Thread by @ThomasPride

OK @ThomasEvansSDP. Challenge accepted.
Can I prove being a UKIP activist makes you right-wing, not centrist?
1. Bill Walker, one your party's candidates in 2015, retweeted a racist cartoon from the BNP's Twitter account.
Not very 'centrist'.
tompride.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/ukip-b…

https://twitter.com/ThomasEvansSDP/status/1114633799864860672

2. Michael Waddington, UKIP candidate standing in Pendle at the time you were a UKIP member, openly shared posts by Britain First on social media.
Britain First are not centrists.

3. Steve Wood - remember him - a senior UKIP member when you were also a member, listed Britain First and far-right Infidels of Britain as his Facebook likes.
'Centrists' don't usually like far-right groups. Not openly, a least.

4. UKIP candidate Barry Elliott - referring to Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' 1968 speech against immigration - said 'I tried to warn you'. He was one of your fellow party activists at the same time you were in UKIP.
Enoch Powell was not a 'centrist'.

5. UKIP activists were caught referring to Gurkhas as “parasites” and “mercenaries”. These UKIP members made the remarks at the same time you were a member: tompride.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/uki…
It's not 'centrist' to refer to British Army soldiers as parasites just because they're not British

6. UKIP cllr Rozanne Duncan made 'jaw-dropping' racist remarks (eg "I don't like anyone with negro features") on camera at the same time you were a UKIP member: tompride.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/yep…
FYI, it's not very 'centrist' to say you don't like people because they are black.

7. Your fellow party activist Mark Walker had to be dropped by UKIP as a candidate after he urged UKIP supporters to share a neo-nazi article titled the ‘plague of interracial marriage‘:
tompride.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/uki…
Not exactly 'centrist' to believe interracial marriages are a plague.

8. At the same time you were a UKIP activist, far-right BNP spin-off Britain First posted the following message on Facebook:
"UKIP at the ballot box, Britain First on the streets – a winning combination!".

If Britain First are supporting you, you're not a centrist.

This is like shooting fish in a barrel. I could go on all night.

Anyone else fancy joining in with evidence that being a member of UKIP means you're on the far-right, not a centrist?

More evidence from the time you were a member of UKIP @ThomasEvansSDP:

9. Shaun Hobson (UKIP local election candidate) said of Muslims: "It's our patriotic duty to grab hold of the dirty shit stinkers and kick them up their arse".

That's not centrist talk, is it now?

10. Ken Chapman (2015 UKIP local election candidate in Amber Valley):
“Islam is a cancer that needs eradicating. Multiculturism does not work in this country clear them all off to the desert with their camels that’s their way of life.”

Not centrist.

11. Senior UKIP activist Joseph Quirk (also UKIP local election candidate):
“I reckon dogs are more intelligent, better company and certainly better behaved than most Muslims"

Not centrist to unfavourably compare someone from a different religion to dogs

12. Dave Small - UKIP Councillor in Redditch:
"I visited the city of Birmingham recently and felt like a foreigner. All around me I could hear the sound of jabbering in an alien voice, the Pakistanis and the Somalis."

Doesn't sound much like a centrist, does he @ThomasEvansSDP"