General Election 2015: Nigel Farage offers no policies for women, admits female Ukip candidate who is 'offended' by feminists
Melanie Hurst, standing for a seat in the North East, boasts that she has 'yet to meet a feminist' in Ukip
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Your support makes all the difference.A female Ukip candidate has admitted Nigel Farage offers "no policies" for women and said she is proud of the lack of feminists in the party.
Melanie Hurst, who is fighting the North East constituency of Wansbeck for Ukip, told a regional party meeting that “feminists offend me”, claiming they take their fight for equal rights “too far”.
In a bizarre attack on feminists, she claimed that if they “had their way” doors would “slam shut” in her face, she would have to carry her own shopping and she would have to buy her own drinks.
She accused feminists of failing to “accept the difference between male and female or the difference between common courtesy and sexism,” telling them to either “celebrate” the differences” or “just get over them”.
Explaining why she was “proud” to be a member of what she described as a feminist-free party, she said: “I’m yet to meet a feminist in UKIP – something that pleases me because feminists offend me.
“I wouldn’t mind if they wanted a fair deal but they don’t. They campaign for superiority or preferential treatment over men rather than equality or fairness. They take it too far.
“If they had their way my husband would no longer carry my bags for me, or open the car door for me, or go to the bar for me.
“Instead doors would slam shut in my face, I’d be left to struggle with the shopping and, perish the thoughts for those of you who know me, going to the bar to buy my own drinks.
“I like the little things my husband does: holding the doors open, carrying the shopping and so on I simply like common courtesy and good manners – something we all appreciate.”
It comes as Ukip faces fresh questions over the suitability of its candidates after a series of scandals running up to Thursday's vote.
Deputy party leader Paul Nuttall was grilled on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about comments made by Ukip's North East Hampshire candidate Robert Blay, who was filmed apparently making racist remarks and threatening to shoot his Tory rival.
While speaking to investigators from the Daily Mirror at a public meeting in Ramsgate on Sunday, Mr Blay said he would "put a bullet between the eyes" of Conservative candidate Ranil Jayawardena and also accused him of being "not British enough to be in our parliament".
Mr Nuttall was played the comments on air on Wednesday morning, and he admitted they were "pretty woeful".
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