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Denzil_DC

(8,113 posts)
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 03:44 PM Aug 2019

Ukip leader Richard Braine says he is 'getting a bit fed up with all this dickbraine stuff' [View all]

Another month, another UKIP leader ...

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Liz McInnes, the Labour MP, said: “I see that Ukip, in their perpetual leadership contest that is rivalled only by the DFS sale in its longevity, have now elected a triumph of nominative determinism, a Mr Dick Braine.”

Her party colleague, David Lammy, tweeted: “I wish I could laugh at the fact that this man is literally called Dick Braine. But I can’t, because I know it will only mask the seriousness of his dangerous and vile Islamophobia. His predecessors would be proud.”

Mr Braine had earlier said he “often” confused Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, with the leader of the 7/7 terror attackers. His tweet was condemned by Labour as “unacceptable racism”.

The Ukip leader also told Sky News on Tuesday the UK should “look into” banning the distribution of the Quran.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-leader-richard-braine-dickbraine-twitter-george-osborne-a9055681.html


(No, this is not a spoof.)

What the self-proclaimed leader of a "far-moderate voice of common sense" in Britain, a.k.a. Dick Braine, looks like:



If Mr Braine has any complaints, I think they should be aimed at his apparently unimaginative, or unconcerned, parents.

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