Migrant boat disaster: Ukip candidate mocks victims in sickening Twitter post
|
Version 0 of 1. A Ukip candidate has mocked the victims of the Mediterranean migration crisis by retweeting a sickening post on Twitter. Peter Endean, who is standing for Nigel Farage's party in local council elections in Plymouth and is Ukip's communications manager for the town, retweeted an image of some of the rescued migrants with a caption that said: "Labour's new floating voters. Coming to a country near you soon". Ukip candidate Peter Endean retweeted this sickening tweet about the Mediterranean migration crisis The offensive post poked fun at the hundreds of migrants who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean from north Africa. The instability in Libya has led to thousands of migrants risking their lives in search for a better life in Europe. At least 700 migrants drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend alone. EU ministers have held emergency talks about the crisis after facing heavy criticism for the decision to put in place a scaled-back EU search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean at a time when ever-increasing numbers of migrants are being squeezed on to inadequate vessels by people smugglers in lawless Libya. This is the disgusting post Mr Endean decided to retweet: Labour's new floating voters.. pic.twitter.com/viPUpOtT7c |