UKIP's parliamentary candidate singles out UK Pagan Minority

Sound Familiar? 

First you attack a spiritual minority and later you suck up to the fundamentalists - that should win a few more votes hey!

This was an article from the Southport Champion about UKIP and my criticism of one of their players (Paul Nuttall), back in 2010...


http://www.champnews.com/html/newsstory.asp?id=8268#.VOuD6fmsU5c

Sefton and West Lancashire Pagans hit out at UKIP attack over holidays 19 May 2010 The region's Pagan community has reacted with uproar this week after a political party branded moves to let police officers celebrate their festivals as “madness”. Pat Regan, founder of the Pagan Anti-Defamation Network, told The Champion on Monday, May 17, 2010, that a statement sent out by the UK Independence Party describing a ruling allowing Pagan police officers in Lancashire and Merseyside to take time off to commemorate their festivals as “politically correct madness” was offensive, and called for UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall to resign. “I was saddened, shocked and appalled at recent comments made against the UKs Pagan minority by Paul Nuttall, MEP for the UK Independence Party. This type of negative diatribe against an innocent spiritual minority may in fact breach UK laws relating to Incitement to Religious Hatred. He may also be in breach of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and in particular articles 18 and 19. If Mr Nuttall values his own freedom of expression then he should be prepared to extend this essential liberty to others,” he said. “Nuttall's disgraceful language belongs to a radical 1930s Germany and not a free and democratic UK 21st century society. I fully intend to expose and complain about Mr Nuttall's blatant ignorance and apparent bigotry, which may affect many ordinary Pagan families in society. After Pagans who will Mr Nuttall single out next?” The comments come after the Pagan Police Association has just been officially recognised as a 'diversity staff support organisation' by the Home Office, allowing Pagan police officers to take time off. Mr Nuttall, who stood as UKIP's parliamentary candidate in Bootle at the general election, said in a statement issued to The Champion last weekend that Pagans had “unabashed sexuality and promiscuity”. “These pagan festivals include believers behaving with 'unabashed sexuality and promiscuity', casting spells and dancing around naked,” he said. “It is politically correct madness of high order for the Home Office to give this approval. Everyone is entitled to their own religious belief and if they want to use their holiday entitlement to be off for their festivals that's fine but it should not be a legal right.” Lancashire Constabulary said it recognised the Home Office decision, saying: “Lancashire Constabulary recognises that in order to effectively deliver policing services, the make-up of our staff needs to be fully representative of the communities we police and that religious needs and beliefs should where possible be accommodated in order to satisfy individual requirements.” By David Simister .........................................................  Nuttall was happy back then to have a crack at Pagans (a spiritual minority that was not supposed to hit back) and today he is courting the 'Fundamentalist' vote it seems... http://www.otsnews.co.uk/eu-shoud-not-interfere-with-faith-schools-teachers/ So transparent and all been done before by so many self-seeking political types... Mr Nuttall is standing in Bootle ward at the next election. However, he was beaten in the same ward both in 2005 and 2010. Labour habitually smashes all opposition in this Liverpool ward and it most likely will again this year.