The ever classy UKIP shows it’s hideous colors once again. (h/t: JD)
By David Kearns, The Independent
A former Ukip candidate has sparked outrage after he blamed the parents of dead Syrian tot Aylan Al-Kurdi for being “greedy for the good life in Europe”.
Photos of three-year-old washed up on a Turkish beach has stunned the world and have led many to question Europe’s response to the refugee crisis.
Peter Bucklitsch, who finished fourth in the Wimbledon constituency at in the UK’s general election in May, shocked Twitter users by claiming that the three-year-old Aylan Kurdi was “well clothed & well fed”.
He suggested the boy’s parents should not have risked his life by trying to make the 13-mile journey across the Mediterranean from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos.