Mel Giedroyc Quotes

The problem with UKIP and the extreme right - Mr. Le Pen, Wilders - they are really good at making an analysis of the problem. And they immediately go completely overboard in providing a solution that would never work and is morally completely unacceptable.

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.

Of course there's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that runs through Ukip.

In many respects, David Duke was the playbook. He established the playbook by which Donald Trump ran and ultimately became - I won't even use the term - let's just say he became the occupant of the White House.

Ethno-nationalism - it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, eh, help crush it more.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

I've been a National Front member since I was 17, and active supporter for a long time.

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people.

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

European right-wing parties are in fact surprisingly fragmented, disagreeing over almost everything except ultranationalist sentiments and xenophobic opposition to non-European immigrants.

I’m not having hundreds of fucking Vietnamese … coming into this country with their religious and political hatreds against us!

Trump has never denounced the Alt-Right. Nor will he.

If the Republican party becomes the party of David Duke, Donald Trump, I'm out.

I have nothing to hide, and I call upon those who are scared by the National Front to look up the National Front's manifesto. It's quite easy on the Internet.

The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning.

As it happens, the National Front has never been guilty of racism.

Donald Trump is about the rise of right-wing extremism, not only in this country, but in Europe.

When the National Front was created, its main goal was against communism.

The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.

We have to challenge head-on the way the BNP takes legitimate concerns and manipulates them in the interests of its fascist agenda.

My paternal grandma was a raving Thatcherite, one who had a xenophobic turn of phrase for most proceedings.