Caroline Santos was the UKIP candidate for the Scotland constituency Argyll and Bute. She plans to contest the Rutherglen/Hamilton West seat at the 2017 General Election.
We came across Caroline very recently when this tweet was brought to our attention by an anonymous third party with concerns that an individual representing a mainstream party should not be expressing such divisive and discriminatory views.
We looked deeper into her timeline and found a series of tweets containing Islamophobic content including:
Further research back on her Twitter time line shows that these are not isolated examples of her bigotry
It would also appear that Caroline’s issues do not end with Islam. She also likes to share her racist views on Twitter too.
We are surprised to see UKIP endorsing a candidate with such hate views, as the party have made several claims that they do not identify as an anti Islam party. Paul Nuttall, the UKIP leader, recently defined the party as “pro integration.” The views of Caroline Santos appear to promote anything but integration. It is hard to imagine any community wanting to integrate with a candidate who calls their religion a “cancer” and the individuals who practise the faith “savage barbaric bastards.”
We asked Caroline if she would like to offer a comment on her tweet. Initially she did not:
However – after she agreed to a call from a freelance journalist who writes for The Independent – she offered us the chance to call too
We did try to ring but the line was engaged. However we are more than willing to update our article if Ms Santos would like to offer any comments explaining how she believes her rabid Islamophobic views would be of benefit to either the UKIP party or the constituents she hopes to represent.
The issues raised here can only be explained in one of two ways. Either UKIP are intentionally recruiting Islamophobic bigots as candidates to represent them or Caroline Santos’ tweets are not indicative of the UKIP ethos in which case she is misrepresenting them and should be asked to stand down. We shall look forward to either an admission from Nuttall that UKIP actually is the racist, Islamophobic party we and other critics believe it to be or a resignation from Caroline Santos confirming her extremism is not compatible with the UKIP manifesto.
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You simply remind anyone, Asian or not, that your seat is already reserved for you. You don't, unless you're so inclined already, use that incident as a handle to spout Islamophobic loathing. What if Farage had taken your seat by accident, and was so intent on listening for other languages being spoken in his presence that he didn't notice your complaint?
If Farage had taken her seat, she would have spent the next hour telling him how brilliant he was and offering to have his baby. And she would have stayed standing.
She also harassed and threatened somebody and the child of that person, she is seriously unhinged