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UKIP ‘rejects disabled candidate’

By the founding editor | Wed 28th February 2007 - 3:34 pm

Sky News is reporting that UKIP has rejected a local election candidate – the candidate is saying he was rejected because he is disabled.

UPDATE: A red-faced Nigel Farage is saying that they stopped him being a “priority” candidate as he couldn’t knock on doors or deliver leaflets, but he’s welcome to stand as a paper candidate. He also claims that the candidate, 65 year old Jack Biggs has attempted to “blackmail” the party.

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2 Comments

Alex Kemp 28th Feb '07 - 6:01pm

http://alexanderkemp.com/2007/02/28/disablist-ukip-a-horribly-predictable-and-bigoted-mess/
Left-leaning Londoner 1st Mar '07 - 9:32am

Reminds me of an elderly Tory teller at the May local elections where I live. Shortly after a family went in to vote she said

“You don’t often see them vote.”

The family consisted of a young black man and his mother and father (the latter, who was blind).

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