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A UKIP candidate fighting for election in the same constituency as Nigel Farage has claimed desperate refugees dying in the Mediterranean were actually “Islamic State warriors”.

Ted Bennett also rallied against Romanians as “scum” in a series of outrageous comments to Mirror investigators while on the campaign trail with the Ukip leader.

The 65-year-old. who is standing as a council candidate in Nigel Farage's consituency, was helping UKIP at a public meeting attended by Mr Farage.

The shocking comments can be revealed just 24 hours after UKIP was forced to suspend a parliamentary candidate for threatening to SHOOT a rival candidate.

Speaking to one reporter, Mr Bennett was recorded describing Romanian migrants living in the area as “scum”.

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He said: “We got Romanians in Cliftonville. But the trouble is they deliberately flaunt our system, they’re laughing at us. You can see it in their faces.

“If you go to the Aldi in Margate, you’ll be one of the few people speaking English. But they’re just scum people.”

Mr Bennett also tried to convince our reporter that thousands of desperate migrants being rescued in the Mediterranean, after fleeing the Middle East and Africa, were in fact militants aligned to the Islamic State terror group.

The Islamic State terror gang is otherwise known as ISIS, meaning Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Mr Bennett said: “They’re all funded by ISIS. The people that get across in them boats from Africa.

“ISIS have grabbed all them billions of dollars of oil money in the countries they’ve invaded and they’re funding them people to come to Europe.

“They’re funded by ISIS. Some of them are ISIS warriors coming over. They want to get half a million of their people in Europe.”

In a further extremist rant, he said: “We don’t want one more person in this country who’s a refugee really.”

Robert Blay, who is standing in North East Hampshire, was exposed by Mirror investigators after he made the shocking threat of violence against Conservative Ranil Jayawardena.

Mr Blay, 55, a former bank accountant and member of the Conservative Party told our reporter that Jayawardena had been tipped to potentially be the country’s first British Asian Prime Minister.

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In a vile and shocking outburst, he raged: “If he is I will personally put a bullet between his eyes.

“If this lad turns up to be our Prime Minister I will personally put a bullet in him. That’s how strong I feel about it.

“I won’t have this f***** as our Prime Minister. I absolutely loathe him.”

After one meeting on Saturday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage was recorded mocking a constituent by calling him a “t****r”.

The jibe was aimed at an audience member who had asked a question concerning the future of Manston Airport in the area.

The airport had been a major employer in the area until it was closed last May.

Mr Farage has previously voiced his support to reopening the airport but in front of our reporter laughed as he said: “It’s a public meeting so they’re entitled to come.

“As long as they behave and I’ve always said that. For 20 years I’ve said that.

"Anyone can come whatever their persuasion and listen, as long as they behave and we let him ask his questions. We were fair (but) he was a bit of a t****r, wasn’t he?”

And in another astonishing admission, the man masterminding Nigel Farage's battle to become an MP told Mirror investigators that the party had infiltrated meetings held by left-wing protestors trying to disrupt Mr Farage's campaign in South Thanet and were secretly filming their meetings.

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Martyn Heale, the chairman of Mr Farage’s party in Thanet South and former head of a London branch of the racist National Front (NF) in 1978, confessed: “Don’t worry about them. We know exactly what they’re doing.

“They don’t realise that all of their meetings are videoed.”

A spokesman for UKIP said: “We understand that Ted’s comments were him relaying what has been told to him by frustrated residents in the area.

“Nigel’s clear jokes about an audience member were in defence of Manston as a full-functioning airport and UKIP is the only party so committed as to put the issue in our national manifesto.”

Earlier, UKIP Deputy Chairman Suzanne Evans thanked the Mirror for exposing Mr Blay, saying: “You keep fishing them out for us, we’ll keep suspending them. We don’t want this thing in our party.”

She added: “When we make mistakes we are honest enough to put our hands up and deal with them.”

And UKIP’s election campaign chief Patrick O’Flynn, a former newspaper columnist, hailed our investigation.

He said: “I thought it was a good bit of journalism, looking at the video.”

He paid tribute to the “expert questioning, which wasn’t leading but drew out opinions which were clearly obnoxious and it was quite fair for them to be aired”.

The party outlined a review into the candidate selection process in the wake of our revelations.