The Ukip activist picked last week to fight a key Parliamentary seat made homophobic, racist and obscene comments and accused Nigel Farage of corruption, it was revealed last night. In tape-recorded phone calls leaked to The Mail on Sunday, Kerry Smith, chosen to fight Ukip target seat of Basildon South in Essex: But Mr Farage last night refused to sack Mr Smith. A well-placed Ukip official said: ‘Kerry wants to make a full apology and is hoping it all blows over.’ Scroll down for audio Kerry Smith (left) was recorded making a series of astonishing comments including a baseless claim Nigel Farage (right) had accepted 'a nice fat envelope' for promoting a Ukip ally
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Kerry Smith made series of astonishing remarks in recorded conversation
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The Ukip activist was chosen last week to fight for Basildon South seat
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Refers to 'disgusting old pooftahs' and a Chinese woman as 'a Chinky'
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He also makes a baseless claim about Nigel Farage accepting a bribe
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Mr Smith issued an 'unreserved' apology and retracted corruption claim
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Mocks ‘f***ing disgusting old pooftahs’ who belong to a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning group, calling them ‘BLTs’ – bacon, lettuce and tomato.
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Jokes about ‘shooting peasants’ and mocks Ukip activist Lucy Bostick for printing ‘boring c**p’ on her leaflets.
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Refers to a woman with a Chinese name as a ‘Chinky.’
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Makes baseless claims about party leader Farage accepting a bribe to promote a Ukip ally over another rival.
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Calls Ukip’s immigration spokesman Steve Woolfe a ‘f***ing carpetbagger and a***hole.’
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National executive member Gerard Batten’s call for Muslims to sign a ‘charter of understanding’ in which they rejected violence and parts of the Koran that promote ‘violent physical Jihad.’
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Parliamentary candidate in Grimsby Victoria Ayling was recorded saying ‘let’s keep the blacks out’. Council candidate Andre Lampitt said Africans should ‘kill themselves’.
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Council candidate William Henwood said Lenny Henry should ‘emigrate to a black country’.
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Exeter activist David Challice denounced the ‘lunacy of multiculturalism’ and called Greeks ‘vile’.
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Town hall candidate David Wycherley said Mo Farah was African, not British.
In a statement made on Smith’s behalf by @placeholder’s official spokesman, Smith said: ‘I wish to issue a wholehearted and unreserved apology to those who I have offended within the party and anyone else.’