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Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk is an English former politician and broadcaster. After a decade as a university lecturer, he served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1986. He left the House of Commons in 1986 in order to present a new daytime talk show, Kilroy, which ran until 2004. He then served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009. Having been elected as a UK Independence Party candidate, he left in 2005 to found a new party which he called Veritas. He resigned as its leader later the same year, and sat as an independent MEP for the rest of his term. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. May 1942
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Famous Robert Kilroy-Silk Quotes

“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.”

Robert Kilroy-Silk

Daily Express, 15 January 1995

“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.”

Robert Kilroy-Silk

Daily Express, 25 February 1991

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

Robert Kilroy-Silk

Shafted, 2001
Frequently shown as a running joke on Have I Got News For You

“We're told that the Arabs loathe us. Really? For liberating the Iraqis? For subsidising the lifestyles of people in Egypt and Jordan, to name but two, for giving them vast amounts of aid? For providing them with science, medicine, technology and all the other benefits of the West? They [Arabs] should go down on their knees and thank God for the munificence of the United States. What do they think we feel about them? That we adore them for the way they murdered more than 3,000 civilians on September 11 and then danced in the hot, dusty streets to celebrate the murders? That we admire them for the cold-blooded killings in Mombasa, Yemen and elsewhere? That we admire them for being suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors?”

Robert Kilroy-Silk

Sunday Express, 4 January 2004 ( full text of the column http://www.caabu.org/campaigns/kilroy-article.html)
This column resulted in Kilroy-Silk's dismissal from the BBC.

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

Robert Kilroy-Silk

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

“A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.”

Robert Kilroy-Silk

Describing Ireland, Daily Express, 9 November 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.”

Robert Kilroy-Silk

Sunday Express, 4 May 2003

“I didn't really hit him. If I had, he'd have stayed down.”

Robert Kilroy-Silk

On being accused of hitting Jeremy Corbyn MP in 1985
Independent, 6 June 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=527488

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