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Ukip leader Nigel Farage proudly poses with a party activist who leads a double life as an open neo-Nazi.

Andrew Lovie, 51, a former secretary of the Aberdeen branch of Ukip, posted a series of vile racist and homophobic rants on a white supremacist website.

Writing on the far right Stormfront forum – which calls itself the “Voice of the new embattled White minority” – he said he looked forward to a “white future” and recommended Holocaust denial groups.

Lovie was photographed with Mr Farage at an event two years ago.

But the activist’s behaviour is an embarrassment for his leader, who has reportedly been courting Jewish businessmen ahead of the ­election.

(Image: LBC/Ruckas Pictures)

Last week he attacked politicians for not standing up for Jews.

Speaking at a Ukip “Friends of Israel” event in Westminster he accused the Government of being “always frightened to say something for fear of causing offence”.

But Lovie, a frequent contributor on the Stormfront forum, has made no secret of his own attitudes.

In one posting, he attempts to play down Nazi war atrocities writing: “Amazing, isn’t it, how the documented murder of seven million Europeans counts for nothing against the ‘Jewish holocaust’ with the Zionists.”

He added: "This is a book you will read and re-read.

"There are a handful of books that have changed my attitude to life, and this is one of them."

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He also praises Holocaust denier David Duke’s My Awakening book about anti-semitic theories and calls his internet radio broadcasts “a breath of fresh air for those people of European ancestry”.

In another post he calls voting a privilege not a right, and says “practising homosexuals” should not take part in ballots.

On his weekly LBC radio phone-in on Friday, Mr Farage blamed Muslims for what he described as a “sharp rise in anti-semitism” in Britain and Europe.

In response to Andy Lovie’s postings a Ukip spokesman said: “Ukip has a categorical and long-standing position on membership of extremist organisations.

“If anyone in party is a member of such organisations then we will take the necessary action to remove them from Ukip.”