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Britain’s leading anti-fascist organisation has condemned Ukip after one of its Welsh officials called for “the PC brigade and all the f***ing do gooders” to be “shot as traitors”.

Jason Lock, who is Ukip’s membership officer in Caerphilly , wrote on Facebook last November in the context of a discussion about terrorism: “The trouble is the PC [politically correct] brigade and all the f***ing do gooders should be shot as traitors they have put our nation and families in danger. These Muslims will not give up until they own the world so action not words are needed!”

The comments were posted the day after 130 people were killed in terror attacks in Paris .

Hefin David, the Labour candidate for Caerphilly, said the comments were “extraordinary and appalling”.

'Sad reflection of party organisation'

He added: “They were publicly available on an open Facebook page. What is really worrying is that Ukip’s membership officer’s role includes recruiting like-minded people to his party. I would hope that Ukip will remove him, but it’s a sad reflection of their party organisation in Caerphilly.”

A Ukip spokesperson responded: “Ukip are sick and tired of the Labour Party using underhand and extreme tactics of rifling through our volunteers’ private social media to pull out deliberately de-contextualised lines from private threads to try to demonise the party.

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“Having read the entire Facebook conversation it is clear to any sane person that the Labour Party edit and interpretation of the thread is deliberately malicious and untrue.

'Slandering ordinary people'

“What they are doing is essentially slandering ordinary people simply because of the job that they choose to do, potentially harming their future job prospects by publicising deliberately distorted and misleading representations of them to try to reduce Ukip’s electability.

“These are real people with real lives and it’s spiteful, it’s malicious and it shows a major moral deficit in the Labour party’s operations. They should be disgusted by their own actions, not ours.”

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But Tom Godwin, Wales organiser of anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate, said: “The language used by this Ukip membership officer is appalling. It is unfortunately not exceptional, and representative of the language used by Ukip members across the UK on public forums.

“It doesn’t take long to find hateful and extremist language used by Ukip members on Facebook. Ukip’s defence of their membership officer in this instance demonstrates an acceptance by the party of extremist language that is common within their membership base.”