Migrant boat disaster: Ukip candidate mocks victims in sickening Twitter post
Council candidate retweeted offensive post making fun of the hundreds of migrants who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean
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Your support makes all the difference.A Ukip candidate has mocked the victims of the Mediterranean migration crisis by retweeting a sickening post on Twitter.
Peter Endean, who is standing for Nigel Farage's party in local council elections in Plymouth and is Ukip's communications manager for the town, retweeted an image of some of the rescued migrants with a caption that said: "Labour's new floating voters. Coming to a country near you soon".
The offensive post poked fun at the hundreds of migrants who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean from north Africa.
The instability in Libya has led to thousands of migrants risking their lives in search for a better life in Europe. At least 700 migrants drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend alone.
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