Northern Ireland UKIP councillor Henry Reilly is unrepentant about his support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, who many blame for using chemical weapons on 21 August, killing 1,300 people.
UK Independence Party (UKIP) MEP Godfrey Bloom has said that he regrets “any genuine offence which might have been caused” by describing some of the recipient countries of UK aid as “Bongo Bongo Land”
A recent poll from Opinium/ The Observer shows support for UKIP starting to waver. While their support at 16% is still double that of the Liberal Democrats (a Party in government and with 57 MPs) it has dropped 3 points, falling to their lowest level of support since March.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s Scotland trip ended in chaos after he was met with protests at every turn calling him a “racist” and telling him to “go home to England”.
Nigel Farage’s UKIP are widely regarded to have been the big winners of the recent local council elections around England and Wales. Their anti-Europe and anti-immigration stance is not, however, shared by all of the British populace, and there is a protest campaign to get British Sea Power’s Waving Flags into the charts.