Independent
May 30, 2014
A Ukip branch chairman has suggested that parts of London are being “ethnically cleansed” of white people.
Jeremy Zeid, the chairman of the Eurosceptic party’s branch in Harrow, suggested a Labour MP could be “complicit” in what he called “disappearing diversity” in Ilford, north-east London.
In a string of tweets, he wrote: “Having just been to Gerard Batten’s [Ukip MEP] office in Ilford, the almost [sic] absence of white faces in Ilford is worrying.
“Mike Gapes is so busy being ‘right on’ he is either blind to or deliberately complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Ilford which I’m sure will be called ‘racist’.
“A word so overused by the t***pot Left as to be completely devalued.”
The comments sparked several responses on Twitter, with many people asking what he found so “worrying”.
Mr Zeid replied: “Are you not worried when diversity disappears?”
@TootlestheTaxi @MikeGapes – Having just been to Gerard Batten’s office in Ilford, the almost absence of white faces in Ilford is worrying.
— Jeremy Zeid UKIP (@Zeidgeist) May 28, 2014
He failed to get elected in the Kenton East ward of Harrow in last week’s local elections, receiving four per cent of the vote.