'When I see a gorilla my hormones go absolutely crazy': Scottish politician's startling revelation
UK election candidate octogenarian Gisela Allen has revealed she finds gorillas attractive.
She reportedly made the startling comments about it as she announced her UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidature for upcoming elections to Glasgow’s city council.
The 84-year-old may have damaged her chances in the election after she made the revelation when she was asked about her views on the LGBTQI community.
It appears Ms Allen was attempting to create an analogy as to why she believed gay people should keep their sexuality to themselves and consequently revealed a little too much information.
“I am not anti-gay — but how can you call that to a community? Sex life is everybody’s private affair. You do not come out and declare openly,” she told the Sunday Herald.
“Do you think I am going all over the city and saying my idea of a sexually-attractive creature is a gorilla?
“When I go to a zoo and I see a gorilla my hormones go absolutely crazy. I find a gorilla very attractive."
When the anti European Union UKIP did respond, the party backed away slowly from Ms Allen’s various positions.
On her earlier comments about capital punishment, the party’s deputy chair Suzanne Evans said Ms Allen had gone “massively off-piste” with the comments.
“I can assure you this does not feature in our local manifesto or national manifesto. Not over my dead body. Guillotined or otherwise," she said.
However, the party has tried to laugh off the ape attraction.
Kevin Newton, a fellow Scottish UKIP member said the remarks were meant in humour.
“She has advised me that they were made as a joke, and certainly not meant to be taken seriously," Scottish UKIP member Kevin Newton told The Mirror.
“She was genuinely shocked that they were."
Ms Allen’s policies also include banning golf courses “to help the environment” and stopping free bus travel for older people as “these people should be encouraged to walk.”
She also called for castration for violent criminals, withholding some treatments from the elderly and bringing backing the guillotine.
