www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-20773800

A UKIP candidate who called for an NHS review to look at compulsory abortion of foetuses with Down's syndrome or spina bifida has been suspended.

The party said Geoffrey Clark, who is standing for Kent County Council, would not be a UKIP councillor if elected.

Mr Clark said on his website he did not endorse the abortion idea but suggested it to cut the national debt.

Learning disability charity Mencap said it was disgusted and horrified at Mr Clark's personal manifesto.

UKIP said Thursday's ballot paper would still list him as its candidate but, pending an investigation, he would not be a UKIP councillor.

Chartered accountant Mr Clark, 66, who is also standing for Meopham North ward on Gravesham Borough Council in Thursday's by-election, says on his website his comments are personal and do not reflect UKIP policy.

He calls for a national debate and an urgent government review of the NHS, which he says "risks becoming unaffordable in the future".

The review should look at "compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Down's, spina bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, could render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family".

He says the review should also look at medical treatment for those aged over 80, "which is disproportionately costly to the NHS" and might also include "legalising euthanasia and giving free euthanasia advice to all folk over 80".

He told the BBC: "I don't intend to offend.

"What I am trying to do is to provoke a debate in the nation because I am so disenchanted with our politicians."
'Forced eugenics'

Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, said: "Much has been written about the Paralympics this summer changing attitudes towards disabled people for the better.

"Yet in the very same year, a council candidate has proposed forced eugenics against disabled people.

"It is abhorrent that Geoffrey Clark sees disabled people solely as a burden when people with a learning disability lead full lives and make valuable contributions to their communities and families.

"We question if he is fit for public office."

Mr Clark, who describes himself as a member of Meopham Parochial Church Council, Rotary International, the Royal British Legion and the Youth Hostels Association, says population, immigration and threats to the green belt are linked issues close to his heart.

If elected, he promises to promote the Christian ethic and British culture, roll back Islam, contain UK population growth and restrict immigration.

A UKIP spokesman said the party rejected Mr Clark's "abhorrent" views.

"The party was not aware of these views when it allowed him to stand under our name," he said.

"Mr Clark has been formally suspended as a UKIP candidate and will not be standing for the party again.

"We would like to apologise to anyone who has suffered distress as a result of this matter."

This is pretty terrible, but when Lib-Lab-Con adopt this as a central policy you can be sure the Beeb will be there to put a positive spin on it!

Many a true word is spoken in jest eh Wub.

When you're classed as an 'elderly' mother (can't remember whether they officially call you that once you're over 30 or 35) you're given the option during pregnancy of having amniotic fluid extracted from the womb to test for downs syndrome, due to there being a higher chance of its presence linked to age. The test in itself is sufficient to cause miscarriage, so I refused to have it done.

If this arsehole got his way, I wonder whether they'd make that test obligatory also, in order to enforce these compulsory abortions.

Think it's 35 the old amniocentesis and yup it's a risky procedure and yup I've no doubt it'd be compulsory if the cunt had his way

...And legalising euthenasia, based not on quality of life, but on costs to the NHS for medication!!! He's a real charmer, isn't he!

I can't find his official website, but I have found the following:

www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend_messenger...ark.aspx?theme=print
These are all direct quotations, so we can reasonably expect them to be accurate. The scary thing is the intellectual level of these people. He's calling for this to "cut the national debt", the national debt that is never going to be repaid, that can't possibly be repaid legitimately. Happy to see foetuses forcibly terminated for that purpose!

He wants to get people's ghosts to kick the can down the road...

wake_up_bomb wrote:
Yeah well maybe. But until that day, this is a UKIP FKUP

mikey mikey wrote: It's coming. They'll have a special name for it by then, they'll call it 'foetal easing' or something. Ed Miliband will make it sound so reasonable. The BBC will make the NHS sound so snowed under that cancer patients can't get treatment. There'll be lots of grave looking slow-motion shots on the news. And some graphs. Pretty soon we'll wonder how we ever got by with any other policy.

wake_up_bomb wrote:
All very likely, but until then, this is a UKIP politician speaking here. There are some shits amongst them just the same: e.g. Ashley Mote and Tom Wise,

'Can't afford, can't afford, can't afford'.
It's all politicians ever say, no matter what colour of authoritarianism they care to use.

So, the solution is.....euthanise the politicos, the CEOs and the bankers and we can get on with living our lives free from such complete and utter bullshit. Sorted.

dubmeup wrote:
I'll vote for that :p

Cull to save cash. ffs

Won't be long 'til we have Carrousel.



Mind you, up to a point it looks pretty neat. Renew! Renew!