UKIP Candidate for Westmoreland Resigns Citing Racism, Bullying and Sectarianism

The Westmoreland Gazette has this story, Ukip candidate resigns: Jonathan Stanley leaves party citing ‘open racism and bullying’. Jonathan Stanley is a Scotland-based surgeon, who managed to stick it out as UKIP’s parliamentary candidate for Westmoreland and Lonsdale before finally resigning. He explained his decision as due to the racism and sectarianism within the Scottish party. He said

“I have given my full resignation to the party because of issues happening in Scotland: open racism and sanctimonious bullying within the party. This sectarian racist filth in Scotland needs cleaning up. it is a great threat to the Eurosceptic cause and civil society.”

He also cited other reasons for his resignation. These were the general levels of motivation in MEPs for the north west, and health issues. He had been dismayed by the party’s decision not to publish documents he had written about the Kirkup Report, which condemned the hospitals in the Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust after the deaths of eleven babies and one mother.

The article’s at http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/11868250.Ukip_candidate_resigns__Jonathan_Stanley_leaves_party_citing__open_racism_and_bullying_/?ref=twtrec.

Reading this, it seems that not only is UKIP in Scotland racist – no surprise there! – but also beset with the sectarian hatreds between Protestant and Roman Catholic. I can’t say I’m surprised at that either, as when Farage crossed the briny to speak in Ulster, the party organisers over there seemed to have very strong connections to Protestant paramilitary groups.

As for the comments about motivation, it suggests that the Kippers in the north-west simply can’t be bother about that part of the world.

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