A British parliamentary candidate from the United Kingdom Independence Party who claimed in December 2014 that a “homosexual donkey” had raped his horse is now “standing” for the leader of his party.John Rees-Evans, who is a former Army soldier, made the remarks to protestors outside of a campaign office in Merthyr Tydfil after being confronted by a gentleman who was upset about a fellow Ukip party member’s comments that “some homosexuals prefer sex with animals.”[caption id="attachment_8612" align="aligncenter" width="800"]
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Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage. Ukip was the primary engineer behind Brexit. Source: Yahoo News[/caption]Mr Rees-Evans said at the time: “Actually, I’ve witnessed that. I’ve got a horse and it was there in the field. And a donkey came up, which was male, and I’m afraid tried to rape my horse."He said his stallion had bitten the gay donkey in an act of self-defense.The Ukip politician believes people are actually interested in what he has to say and in why he’s standing.He apologized for the donkey story on the BBC’s Daily Politics program that it “was a bit of playful banter with a mischievous activist, I’m sorry if I offended anyone in doing that.”“I concede it was a mistake to be playful with an activist in a street. The fact is I’m not a politician. The guy was asking me questions in the street. It was an error of judgment.”
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Gay Donkey Not the Only Issue Facing Ukip Party
https://youtu.be/JC17ZHU_ZNUThe UK Independence party was the main driving force behind the recent “Brexit,” or the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.Former party leader Nigel Farage, who has something of an everyman image in Britain, resigned recently and was replaced by fellow politician Diane James, who also resigned. The party leader slot for Ukip is now open to election.Mr Rees-Evans will have competition for the leadership slot, but those fellow Ukip members are not his enemies. The gay donkey, however, remains to be seen.“The enemy is any kind of politics in Britain that doesn’t represent the will of the people – the politics that puts people into positions of power, to pursue their own agendas, rather than the agenda that the British people give them,” he said on the BBC.