Which is funny, really, since they're the ones who are always telling us that the latest hilarious outburst by a Ukip councillor or MEP or parliamentary candidate or whatever is just a bit of fun and that the people who raise an eyebrow at it are out of touch with how real people speak outside the Westminster bubble. A man called Kerry Smith calls gay people poofters and Chinese people "Chinkies" and suggests going on "peasant hunts" in Essex, and Nigel Farage thinks that's earthy working-class man-of-the-people stuff. A chairman of a local Ukip branch claimed that some gay people "prefer sex with animals", so in apparent agreement the local candidate told a story about how a "homosexual donkey" tried to rape his horse. A potential candidate called Chris Scotton "liked" a Facebook site which claimed that racism was "just ethnic banter". Another blamed Jewish people for the Holocaust. All this stuff, according to a Ukip spokesperson, was "ordinary people many of whom are young and have made the odd excessive comment on new media". It's just top bantz, a bit of silly horseplay, nothing to get too excited about, and the Offended of Islington like yours truly just can't take a joke.