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I’ve been trying to stay out of the recent political debate over the rise of UKIP in the European Elections, but I can no longer. With 24 seats, UKIP have the most number of seats, beating Labour by 4 seats and the Conservative party by 5 seats. I think that voting is an important part of our rights, if people choose not to vote then that is their choice and express the right to not vote, personally I enjoy politics therefore I feel that if I didn’t vote then I also don’t get the right to express my opinions on what is happening in the world of politics.

So UKIP – The UK Independence Party, right winged political party, currently run by Nigel Farage. A few things that some of its members have said over the years include:

(Source PinkNews) Demetri Marchessini was asked why women should dress to excite men, Mr Marchessini said: “Because that is the only way the world is going to continue.

“Because if they don’t men are going to stop fucking them.

“Do you understand, and may I tell you with great respect, that the incidents of love making in the Western Europe have fallen drastically?”

He said one reason for this was because women wear trousers. He said another reason was “because women work”.

He also said that it is not possible for a husband to rape his wife.

“If you make love on Friday and you make love on Sunday you can’t say Saturday is rape,” he told Channel 4 News.

(These are just little clip i will post the full footage on this topic after this post)

Another Example would be David Silvester who claimed that God sent storms in January 2014, due to the legalization of gay marriage.

Just 4 hours ago there has been reports of  UKIP MEP, David Small, being suspended due to claims of racist remarks and homophobic comments. Good Start to our representation in Europe!

(Source BBC) It is alleged Mr Small called African migrants “scroungers” and Clare Balding and Sir Elton John “perverts” because of their sexualities.

The Facebook page has now been taken down and Mr Small has not commented.

So these homophobic, sexist, racist, small minded ideas are clearly represented and held to some value to members of the UKIP party and these are the people who have the UK’s biggest representation in the European Parliament. For those who think that this is a small minority of there members, lets just think about it, if your ok with someones racist, sexist, homophobic opinions then in some small way or other then you must believe in them to an extent that you are comfortable hearing them. Personally I think its disgusting and I would like to think most humans would as well. There are too many examples of this type of behavior by individuals in the party, that it can be seen to be a refection of the political party to an extent as well.

The worrying issue is that across Europe we can see a massive shift in the dominating political parties. The two major shifts being the far right winged National Front party dominating in France and UKIP dominating in the UK.

(Source BBC)

  • France National Front storm to victory – 25%, 24 seats; Centre-right UMP 21%; President Hollande’s Socialists a poor third with 14% – lowest ever EP score

  • Britain Eurosceptic UKIP in first place, with 27%, Conservatives on 24% and Labour about 25%, Greens beating Lib Dems

  • Germany Angela Merkel wins another election – 35% for her Christian Union, 27% for the centre-left SPD. Eurosceptic AfD score strong 7%

  • Greece Partial results show far-left Syriza on 26%, PM Antonis Samaras’ New Democracy on 23%. Far-right Golden Dawn set to get three MEPs, with 9%. Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras has asked the Greek president to call early national elections

Only time will tell the effect these results has on us and Europe! Gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better!