Ukip suspend ‘anti-Semitic’ candidate

A Ukip candidate – Anna-Marie Crampton, who has been a contributor on a website, has been suspended from the party for remarks attributed to her which claim that:

Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers."

It is claimed she went on to write that:

the Second World War was a Jewish conspiracy designed to bring about the creation of the modern state of Israel and that Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust."

Crampton, herself is claiming that her account was hacked. The party has said it will investigate.

This is yet another embarrassing moment for Ukip Leader Nigel Farage, who has had his photograph with Crampton on the same website.

The party itself has been the subject of BNP members joining the party with some even having criminal records. Farage has said, it is impossible for the party to vet all its 1700 members. The trouble is if he is either unable or unwilling to vet people who speak for his party, it will be seen by some as a refuge for bigots, fascists, anti-Semitics and homophobes.

Simon Woolley