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Brexit party MEP candidate praised use of Nazi slogan
In Tennant’s case, the offensive remarks were posted on Facebook in 2010 and 2011. In November 2010, he praised Godfrey Bloom, then a Ukip MEP, on the day he was ejected from the European parliament for directing a Nazi slogan at a German colleague, writing online: “Godfrey Bloom you are a legend! Say no more.”
In other cases, Tennant made a joke in which he referred to sex acts involving a young girl. In another case, he joked about his wife bringing home a sex toy, but bemoaned that he was considered a “pervert” for buying his own, which he described using vulgar and obscene terms.
Contacted by the Guardian, Tennant referred enquiries to a spokesman for the Brexit party who said: “This is very low-grade stuff. To be frank, they are weak jokes of the sort you hear a thousand times in Hartlepool on any Friday night, and that’s it. This is offence archaeology and I think the public are getting bored of it.”
In other cases, Tennant made a joke in which he referred to sex acts involving a young girl. In another case, he joked about his wife bringing home a sex toy, but bemoaned that he was considered a “pervert” for buying his own, which he described using vulgar and obscene terms.
Contacted by the Guardian, Tennant referred enquiries to a spokesman for the Brexit party who said: “This is very low-grade stuff. To be frank, they are weak jokes of the sort you hear a thousand times in Hartlepool on any Friday night, and that’s it. This is offence archaeology and I think the public are getting bored of it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/06/brexit-party-mep-candidate-praised-use-of-nazi-slogan
Are people so desperate for Brexit that they will ignore the fact this is a far right nasty fucker? Of course they are, they do not care about anything else. It is embarrassing.