Local politician claims David Bowie was a ‘gay Nazi’ and a witch

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A former UKIP chair has claimed that David Bowie was a gay member of the Nazi party who ā€œdabbledā€ in the occult.

Julia Gasper was previously Chair of UKIP Oxford ā€“ and currently serves as a Parish Councillor for Risinghurst and Sandhills for the English Democrats Party.

The English Democrats have been in the news recently after candidate Winston McKenzie appeared on Celebrity Big Brother ā€“ and caused controversy with a claim that same-sex parenting is ā€˜child abuseā€™.

Dr Gasper, a staunch critic of the LGBT rights movement, hit out at late singer David Bowie in a tirade just a day after his death.

She claimed on her blog: ā€œDavid Bowie was not the only famous queer Nazi, not by a long, long way.

ā€œIn fact there is a remarkable affinity between the two things. Many famous queers have been Nazis and vice versa.

ā€œThe Brixton skinhead Bowie is an example of something rather widespread and typical.ā€
Local politician claims David Bowie was a ‘gay Nazi’ and a witch

She also raises Bowieā€™s lyrical references to mysticism, claiming he ā€œdabbled in the occultā€ and referenced occultist Aleister Crowley.

Dr Gasper added: ā€œNazis in Germany had a similar fascination with occult, pagan and pseudo-mystic ideas that lent a veneer of intellectual respectability to their immoral doctrines.ā€

The politician last stood for the English Democrats in 2014ā€™s European Elections, where the party managed to scrape just 0.76% of the vote in the region, winning just 17,771 votes.

She had previously called for PinkNews readers to be sectionedcalled for Grindr to be banned, and claimed Daniel Radcliffe and a ā€œqueer mafiaā€ were responsible for ā€œvictimisingā€ former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich into stepping down.

Dr Gasper also claimed that a ā€œPinkNews mafiaā€ caused the actor Rupert Everett to seek police protection. She wrote: ā€œThey [PinkNews] even bombard other homosexuals such as Rupert Everett with hate-mail and death-threats when he says anything against their agenda. He recently had to seek police protection because the PinkNews mafia had put him on its hit-list.ā€

Dr Gasper has also claimed that World AIDS Day ā€œcongratulatesā€ people for ā€œspreading this diseaseā€, said she hoped ā€œguiltā€ killed ā€œqueer gangstersā€ over same-sex marriage, and described PinkNews as a ā€œvile rabid dogā€ of ā€œhomosexual bulliesā€.

The English Democrats leadership previously insisted that Gasper was ā€œfactually correctā€ to complain that there are too many gay MPs in Parliament.