We all know people who voted UKip indeed they could be your next door neighbour and with them getting 12.5% in the 2015 General Election and 27.5% in the European Election where they came first there are probably many who supported them who maybe never admit it.
Of course Europe was the major plank in UKip's appeal and the always latent or open racism was always there , but I like to think the major issue was Europe.
but now with Europe taken as a issue from them by a right wing fraction/minority of the Tory Party Ukip have lost one of their Unique selling points and now seem to rely on the other that of far right racism.
Now UKIP leader Gerard Batten has defended his decision to hire Tommy Robinson as an adviser and says he had saved the party "from oblivion".
His predecessor Nigel Farage criticised UKIP's association with the ex-English Defence League leader and said there should be a vote of no confidence in Mr Batten.
Mr Batten said many people respected Mr Robinson's "stand on things".
And he claimed Mr Farage had shown "0% interest" in UKIP since "walking away".
Mr Batten, who is the fourth person to lead UKIP since Mr Farage quit in the wake of the 2016 EU referendum, said he believed he would see off any challenge to his leadership.
Mr Batten said he "looked forward to working with him" on subjects about which "he has great knowledge".
Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, will advise him on rape gangs and prison reform.
Well his knowledge of the former is largely confined to Asian predators whilst ignoring white ones and in the latter he has plenty experience
Robinson or Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon was jailed for assault in 2005, has convictions for drugs offences and public order offences, was jailed in 2012 for illegally entering the United States using a false passport[99] and jailed again in 2014 for a £160,000 mortgage fraud.[100]
In October 2012, Robinson was arrested and held on the charge of having entered the United States illegally. Robinson pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to using someone else's passport to travel to the United States in September 2012, and was sentenced in January 2013 to 10 months' imprisonment.
Robinson had used a passport in the name of Andrew McMaster to board a Virgin Atlantic flight from Heathrow to New York. He had been banned from entering the US due to a drugs offence. When he arrived at New York’s JFK Airport, customs officials who took his fingerprints realised he was not Mr McMaster. He was asked to attend a second interview but left the airport, entering the US illegally. He stayed one night and returned to the UK the following day using his own legitimate passport - which bears the name Paul Harris.[
Ironically Judge Alistair McCreath told him: "What you did went absolutely to the heart of the immigration controls that the United States are entitled to have. It's not in any sense trivial."
He was released on electronic tag on 22 February 2013.
In May, the 35-year old former EDL leader was jailed for 13 months for contempt of court, which sparked a series of #freeTommy protests. Which could have been sen as laughable if they weren't based on and attended to by racists and fascists views.
His conviction was later quashed over procedural concerns and the case has now been referred to the attorney general.
"Welsh" AM Michelle Brown said it may be time "to have Batten's leadership democratically checked" by the members.
She previously said letting Mr Robinson join UKIP would give substance to claims it was moving to the far-right.
To what extent Ukip Anti-EU stance was fuelled by racism is open for debate, though I suspect it was always there.
Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4's Today earlier that, under his leadership, the party had talked about mass immigration and extreme forms of Islam but "as a non-racist, non-sectarian party".
"This blows a hole in all of that."
While he had not "given up" on UKIP, he said he would be writing to the party's ruling National Executive Committee urging a vote of no confidence in Mr Batten as leader and "that we get rid of him".
"We can have one last go at getting rid of somebody who as leader is dragging us in a shameful direction."
Even if you agree with Mr Farage that Ukip under him were then a"as a non-racist, non-sectarian party". He is largely responsible for letting the Dogs on the street and h e can't distance himself now that a large number of them are Rabid.
If you now vote UKip then you are a supporting racists and there is no excuse.
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