The mum, of Rotherham, South Yorks, said: “We would not have taken these children on if we’d been racist.”

She told how they bought Christmas presents for the two girls and boy snatched from their care.

Council officials removed the children following an anonymous tip-off that the couple were UKIP members.

They acted amid fears that the white pair’s political affiliations meant that they were racists.

But the devastated fosterers hit back — and claimed the COUNCIL acted in a racist manner.

They also told how the festive gifts they bought for the children lay unopened in an upstairs room.

Fighting back tears the mum, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said: “They just came in and took the kids away.

“We want them back but that would cause them more disturbance. We just want them happy.

“Their presents are upstairs, some of them wrapped. They won’t get to open them. That’s the most heartbreaking thing of all.”

This is not political correctness run amuck:  This is how the left works.  It’s no different from the soda ban in NYC or Agenda 21 or other similar issues.  Soem sort of local government felt that disrupting three children was the price to pay to make a political statement.  I am glad both Labour and the Tories have condemned the act.  But I can assure the UK people that a UKIP parliament would do more than cheap words. (This other UKIP story was not needed right now!)

That this is a Labour council in Rotherham, where there is a by-election on Thursday, that did this act opens up possibilities.  As Andrew Gilligan wrote in the Telegraph:

It is not likely UKIP can win but in a unscientific poll cited in a email I get from UKIP (along with 90 million others!) there may be a surge for the anti-EU libertarian social conservative party:

We’ve been phoning voters in Rotherham all weekend. This is not a scientific survey, but look what people told us:

 Voting Labour………………………..36%

Voting Conservative……………….0% (1 person)

Voting UKIP……………………………25%

Would consider voting UKIP…..26%

We have 4 days to persuade the people of Rotherham to do something extraordinary, by voting for liberty, voting for freedom of speech – voting for UKIP.

The UKIP email asked people from all over the UK to help.  If I were able to do so, I’d help, too.  Walk a precinct.  Pass out literature.  Talk to people.

There is also a great report in the Guardian that as many as nine Tory MPs might defect to UKIP:

Mr Wheeler admitted that he had been privately courting disaffected Tory MPs to see if they might be tempted into switching sides.

If UKIP gets 25% in Rotherham, it might push one or more of the Tories to act.  We’ll see…