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  • Katie Hopkins and Milo Yiannopoulos amongst the nominees for “Islamophobe of the year”

    Numerous commentators including Katie Hopkins, Milo Yiannopoulos and Anne Marie Waters have been nominated for Islamophobe of the Year, by the Islamic Human Rights Commission.

    20 people, including, Katie Hopkins, Milo Yianopolous,  UKIPPERs Anne Maries Waters and Nigel Farage and LBC’s Maajid Nawaz have been nominated by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) for the Islamophobia Awards 2017.

    They join a long list of organisations and people who have been singled out by IHRC for “those who have been the most Islamophobic over the past year”. The organisation said it was awarding them for their “accomplishments”.

    Milo, has become a nominee in the IHRC’s awards.

    In the UK category, the nominees of the awards, which has been described by the IHRC as a “satirical awards ceremony” are:  Katie Hopkins, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Anne Marie Waters, Boris Johnson, Trevor Phillips, OFSTED,  Zac Goldsmith, Maajid Nawaz and Louise Casey.

    Further afield,  President Donald Trump has been nominated along with former French President hopeful Marie Le Pen.

    News organisations were also targetted for awards, including, the Daily Mail, The Sun, Fox News and Breitbart. For film, books and TV series, the IHRC highlighted 24: Legacy, London Has Fallen and Homeland as potential winners.

    The award is publicly voted and people are being invited to vote on the IHRC website.

    Katie Hopkins is hoping she wins the UK category and has invited her fanbase to vote for her.

    Katie Hopkins pleaded with her fanbase to vote for her, saying that she had the “perfect outfit” for the awards.

    Please vote for me as Islamophobe of the Year. I have the perfect ‘outfit’ in mind. https://t.co/VooiGrg56W

    — Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) October 18, 2017


    A statement from IHRC said, “The event aims to subvert Islamophobia through comedy and revue while simultaneously addressing a serious issue in a creative manner,

    “The event, which includes a gala dinner, features a satirical awards ceremony in which those who have been the most Islamophobic over the past year are awarded for their “accomplishments”.

    Winners will be announced during the spoof awards ceremony which will be taking place on Sunday, 26 November 2017.

  • Ukippers are voting on a new logo

    Ah… the rebrand.

    So in political news, UKIP is allowing its members to vote on new branding for the party and the choice is between a logo which features a lion and one that features two stripes – one in purple, the other in yellow. Both offer the slogan “for the nation”.

    But that’s not the only change UKIP – who have in the past had numerous issues with members and candidates being homophobic, as well as a spot of homophobia denial, are making…

    No, they are also locked in a leadership race, with out hopefuls Anne Marie Waters and Peter Whittle facing, Henry Bolton – former candidate for Kent police and crime commissioner, Jane Collins – MEP for Yorkshire and Humber, David Kurten – London Assembly member, Aidan Powlesland and Former parliamentary candidate, John Rees-Evans.

    The new leader will be annoucned today, at 5 PM – and will give a speech and press conference after the annoucement.

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Voting commences for the new identity <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/forthenation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#forthenation</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/ukip17?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#ukip17</a> <a href=”https://t.co/yThm4Cn6Om”>pic.twitter.com/yThm4Cn6Om</a></p>&mdash; UKIP (@UKIP) <a href=”https://twitter.com/UKIP/status/913703153505366018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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  • Who is Anne Marie Waters the UKIP leadership hopeful?

    Annie Marie Waters is in a battle to become the next leader of the UK Independence Party.

    Who is Anne Marie Waters the UKIP leadership hopeful?

    Annie Marie Waters is a contender for the next leader of UKIP. She’s been campaigning on an anti-Sharia law stance and was involved in Bristol’s recent, Gays Against Sharia demonstration. She’s currently bookies favourite to win the leadership contest. Her personal website lacks any manifesto or vision should she win the leadership.

    Anne Marie is the director of Sharia Watch UK a watchdog which says its “particularly concerned with the elements of sharia law which are discriminatory and violent towards women and girls, and which endanger and threaten the democratic principle of freedom of speech”. She also called Islam “evil”

    She also, along with former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson, launched an organisation called Pegida UK which “protests against mass immigration and the Islamisation of the west”.

    Annie Marie was born in Dublin in Ireland but describes herself as “passionately, loyally, resolutely and proudly British.” She studied journalism at Nottingham Trent University and graduated in 2003. She also gained a Law degree whilst she was working for the NHS as a secretary.

    She describes herself as an LGBT activist and also served as a director of the National Secular Society.

    Originally a Labour supporter.

    Anne Marie started her political life supporting Labour, however, she left the party in 2013 saying that it was “betraying” the UK with its refusal to oppose Islam. She twice unsuccessfully attempted to become a Labour Party MP candidate.

    Marriage?

    Annie Marie is in a civil partnership with her wife.

    The right and not right

    Annie Marie recently engaged with defamation solicitors to seek a legal position on news outlets which referred to people as “far-right”, “fascist” or “racist” because they were engaged in conversation or negatively spoke out against Islam. She suggested that those who do speak out were frequently the subject of smears.