Slimeball Ukip leader Gerard Batten defends party candidate Carl Benjamin's rape tweet as 'satire'

[editor]

Another pair of worthless misogynistic shits

Ukip leader Gerard Batten has described a rape tweet sent by one of his party’s election candidates to Labour MP Jess Phillips as satire.

Carl Benjamin was announced as a European Parliament candidate for the South West England constituency this week following what Mr Batten claimed was an exhaustive process.


In 2016, Mr Benjamin tweeted “I wouldn’t even rape you” to Ms Phillips after she spoke of being sent rape threats.



Mr Batten defended the post on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, saying: “I think this was satire.”


He described the candidate as a classical liberal and a proponent of free speech

He also defended his proposal that mosque building should be banned in the UK.

“What I have said in the past is that we should not allow planning permission for mosques until they allow planning permission in Islamic countries for churches, Hindu temples and other forms of religion.”

Ukip leader Gerard Batten defends party candidate's rape tweet as 'satire'

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[editor]

This fucking Post-Trump 'say what the fuck you like and just dismiss it as a bit of a joke later' stuff is really depressing.

 

[skyscraper101]

What a tosser.

 

[gosub]

"He was n't actually making a literal statement."


So he might rape her

 

[John Orbson]

This fucking Post-Trump 'say what the fuck you like and just dismiss it as a bit of a joke later' stuff is really depressing.

This tweet sure was wrong. How unfortunate.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What a pair of obnoxious cunts.

 

[krtek a houby]

Satire? That whole party is a fucking sick joke.

 

[Balbi]

Considering reporting the original post, editor, due to the unnecessarily huge picture of that fuckwit

 

[likesfish]

WTF is wrong with you?
Ukip have gone from the drunk at the bar quoting the daily mail to the fucking gutter.

 

[Cid]

'Satire' is a standard defence of the alt-right... Carl of Akkad I'm sure has used it many times before.

 

[marty21]

Carl Benjiman is on the twitter btw as @backworldsman1

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

At this rate they are going to have to invent a new word for actual satire, it being in short supply atm. Fuck sake.

 

[gentlegreen]

It's about time all these young white men got over themselves.
I was thinking earlier he might actually be after the money ...

 

[killer b]

young white men

Carl Benjamin is 40.

 

[gentlegreen]

It's the south west too - thanks to Cornwall, Wiltshire and Dorset (?) we got a lot of this sort of cunt last time. Oh and Forest of Dean-y

 

[gentlegreen]

Carl Benjamin is 40.

Maybe it's because I'm 60 - but he's part of that MRA scene ...
He's certainly immature.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Carl Benjamin is 40.

That's young to a lot on here.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That's young to a lot nearly everyone on here.

cfy

 

[The39thStep]

Tory vote will collapse it's going to be a case of vote Farage to keep out UKIP?

 

[killer b]

He isn't young, this isn't some immature foolishness he's going to grow out of, and it gives him a pass to talk like it is.

 

[gentlegreen]

Tory vote will collapse it's going to be a case of vote Farage to keep out UKIP?

the rest of us will have to vote Labour - but Corbyn isn't helping at the moment.
I've had to unsubscribe from most of the anti-brexit groups as they're all queuing up to vote for the tinge.

 

[gentlegreen]

At least we know UKIP is scraping the barrel.

 

[The39thStep]

the rest of us will have to vote Labour - but Corbyn isn't helping at the moment.
I've had to unsubscribe from most of the anti-brexit groups as they're all queuing up to vote for the tinge.

Labour will reap what they sow in the Euro elections by not coming out on a firm Brexit platform . They'll do better in GE. UKIP/ Farage will do well in the euro elections but they face significant issues in translating that into anything at a GE level unless some MPs join them .

 

[The39thStep]

Here's a test : can anyone without googling name their MEP?

 

[danny la rouge]

Here's a test : can anyone without googling name their MEP?

I used to be able to when there was a constituency MEP, but there’s 6 now, covering the whole of Scotland. So, no. I can name some, but not all.

 

[gentlegreen]

Farage's "public names" have been slow to show up. Mogg's sister and some dodgy academic...

 

[gentlegreen]

Here's a test : can anyone without googling name their MEP?

or local councillors....

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Here's a test : can anyone without googling name their MEP?

Nope. And unlike Danny I also had no idea the system had been changed.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Here's a test : can anyone without googling name their MEP?

Nope. I did know a while back as I read something about them, but have forgotten since.