Great post by Forest Gate blogger Martin Warne about the former leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance, Alan Craig, who has joined the far right UKIP.
As Martin points out in his 2010 General election manifesto amongst the many "bonkers" and "unpleasant" things he said about gays and Muslims Craig also pledged to:-
"Strangers into citizens
We would tackle discrimination and embrace the talents of asylum
seekers, as many successful asylum applicants are highly trained and
dedicated individuals. It makes no sense to leave them on the scrapheap,
unable to use their professional skills to provide for themselves,
their families, or contribute to the British economy.
[Asylum] applicants will be treated as if they were British citizens with full access to state support and the right to work.
We will tackle the problem of illegal immigration by an amnesty
that brings irregular workers into mainstream society, paying taxes.
A time of jubilee for the world
Aid will be given in grants and not loans and not tied to poor
countries opening up their markets to powerful multinationals from rich
countries.
We want the unpayable debts of the world’s poorest countries to be cancelled in full without strings attached.
I wonder how this will go down with his new mates in UKIP down the boozer on a Saturday night?
