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James Elgar, 19, denied being sexist or racist and said his views on subjects such as immigration, taxes and crime were "moderate" and not radical

The Twitter feed of a 19-year-old UKIP election candidate has been reported to Runnymede Borough Council’s Electoral Services for comments deemed to be racist and sexist.

James Elgar, of Brox Road, Ottershaw, has been selected to stand in Egham Hythe ward in local elections on Thursday May 22, despite reports from UKIP London that his membership lapsed on January 1.

The party’s head office has condemned Mr Elgar’s account as "deplorable" and said they would be launching an investigation into how he managed to be nominated.

His Twitter account and various messages posted from it were reported to the council ’s electoral services manager, Samantha Clifton, on Friday (April 25) following which Mr Elgar’s public profile was made private with restricted access.

The Twitter feed, published under the handle @James_Elgar, included a string of comments containing racist and sexist remarks, including references to hijacked planes, rape by "Asian boys" and "foreigners and weirdos".

On April 1, the user tweeted: “I am running for councillor of Egham...This is going to be hard-work. But on the plus side maybe Ibiza again this year!”

Other tweets included: “There is no women in the CBB final? That’s because they are all in the kitchen where they belong...”

The nominee, who posted a picture of his UKIP membership card in February 2013, is currently banned from Woking Football Club’s Kingfield Stadium for the 2013/2014 season due to irresponsible behaviour. He posted a photo on Twitter of the letter confirming this with the message: “I’m not deemed responsible enough to been [sic] near a home game LOL!”

His father, Mark Elgar, defended his son’s tweets as "banter" and said they were "random soundbites taken out of context" and did not reflect his son’s character.

“He is the least sexist and racist person you could ever meet, his best friend is a girl and he works with people from Czechoslovakia, Pakistan and Afghanistan,” he said. “Last night he came home at 10.30pm with a curry.”

When asked directly about the nature of some of the tweets, James Elgar said they were "irrelevant" as they were before he was running for election.

In an email, he added: “These comments have not been put into context, they just seem to be extracts, not showing the whole conversation.

“Some comments are just quotes from films, some are over a year old and some of these comments are not even recognised by me as my own.”

He said it was "customary" for teenagers to use profanity but said it had been a lesson to him to avoid it in future.

“I am a 19-year-old youth trying, early in my life, to make a difference through legitimate politics and to support UKIP in a positive and progressive manner,” he said.

“I am no way supporting racist, sexist or radical views, far from it, my views are moderate when it comes to subjects such as immigration, taxes and crime.”

A spokesman for UKIP said: “These sort of comments and images are utterly deplorable.

“Mr Elgar would appear to be a young man who still has plenty of growing up to do.

“Our inquiries reveal that his UKIP membership in fact lapsed on January 1 2014 and we shall not accept any renewal application from him.

“We shall be conducting our own internal investigation as to how a lapsed member was allowed to become a candidate in Runnymede in the local elections, let alone some-one who had expressed and/or passed on these kinds of sentiments on social media.”

Drone_Fragger posted:

It is well known that when landlords stop renting property out they demolish them.

Also is it normal for campaigners to threaten to "shank you one" unless you vote UKIP? Just a quick question.

Ddraig posted:

Haha, oh wow.

No, Racists are stupid fucks and should be shunned and ostracized because it's literally the only way to enact societal change.

If there's anything the past several thousand years of human history have taught us it's that the way to get what you want is to use strongly worded letters and disapproving tuts, right?

e: did I just get trolled? It's so hard to tell these days.

I've got a 2 hour round trip tomorrow because someone completely hosed the locks in the jobcentre I have to go to normally so we're being forced to go to one pretty much in the next town over.

Ddraig posted:

Well don't I feel like a prat. Oh well, my anger is still justified if wrongly directed.

Apparantly someone forced superglue into the main staff entrance for the jobcentre, then shattered the cylinders, so rather than going in through the pleb entrance, they've decided to close up shop and send everyone to a different place. Appointment times are still the same, apparantly, so if you don't find out the jobcentre is shut and you go to that one expecting to be seen, you're going to get sanctioned, son!

WastedJoker posted:

Farage got egged today. It was wonderful to see.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27242557

It's actually a bit worrying to see how easily someone could stab him in the neck a few times.

Speaking of UKIP, the guy at the top of my street has a big sign declaring his support for UKIP He seemed like a decent bloke and I used to buy goose eggs from him.

Spangly A posted:

Specifically filter them and yet fail to at the same time.

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

I am a very jealous call centre person now.

Also, am I suffering some kind of nostalgia-induced brain damage, or did A Slot and Shakeybeef used to be good posters?

Also, for some content (it's poo poo content):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616576/Subway-removes-ham-pork-nearly-200-stores-strong-demand-Muslims-eat-Halal-meat.html


It doesn't even need more quotes, really. Has this been bringing the racists out of the woodwork on anyone else/s facebook?

Xachariah posted:

Yeah, but... but...

StarkingBarfish posted:

I wish I'd expressed a nice big pile of common sense into a parcel before the address was withdrawn.

Ddraig posted:

Yeah as a general rule if you have to say you're not racist, you probably are.

I think my favourite instance of racist weaseling was Nick Griffin on question time when he said he was strictly only involved with 'an almost entirely nonviolent chapter of the KKK'

SybilVimes posted:

Zero hours for all, or else

Saki posted:

If you think Britain is a genuinely terrible place then you're kinda weird. It's actually pretty good.

frontlineKHAAAN! posted:

Hello fellow Queen-visited-now-we're-a-city [sic] Goon!

frontlineKHAAAN! posted:

We should coordinate heckling UKIP outside Waterstones.

Seaside Loafer posted:

Ah, I used to know it well. Colchester, Tiptree, Kelevedon, Whitham, hatfield pev(however you spell that) that place before Chelmsford etc.

What happened it used to be pretty mellow?

Seaside Loafer posted:

Trickjaw I was more talking about the road but my upper esophagus irritation is doing allot better thank you

Seriously that was always quites a nice drive, has it gone mental or have i missed the point/joke.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

That A11/A12/A13 corridor only really turned into the Essex we know and hate in the eighties. Tebbit's "Basildon Man" theory really was the Tories Southern Strategy, playing up on racist fears particularly among those who participated in the massive White Flight in the eighties under Right to Buy, as well as of course convincing every jobbing plumber and chippy that they too were now a Captain Of Industry.

You see this most particularly in the areas between the North Circular and the M25 (which I know isn't technically Essex) where the BNP and EDL are well-supported by people absolutely terrified by the fact the Brown Hordes they thought they'd escaped when they flipped their council flat on Vallance Road suddenly started getting enough money to move out to Barking and Rainham.

SybilVimes posted:

Those that can, yes, I can't exactly go to A&E for my 3 monthly HB1Ac tests

SybilVimes posted:

Scikar posted:

Something weird going on with that article, they've deleted all the comments but people are now posting on the previous one stuff like this:


Apparently this is the guy in the article: https://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/indivHistory.do?sid=349533

He is inactive as of end of last month, his most recent listed firm is "not authorised to hold client money", (is that some kind of penalty or standard for some types of firms?) and the firm before that is no longer authorised.

At least most of the comments on there are agreeing that someone who can't make ends meet on 120k is certainly more stupid than suffering, but the most popular solution is massive cuts in government spending followed by tax cuts.

Jakabite posted:

Hi UKMT, font of all knowledge, I have a question about council tax. I'm a first year student at Uni of Manchester, and I'm moving into a house next year with 3 other students, and (hopefully) one of my mates from home, who is not a student. I'd not thought of this before, stupidly, but it's come to my attention that it may end up being prohibitively expensive for him to live with us due to his lack of council tax exemption.

My friend's currently unemployed on JSA (teenage depression hosed him basically) and he's moving from Teesside to Manchester in the hope of finding better opportunities here, mainly in the way of apprenticeships which he's already applied for a lot of, none yet successfully. It says on the .gov website that because he'd be the only non-student he'd be entitled to a 75% discount on the tax, and possibly also entitled to some council tax benefit? This isn't very transparent however, and it's a bit of a make or break.

I suppose what I'm asking is, does anyone know what kind of percentage of the tax that benefit would cover for an unemployed/apprenticed 19 year old? And how much it would be for a five bedroom terraced house in a student area of Manchester? Any help would be appreciated. He's had a poo poo year and moving away was meant to try and buck that trend, and I'm going to be pissed if council tax stops that.

Also just a little rant, is there any reasoning behind having one person in a five person house mean that that person is liable for (almost) the tax bill for the whole house instead of just themselves? Doing it by property seems pretty stupid. It might not be, I don't know, I'm just worried and annoyed.

Jakabite posted:

Alright thanks fellas, that's really helpful. Is there any chance the landlord will turn around and just say he can't live with us? We've only just notified them, since it was only initially going to be the 4 students.

Jakabite posted:

Alright thanks. I might just end with him finding another place then, I don't know, I doubt anyone else would be willing to pay jacked up rent just so my mate from home can live with us sadly. Luckily one bedroom flats are pretty cheap round here.

Umiapik posted:

Buy a house in London with an enormous mortgage, send your crotch-spawn to boarding schools, run a couple of gas guzzlers and buy everything using your credit cards (and make sure to always maintain a nice, eye-watering outstanding balance). Then you too can exclaim with the best of them: "Oh, but we're not rich! Why, by the time we've paid the mortgage, the school fees and the urgent bills, there's nothing left at the end of the month!"

Nonsense posted:

tdrules posted:

Gone home for the weekend, watching Question Time with my drunk Dad shouting at politicians. Rule Britannia.

JFairfax posted:

None of the above is bullshit, if you really dislike the other options that much then stand yourself.

Saki posted:

Please tell me more about how Farage is totally Hitler, man.

Elfface posted:

In a time of economic instability, a charismatic right-wing leader moves from the fringes by blaming the nation's problems on a convenient 'Other'.

Spangly A posted:

Good lad. The only one round here is the closest billboard to the police station in town, and right close to cameras for the train station. Creativity will be needed.

Ddraig posted:

The thing about being a giant octopus is that everyone prejudges you. I mean, is it any wonder he is a bit angry, being ostracised as he has?