UKIP Suspends Gay Marriage Row Politician

UKIP has suspended a councillor who claimed that recent flooding was Britain's punishment for legalising gay marriage.

David Silvester, a councillor for Henley-on-Thames, told his local paper that "storms, disease, pestilence and war" were the consequences for "a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel".

He added: "I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same-sex marriage Bill."

His suspension swiftly follows UKIP leader Nigel Farage's promise to rid the party of its more extreme candidates.

Announcing the crackdown, 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."

Mr Farage has ordered the clear-out in an attempt pull off one of the biggest upsets in modern political history - winning the most UK seats in the European Parliament.

UKIP was also left embarrassed last year when MEP Godfrey Bloom branded African countries "Bongo Bongo Land".

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