THE Brexit Party has been forced to abandon their planned rally in Dundee.

Nigel Farage was supposed to be headlining the festival of all things Eurosceptic at the city’s Caird Hall on September 12.

But yesterday, unexpectedly, the party were offering refunds to all those who’d already purchased tickets.

A spokesman said the tour, which was to visit a number of locations around the UK but only one in Scotland, was being trimmed back.

It was, he said, because of the possibility of a General Election.

“Due to time constraints, the Dundee rally has unfortunately been cancelled.

“We are preparing for a General Election and have trimmed down the Brexit Party tour.”

There had been huge protests planned for the rally.

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At the time the party admitted they were only going to Dundee because there were few other suitable options available in Scotland on September 12, although they had also looked at venues in Glasgow and Kelso.

There had been little appetite for the Brexit Party leader’s social visit on social media.

Dundonian Mark Dorward posted: “You’re a bit ambitious in trying to fill the Caird Hall in Dundee, maybe try and book the phone Box in Castle Street instead.”

News of the cancellation was welcomed by the local branch of Stand Up To Racism. Taking to Facebook, they wrote: “Well, it appears Farage and his cronies have given up on their Dundee’ fightback’ event. See ya, loser.”

Farage’s party are having a tough time of it in Scotland at the moment. In Friday’s paper, we told you of how the party were sent into panic mode after we revealed the Islamophobic views of their candidate in Moray.

Writing under the pseudonym Moraymint, Mark Nash called for mosques to be bulldozed and for the “cancer” of Islam in the UK to be “crushed out of existence”.

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Nash was named as the candidate for Moray on a press release sent out to journalists on Wednesday night.

He too blogged extensively about being the candidate.

However, after being alerted to his blog posts, the Brexit Party claimed he was never meant to be the candidate and that his name had been added “in error.”

The party then named Les Durance as their man to take on Douglas Ross. On that press release, Durance had been listed as the Gordon candidate.

A Brexit Party spokesperson said that the candidate had originally failed vetting and was announced “in error”, but a post from Moraymint claims he was personally vetted by Farage in a 10-minute phone call.

The retired RAF officer was described as an “abhorrent racist”.

In one blog post, he wrote: “We’re at war with Islam, to all intents and purposes, but the last people in our country to acknowledge this at the moment are – ironically – the people elected to govern us.”

He continued: “If the Muslim community resists this change of attitude by our society, to its place in our society and the implications for the religion and its followers, then Islam in the UK should be crushed out of existence.”

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In 2017, shortly after the London Bridge terrorist attacks, he called for mosques to be controlled.

“We must be able and willing to monitor and control that which goes on in mosques, certainly for as long as there is any suspicion whatsoever that mosques are breeding grounds for fanatics.

“In so doing, we must have the legal powers to counter ‘bad’ mosques and, rather like we’d tackle an errant licenced premises, we must be able to close down mosques if that’s deemed to be best for society; bulldoze them to rubble if necessary.”

Labour MSP Anas Sarwar said these “abhorrent racist comments have no place in Scottish society.”

He added: “The fight against hatred is a fight for all of us. As for this particular candidate, the Brexit Party should do the right thing and deselect him”.