Ukip suspends councillor who made gay marriage slurs
Ukip has suspended councillor David Silvester, who claimed that recent flooding was the result of the decision to legalise gay marriage.
Farage promises to purge Ukip of extreme candidates
Ukip leader Nigel Farage has promised to purge the party of its more extreme candidates ahead of the European council elections in May.
The pledge comes after Ukip councillor David Silvester blamed the recent storms and floods on same-sex marriage and MEP Godfrey Bloom called African countries "Bongo Bongo Land" last year.
Mr Farage told The Sun (£): "Politics needs people with personality and backgrounds and they will all have one or two flaws. I have got my own red lines on this. That is real extremism and nastiness.
"We introduced a set of criteria by which we judged the exiting MEPs on how they've performed and what they have done.
"Some have been pushed and some have jumped. Of 13 MEPs elected, there are about five who won't be on the list of runners and riders again. Of all the candidates we fielded, only about half a dozen have caused us any embarrassment."
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