You don’t have to be as unpleasant as Roger Helmer or Godfrey Bloom to quietly hold a view that queer people are ‘second-class citizens’. Right?įor a long time now there has been a media narrative about the supposed contradiction of supporting queer people while not hating immigrants in general and Muslims in particular.Īnd that’s only looking at the outspoken LGBTQ+phobes among us here in Britain. If they’re that bothered, they should probably start by paying back any money they received from donor and Greek tycoon Demetri Marchessin, who, being both foreign and homophobic is presumably exactly the sort of person they believe to be completely incompatible with British values.
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Even when the message is ostensibly a reasonable one, it tends to be along the lines of: “Aren’t we, the British, the objective liberal arbitrators of decency, so uniquely wonderful in this country for generously allowing both these two totally separate groups to exist?” This attitude from people who think they’re on our side feeds the same underlying narrative that allows people like Nuttall, Le Pen, Geert Wilders, and the infamous professional troll who I won’t bother naming, to get away with their more overt racist mess.Įven if the party’s motivations weren’t transparent as hell, the hypocrisy alone ought to make most people roll their eyes at UKIP’s new-founded concern for us all you have to do is look at how they’ve handled their own members with homophobic views. For a long time now there has been a media narrative about the supposed contradiction of supporting queer people while not hating immigrants in general and Muslims in particular. Paul Nuttall believes he’s found an excellent ‘gotcha!’ to confuse everyone by pitching what he imagines to be two separate groups – migrants and queer people – against each other. It’s obvious what they’re doing, and yet, they keep getting away with it. Far right commentators and politicians across Europe and America, from Douglas Murray to Marine Le Pen, keep weaponising queer people to make white nationalism seem more palatable. UKIP has said that anyone who “considers gay people second-class citizens” should be denied entry to the country. But don’t get excited because, UKIP being UKIP, the party is only using queer people to push their own nasty ends.
UKIP’s General Election manifesto was published this week, and, unlike their previous manifestos it actually includes a mention of queer people. Louise McCudden asks how they keep getting away with it.
UKIP’s election manifesto is the latest example of the far right using queer people to push its own agenda.
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