The euroskeptic U.K. Independence Party on Tuesday launched a series of European Parliament election posters warning that millions of Europeans are after British jobs and urged voters to "take back control of our country," triggering accusations its campaign is racist.
UKIP is among a crop of euroskeptic, anti-immigration parties, including France's Front National, that are expected to fare well in May 22 European elections, banking on voter dissatisfaction with the traditional political establishment over the region's economic crisis.
Opinion polls suggest UKIP, which wants Britain to leave the European Union, will push Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives into third place in the elections. The main opposition center-left Labour Party is leading the polls, while the Liberal Democrats, the junior coalition partner and most pro-Europe party, is a distant fourth.
One UKIP election billboard claims 26 million people in Europe are looking for work and are after British jobs. Another shows a construction worker begging in the street and says British workers are hard hit by unlimited cheap labor resulting from EU policy.
"We are a nonsectarian, non-racist political party," Mr. Farage said in an ITV television interview. "I don't blame people from poor countries for coming here, but I think it is the job of a British government to put the interests of our own people first, and we're simply not doing that because we are part of a political union in Europe which means we can't decide who comes to live and work and settle in this country."Read the rest of the story HERE.
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