Robert Kilroy-Silk
Overview
Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born 19 May 1942) is an English
England
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 former politician
Politician
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, former independent Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
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, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy
Kilroy (television series)
Kilroy is a BBC1 daytime chat show hosted by Robert Kilroy-Silk that began in 8 September 1986 and finished on 29 January 2004 after 18 years....

. He has been a university lecturer
Lecturer
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 and Labour Party Member of Parliament
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 (MP). He stood successfully for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2004 election
European Parliament election, 2004
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 to the European Parliament
European Parliament
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, before leaving them in 2005 to found a new party called Veritas
Veritas (political party)
Veritas is a political party in the United Kingdom, formed in February 2005 at Hinckley golf club by politician-celebrity Robert Kilroy-Silk following a split from the United Kingdom Independence Party . Kilroy-Silk served as party leader from formation, through the 2005 General Election, until...

, from which he in turn resigned as leader later the same year.
Quotations

They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so... then racist I must be — and happy and proud, to be so.

Daily Express, 25 February 1991

Moslems everywhere behave with equal savagery. They behead criminals, stone to death female — only female — adulteresses, throw acid in the faces of women who refuse to wear the chador, mutilate the genitals of young girls and ritually abuse animals.

Daily Express, 15 January 1995

A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

Describing Ireland, Daily Express, 9 November 2002

The indigenous population is not responsible.... It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

Discussing a rise in HIV infections in Britain, Sunday Express, 1 December 2002

The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops. And to think that good, decent, law-abiding young British and American men and women laid down their lives to liberate this thieving mob.

Sunday Express, 4 May 2003

Their fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft.

Shafted, 2001

 
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