He shared a tweet which said 'diversity is not always a strength' as it could mean 'fewer white people'
A DUP council election candidate has been criticised for sharing controversial posts on Twitter expressing opposition to immigration.
In response to a tweet about a woman saying she would no longer give money to lifeboat charity the RNLI after they rescued migrants from the English Channel, Mr Ferguson responded: "Well said that lady." He also backed taxing cyclists for cycle lanes, and last year expressed support for then Prime Minister Liz Truss' tax-cutting policies which she later reversed after market turmoil.In a statement, he said: "These posts were sent as a private individual, before I sought to stand for election.
Each week, our Political Reporter Brendan Hughes pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading. Mr Ferguson retweeted quotes from Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech, which Labour peer Lord Andrew Adonis has previously described as the "worst incitement to racial violence by a public figure in modern Britain".
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