Good grief: Ukip has expelled someone for having racist views. And all Cllr Rozanne Duncan (Cliftonville, Thanet East) said was,”The only people I do have problems with are negroes. And I don’t know why.
“I don’t know whether there is something in my psyche or whether it’s karma from a previous life or whether something happened to me as a very, very young person and I’ve drawn a veil over it – because that sometimes happens, doesn’t it?
“But I really do have a problem with people with negroid features.”
The poor woman. I mean, how could you not have a problem with “people with negroid features”?
I hope you have managed to detect my sarcasm and irony with Ms Duncan’s comments and perhaps I should have been more serious: what the hell is this mad woman on about? And furthermore, why has Farage expelled her? It seems to me she fits in rather well with his odious party.
Ukip has arrived at a time of economic despair and high unemployment, just as all far right parties do. Ukip type parties come along with a message of hopelessness and blame (it’s Johnny Foreigner’s fault) and that’s what Farage is up to.
Ms Duncan, with her filthy ‘negroid’ talk, is a symptom of Farage-speak. These people with ‘negroid features’, you see, look different from, well, those who don’t have ‘negroid features’, so they must be the problem. Because those with ‘Jewish features’ were the problem in Nazi Germany, weren’t they? Certainly Hitler thought they were and what followed was genocide.
We need to deal with these issues now. In the 1970s, many people told us to just ignore the National Front because they’d just go away. They were just a few thousand neo-nazis, holocaust deniers, who were really quite harmless, even if they did worship Hitler. Of course, we didn’t ignore them because they didn’t go away and a few right wing splits later they were the BNP.
Now the BNP has disintegrated, and despite the relentlessly right wing march of the Tory/Lib Dem alliance, there is still an opening on the far right and that’s where Farage and his fellow travellers are operating. The pretence that somehow Farage is an anti-establishment figure standing up to vested interests is the exact opposite of who and what he is. Farage may condemn the talk of people with ‘negroid features’ but it’s exactly the type of talk you expect from the far right in politics. And make no mistake, the far right of politics is where Farage is coming from.
