Senior UKIP politician uses the term "bongo bongo land" and lands himself in trouble

Ukip are the representatives for the middle aged and elderly white voter - it's hardly racist to point that out. Indeed, they are the party for racist voters who don't openly want to be seen as racist - they have succeeded in making it respectable to vote for a race party again. This had to happen in the UK, where respectability matters more - extreme right wing race parties on the continent like the Front Nationale in France, also bang on about the EU, but don't work as hard to hide their blatant racism. This is just an example of it leaking out.

Of course, Farage himself isn't particularly racist, but he recognises a good electoral card when he sees one - Ukip were languishing until they started slavering about immigration!

To be fair thinking that immigration could be slowed down isn't racist, like at all.

I am an Asian teenager who supports UKIP. I am not a racist. UKIP are the only party that kicks racist BNP members out of their party.

UKIP is also the only party which questions why there are former BNP members serving as Labour councillors. Seems evident that Labour are actually inviting in the racists - not UKIP.

Farage has always been anti-unskilled immigration, which we don't need as we have 1 million youth unemployment in Britain already.

Apart from knowing me, you either know everything else I've said and are just being conveniently deceptive or are just fantastically misinformed.

Where do you believe Bongo Bongo Land to be then? Which part of the world was he talking about?

It's become political code for acceptable racism. There may be sound objective grounds for not wanting the UK population to rise too sharply, or for wanting educated, healthy, non-criminal migrants and not the reverse, but that isn't why Ukip have recently decided to climb all over the issue.

It doesn't exist so it's not anywhere

He was talking about corrupt third world countries in general.

I assume you must be in a tiny minority in the party, since whenever we see them on the tele, they are mainly middle-aged and white.

The backlash against recent immigrants from established Asian migrants is depressing and cowardly - one might think that as the past recipients of racism, they would decide to side with the underdog - but alas, they seek to gain favour with the dominant community by aping their racist approach. Shame.

He meant Africa and you know it and so does the public and so do the Ukip PR people who designed the stunt.

He meant Africa and you know it and so does the public and so do the Ukip PR people who designed the stunt.

I assume you must be in a tiny minority in the party, since whenever we see them on the tele, they are mainly middle-aged and white.

The backlash against recent immigrants from established Asian migrants is depressing and cowardly - one might think that as the past recipients of racism, they would decide to side with the underdog - but alas, they seek to gain favour with the dominant community by aping their racist approach. Shame.

I assume you must be in a tiny minority in the party, since whenever we see them on the tele, they are mainly middle-aged and white.

The backlash against recent immigrants from established Asian migrants is depressing and cowardly - one might think that as the past recipients of racism, they would decide to side with the underdog - but alas, they seek to gain favour with the dominant community by aping their racist approach. Shame.

I think "Bongo Bongo Land" is just a generic term for undeveloped nations. In Blackadder Goes Forth they talked about the happier days when "war was just going off to Bongo Bongo Land, killing some natives armed with sharpened guava halves and then making a salad" or something

Ah. So the only party that kicks out racists is racist itself. Sense makes none.

UKIP has never been against skilled immigration that benefits our economy. My parents are immigrants who both work in banks, and thus being a non-white youngster and supporting the severe limiting of unskilled immigration are not mutually exclusive in the slightest.

Why does being mainly middle-aged and white even matter. It's the policies that matter - policies you want to avoid to talk instead about a pseudo-controversial phrase.

Unskilled migrants are doing jobs British people aren't, is that a bad thing? It sounds like you would like skilled migrants to increase, then you'd just be on here crying that there is too much competition

He was being openly racist because I guess he believes that 3rd world nations dependent on British aid are in some way inferior to Britain. The man is obviously an imbecile.

Driving down wages for those in work, while the Government is paying British people to stay at home. How is that a net positive for anyone except big business (or who wants a cheap nanny)? Awful for the taxpayer and the bottom end of the labour market.

Ignoring those on zero hours contracts who are counted as "employed" for Govt purposes, UK unemployment is still over 2.6m, with 1m youths out of work. Meanwhile the borders are open to nearly 500m people in the EU with the right to work here and claim benefits.

Unskilled migrants are doing jobs British people aren't, is that a bad thing? It sounds like you would like skilled migrants to increase, then you'd just be on here crying that there is too much competition