Bill Etheridge addressing the Farage Youth

A UKIP MEP today did something only a politician (who is not so secretly racist) could do. He advised a conference for young xenophobes in Birmingham to idolise Hitler. In Bill Etheridge's defence it was his oratory skills he told them to idolise, not his mass murdering psychopathic 'qualities'. However, that does beg the question why not Martin Luther King? Or Nelson Mandela? Why not Mary Robinson? All of these suggestions are very capable public speakers, even if they all speak about subjects too sensible for UKIP. If it was hate speech Bill Etheridge fancied then why not Maggie Thatcher? Everyone knows UKIP are slightly more racist Tories so why not one of their idols? Maybe they did just go down that route and choose a hero of theirs, after all they did choose an irrational racist who hated the rest of Europe as an example.

When you consider what UKIP stands for, its policies and members beliefs, I guess Hitler really was the only choice. They do hate women and people from Bongo-Bongo land so none of my suggestions would have worked.

It is not like they do not have previous with this sort of thing. Who remembers Nigel Farage being accused of singing Hitler Youth songs and being a proud and public racist by a teacher at his private school? An article on the Channel Four website simply titled 'Nigel Farage schooldays letter reveals concern over fascism' should jog your memory if you need it. 

Or you could just look at this collection of lovely people representing the UK in the European Parliament. Once again featuring the charming Bill Etheridge alongside his fellow advocates of decency and fairness; Dr. Julia Reed, Gerard Batten, and Roger Helmer all doing their finest to uphold the racist elements of the party (amongst other things in Roger's case). 

I've already mentioned Godfrey Bloom's Bongo-Bongo Land so that does not really need any further mentioning but what about when he shouted the Nazi slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" (in English: One People, One Empire, One Leader) at the German MEP Martin Schulz?

Finally, just because otherwise I would be here until eternity, who can forget William Henwood's famous outburst at Lenny Henry. Where he told him to emigrate to a "black country"! Presumably William meant THE black country and not a black country. Maybe all he wanted was for old Lenny to go back to Dudley? Not likely, but at least I cannot be accused of covering all the bases. 

So why are we all surprised with current (although some are ex) party members holding these views that they would want their Farage Jugend and Jungmadelbund to aspire to be like Hitler?!