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 attacks councillor's gay marriage slurs coverage
Ukip leader Nigel Farage has accused the media of unfairly highighting the views of one of its councillor's about recent floods and gay marriage.
Henley-on-Thames councillor David Silvester has been suspended after he said the country has been "beset by storms" since the decision to legalise on gay marriage because David Cameron had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".
Mr Farage said: "I think it is very interesting that, when Mr Silvester was saying these things in 2012 and 2013 as a Conservative town councillor in Henley, it was not a news story.
"But suddenly he switches to Ukip and continues the same thing and gets on the national news.
"The establishment, the status quo, the big businesses, the big Eurocrats and our three so-called main political parties are scared witless by what Ukip is doing because we are striking a chord not just for ordinary people but for many elements in the business community as well.
"They will try to do whatever they can to shoot us down."
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