A COUNCILLOR has been booted from ultraconservative party Ukip after saying

she had a “problem” with “negroes.”

Thanet councillor Rozanne Duncan was kicked out of the party last month after allegedly making “jaw-dropping” comments during the footage of a BBC documentary.

And according to a new investigation for The Times, Ms Duncan said she had a problem with “negroes” because “there was something about their faces.”

At the time of the original outburst, a Ukip spokesman refused to confirm its content.

Officially the councillor was expelled for “bringing the party into disrepute.”

She added that she was “not racist” as she had “many Asian shopkeeper and local business friends.”

The news comes less than 24 hours since another Ukip member found himself in hot water due to openly xenophobic comments.

Ukip’s Walsall chair Phil Bottomley was forced to step down after publishing a poem equalling Labour’s immigration policies to “ethnocide.”

In a personal blog post from December 9 Mr Bottomley said he wanted to “express his disgust” at Britain’s EU membership.

Next to the poem he wrote: “It occurs to me that Labour’s deliberate plan of uncontrolled immigration policy was a classic case of ethnocide.

“Put simply it is the cleansing or diminishing of an indigenous population by methods other than mass extermination.”

Mr Bottomley’s comments did not spare the Conservatives or the Lib Dems either.

He added: “The ethnocide perpetrated by Labour and supported by the coalition is slowly destroying our history and our heritage.

“Ethnocide, and we are allowing it to happen!”

Ukip confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Bottomley “voluntarily stood down” after the post stirred outrage in local Labour MP David Winnick.

Anti-racist groups also voiced their shock at the increasing amount of hate speech spewed by Ukip members.

“Far from being isolated incidents, these latest outbursts by yet another two Ukip officials provides further evidence that Ukip harbours and fosters these kind of people. It’s not a coincidence,” Movement Against Xenophobia convener Clare Solomon told the Star.

“It’s not medication, immigrants or being working class that make people racist but refusing to recognise the contribution that migrants make to the social and cultural make-up of society.”