Husband and wife's foster children from ethnic minorities 'taken away because couple joined Ukip'.
- 'Exemplary' foster parents cared for three children from ethnic minorities
- Staff from Rotherham council told couple that Ukip had 'racist' policies and their membership of it made them unsuitable carers
- Couple left 'bereft' when the children were removed within a week
- A married couple claimed yesterday they had their foster children taken away from them for being members of Ukip.
The foster parents, who have been caring for children for nearly seven years and had been described as ‘exemplary’, said they were left feeling ‘stigmatised and slandered’. The couple are worried they will be stopped from fostering again because of their membership of the UK Independence Party, which campaigns for Britain to leave the EU.
Around a dozen children have been cared for by the couple, who do not want to be named.
The three latest children, a baby girl, boy and an older girl from a troubled family, came to them in September on an emergency placement. But just eight weeks later, two staff from the Labour-run Rotherham council – the nearest to their village home in South Yorkshire – arrived and announced the local safeguarding children team had been told they were Ukip members in an anonymous tip.
The wife told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I was dumbfounded. Then my question to both of them was, “What has Ukip got to do with having the children removed?”
‘Then one of them said, “Well, Ukip have got racist policies”. The implication was that we were racist.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9700001/Foster-parents-stigmatised-and-slandered-for-being-members-of-Ukip.html
For readers who did not know it, unlike the English Democrats who have happily welcomed members of the failing BNP with open arms to their ranks, UKIP refuses to accept new members who have been in the BNP.
The party is constitutionally non-racist.
The party expels members who embrace racism.