UKIP candidate ranted about ‘arse bandit’ pride on Facebook

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Yet another UKIP Parliamentary candidate has been revealed to have posted homophobic remarks on Facebook, claiming “being an arse bandit [is] nothing to be proud of”.

Geoffrey Caton, who is running for Parliament for the UK Independence Party in Labour-held Wallasey, made derogatory comments about Liverpool Pride on his Facebook page.

The candidate – who is up against out Labour candidate Angela Eagle – wrote in 2013: “Liverpool pride August 3rd being an arse bandit nothing to be proud of”.

UKIP candidate ranted about ‘arse bandit’ pride on Facebook

He also said that working in a “Pakistani club” was his “worst nightmare”, and shared a photo labelling same-sex weddings “sin” – in posts revealed by anti-extremism blog Hope Not Hate, which has been researching a number of UKIP candidates.

UKIP candidate ranted about ‘arse bandit’ pride on Facebook
UKIP candidate ranted about ‘arse bandit’ pride on Facebook
Mr Caton, who has since deleted his Facebook page, told the Liverpool Echo: “We are living in modern times now, times change I realise that.

“We have to move on with the times, I have now, and since then whatever I said obviously wasn’t right then and it’s not right now and I fully believe in being fully inclusive.”

He is the latest in a string of UKIP candidates to be caught making such posts.

The same blog previously posted screenshots in which the party’s Oxford West and Abingdon PPC Alan Harris appeared to say: “why cant i say in my own bloody country black is still a colour and gay are still queers”, as well as posting derogatory messages about Muslims.

Mr Harris claimed his Facebook had been “hacked” – despite the posts appearing over a number of years.

Questions were also raised about Oxford candidate Dickie Bird, who allegedly complained on Facebook that he was sat opposite a “gay pr**k” on the bus – and labelled footballer Fernando Torres a “gay boy”.

Mr Bird, Mr Harris and Mr Caton all remain UKIP Parliamentary candidates.

 

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