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Students in Bristol have described a UKIP councillor’s comments about Bristol being full of ‘disease-riddled prostitutes from the local universities’ as ‘shameful’.

And the Bristol University Student Union said it strongly condemns the remarks from UKIP councillor Philip Winter, who provoked a huge backlash for his description of Bristol in the evening.

Cllr Winter, who serves on Almondsbury Parish Council in South Gloucestershire, tweeted in response to media coverage of the Ben Stokes affray court case, which saw the England cricketer and a local man in the dock for an incident that happened at the end of a night out in Bristol.

The UKIP councillor, who has been suspended as a member of UKIP for racist remarks made on Twitter before, said Stokes was ‘silly’ going to Bristol in the first place.

“It’s a terribly awful city from evening onwards, and full of perverts, disease-riddled prostitutes from the local universities, brigands and dangerous looking foreigners!!” he wrote.

Sally Patterson, the equality, liberation and access officer for the University of Bristol students’ union, said the union condemned the comments, not just for the bizarre and strangely specific allegations about Bristol’s sex workers, but about the ‘dangerous-looking foreigners’ comment too.

(Image: Philip Winters/Twitter)

“Bristol SU strongly condemns the recent tweets written by UKIP councillor Philip Winter,” she said.

“His tweets are offensive on every level, and it’s shameful that views like this are held in the 21st century.

“It’s racist, xenophobic and reflect a dangerous narrative around immigration,” she added.

(Image: Steve Roberts)

“We are proud of our students’ contribution to Bristol, and proud to be a part of a city that is diverse and inclusive. Hate speech will not be tolerated here,” she added.

Cllr Winter has not responded to contact from Bristol Live. Earlier this year, he said Bristol Live was ‘communist’ after it reported the most recent outrage on Twitter, when he claimed a rise in knife crime in London was caused by people of African and Asian heritage having ‘a disease’.