English Democrat PCC candidate Steve Uncles picks fight with Kent Police

Steve Uncles

Steve Uncles campaign to become Kent’s Police and Crime Commissioner has taken an interesting turn after he accused the county’s force of lying over a sexual assault investigation.

Last week Kent Police took the unusual step of releasing details of the nationality and ethnicity of 11 men arrested in connection with the alleged assault at the Bluewater shopping centre. On its Facebook page the force wrote that: “Due to the widespread attention this incident has received, investigating officers can confirm that all the 11 men who were arrested are white, English and non-Muslim.”

Kent Police clarify the situation.

Among those who had previously given the case attention was Uncles who used his blog to claim that “Seven Muslim Men rape Young Woman in Bluewater Carpark in Kent.” This is as clearly as accurate as pretty much everything else Uncles says, getting the number of suspects, their faith and the crime they are being investigated for all wrong.

Uncles’ own interpretation of events.

Of course, though, the Great Leader knows better, tweeting that both Kent Police and the BBC are lying about the case. He alleges an un-named serving officer, fed up with PC PCs, told him. Uncles seems unphased by the fact that he’s hijacking an alleged crime as serious sexual assault to promote his disgraceful politics whilst along the way seeking to disrupt the police investigation by disseminating falsehoods. The young woman who reported this incident deserves better.

Uncles: Kent Police are liars.

It continues what you might call his intriguing election campaign which began with him succeeding in delaying his trial for alleged electoral fraud on the grounds that he’s standing for the commissioner post. Kent Online reported that he denies seven charges of using a false instrument with intent and three of causing or permitting a false statement to be included in a nomination form in April 2013.

Meanwhile Uncles joined in what became quite a distasteful free-for-all on the constabulary’s Facebook thread. He wittered on about the categories used by police forces to classify by ethnicity of those with whom they come into contact. To be honest, he made not a lot of sense.

Uncles gets taken to task.

Joining him was Kim Gandy, the English Democrats’ Dagenham & Rainham local council candidate. Posting as Lilly Langtryy, Gandy demanded “proper descriptions” of the suspects querying how else 11 men already arrested and bailed could be identified. She questioned if the apparent failure to provide those descriptions was for fear of “offending” some “minority”. She must think that white non-Muslim English men are somehow a minority in the UK. To be fair, it does sound like the sort of lunatic nonsense that she would believe. Remember this is a woman whose views are so rank and vitriolic that UKIP saw fit to throw her out.

Gandy gets taken to task.

Mind you, no-one seems to have told Cliff Dixon, chair of UKIP’s infamous Hillingdon branch. He seems quite smitten with the long-time far right activist who once posted that dementia sufferers then in her care “need putting down.” Dixon recently posted to the UKIP Hillingdon Facebook page a picture of Gandy leafleting for the Better Off Out campaign. A lovely couple they do not make.

Door knockers.

Kim and Cliff.

Dixon himself has, like Gandy, also previously courted controversy having joined the EDL front that is March For England and been snapped with Tommy Robinson’s cousin and former deputy, Kev Carroll.

All told, neither the English Democrats nor UKIP emerge from this tawdry tale looking good. No doubt this will be reflected at the ballot box on May 5^th.