Schoolboy ‘given detention for backing Ukip’

A 15-YEAR- OLD boy was given detention after voicing his support for Ukip during a classroom debate, his father has claimed.

During a phone-in on radio station LBC yesterday, a caller named Paul told host Nick Ferrari his son had been punished after declaring he would vote for the Rightwing party – but shouldn’t be called racist.

The caller said: ‘One boy said he’d vote for Ukip and the teacher said “all Ukip voters are racist”, so my boy came in and said, “I’d vote for Ukip and I’m not racist.”

‘He was given a detention, [with] the three boys that said it, and when he came home and told me I didn’t believe him.’

Paul later phoned his son’s head of year to complain about the incident, which Ferrari described as ‘outrageous’ and ‘absurd’. He said the teacher in question was later reprimanded and the family received an apology from both the teacher and the school. Ukip leader Gerard Batten said: ‘Sadly this is not a unique occurrence … Ukip people have told me that teachers have told their children that their parents “belong to a Nazi party”.

‘It’s happening because the teaching profession is under the domination of the extreme Left who are the real fascists in modern-day Britain.

‘Parents must insist the law is upheld in schools and teachers are not allowed to promote political agendas.’ It came after it was reported Alissa Cook-Gray, 17, quit her college course after her tutor warned her she was ‘Right-wing’ for supporting former EDL leader Tommy Robinson.

She claimed a teacher told her ‘Get out, we don’t want people with your views’ during a political debate in Crewe.

A Ukip spokesman said: ‘There is an increasing number of reports across the country of this behaviour by teachers against pupils who say they support Ukip.’