The Raising Of The UKIP

I live Wales, which is the smallest region within the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I have often spoken freely about politics but never on this blog. I am proudly an avid supporter of the Green Party Of England And Wales and am very active within that party. That is the type of political party I want to run my country, because I know that they care about small communities, the environment, animals and queer rights. Yes they are not perfect, no political party will ever be perfect but I do honestly believe that they are the best we have in the UK. 

However, like many other parts of Europe, the party that is growing the most happens to be one of the more racist and queerphobic political parties we have to offer. UKIP has grained a vast amount of seats and this is alarming and warning to say the least. I remember an occasion in an college history class where some friends of mine were suggesting voting the UKIP as a joke because its not like they would ever get in. I didn't know to explain back then that to people like me it wasn't a joke. Now I seem to be facing that reality as the UKIP get more seats and elections come closer and closer. 

The UKIP are queerphobic, among other things, and I don't care if you say you're not queerphobic because by supporting a queerphobic party you are directly supporting queerphobia and the discrimination of queer individuals who live in the UK. In my eyes that automatically makes you just as bad as the people you are supporting. I can not speak for everyone as some people may view you not as bad but I do view you just as bad, supporting queerphobia makes you an indirect queerphobic because of the choices you are making on who to give your support too. 

But why are the UKIP so bad you may ask? Because the party repeatedly does queerphobic and problematic things which are dangerously harmful towards queer individuals. The campaigners and supports of UKIP have shown time and time again that they are a circle of bigots and full of ignorance, with zero apology ever given when they are called out.

• John Lyndon Sullivan, an candidate for the UKIP, wrote on his public Facebook page "I rather often wonder if we shot one "poofter" (GLBT whatevers), whether the next 99 would decide on balance, that they weren't after all? We might conclude that it's not a matter of genetics, but rather more of education :)". John Lyndon Sullivan used an slur causally like it was no problem, and then decided people could be turned straight if we shot one queer people then everyone who suddenly become straight and if not, just keep shooting them until the "education" sinks in. John Lyndom Sullivan is the very small person who said "homosexuality" could be prevented with physical education, despite many athletes are queer themselves so clearly took part in a lot of physical education and sports clubs when they were younger. This was accepted by the UKIP and nothing was done about it, the UKIP leader Nigel Farage ignored all media coverage and claimed unawareness, but then even after all this he still did nothing to apprehend John Lyndon Sullivan for his queerphobic Facebook status. Both times were left to go unpunished therefore accepted by the UKIP party.
• John Kearney, another candidate for the UKIP, made a statement saying he believes queer people are "promiscuous" and that we resemble "prisoners who need freedom". As virgin I would like to know how I need freedom from being myself Mr. John Kearney. John Kearney then went out to say "The Church Of England will fall very soon and be conducting gay weddings and we will have the neo-Catholics in our church 'giving us their compassionate views', but the Church will stay stonge despite their onslaught. We must pray for the gay community that we see that they are indeed prisoners who need freedom." This was again ignored and accepted by the UKIP party. To UKIP seem to have this notion to be "saved" we must be closeted about our true identity and pretend to be heterosexual cisgender. 
• UKIP doner Demetri Marchessin, the very same man who believes women should be banned from trousers, erases non-binary genders, and has the most wrapped and twisted views of rape has said he believes queer people do not fall in love, so therefore we can not cheat because it's just all about the sex. His exact words were "There is no such thing as fidelity in homosexual relationships. They just all go out looking for action. That's the way it is." Ignoring that many homosexual or other forms of queer relationships do involve deep commitment, love and devotion and that yes cheating does exist to queer people and yes it does hurt no matter what sexual orientation you are. Demetri Marcessin has not once been called by the UKIP for his problematic statements nor does anyone from that party step forward and say they disagree or apologize for him, another sign of the acceptance.
• UKIP Parish Councillor Ian McLaughlan posted on his Facebook page how it was a "tragedy" that Section 28, put in place by former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to keep homosexuality from being spoken in schools, was repealed. Ian McLaughlan went on to say how children should be protected against the promotion of queerness, even though I was around heterosexual people all the time growing up I never "turned" straight. His Facebook status read "Children need to be protected from the promotion of homosexuality, Margaret Thatcher was right to enact Section 28 in 1988. And it was a tragedy that it was repealed." Ian McLaughlan has also spoken on Facebook about his support for Russian leader Vladimir Putin banning overseas same-sex couples from adopting children. The UKIP party did not apprehend him on either comments nor has anyone stepped forward to apologize on his behalf. His actions via Facebook were allowed.
• UKIP leader Nigel Farage made remarks on his Newsnight interview with Jermery Paxman that people should be allowed to openly hate on queer people, without any judgement. He then compared to being queerphobic as the same thing as not liking a brand of tea! Expect tea has no feelings or emotions or isn't even alive where the actual very real queer people being hated as they walk down the street certainly do have both feelings and emotions. No one spoke out against their party leader's queerphobic comment and if the person in charge, a potential Prime Minister, is making comments like that then what hope is there that any queerphobia will be called out and stopped? What hope is there that queer individuals will be treated with respect?
• Former UKIP candidate Dr. Julia Gasper has made several disgusting comments. Dr. Gasper wrote that queer people should stop being upset about discrimination and show more gratitude towards straight people for giving birth to us, erasing bisexuality, pansexuality, lithsexuality, anthrosexuality, demisexuality and omnisexuality in the process. Dr. Gasper then moved on to referring to anyone who reads PinkNews as someone who should be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, which is not only queerphobic but ableist as well. Dr. Gasper also used an UKIP forum to brand the queer rights movement a "lunatic charter"-again more ableism going side by side with her bigotry and queerphobia. Dr. Gasper then went on to trying to get phone app Grindr banned and claimed that Daniel Radcliffe and "queer mafia" were responsible for former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich into stepping down. In more recent news Dr. Gasper has stated that World Aids Day "celebrates" those who "spread" HIV, implying homosexuality despite that heterosexuals can get HIV if they have unprotected sex. The UKIP did not step forward and say that they do not share their views with Dr. Gasper, silently confirming that they do indeed agree with what was said on multiple occasions.
• UKIP Councillor David Silvester blamed queers for the UK floodings we faced and stated that he warned David Cameron that be legalizing equal marriage rights that we'd face serious consequences. Now while we did not get it as bad as some countries do earlier this year the UK did face bad flooding, however it was hardly the work on queer people or the fact that people could now marry anyone their chose. David Silvester was another person the UKIP did not feel the need to correct on his queerphobia and allowed it to go unpunished.
• UKIP Councillor Sam Fletcher said he was "baffled" by Britain's acceptance of queer individuals, especially "female homosexuality" so in other words lesbians. After being called out on this comments, but not by an UKIP member, he claimed he was not queerphobic while dubbing being queer as a "lifestyle choice" which is very queerphobic in itself. That being said I have a hard time taking anyone who can not even use the right size condom seriously. Of course the UKIP did nothing about Sam Fletcher and him finding queer support "strange."

This is the UKIP, they are also highly sexist and racist but I won't go into that right now. This is why I ask all cisgender and heterosexuals to stand up and not support the UKIP. Many queer people face daily is the fear that a political party which hates them will end up with the power to harm them. That is the difference between mean comments towards people who are cisgender or heterosexual or both (not that I condone or encourage mean comments about anyone based on their gender or sexual orientation in the slightest) because those comments will just hurt feelings. Which yes that is bad but not as bad as having the power to do more then just hurt feelings. Queerphobia is still a big issue and I am asking anyone who is not queer to please care more about then just marriage equality but to care for all queer rights. To care that by the time the next UK elections come up in 2015 that the UKIP will have gained more supporters and could gain the majority vote needed to become Prime Minister. Even if we do not support the same party I urge everyone of voting age to vote for any other party then the UKIP in 2015.