Video footage shows several people entering the venue with placards, just as UKIP leader Paul Nuttall was due to hold a press conference outlining the party\u2019s plans to run in the general election on June 8.<\/p>\n
One protester, holding a Stand Up To Racism placard reading \u201cMigrants and refugees welcome here,\u201d<\/em> is heard shouting: \u201cIt is time we stood up against UKIP and racism, it is wrong!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Another protester hits out at UKIP\u2019s recent announcement it will seek to impose a ban on full-face veils as it sees them as an impediment to integrating in British society.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThey are racist and they do target Muslim women, and how dare they tell Muslim women what to wear when they have no right to?<\/em><\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n \u201cHow dare white men tell Muslim women what to wear constantly and threaten us?\u201d she cries out as she is escorted from the room.<\/em><\/p>\n Another video shows a man being ushered out of the King George V suite at London’s Marriott County Hall hotel, where the launch took place, as he accuses the party of being \u201cnasty and racist.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPaul Nuttall wants to spread division and racism,\u201d he says.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHow dare he tell Muslim women what to wear.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cUKIP want to blame migrants, they want to blame refugees and they want to blame Muslims for the problems in society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He also says both Nuttall and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage should be blamed for the \u201cproblems in society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThey are kicking the only Muslim woman in the room out of this room.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHow dare UKIP stand on a stage and try and tell us what\u2019s good for us?\u201d<\/em> he adds.<\/p>\n Police were called when protesters refused to leave the premises.<\/p>\n UKIP launch is underway but half of the journalists here can’t get into the room. Hotel says protesters are refusing to leave.<\/p>\n \u2014 Kate Forrester (@kateforrester) 28 April 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Ahead of the launch, Nuttall told the BBC his party is not waging a war against Muslims, as suggested by one of UKIP\u2019s former donors, Aaron Banks, in regards to a newly-proposed ban on burkas.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not at war with Muslims. What we want to see is equality, we want to see integration.<\/em><\/p>\n “The problem that we have in this country … integration is getting worse … communities are becoming more divided.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat we need to do is make sure that people come together.”<\/em><\/p>\n He did, however, announce that he intends to stop anti-Islam candidate Anne Marie Waters, who is also director of Sharia Watch UK and a former member of right-wing group Pegida UK, from running for the seat in Lewisham East against Labour\u2019s Heidi Alexander.<\/p>\n Nuttall\u2019s decision to block Waters\u2019 candidacy comes after the far-right member retweeted a post on Friday morning saying \u201cIslam is evil.\u201d<\/p>\n Waters also said in a YouTube campaign video on Wednesday that Muslim migrants put \u201cchildren at risk of rape and sexual abuse\u201d<\/em> and that they are a major concern to millions of Britons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. 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