindness’ as he parades anyone of non Caucasian origin at every opportunity to mask Ukip’s overt racism!
They are NOT alone in providing excellent reasons NOT to spoil your ballot paper by befouling it with an ‘X’ against a Ukip candidate in May!
Scotland’s UKIP leader facing calls to resign after comparing country’s only Muslim minister to convicted terrorist Abu Hamza
David Coburn apologised after comparing Humza Yousaf to Abu Hamza
He made comment in conversation over BBC’s The Big Immigration Debate
Mr Yousaf, SNP minister, wrote to Nigel Farage calling for his expulsion
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the comparison was ‘reprehensible’
She is also calling for Scotland’s Ukip leader to be kicked out of the party
Hate cleric was handed a life sentence for supporting terrorism this year
Published: 10:30, 14 March 2015 | Updated: 10:30, 14 March 2015
Scotland’s UKIP leader is today facing calls to resign after he compared the country’s only Muslim minister to the convicted terrorist Abu Hamza.
In conversation with the Scottish Daily Mail, David Coburn, who was elected as an MEP last year, referred to ‘Humza Yousaf, or as I call him, Abu Hamza’.
Mr Yousaf, the SNP’s Minister for Europe and International Development, said the ‘Islamophobic’ comment was one of the worst insults he had ever received.
David Coburn (left), Scotland’s Ukip leader, is facing calls to resign after he compared the country’s only Muslim minister, Humza Yousaf (right), to convicted terrorist Abu Hamza
He has written to party leader Nigel Farage to call for Mr Coburn to be expelled and is also planning to complain to the EU Ombudsman and European Parliament president Martin Schulz.
The row comes in the same week that Mr Farage was embroiled in a racism row, after he suggested most of Britain’s race relations laws should be scrapped.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said comparing her colleague to a ‘convicted terrorist’ was ‘reprehensible’ and said Mr Coburn should ‘face consequences for that’ and be kicked out of UKIP.
Last night, Mr Coburn – who is also standing to be the MP for Falkirk in May’s General Election – offered his ‘sincerest apologies’ for his comment. Ironically, earlier this year he sparked controversy by branding the SNP a ‘racist party’.
Hook-handed Abu Hamza was earlier this year handed a life sentence by a New York judge for supporting terrorism.
Abu Hamza was this year handed a life sentence by a New York judge for supporting terrorism
The hate cleric was convicted last May of multiple charges, including hostage-taking and plotting to set up a terrorism training camp in America.
His trial followed his extradition from the UK to the US in 2012 at the end of an eight-year legal battle.
Mr Coburn’s comment was made during a telephone conversation, in which he spoke about his appearance on BBC Two show The Big Immigration Debate on Tuesday.
He claimed that Mr Yousaf was supposed to be on the show, and said: ‘Humza Yousaf, or as I call him, Abu Hamza, didn’t seem to turn up.’
Challenged by the Mail during the conversation, Mr Coburn said the remark was intended to be private.
However, there had been no prior agreement that the discussion was off-the-record. Glasgow-born Mr Yousaf was yesterday alerted to the comment by the Mail, and replied: ‘I am utterly appalled, disgusted and hurt by the comments allegedly made by David Coburn MEP.
‘This is Islamophobia of the worst kind. If this was shouted at a Muslim on the street none of us would tolerate it, the fact this abuse has come from an elected member of the European Parliament is completely unacceptable.
‘Nigel Farage has been plagued by accusations of leading a racist party and this outburst from David Coburn MEP shows that UKIP are not just a party with a few rotten apples but rotten to the core.
‘If Nigel Farage is serious about UKIP being a party that will not tolerate xenophobia in any form then I expect David Coburn to be expelled from UKIP immediately and have written to Nigel Farage in that vein.’
He added: ‘David Coburn has been exposed making Islamophobic remarks and should do the honourable thing and resign.’
Mr Yousaf has written to party leader Nigel Farage (right) to call for Mr Coburn (left) to be expelled and is also planning to complain to the EU Ombudsman and European Parliament president Martin Schulz
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (left) said comparing her colleague Humza Yousaf (right) to a ‘convicted terrorist’ was ‘reprehensible’ and said Mr Coburn should be kicked out of UKIP
His letter to Mr Farage states: ‘UKIP has been plagued by a number of incidents where senior party members have made xenophobic, racist or Islamophobic remarks.
‘I am sure you will wish to distance UKIP from such attitudes and I note you have taken disciplinary action against those found to make such prejudiced remarks in the past.
‘I therefore call on you to immediately suspend David Coburn while you investigate this matter and if he is indeed found to guilty of making these remarks then I expect he will be expelled from UKIP.’
First Minister Miss Sturgeon said: ‘There seems to be no depths below which Mr Coburn will not sink. Nigel Farage should remove him from his party.’
A UKIP spokesman said: ‘Mr Coburn’s comments were made in the spirit of jest and he thought it off the record but they were in very bad taste. He has obviously caused offence and he is very sorry to have done so.
‘He has written to Mr Yousaf offering his sincerest apologies.’
A SHORT CAREER OF CONTROVERSY: DAVID COBURN HAS ONLY BEEN AN MEP FOR A YEAR BUT HAS ALREADY OFFENDED A STRING OF POLITICIANS
David Coburn (right) pulls a face behind Labour MEP’s Catherine Stihler (centre) and David Martin (right)
David Coburn has managed to offend politicians from most parties in his short tenure as an MEP.
The 56-year-old has claimed Alex Salmond would be ‘hanging from a lamppost’ if there had been a vote for independence, has described Nicola Sturgeon as ‘Helmet Hairdo’, was overhead on a train calling then Scots Labour leader Johann Lamont a ‘fishwife’ and dismissed the Greens as a ‘cult, like scientology’.
Last year, the MEP – who is openly gay – sparked controversy when he claimed same-sex weddings only mattered to ‘some queen who wants to dress up in a bridal frock and dance up the aisle.’
Born in Glasgow, Mr Coburn was educated at Glasgow High School, where he was a milk monitor and later became head boy. He went on to study law at Leeds University but failed to receive a degree.
Moving to London, he found a job in the City as a trader and set up an antiques dealership. Prior to his election victory last year, his main source of income was an air freight business he set up, which he was uncharacteristically reticent about when quizzed by the Mail at the time – refusing even to reveal the name of the company.
Certainly, not all of his business ventures are successful. He once ran the Lexicon School of English in London’s Kensington, which was dissolved in 1993 by the Companies Registrar after failing to file accounts.
He now receives a taxpayer-funded salary of nearly £80,000 after his party attracted the support of more than 140,000 Scots in the European election.
When his success was announced by Scotland’s Returning Officer Mary Pitcaithly last May, Mr Coburn’s address – in Kensington, London – was greeted with amusement.
Neighbouring properties in that street have sold for around £4million in recent years, but he says he now lives north of the Border.
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