UK: Can prescription drugs make you homophobic or racist?

18.12.14

I CARE - - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe: 15/12/2014- If nothing else, the resignation of Kerry Smith, a Ukip candidate, clearly serves as a valuable public health announcement. The party leapt to the defence of its candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock, who had described gay people as “fucking disgusting old poofters” and called a woman with a Chinese name a “chinky”, by blaming his views on the prescription drugs he had been taking. Patrick O’Flynn, Ukip’s economic spokesman, said the remarks were made in “a phone call some time ago while he was on sedatives, by his own account, not really speaking [or] thinking rationally”. As we speak, pharmaceutical companies will be reprinting their information leaflets: may cause drowsiness, nausea, racism and homophobia.