MORRISEY CLAIMS UKIP LEADERSHIP ELECTION WAS FIXED

UK alt-rock legend and Alt-Right sympathizer Morrissey has claimed that the recent UKIP leadership election was rigged. The accusation came in comments made on the radio channel, BBC 6 Music, in which the UKIP-supporting singer referred to the defeat of Anne Marie Waters in the party election. 

Waters, who was well known as a hard-line anti-Islamic campaigner, and was clearly popular with grassroots members, lost in the election to the previously unknown party establishment candidate Henry Bolton by a reported 2,755 votes to 3,874.

Promoting his excellent new album, Low in High School, Morrissey told the audience in a live appearance:

“I was very surprised the other day – it was very interesting to me – to see Anne Marie Waters become the head of Ukip. Oh no, sorry she didn’t – the voting was rigged. Sorry, I forgot.”

When the specially picked BBC audience of left-wingers failed to get the reference to nationalist politics Morrissey sneered: 

“You didn’t get it, did you? You obviously don’t read the news.”

He then launched into a version of "Ganglord," a 2006 song critical of police harrasment. 

The UKIP vote that he referred to has all the hallmarks of having been rigged, with thousands of missing votes. In the previous election in November 2016, over 15,000 votes were counted, but in this election barely 10,000 votes were counted. 

The party establishment found Waters views on Islam deeply problematic because the UK is a state that does not permit free speech. In the past Waters has called Islam an "evil" religion, something that could lead to so-called "hate speech" charges. She has also been involved with  former English Defence League leader and convicted "thought criminal" Tommy Robinson. In 2016 they set up Pegida UK to counter Islamisation of Britain. 

Morrissey’s new single, "Spent the Day in Bed" expresses his contempt for fake news organisations like the BBC, singing that they "contrive to frighten you / to make you feel small and alone / to make you feel that your mind isn’t your own."