Quote of the day 20th April 2019


"With free speech comes responsibility and accountability."

"Rape is a heinous crime - often used as a weapon against its victims - that destroys the lives of the men and women who suffer it.

"It is not something that should ever be satirised or joked about, and it is certainly not in my concept of free speech to do so.

"I would like to see those involved drop the pretence, take responsibility which comes with free speech, and admit they were wrong."


(Mike Hookem MEP, deputy leader of UKIP and one of just FOUR out of 24 UKIP candidates elected at the 2014 Euro-elections who is still a UKIP MEP, explaining why he was "greatly disturbed" at the UKIP leader and his dwindling band of followers defending UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin's remarks that it is "100%" acceptable to make jokes about whether he would rape a woman.

In his online personal at "Sargon of Akkad," Benjamin had posted that he "wouldn't even rape" a Labour MP, and he reiterated this view after becoming at UKIP candidate.

UKIP leader Gerard Batten defended this as "satire" prompting yet another wave or resignations from the party and provoking even those like Deputy Leader Mike Hooken who has stuck with the party to issue the above protest.)

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