Former UKIP Bristol branch chairman Phillip Collins dropped as candidate in local elections after reported comments on immigration

“@UKIP - so your candidates are vaguely UKIP but allowed to say whatever they want so long as they're clear it's not "party policy"?

So essentially Farage and the upper enchelons will take on anybody willing to call themselves UKIP without bothering to confirm what they think, believe or represent. Super. Can't see any bad policy coming out of that situation. Thank god you're a protest party and not a real political organisation.”

“After discussions with its Bristol branch, the UK Independence Party has withdrawn a candidacy ban placed on Monday on former branch chairman Philip Collins.

UKIP Bristol chairman Steve Wood said: "We have reviewed the reports of the media interviews which Phil gave, and have concluded, in consultation with the national Party, that it would be wrong to bar him from standing in the forthcoming Council elections.

"Some of the second-hand reports of Phil's remarks led to some cause for concern earlier in the week. However, having spoken to him and looked at his original statements, we are satisfied that he made it clear that he was speaking for himself, not for the Party.

"What he said, while not Party policy, was not of a nature which would warrant his being prevented from standing. In relation to the management of illegal immigration, he was in fact suggesting the extension of a system which is current government policy."

UKIP chairman Steve Crowther said: "Phil has been a loyal and hard-working servant of the Party in Bristol. He made it clear that he was speaking in a personal capacity.

"We are fully committed to free speech and divergent opinions within our party. Phil was trying to make sense of a very complex situation to which there are no easy answers, but which concerns very many people in this country.

"We explain to all our candidates that they must make clear where their views differ from party policy, which he did. I am pleased that the Bristol branch, which is growing rapidly under new chairman Steve Wood, endorses this action."”

“@College - Bedmoland aka reality. Yeah lets make two sangats in every town. Just stick a load of fences up in a carpark and herd them in. Surely that won't cost too much, be an abuse of every human right we represent and result in yet further endless court cases. Nah it's a plausible answer to a priority problem. Not at all the mental meanderings of a closet bigot. That sort of behaviour wouldn't effect our international standing or trade and would of course endear us to all neighbour and commonwealth states. It's a brilliant idea by an innovative politician and totally plausible in this day and age. Not the half-thought mumblings of a trucker come part time demagogue.

Apparently the best way to calculate future demographics is: Muslims x 10 = Doom. Things I learn from the BEP site...

UKIP = not overtly racist party.
BNP = overtly racist party.

I prefer the BNP cause at least you know what you're getting. UKIP is the "odds box" for middle class wannabe politicians. You've just gotta look at Farage's "we're doing it! we're actually fooling them!" face to see it. The secret manifesto they don't tell you about aims to re-assert British claims to Brittany, ban Gerard Depardieu from British TV and bomb Brussels. Farage has a war-room in his garden shed, he smokes churchill's ashes and secretly wonders if he is King Arthur returned to save Albion.”

“Wearing that T shirt means that there is certainly 'No Jacket Required' for this slightly dubious politician...”

“Its good that the UKIP have responded so we have "both sides of the story".

He may not like the it but "thats just the way it is".

You should apologise Mr Collins, its "the least you can do"”

“Well done Mr Collins, not all of us want to live in Bedmoland !”

“UKIP the party and UKIP the people are completely at odds. Nigel Farage does not have a control of the party and the candidates within it will vary between mad and simply bad. Suspect it's just an informal union of shady opinions and rabble rousers. A more middle class BNP or EDL.

Sure Phil Collins is going to enjoy all this celebrity attention...

His math is faultless. Muslamic tsunami!!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!”

“Whatever they may say, they [UKIP] are still basically a one issue party and that issue is the EU. People against the EU tend to be worried about immigration and are nationalistic, in the sense of worrying about national soverenty at least. I suppose UKIP need to try and exploit this with the real fear people have about the potential mass movement of Romanians within the EU for political gain. The only problem with doing that is that before very long you get into BNP type territory, because they too are anti-immigration and very nationalistic. This guy obviously crossed that very fine line. Frankly I think UKIP are a menace anyway, for damaging our relations with Europe. By the way, and it probably interests some people, I think Romanians are almost 100% christian - practicing or not. They aren't muslim at all.”

“Maybe he just want's 'one more night' to re-evaluate his thought's on immigration policy.

You need to consider 'Both sides of the story' with a case like this...”

“@Winford wrote As the saying goes ' the truth always hurts".

A) "The truth always hurts" is not how the saying goes.

B) Let's examine some of Mr Collin's truth shall we, "within 20 years, it'll be a Muslim country.
We have one or two kids on average and they have ten. So imagine that: every generation there's a hundred of theirs to four of ours, a thousand to our eight. So, within three or four generations, this country will be a Muslim country."

Shall we do some maths? If we have two kids to their ten (which we don't, it's a massive lie which probably comes from the discredited youtube video Muslim demographics, which also talks about France becoming an islamic republic by 2017 and other hilarious porkies), then we would have 20 to their 100, not 4. We would also have 200 to their 1000, not 8. This is seems to be quite basic maths on the surface, even for a member of UKIP.

C) Although, I do agree, that sometimes the "truth hurts" (the real saying), but it hurts so much more when the "truth" is actually approaching true!”