A Ukip branch chairman has suggested that parts of London are being “ethnically cleansed” of white people.

Jeremy Zeid, the chairman of the Eurosceptic party’s branch in Harrow, suggested a Labour MP could be “complicit” in what he called “disappearing diversity” in Ilford, north-east London.

In a string of tweets, he wrote: “Having just been to Gerard Batten’s [Ukip MEP] office in Ilford, the almost [sic] absence of white faces in Ilford is worrying.

“Mike Gapes is so busy being ‘right on’ he is either blind to or deliberately complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Ilford which I’m sure will be called ‘racist’.

“A word so overused by the t***pot Left as to be completely devalued.”

The comments sparked several responses on Twitter, with many people asking what he found so “worrying”.

Mr Zeid replied: “Are you not worried when diversity disappears?”

@TootlestheTaxi @MikeGapes – Having just been to Gerard Batten’s office in Ilford, the almost absence of white faces in Ilford is worrying.

— Jeremy Zeid UKIP (@Zeidgeist) May 28, 2014

He failed to get elected in the Kenton East ward of Harrow in last week’s local elections, receiving four per cent of the vote.

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A MAJORITY of voters don’t believe a new Ukip poster campaign is ‘racist’ or ‘offensive and ignorant’, a poll has revealed.

Party leader Nigel Farage this week hit back at criticism of the new posters, which will be displayed at hundreds of billboard sites across the country.

Costing £1.5million, and funded by millionaire ex-Conservative donor Paul Sykes, the posters carry messages such as: “26 million people in Europe are looking for work. And whose jobs are they after?”

Earlier this week, Labour MP Mike Gapes branded them “racist”, while veteran Tory MP Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill, called the campaign “deeply divisive, offensive and ignorant.”

Speaking today, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg also claimed the posters were “based on false claims and fear”.

One of the posters, which shows a European Union flag underneath a burning Union flag, was also labelled “disrespectful and inappropriate” by Lord Dannatt, the former head of the British Army.

However, a new poll from YouGov reveals most British voters don’t share the criticism of the posters.

When asked whether they thought the advertising campaign was “racist”, 59 per cent disagreed, compared to 34 per cent who agreed.

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Ukip was plunged into a race storm yesterday after unveiling a series of posters campaigning against EU immigration.

The party has paid for billboards across the country to be emblazoned with messages such as: ‘26million people in Europe are looking for work. And whose jobs are they after?’

Another has a picture of a construction worker begging on the street, with the slogan: ‘EU policy at work. British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap labour.’

The £1.5million campaign is funded by the Yorkshire businessman Paul Sykes, who is a former Tory donor.

All the posters call on voters to ‘Take Back Control of Our Country’ by backing Ukip in European elections on May 22.

But they were immediately condemned by rival politicians.

Labour MP Mike Gapes said he hoped the ‘racist posters encourage all decent British Commonwealth and EU citizens’ to vote for another party next month.

He added: ‘It is time for all democrats to expose lies and hatred being peddled by Ukip and defend British values of tolerance and respect for others.’

Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, said: ‘Don’t tolerate those who talk down Britain’s chances of competing in the global economy. I’m not with Ukip because I don’t want to stop the world and get off to sulk.’

But Ukip leader Nigel Farage said the posters were ‘a hard-hitting reflection of reality’ and only the ‘chattering classes’ would object.

One contained a dramatic image of a burning Union Jack with the European Union flag emerging from the flames. It carried the words: ‘Who really runs this country?’ Another contains a picture of Britons commuting to work on a bus next to an image of a EU official being chauffeur driven.

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