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Wow. First TIG/Change UK brought us "funny tinge", now it's revealed one of their MEP candidates indulged in anti-Romanian bigotry independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Another of the TIG/Change UK MEP candidates is an opponent of the #metoo movement, which she believes vilifies men. 
I still remember Nora Mulready from 2008 when she walked up to me in the House of Commons to yell with *absolute blazing fury* about my lack of loyalty to the Labour Party. Politics is a funny old thing.
Within hours, TIG/Change UK have been forced to drop a MEP candidate who wrote "When I hear that 70% of pick pockets caught on the London Underground are Romanian it kind of makes me want Brexit".
TIG/Change UK MEP candidate Nora Mulready also defended the notorious Times article by Melanie Phillips which was headlined, "Islamophobia is a fiction to shut down debate'.
Another TIG/Change UK MEP candidate is an apologist for... the Democratic Unionist Party.
This is just cliched 'they're too scared to offend the Muslims!!!' rubbish.
Michael Taylor, TIG/Change UK MEP North West candidate, once had an anecdote published with this punchline: "Come on Neil, there's always room in the charts for a couple of poofs with a synthesiser."
Is it @theindgroup policy to find homophobia funny?
Is it @theindgroup policy to find homophobia funny?
Another TIG/Change UK MEP candidate engages in old fashioned benefit claimant bashing.
TIG/Change UK's lead Scottish MEP candidate said that "the arrest of Gary Glitter smacks of the police targeting low hanging fruit", and called the owner of Dominoes "a loony Catholic". Seriously, have they vetted any of their candidates? theredrobin.scot/_loony_catholi…
This is an absolute car crash. Change UK have now been forced to remove their *second* MEP candidate within 24 hours of launching. He tweeted: "Black women scare me. I put this down to be chased through Amsterdam by a crazy black whore."
It never ends. @TheIndGroup's second MEP candidate in Scotland attacked local authority workers as "shoulder shruggers, finger pointers, coffee mug holders, fag breakers and end of day clock watchers".
These are truly appalling candidates.
These are truly appalling candidates.
Just months ago, this @TheIndGroup MEP candidate was demanding that Labour back Theresa May's "soft, pragmatic Brexit".
It gets worse and worse and worse. Jacek Rostowski, Change UK MEP candidate for Greater London, stated his opposition to equal marriage on the grounds that “a stable society is based on heterosexual relations”.
He’s also anti-abortion. wyborcza.pl/1,75968,985573…
He’s also anti-abortion. wyborcza.pl/1,75968,985573…
And now @TheIndGroup are embroiled in a full scale Islamophobia scandal over comments that include legitimising Tommy Robinson independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
This is potentially scandalous. On the eve of @TheIndGroup MEP launch, someone edited Jacek Rostowski’s Wikipedia profile to erase his anti-gay rights and pro-life views and make him look liberal. Who, and for what reason? 🤔
And now transphobia from a @TheIndGroup candidate. Is this now full house?
Here's the main @TheIndGroup MEP candidate in the North East calling people "retards"
NEW: @TheIndGroup candidate Jacek Rostowski was alleged in 2013 to say:
"When I was young, people who had gay sex in Great Britain went to prison for years, and today gay couples adopt children there. Let's not delude ourselves, it's a slippery slope."
(newsweek.pl/polska/donald-…)
"When I was young, people who had gay sex in Great Britain went to prison for years, and today gay couples adopt children there. Let's not delude ourselves, it's a slippery slope."
(newsweek.pl/polska/donald-…)
