Telegraph
December 22, 2013
After taking a pop at the “Left-wing” Olympics opening ceremony – in which his brother, Rowan, was a star turn – Rodney Atkinson has now taken a singularly contrarian view, too, of the celebrations of Nelson Mandela’s life.
“No one who knows what is actually happening in South Africa will have swallowed the obnoxious, sycophantic lies,” says the controversial former Ukip leadership candidate.
Of Mandela, Atkinson says: “His legacy is a murderous one, comparable, in its racist and economic persecution of a minority, to the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews. And, like the Jews in Germany, whites, especially the young and well-qualified, have been leaving South Africa for years.”
Atkinson considers the “rainbow nation” to be a “blatantly black racist country” with “qualified white professionals” being discriminated against.